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We are busy building bridges to Istanbul!
Together with Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası, we’re diving into a full year of cultural exchange in 2025, exploring the theme
"Constructs & Perception."
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ECHOES is our first production with Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası. On November 27 and 28, ECHOES will create a shared space between Cologne and Istanbul. For 60 minutes, you can take part in an artistic audio walk that will take place simultaneously and in parallel in both cities.
BROKEN LENZ oder das Scheitern an der Komplexität der Welt – a new production by bridgeworks, directed by Felix Banholzer, is currently in development! The premiere took place on September 26. Further shows: 29.10/30.10 and 25.11/26.11.2025 19:00h at Heimathafen Neukölln
Our production FUCK MARRY KILL will go on an international tour from November 3rd to November 16th, 2025, with performances in Kampala (Uganda) and Accra (Ghana). The exact dates and venues will be announced soon. We are looking forward to performing this powerful piece again!
The world is burning. But there is a man fighting and a man running—he wants to understand, intervene, and change things, but in the end, he fails to live up to his own expectations. What now? Retreat into private life? Into nature? Into oneself?
Felix Banholzer's new production is a poetic and angry performance based on Georg Büchner. “broken len(s)z” tells the story of a sensitive and intelligent person who despairs of the world and increasingly loses himself in delusion. Following the tragic story of Lenz, motifs from Büchner's life are explored and supplemented by personal experiences and questions.
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A site-specific theater performance in the Motorhane building in Merzifon. Artists and theater groups from Merzifon, Amasya, and Sinop collaborate with theater artists from bridgeworks. This creative process gives rise to new relationships—both among the participants and with the location itself. The result: a performance that used the entire Motorhane site as a stage and represented a regional happening.
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Under the theme “The Map is Not the Territory – Constructs & Perception”, we join forces with Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası, an independent art collective from Istanbul, to explore how cultural and social constructs shape our perception – especially when it comes to prejudice and stereotypes.
Together with our partners from Turkey, we are creating a space for reflection and exchange around perception, construction, and ambivalence in 2025/2026.
From 22 to 31 October 2024, together with artists from Cologne and Kyiv, we will transform the public space in Cologne into a lively projection screen and a place of exchange about "Guilt & Shame":
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Seven performers from seven different cultural backgrounds come together in this transcultural production to explore the concept of Kairos – the right moment. The title stands for the endless possibilities that lie within every encounter in our lives.
And let’s be honest:
Don’t we all secretly long for a genuine, honest connection?
How often do we let those moments slip by, unused?
Yet we always have a choice...
Together with the Platform TU Mariupol, we investigated the topic of "guilt & shame" for one year in 2024. Here you find insights into our two art-labs – in Berlin and in Tibilissi, Georgia:
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We walk through the city for 60 minutes. We stop, listen, make connections—to the person opposite us, to the here and now, and to the distant past.
Which voices go unheard?
Which ones are amplified?
Which narratives shape our view of reality—and whose stories are missing?
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What does it feel like to grow up in times of war? In a documentary film they developed themselves, nine young Ukrainian women provide a unique insight into their lives – into everyday life in a state of emergency:
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We thank our donors and sponsors for their support of current and past projects:
