While the sun is at its lowest point in Berlin this Advent Sunday, our anticipation for the upcoming weekend is at its highest. One of the reasons for this is Ungovernable Ingredients in the concrete hall at Silent Green. From Friday to Sunday (19-22.12.2024), the UdK Berlin exhibition will explore the vast construction kit of ingredients that have become integral to contemporary artistic practice: emotions, conflicts, microorganisms and animals. Due to their uncontrollable nature, these elements are increasingly incorporated into art, creating new hierarchies, languages and communities through familiar media like light, image and video. You can visit the exhibition until late in the evening this weekend. Embers.wtf is also celebrating the long nights of this season with its Community Christmas Market. Join the winter solstice celebration and Berlin’s fashion community at Echoes of the Winter Solstice on Friday (20.12.) until 23h. The Christmas market at Steglitzer Kreisel will feature up to fifty local brands, including Snug Life and See Our Vision, along with workshops, live music, DJ sets and performances by Chaos Emblematic and others. Another gathering takes place at the StitchHub Art Pop-up, where creativity will take center stage. Just before Christmas, twelve artists, including ten fashion brands, will come together in Berlin Wedding. Expect upcycled fashion, vintage and handmade jewelry from names like Berlin Osborne and Jess. With music and a free mulled wine in hand, browse through a photography vernissage and art prints this Saturday (21.12.) while picking up a last-minute Christmas gift.
Also on Saturday (21.12.), Frizza will celebrate the season’s end with an Italian Christmas brunch. The bistro offers a five-course wintery and fruity menu that will put Italian food lovers and Christmas enthusiasts in the holiday spirit. For those who prefer a more meditative approach to the start of winter, there’s Rebirth of Inner Light – Winter Solstice at Open Studios on Saturday (21.12). Celebrate the longest night of the year at this yoga studio in Friedrichshain with flowing movement, breathwork and a sound bath. At Terese’s Transalpine Feinkost, a family Christmas market will bring together Terese’s favorite people and the finest ingredients of the pre-Christmas season on Advent Sunday (22.12.). The highlight? Hot mulled wine, affectionately named “HotFrenchMan”, alongside HotCrêpesMaterial, HotFondueDog and HotGulashGirl. Finally, the Reethaus an der Spree will fill with the extraordinary sounds of sound artist Phill Niblock to mark the festive end of the fourth Advent. As part of the artistic program Flussbad, the Soundwalk Collective will present an obituary for the American composer and his sonic legacy. Niblock’s minimalist and experimental sounds are woven into a seamless tapestry that turns nuances into grand vibrations. On Sunday (22.12), a 360-degree sound system will fill the Reethaus with a recording of Niblock’s first posthumous concert, which will take place the evening before in New York. A dark weekend that echoes brightly!
Text: Emma Zylla / Photos: Anya Blanche, Reethaus & Robyn Steffen
Silent Green Gerichtstr.35, 13347 Berlin–Wedding; map
Ungovernable Ingredients 20.12–22.12.2024 14–22h
Stitchhub Liebenwalder Str.42a, 13347 Berlin–Wedding; map
Stitchhub Art Pop-up 21.12.2024 13–18h
Frizza Bistro Nürnberger Str.8, 10787 Berlin–Charlottenburg; map
Italian Christmas Brunch 21.12.2024
Steglitzer Kreisel Schlossstr.78–82, 12165 Berlin–Steglitz; map
Community Christmas Market 20.12.2024 15–23h
Open Studios Boxhagener Str.77, 10245 Berlin–Friedrichshain; map
Rebirth of Inner Light – Winter Solstice 21.12.2024 15h30–17h30
Terese Transalpine Feinkost Rhinower Str.10, 10437 Berlin–Prenzlauer Berg; map
Terese Weihnachtsmarkt 22.12.2024 13–18h
Reethaus Köpenicker Chaussee 3a, 10317 Berlin–Lichtenberg; map
Flussbad Phill Niblock 22.12.2024 18–20h. You can find tickets here.
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