Programminfo Hallo: Festspiele 10th DEW DRIP TEMPER
FRIDAY, 25th July
Sophie Allerding (@allerding.s) and Paula Erstmann (@paulaerstmann) open the festival with an activating, nourishing ceremony featuring culinary delights and whistling callings. Let us strengthen and renew our connections through a shared beginning, bath in care, spark together, and revel in a landscape of festivity and feasting.
Who’s leading us through this feast?
Sophie Allerding is an interdisciplinary artist interested in how narratives shapes the realities we live in as well as desirable futures. Their work spans visual art and social practice, ranging from audio-visual installations, to participatory actions, games and radio-pieces. As a first generation Abya Yala migrant, Sophie’s work is informed by animism and magical realism. Sophie is part of the feminist collectives @possygang and @radio.echo.collective and @zipspace.nl.
Paula Erstmann is an artist working with food as an artistic medium. Her performances, menus, and edible installations explore the social contexts of the ingredients she uses, functioning as artistic research at the intersection of art and everyday life. The Berlin-based artist’s culinary practice opens up both sensual and social spaces. Through her work and the idea of communal dining, she aims to break down barriers and create space for dialogue.
Grappling With What Is: Queering Commons” is in production: printing, cutting, binding.
Picture this: People are standing, kneeling, sitting, while Emol reads aloud from the zine and Lina is live-publishing. All the electric waves of the machines and the people – barely emerged and already on the verge of vanishing – form a temporary, oscillating body. This un/apparent body holds many songs.
This year Yves B. Golden (@yves_______) has been digging deeper into herself as a vocalist and unearthing a suite of deep, confessional ballads. She’ll showcase her lyrical and poetic practices with a number of collaborative tracks via Mu Tate, Venison Man and Ludwig Wandinger.
In her work, Yves B. Golden unpacks questions of human worth, dignity, and transmutation by using mixed media sculpture, performance, sound, and olfaction. The Berlin based artist, writer, musician and DJ has presented her work in Jupiter Artland (Scotland), Yaby (Madrid), and The New Museum (NYC), among others. Golden has a residency with Los Angeles based DUBLAB where she produces a monthly show called Stride Breaker. Her musical collaborations have been released with labels like 3XL, Unguarded and light-years.
Inventive usage of drums, versatile technique, forever evolving style: Valentina Magaletti (@valentina_magaletti) is a drummer, composer and percussionist whose goal is to strategically enrich a folkloristic and eclectic palette through endless listening and experimentation with new materials and sounds.
Feeling just as comfortable performing behind a delicate ceramic kit as she does hammering out motorik rhythms, her creative take on percussion has resulted in a diverse discography and many interesting collaborations including Nicolas Jaar, Jandek, Helm, Raime, Malcom Catto, Charles Hayward, Graham Lewis (Wire, Dome), Tightpaul Sandra (Coil, Spiritualized, Julian Cope), and Thurston Moore. With each new project, Valentina is developing fresh nuances and searching for new ways of teasing out sound from her signature instrument, the drums. Valentina was born in Bari, Italy, and is based in London.
We are ready to listen, dew, move, dip, clap, temper, lose it with Valentina Magaletti.
Lolina’s music was recently described by her colleague as wonky trip pop improvisational nonsense that sounds a bit like a specific type of 70s prog. The electronic musician released her latest album “Unrecognisable” (2024) on her label @relaxinrecords. We can state: The anniversary edition of Hallo: Festspiele is ready for any kind of live musical nonsense and we hope so are you!
Devon Rexi (@devonrexi) is an Amsterdam-based group creating dubby, playful experimental music.
The fried-Farsi vocals sing in the diasporic language of the inbetween worlds – taking the listener to alternate realms of liminality. Otherworldly screeches and rings, intricate drum patterns, simple dubby bass lines and rhythmic guitar riffs guide you to the ready-to-explore corners of reality.
Originally formed by Nicolini (drums & vocals) and Nushin Naini (bass & vocals), Devon Rexi has since expanded with Goya van der Heyden who creates an electronic touch accompanied with some percussion.
On their recent release, Biya Ba Man (2024), the band’s special brand of post-punky psych-funk can be heard. Now they’ll bring their pitch-shifted vocals – sometimes chanting, sometimes chirping – intertwine with distorted grooves, propelled by percussion and bass, to Hamburg.
ojoo (@_o_j_o_o_) is a Brussels-based, Moroccan-born musician and dub friend whose raw, bass-heavy sets span steppers, dancehall, industrial reggaeton, grime, and noise. A member of PSST and co-builder of the DIY pssound system for marginalized genders, their work is resistance in sound: plywood, low-end, community.
Raised on bootlegs and shaped by constraint, ojoo blends distortion and dubplate pressure; no clean lines, just sirens, silence, and weight. They’ve played Unsound, Out.Fest, and Dekmantel, but thrive equally in squat parties and off-grid workshops. Regular shows on Kiosk and Noods extend their world beyond the club.
They also curate nights, recently inviting Grove, DJ Marcelle, and Demdike Stare to Brussels stages. ojoo doesn’t play music, they live it, rupture it, and let pressure speak.
SATURDAY, 26th July
We invite you to – literally – shape parts of the place we gather at.
Beneath the concrete of PARKS lie traces of marshland, long overwritten by industry, war and sealed away from touch. Clay Bodies, Displaced Soils asks what it means to be estranged from that land, and how we might still shape a connection.
Since we are unable to access the ground we stand on, we turn to commercial clay: a material shaped by industrial extraction and global circulation, taken from elsewhere and made to serve any place, bearing no memory of where it came from.
You’re invited to shape clay tiles using your own body – legs, hips, shoulders, backs – drawing from the technique of thigh-moulded tiles once common in Hamburg. Fired and glazed, these pieces will become a surface of shared gestures, fitted together to form shelter.
Sara’s spatial practice follows how histories, concepts and materials move, settle and are re-formed in different realities, places and bodies. Her work is rooted in a commitment to context-specific, ethical and poetic processes that invite collective making, listening and reimagining together.
Please make sure to reserve your spot via e-mail at hallo@hallohallohallo.org – there is only limited space.
seminice’s sets are lasting dives into the manyfold beast-like qualities of musical artefacts. A tiptoe dance through minimalist tendencies and bold gestures in sound, spanning the last 70 years of globally recorded music. As a host of „Isotonik“ at Hallo: Radio, she is a familiar to our community – and will guide us through the festival’s Saturday with unexpected musical backings.
Have you eaten yet? Food is something we think about every single day, so it’s no surprise that the number of cookbooks and guides have become almost impossible to keep track of. Looking at food from a diasporic and anti-racist perspective makes issues of belonging, discrimination, and identity tangible and relatable – issues that are otherwise often discussed only on a more abstract or intellectual level.
What desires do we express through what we (don’t) eat? What (anti-)colonial traces can be found in different drinks, dishes, and habits? How are food and class connected? Can food or cooking become a form of resistance or a political gesture? The author’s of the anthology „Biting back“ approach the topic in a wide variety of ways, challenging supposed certainties, renegotiating national and cultural labels, and drawing connections between the (post-)colonial past and the present, between the personal and the political.
Meryem Choukri, Lalitha Chamakalayil and Susan Djahangard will read from the book „Biting Back“, followed by a conversation moderated by Mawuto Doutou.
Reading and talk will be held in German spoken language, accompanied by text visualization.
douniah is an interdisciplinary artist exploring waves of sound and poetry.
Her sound is heavily influenced by Black American, North African Gnaoua music and everything in her mom’s cassette collection while growing up between Hamburg and Agadir.
The Berlin based vocalist, writer, and performer has captivated audiences with her genre-fluid artistry and emotive live performances – from London to Utrecht to Munich. With a strong, reflective voice, she sheds light on herself and her surroundings, creating art that resonates and lingers — a thoughtful echo for her audience to connect with.
The stage is dripping, the timing is ticking, the ideas are bubbling: Infinite Minute is here! On Saturday, the Hallo: Festspiele will clear the stage for half an hour of mini-plays and micro-dramas. Whether wild, tender, loud, weird or surprising. Between experimentation and virtuosity, we show ourselves what we want in a flash.
A celebration of weird sounds, small gestures and big emotions. By and for us. Because all contributions come from people who have registered in advance and now jump on stage for a minute with an idea, an impulse or a dare. Presented by Ute Minute.
A fusion ready to drip, dew and temper:
Liv Neumann aka Der feine Schliv moves fluidly between rap, dance and poetry, alternating provocative, up-in-yer-face statements about the patriarchy and empathetic stories of trying and failing. Her musical universe is characterized by the diversity of her accompaniments, from balladic conscious raps to witchy toasting.
Slezga is an experimental duo from Serbia. Playing with synths, drums, electronics and voice as percussive tools, they navigate the blurred zones between outernational folk and ecstatic traditions.
Together, @derfeineschliv_officialfanpage and @slezga_transform each other’s sonic worlds, moving with the dissonance that emerges in between.
We say ,Hallo‘ to „Prologue, Collapse“ by Jen Rosenblit and Simone Aughterlony! The performance piece confronts architectural ruination against a backdrop of the capitalist drive for renewal. Actively inviting the public to consider the wreckage, the weathered and decayed as available remnants for a romance with the future, archive of the past and a sobering recognition for where we are now.
The dramaturgy considers the uncanny connection between the 5 stages of Grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance) with the 5 stages of Decomposition (fresh, bloat, active decay, advanced decay, skeletonized). With this numerology and content they structure the performance with the 5 Acts of classical theatre staging (Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution). In a foggy landscape of fallen pipes and broken monuments, two figures detail a space of opacity, sex and fragile connections, losing grip and the maddening spiral of demise, tourism, decay and finally enchantment.
Jen Rosenblit is a Berlin based performer, writer, creator and director. They are a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of the New York Dance and Performance “Bessie‘‘ Award (2014), a „La Becque“ artist in residence (Vevey, 2023) and has collaborated with artists including Simone Aughterlony, Miguel Gutierrez, A.K. Burns and Philipp Gehmacher.
Based in Zurich and Berlin, Simone Aughterlony’s work was presented at the Venice Biennale Teatro (2018). They regularly teach at academic institutions such as ZHdK, Manufacture in Lausanne or DAS Art Amsterdam as well as devising and facilitating laboratory formats and frames for sharing and producing knowledge. In 2020, together with Marc Streit, they founded „Imbricated Real“, an independent structure for contemporary art practice.
One moment you’re shaking your a*s off and the next you’re in the middle of a mosh pit – that is how unpredictable shows by LIONSTORM (@by_lionstorm) are! They have their own signature aggressive clownesque, sexy and raw style, making music based in the horrorcore, reggaeton and industrial metal genres. Their work mostly revolves around queerness, female sexuality and breaking taboos. Forget the norm and get pulled into LIONSTORM’s world!
ONGOING PROGRAMM
As part of Hallo: Festspiele 2025, we invite you to join us in a social knitting space where stitches shift from one arm to another, accompanied by music and performance. You are welcome to knit with us, on your own, or alongside others –becoming part of a growing meshwork of lines, shared movement and making.
Within the soft meshwork we began weaving together weeks ago, you’ll find yarn waiting to be entangled—adding to a structure that continues to grow and take up space. Throughout our festival, this meshwork will be open for curious and seasoned hands alike to engage with the yarn and other bodies.
Wondering what social knitting is?
social knitting is a collaborative practice that turns knitting into a collective tool for facilitating social encounters. In exchange with fellow knitters, the material, and the craft itself, a meshwork of lines emerges. We use second-hand textiles – collected by us and you – which are torn into yarn and processed together.
No prior experience or registration is needed – drop by any time to rest, connect and get gently entangled.
Friday 25th & Saturday 26th, all day
We invite you to immerse yourself into the practice of individual energy healing sessions.
Violaine Le Fur (@lefurviolaine) creates a space that incorporates sound, plant elements, and minerals to promote grounding and relaxation. The practice is inherited from her Breton grandmother, a dowser, and her Bamiléké grandfather, a traditional chief and seer.
Violaine Le Fur is also a filmmaker and music composer. She develops an artistic practice enriched by travels and encounters, exploring the therapeutic dimension of art.
Friday 25th & Saturday 26th, throughout the day
Register your slot on site at the entrance!
In „Ingredients of Identity“, filmmaker and visual artist Razi Uddin (@razissance) explores memory, migration, and belonging through the actions of their grandmother. The vertical video installation follows an attempt to recreate the smells and tastes of her kitchen in Karachi, while slowly uncovering memories, habits, and cultural practices that feel forgotten. It’s a process of adapting, remembering, and rediscovering lost culture.
Razi Uddin is originally from Karachi and now based in Hamburg. Their work moves between film and installation, often shaped by personal memory and lived experience.
Saturday 26th inside ZOLLO Container
You don’t want the Hallo: Festspiele to end? Well, they don’t have to. Follow us to @suedpol_hamburg for a Saturday night to dew, drip and temper:
💧23.30 Afidissima b2b Matte DTR // @afidissima
💧01.30 Hêja Netirk & Rico Danta (live) // @heja.netirk@rico.danta
💧02.30 U2pia (fem_sound_connection) // @u_2_pia_
💧04.00 CHO ROOM // @cho_room
💧05.30 Hyper Offline // @_hyperfux @jil_lahr
Afidissima and Matte DTR got to know each other through RBL Berlin and very soon discovered a common passion for everything on the dub specturm: reggae, lovers rock, roots, dancehall and digidub. Eversince, they have been dreaming of their own sound system.
Hêja Netirk is originally from Kurdistan and lives in exile in Hamburg. In her debut EP “Stranên Neşuştî” (“Unwashed Songs”), she develops a feminist approach to traditional Kurdish music. Together with Rico Danta and guest musician Tembûrvan Diyadîn, Hêja has created a Kurdish club concept. They take you on a journey that begins in Kurdistan and ends at the Port of Hamburg. Along the way, we sing and dance in resistance to fascism, exploitation, and colonialism.
Heavy, driving, and energizing: u2pia is a Hamburg-based DJ blending dubstep’s deep weight with UK garage bounce. Known for her unpredictable energy and layered storytelling, she weaves grime, bassline, breakbeats, 2-step, and UK bass into dynamic, forward-driving sets.
CHO ROOM is a Hamburg-based DJ duo led by sisters Leau and Naomz. Their music is heavily influenced by the multilayered sounds of Black electronic music, showcasing various rhythms from Jersey/Baltimore Club, Gqom, Miami Bass and more.
Two frequencies from Hamburg’s undercurrent: Hyper Offline team up to entangle bizarre rhythms with sweat-soaked kinetics, slipping through the wires linking BEEK’s echo chambers. Analog pressure, digital ghosts. No genre, much signal.
