The Avant Art Festival — an international platform for new and experimental music and art — returns to Berlin for its sixth edition. This year’s festival expands its format through a special focus on Polish art, presented as part of the project Polish Art Week. Taking place from 16 to 23 June, it promises to be one of Berlin’s major artistic events of the season, featuring cutting-edge and uncompromising artists from Poland, as well as from across Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Seven days of intense sound and visual experiences lie ahead, in which music becomes a field of experimentation and transgression. At the intersection of jazz, avant-garde, new tradition, improvisation and electronics, new fields of expression will be created, intermingling with painting, multimedia installations, performance and audiovisual art. This is an event for those who seek non-obviousness, openness and artistic courage. You are welcome!
Kostas Georgakopulos – president of Avant Art Foundation, artistic director of Avant Art Festival, head of Tone Industria label / Katarzyna Golecka – Avant Art Foundation Director, new projects / Urszula Ziędalska – chief accountant / Krzysiek Bykowski – booking, visual arts / Piotr Motyl – main producer of AAF Wrocław / Dima Belusz – main producer of AAF Warsaw / Martyna Mik – head coordinator of AAF Warsaw, volunteering / Marta Sas – Avant Art Film / Michał Szota – web design
*We reserve the right not to respond to unsolicited offers from booking agents and artists.
Asidron (Joanna Chwiłkowska) is an artist working at the intersection of photography, video, and voice. Her recent audio performance, which can be experienced live during this event, incorporates techniques of hypnotic, sleep-inducing relaxation. Her work explores dreamlike states, geopolitical anxiety, ancestral memory, and depressed ecologies. Together with Maja Zagórska she’s part of the curatorial duo Kujonki.