DZ’OB
The unique electroacoustic Ensemble from Dnipro - live in Berlin
DZ'OB is said to be the undisputed leader of the local avant-garde scene in Ukraine. Their unique sound, which the band defines as «electroacoustic DM» is outstanding not only for the Ukrainian scene, but throughout all Europe.
The electroacoustic band from Dnipro is striving to combine classical music tradition with contemporary electronic approach. DZ'OB not only synthesizes genres like classics, IDM, techno, dubstep, but also comes up with eclectic sounds that blur the lines within ages, and traditions.
Sat, 6.4.2024 20:00 Hotel Continental
WAR Diaries
Unheard Voices of Ukrainian Children
The exhibition includes 14 touching stories of children from different parts of Ukraine. It features children's diaries, notes, drawings, and personal belongings. The main goal of the project is to draw public attention to the problem of the emotional state of Ukrainian youth who witnessed the war and to create a reliable platform for children to tell their unique stories about their experiences.
Among the invited guests of the event is Oleksii Makeiev @oleksiimakeiev , Ambassador of Ukraine in Germany. The opening event will also feature a screening of a documentary about Mariupol by Vladyslav Ponomarenko @piatin.ua , a character in the War Diaries project who spent 75 days in the occupied city. Exhibition is open to public 20.2. - 14.3.2024
Creeping Creatures
A microcosmic theatre&dance show by ogalala kreuzberg 25.&26.11.2023
“Creeping Creatures” is an exploration of wondrous world of insects from an entirely new perspective: as a universe of charismatic personalities, survival specialists, extravagant dancers, singers, fashion heroes, ambitious show-stars, politicians and neurotic workers.
With: Amina Aliyeva, Matilda Behrends, Shea Slanetz, Carolina González, Vasyl Protsiuk, Tim Jätz, Johanna Stalherm, Emilija Milak, Fritz Surmann, Lucie Münichová. Music: Paul Lesch. Choreography: Kathinka Sonneborn. Idea, text&direction: Christine Dissmann
Autumn Market
22.10.2023
Fashion, Art, Crafts, Accessories, Tattoos, Workshops, Music, Food and Bar - a vibrant community event at Hotel Continental.
StandupStraße
Ukrainian Standup Comedy 21.10.2023
Enjoy the hottest Standup-Proms from Ukraine at Hotel Continental. In dark times it is even more important to laugh!
VOLIA FESTIVAL
Ukrainian Independence Fest 23.8. -27.8.2023
August 2023: We believe: the celebration of Ukrainian Independece is more important than ever! Hotel Continental intitiated and organised a long Festival Weekend with Concerts, Exhibition, Market, Food and Bar.
SUMMER SESSIONS
17.7.-31.8.2023
Over the course of 6 weeks Hotel Continental offered a Summer Programme to its community and the neighbourhood. Free of cost and open to anyone!
Art Resistance Days Szczecin
3./4.6.2023
The polish independent Teatr Kana in Szczecin invites to a series of multidisciplinary events under the slogan “Art Resistance Days”. During the two days Kana will show the musical-theatrical mass “human?” by mariia&magdalyna (Dakh Theatre), the digital installation ZERO TOLERANCE and the public talk “Briges, Walls and Lighthouses” by Christine Dissmann&Andrii Palatnyi, who will talk about their international cooperation in times of pandemic and war, the project “Hotel Continental - Art Space in Exile” and the film “Artspace in Exile” by Katya Ganochkina and Pierre Beaulieu.
#Stayathome?
Ukrainisch-deutscher Theaterabend, Gastspiel der theaterBurg Roßlau 2.5.2023 20:00
Українсько-німецька вистава. Театральний ансамбль з Росслау зустрічає українських актрис! Разом ми створили яскравий театральней вечір! Німці читають щемливого Коцюбинського і саркастичного Жадана. Українки плетуть вінки з квітів, співають ніжні пісні та змішують «вогняні смузі». Вони вдивляються в свою красиву країну, в її неімовірно силу. Вони розповідають про надію і розчарування, про біль і щастя. Вони грають в театрі, бо там, де є мистецтво, немає старості, немає самотності, немає хвороб і не має смерті.
Режисер: Вероніка Літкевич
Музика: Карл Нойкауф
Creeping Creatures
A play by ogalala kreuzberg 30.4.2023 20.00
They usually aren’t our best friends, those small creatures crawling in the darkness of untidy corners, whizzing relentlessly in your ear during hot summer nights or forming a whole army occupying trees and plants for their feast. In „Creeping Creatures“ we discover the wondrous world of insects from entirely new perspectives: as a universe of of strong characters, extravant dancers, stylish fashionistas, ambitious show-stars and neurotic workers.
With: Amina Alieva, Lucie Münichovà, Fritz Surmann, Nastasja Berezin, Anna Mrachovska, Sofiia Kroshka, Tim Jätz, Vasyl Protsiuk, Julian Jagiella.
Idea&Direction: Christine Dissmann Choreography: Kathinka Sonneborn, Music: Paul Lesch
STAY UNITED 2023
One year after the beginning of the war, we invite you to a series of events together with “Deutsches Theater Berlin". Under the title “STAY UNITED 2023” Ukrainian artists and DT ensemble members present three evenings both in "Hotel Continental" and in Deutsches Theater, reflecting on the catastrophic state of things in Europe that has been going on for a full year now.
Stay United 2023 #1: 23. 2. DT // 2.3. Hotel Continental
Stay United 2023 #2: 23.3. DT & 30.3. Hotel Continental
Stay United 2023 #3: 27. 4. DT & 4.5. Hotel Continental
STAY UNITED #1:
Deaf Republic
23.2. Deutsches Theater / 2.3.2023 Hotel Continental
In light of the return of wartime violence in Europe, we present Ukrainian author Ilya Kaminsky's prophetic parable “The Deaf Republic”: A powerful poetic work about the fictional town of Vasenka under enemy occupation, an elegy on love and violence, a powerful plea against silence. Literature reading in german language with music by Ukrainian artist Mavka.
Reading in German language. With english subtitles.
Lesende: Felix Goeser, Almut Zilcher. Musik: Mavka
STAY UNITED #2 Women at War
23.3. Deutsches Theater /30.3.2023 Hotel Continental
Warfare is a man's business - that's a common view. But although wars are usually declared by men, they permeate the societies involved at large. Women are mostly victims, sufferers or even spoils of war, but they also fight as activists, reporters, paramedics, doctors or armed soldiers at the front. On this evening, the Hotel Continental and the German Theater are dedicated to the perspective of Ukrainian women and bring their voices together in a complex panorama of a spirit of resistance, the will to survive and practical reason. A sniper fighting on the front line of the war, a train conductor who tells of her experiences with other women on the evacuation trains, an artist between Kyiv and Berlin and a Ukrainian author who has to watch the tragedy from afar and struggles for words. With texts by Tanja Maljartschuk, Asia Bazdyrieva, Anna Mrachkosvka and excerpts from reports by Ukrainian women. Laguages: ukrainian, english, german. With english subtitles.
Reading with music. With: Sofiia Kroshka, Anna Mrachkovska and Birgit Unterweger and Julia Windischbauer. Music: Axxi Oma.
STAY UNITED #3 What do we make from the dark?
27.4. Deutsches Theater/ 4.5. Hotel Continental
Is it presumptuous to hope that from destruction will grow the potential for renewal? That something else, perhaps utopian, could emerge from under the rubble? One thing is clear – the war has shaken conditions in Ukraine and throughout Europe. The third part of our series is dedicated to the question of what is yet to be won - despite the immense losses: What forces did war unleash, what visions fuel? Where does the desire to imagine a new, shared future take us?
Reading by Sofiia Kroshka, Vasyl Protsiuk and Kathleen Morgeneyer (DT) I music by Ukrainian musician Vogelmilch.
Big Bouncing Charlie #001 - Pilot
Sunday 26.3.2023 15:30 - 19:00
The first version of monthly public acoustic performative jam series in Berlin. The "Big Bouncing Charlie" Improv Jams are equally aimed at musicians and performers. The jams are open to the audience.
The event was organised by a core group of musicians and dancers, who also performed the opening set: KOOB,
Lisa Kolstädt, Lennart Smidt, Yuchen Xie, Tanit Graffelman &
Paula Ilic. And curated by performer and dancer Eva Robayo.
Join the telegram channel for more info and updates!
Filmmaking Sprint
17.3.-19.3.2023
Dear (future) filmmakers!
Are you up for a challenge?
Want to stop thinking and start creating?
If so, we invite you to our filmmaking sprint.
In short: participants will have 48 hours to create movies from concept to screening.
Everyone who wants to create movies.
Writers, Directors, Producers, Cinematographers, Actors, Editor, Music composers…you are welcome,
no matter your level of experience.
If you're ready to bring your cinematic dreams to life, join us for a weekend of fun, creativity, and (hopefully) some amazing films. We can't wait to see what you come up with!
Zaporozhets Kinoclub
FILM SCREENING 15.3. 19:00
We are glad to announce that Zaporozhets Kinoclub is coming HOTEL CONTINENTAL - Art Space in Exile. We will show The Bread (“Хліб”), a film which has been banned from screens in the USSR.
The event helps to raise funds for the Ukranian movie archive “Dovzhenko Center” which sadly is under threat of extinction.
Entrance is 7€, reduced 5€
LUCY DYE
Live Performance Video Release
11.3.2023 - 17:00
LUCY DYE and five other artists shared the stage at HOTEL CONTINENTAL - Art Space in Exile to celebrate the love, blood, sweat and tears of joy they put into their music in the last year up until now!
“THE WALL“
9.3.2023 20:00
ART SHORT DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE
Long awaited, finally happening: The “Making-Of” of the mural “The Flower of Democracy”, the Berlin edition of a cross-european Art Project organised by Port.Agency, Kyiv.
Last autumn one of the blank walls of Hotel Continental became the canvas for a truly visionary art experiment, a cooperation between berlin-based artist Dennis Schuster and Ukrainian artist Andrii Kalkov, creating together the “Flower of Democracy”.
A week of intense work was captured by the cameras of Moritz Erdt and Ryan Aponte from the “Film Makers and Movie Nerds”.
Wartime
Exhibition Alevtina Kakhidze
2.3.-29.3.2023
Ukrainian feminist artist, performer, media artist and art-curator Alevtina Kakhidze grew up in Donbas, an area torn apart by war since 2014. Alevtina has been drawing the war as she sees it every day - through news, stories and through her own window. She is a critical observer, participant and documentalist of social and political life of Ukraine.
Loving Solidarity Day
25.2.2023
On February 25, 2023, HOTEL CONTINENTAL - Art Space in Exile
and Studio Ukraine participated in the “Loving Solidarity Day” organized by MOOS. Studio Ukraine designed a whole room with their textile art pieces and Aaron gave a Pecha Kucha style presentation to introduce HOTEL CONTINENTAL - Art Space in Exile and it’s activities to the audience.
MOOS and HOTEL CONTINENTAL - Art Space in Exile are both located in the area of Alt-Treptow and engage actively in the support of Ukrainian artists in exile.
Visit MOOS website to find out more.
NAVI BAND
22.2.2023 20:00
LIVE CONCERT
On February 22, 2023, the Belarusian band Navi Band performed at Hotel Continental - Art Space in Exile. Their songs have become the voice of the ongoing social protests in Belarus. Because of this, Naviband has gained a 'banned' status in Belarus – as have many artists who have had the courage to express their own opinions. Therefore the band was forced to leave the country in 2020 and has been living in Warsaw ever since. Genre-wise, their work is described as indie-pop and folk-rock – the artists are inspired by Belarusian folk music and tradition. They were finalists at Eurovision 2017 in Kiev. Part of the proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to help Ukraine.
WARNYAKANNYA
21.2.2023 19:00
LIVE CONCERT
A musical documentary and therapeutic project by Anton Slepakov (poetry) and Andrii Sokolov (electronic music). The project is being created in real time and is a reflection and artistic response to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian occupation forces.
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the musicians have performed more than 50 concerts in cities across Ukraine and Europe. The project is a charity project — the income from the sale of tracks and donations at the concerts are sent to the needs of volunteers and soldiers defending Ukraine.
To Be Used
26.1.-28.2.2023
EXHIBITION
The exhibition “To Be Used” by visual artist Katya Craftsova. Katya Craftsova presents the results of her three-months residency at Hotel Continental, a series od dry-needle prints on used Tetra-Packs, showing the landscapes of her youth on Crimea. Supported by Goethe Institute and Artists-at-Risk.
Opening: “The Wall”
6.11.2022 15:00
CROSS-EUROPEAN MURAL-ART-PROJECT
„The Wall“ was invented and organised by Katya Taylor and Port. Agency, supported by the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine and by the Ukrainian Institute. Five walls in five different European cities were painted by five different tandems of each a ukrainian and a european mural artist.
“The Flower of Democracy” sets a strong symbol for civil freedom and self-determination as fundamental prerequisites for democracy and peace. The mural in Elsenstraße was created in cooperation between the Ukrainian artist Andrii Kalkov and the Berlin illustrator Dennis Schuster.
“Game On”
2./3.9.2022 20:00
THEATRE PERFORMANCE
Open-Air performances by ogalala kreuzberg with dance and live music in the yard of Hotel Continental.
Director: Christine Dissmann
Choreography: Kathinka Sonneborn
Composition&Music: Paul Lesch & Edda Hohberg
With: Marieke Sauer, Ary Hector, Julian Jagiella, Thieu Ha Minh, Nastasja Berenzin, Lucie Münichová, Fritz Surmann, Matilda Behrends, Héléna Servais.
24.8.2022 18:00
Independence Day of Ukraine
Come-Together with live-music, campfire, picnic, talk and drinks. Open Air in the yard of Hotel Continental. Music: Vogel Milch, Rostislav Mazurkevich
28.-30.7.2022
Festival
InBe-tweenFires
For 3 days Hotel Continental - Art Space in Exile became the venue of international theatre performances, concerts, exhibitions, Kid´s actions, open studios, talks, jams, party - and much more.
artists:
Oleksii Zoloratiov
The internationally renowned sculptor from Kiyv escaped with a full truckload of his sculptures to Berlin to save them from destruction by russian bombs. Oleksii finished and exhibited his work “Molecule” at Hotel Continental - Art Space in Exile.
Darya Koltsova
Ukrainian artists, performer and curator works with large-scale installations and interventions, adressing sociopolitical issues of our times.
In the picture we see a sample of her ongoing project “Theory of Protection”, referring to the neccessity to tape glass windows to keep them from shattering by explosions in Ukraine.
Maria Petrenko
Sociologist, Philosopher and documentary photographer Maria Petrenko is member of the „Ukrainian Women´s Photographers Organization“ and inernationally successful. Maria Petrenko will accompany life at Hotel Continental with her camera.
MinskiyBerlin
The Company MinskiyBerlin is a trinational theatre company with members from Ukraine, Belarus and Berlin. The group is currently rehearsing the play “InBetweenFires” which will be shown in July on the White Stage of the Art Space.