panke.gallery

15 Years of Panke Culture

https://pankeculture.com/programme
Friday, 27 February 2026

In February 2011, Panke opened its doors for the very first time. What started as a small independent space has grown into a vibrant platform for art, music, dialogue, and community.

February 27th, we celebrate 15 years of community building, cultural resistance, and a relentless contribution to Berlin's underground scene. Over the years, Panke and panke.gallery have become a home for artists, musicians, thinkers, neighbors, and friends a space where experimentation is encouraged, voices are amplified, and connections are created.

This anniversary is not only about looking back at what we've achieved together, but also about imagining what lies ahead. It's about everyone who has performed, exhibited, volunteered, collaborated, danced, supported, and believed in this space.

We warmly invite everyone who has been part of this journey and everyone who would like to be to join us for a special gathering. Let's celebrate the memories, the moments, the struggles, and the future we continue to build together.

Friday, 27 February 2026 · free entry for everyone

Come by, bring your friends, and celebrate 15 years of Panke with us. 💛

In exactly one week!

∆ (delta) – an exhibition by Amanda E. Metzger

Opening: panke.gallery, Thursday, 23 April 2026, at 18:00 (guided tour of the exhibition with the artist at 19:30)

https://panke.gallery/exhibition/delta

Exhibition: 23–30 April 2026

𝚫 (delta) is developed within the CERN Connect residency and takes the form of a website for mobile phones, fully unfolding its soundscape only when visitors gather in a space together.

The exhibition examines the effects of data as abstraction and asks what the resulting difference (𝚫) between reality and its reconstruction produces: what is displaced, reduced, or rendered inaccessible in the process of making data and, in parallel, in the formation of personal memories. The web-based work thus also reflects on the original intention behind the World Wide Web, developed at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN): that data should be accessible to anyone from anywhere.

The guiding question structuring the work is based on the main experiments conducted at CERN: the recording of particle collisions in order to observe the fragments produced and to gain better insight into the creation of the universe. The challenge of recording these events and reconstructing them with sufficient precision for subsequent study is closely linked to the challenge of recording, mediating, and distributing memories. This forms a central concern within the practice of the artist Amanda E. Metzger, who, since 2022, has experimented with establishing a network of herself by initiating nodes in different cities across Europe, forming a "multi-bodymind". In this way, she attends events and collects these experiences, which serve as material for her output.

Amanda E. Metzger: https://amandaemetzger.net

Tomorrow 💥 @aksioma@mastodon.social at panke.gallery – launch of new publications & conversation with the authors; part of Vorspiel 2026

https://vorspiel.berlin/events/aksioma-at-panke-gallery

📍 panke.gallery, Thursday, 29 January 2026 at 7 PM (Gerichtstr. 23, Hof 5, 13347 Berlin)

https://panke.gallery/event/benze-de-ream-and-sophie-publig

Aksioma returns to the panke.gallery to launch its new multithread publishing line, promote the latest issue of the PostscriptUM series and celebrate the release of its latest book, Are You A Software Update?

https://aksioma.org/aksioma-at-panke

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Programme schedule (29 JAN 2026):

19:00
Introduction by Janez Fakin Janša
Presentation of the multithread editorial series
by Lea Sande and Ema Maznik Antić

19:10
Benze De Ream on multithread #1: The Blue Flower Syndrome

19:30
Mikkel Rørbo on multithread #2: Digital Occultism (preview)

19:40
Sophie Publig on PostScriptum #54: Swiping Right on God

20:00
Conversation with Sophie Publig and Benze De Ream
Moderated by Lea Sande and Ema Maznik Antić

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The multithread series
https://aksioma.org/publications/multithread

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multithread #1
Benze De Ream
The Blue Flower Syndrome
Afterword by Metahaven

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PostScriptUM #54
Sophie Publig
Swiping Right on God
https://aksioma.org/swiping-right-on-god

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Nora O' Murchú, Janez Fakin Janša, eds.
Are You a Software Update?
https://aksioma.org/are-you-a-software-update

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multithread #2

Sophie Publig & Mikkel Rørbo
Digital Occultism
Release date: Spring 2026

Reverse Contradictionary – Dictionary of New Worlds by @Vuk@tldr.nettime.org Ćosić · @iocose@tldr.nettime.org · Vladan Joler: book launch event as part of Vorspiel 2026

https://panke.gallery/event/reverse-contradictionary

📍 panke.gallery, Tuesday, 27 January 2026, 7 PM (Gerichtstr. 23, Hof 5, 13347 Berlin)

The entire cultural output of humanity is being fed into AI. Large Language Models are ingesting not only books, articles, and blogs in their entirety, but also the content of our private written and spoken conversations. LLMs are boiling lakes and burning down forests to generate texts based on statistical mediocrity, which we are supposed to worship as the beginning of a great new gilded age.

https://reverse-contradictionary.net

This is where Reverse Contradictionary comes into play — a collaborative effort by critical media titans Vuk Ćosić, IOCOSE and Vladan Joler. Their new Dictionary of New Worlds presents selected confrontational neologisms that, with acute insight and subtle provocation, challenge and overturn the predatory, algorithmic logic embedded in statistical language.

With a preface by Yes Men and a terrifying blurb by real Slavoj Žižek.

∆ (delta) – an exhibition by Amanda E. Metzger

Opening: panke.gallery, Thursday, 23 April 2026, at 18:00 (guided tour of the exhibition with the artist at 19:30)

https://panke.gallery/exhibition/delta

Exhibition: 23–30 April 2026

𝚫 (delta) is developed within the CERN Connect residency and takes the form of a website for mobile phones, fully unfolding its soundscape only when visitors gather in a space together.

The exhibition examines the effects of data as abstraction and asks what the resulting difference (𝚫) between reality and its reconstruction produces: what is displaced, reduced, or rendered inaccessible in the process of making data and, in parallel, in the formation of personal memories. The web-based work thus also reflects on the original intention behind the World Wide Web, developed at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN): that data should be accessible to anyone from anywhere.

The guiding question structuring the work is based on the main experiments conducted at CERN: the recording of particle collisions in order to observe the fragments produced and to gain better insight into the creation of the universe. The challenge of recording these events and reconstructing them with sufficient precision for subsequent study is closely linked to the challenge of recording, mediating, and distributing memories. This forms a central concern within the practice of the artist Amanda E. Metzger, who, since 2022, has experimented with establishing a network of herself by initiating nodes in different cities across Europe, forming a "multi-bodymind". In this way, she attends events and collects these experiences, which serve as material for her output.

Amanda E. Metzger: https://amandaemetzger.net

Today at 7 PM. See you @pankegallery@tldr.nettime.org!

Reverse Contradictionary – Dictionary of New Worlds by @Vuk@tldr.nettime.org Ćosić · @iocose@tldr.nettime.org · Vladan Joler: Berlin book launch, part of Vorspiel 2026

📍 panke.gallery, Tuesday, 27 January 2026, 7 PM (Gerichtstr. 23, Hof 5, 13347 Berlin)

https://panke.gallery/event/reverse-contradictionary

With a preface by Yes Men and a terrifying blurb by real Slavoj Žižek.

https://reverse-contradictionary.net

'desktop documentary' - screening 01

📍 panke.gallery
🗓️ Wednesday, 25 February 2026, 19:00 – 21:30

https://panke.gallery/event/panke-gallery-screening-01-2026

Coined by filmmaker and media researcher Kevin B. Lee, the 'desktop documentary' is a production method of audiovisual media that sources its footage directly from the internet. Through the use of screen capturing software, the computer screen functions as both camera and canvas. The format simultaneously depicts and interrogates the ways in which we interact with the internet and technology as a whole.

Join us on February 25th from 19:00 to 21:30, when we will screen a series of short desktop documentaries. The programme brings together works by international artists and filmmakers, presenting a range of approaches to the form, from personal narratives to critical reflections on online culture and surveillance.

"Watching The Pain of Others" by Lého Galibert-Laîné
"Transformers: The Premake" by Kevin B. Lee
"My Mulholland" by Jessica McGoff

Curated by Mezzy Shivers

Free entry. No booking required.

A big thank you to everyone who came to the presentation yesterday, and to all the presenters! #fullhouse
It was a fantastic event that exceeded all expectations, with a huge turnout and great talks.

https://aksioma.org/aksioma-at-panke

@aksioma@mastodon.social presented its new multithread publishing line, the latest issue in the PostscriptUM series, and the release of its newest book.

https://vorspiel.berlin/events/aksioma-at-panke-gallery

📍 panke.gallery, 29 January 2026 - Vorspiel 2026

~ with Benze De Ream, Sophie Publig, Mikkel Rørbo, Lea Sande, Ema Maznik Antić, and Janez Fakin Janša

https://panke.gallery/event/benze-de-ream-and-sophie-publig

Photos: friends of Aksioma & panke.gallery ➠ https://www.instagram.com/p/DUJHWxOCMTw

'desktop documentary' - screening 01 2026

📍 panke.gallery
🗓️ Wednesday, 25 February 2026, 19:00 – 21:30

https://panke.gallery/event/panke-gallery-screening-01-2026

Coined by filmmaker and media researcher Kevin B. Lee, the 'desktop documentary' is a production method of audiovisual media that sources its footage directly from the internet. Through the use of screen capturing software, the computer screen functions as both camera and canvas. The format simultaneously depicts and interrogates the ways in which we interact with the internet and technology as a whole.

Join us on February 25th from 19:00 to 21:30, when we will screen a series of short desktop documentaries. The programme brings together works by international artists and filmmakers, presenting a range of approaches to the form, from personal narratives to critical reflections on online culture and surveillance.

"Watching The Pain of Others" by Lého Galibert-Laîné
"Transformers: The Premake" by Kevin B. Lee
"My Mulholland" by Jessica McGoff

Curated by Mezzy Shivers

Free entry. No booking required.

January 2026 at panke.gallery:

➠ 16 JAN 2026

✚ plus: electro post pseudo meta proto punk by !gor #352; @intima@tldr.nettime.org · part of Vorspiel 2026
https://panke.gallery/event/pluspunk
Are you ready for a revolution?

Diffused Archive (2026) · an exhibition by @pitscher@social.bau-ha.us · part of Vorspiel 2026
https://router.gallery/exhibition013.html

➠ 23 JAN 2026

The Wrong Walkthrough
https://panke.gallery/event/the-wrong-walkthrough
On the occasion of The Wrong Biennale, we are hosting a Wrong Walkthrough live streaming session by S()fia Braga and @pitscher@social.bau-ha.us

➠ 27 JAN 2026

Reverse Contradictionary – Dictionary of New Worlds
↝ by @Vuk@tldr.nettime.org · Vladan Joler · @iocose@tldr.nettime.org: book launch event as part of Vorspiel 2026
https://panke.gallery/event/reverse-contradictionary

➠ 29 JAN 2026

Benze De Ream & Sophie Publig – launch of new publications & conversation with the authors · part of Vorspiel 2026
https://panke.gallery/event/benze-de-ream-and-sophie-publig
Event organized in collaboration with @aksioma@mastodon.social - Institute of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana:
· Benze De Ream: The Blue Flower Syndrome
· Sophie Publig: Swiping Right on God
· Are You a Software Update?

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@pankegallery/115937963301845014

Today at 19:00: @aksioma@mastodon.social at panke.gallery ➠ https://vorspiel.berlin/events/aksioma-at-panke-gallery

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@pankegallery/116114230857138464

Tonight! 💥 Welcome! 💛 #15

Join us at the end of February for an evening dedicated to the desktop documentary, a form that draws footage directly from the internet and turns the computer screen into both camera and canvas. We'll screen a series of short films by international artists and filmmakers, ranging from personal narratives to critical reflections on online culture and surveillance.

– panke.gallery, 25 FEB 2026; curated by Mezzy Shivers
https://panke.gallery/event/panke-gallery-screening-01-2026

This Wednesday at panke.gallery: Hostile Platforms / Beloved Margins – solo show by Everest Pipkin @everest@merveilles.town

opening: Wednesday, 10 September 2025 at 19:00
exhibition: 10 September - 2 October 2025

https://panke.gallery/exhibition/hostile-platforms-beloved-margins

The history of the internet is not a timeline of platforms. From a distance, the story of internet technologies becomes a litany of companies, interest groups, startups, funding bubbles and hype cycles. But if you ask any individual person about their history “online” the story is almost always people – this forum, that hobby, a movie night, a server, a raid group, a shared goal, a comment section. Connections of personal meaning that have lasted, even if the platform they were hosted on has crumbled. The history of the internet is a history of people constructing homes together, even temporarily in the margins.

This is a retrospective of browser-based works from the last decade, from the lens of (or lack of) stability practices on corporate platforms. Depreciated API keys, banned bots, obsolete scripts, revoked permissions, and projects that live on in screenshots, documentation, print materials, or memory are common here. But there are other, far stronger kinds of connective structures than a shared platform, and the new flourishing of handmade web tools gesture at a world in which we are less beholden to platform capitalism – where we have not just more tools but the right tools, tools with an inbuilt ideology for the better world they seek to build.

Everest Pipkin is a game developer, artist, and educator who works in games and software tools across the handmade web. They have shown and spoken at The Design Museum of London, The Texas Biennial, The XXI Triennale of Milan, The Photographers Gallery of London, Center for Land Use Interpretation, and currently teach game design at the Pratt Institute. They believe the internet is a public good, and the post office should operate it.

https://everest-pipkin.com

Caring and Narrating – Aesthetic Strategies to Counter the Climate Crisis – Yvonne Volkart and Birgit Schneider, moderated by Cornelia Sollfrank
https://panke.gallery/event/caring-and-narrating

/rosa
Friday, 1 December 2023, 19:00 – 20:00
Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 35, 10178 Berlin
- book launch

Livestream: https://panke.gallery/streaming

What are the possibilities of ecoaesthetics and ecosensibility in the intersection of art, science and technology in times of climate crisis? Birgit Schneider and Yvonne Volkart will address these questions when presenting their new books. They will talk about the question of how the social and ecological consequences of global warming are technically sensed, bodily felt and experienced and to what extent different ways of perceiving have a political impact. And how different perspectives can open up new narratives about the ecological crisis and new entry points of care and action.

#YvonneVolkart: Technologies of Care. From Sensing Technologies to an Aesthetics of Attention in a More-than-Human World, Zürich: diaphanes 2023: open access: https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/technologies-of-care-7046

#BirgitSchneider: Der Anfang einer neuen Welt. Wie wir vom Klimawandel erzählen, ohne zu verstummen. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2023. (The beginning of a new world. How we narrate climate change without falling silent)