Transgressive Memory Festival
How and through which lenses do we remember in the age of algorithms, artificial intelligence, and digital media? Who decides which stories are preserved, forgotten, or rewritten?
And what happens when media, performance, and sound artists, rather than institutions, negotiate cultural heritage and histories to critically investigate our present and form alternative visions for our future?
Transgressive Memory is a new festival, which explores how contemporary art and critical thinking are transforming the ways we as societies relate ourselves to our multifaceted pasts.
Taking place on 12–13 September 2026 at silent green Kulturquartier in Berlin, Transgressive Memory Festival invites audiences to take part in art and critical research, exploring how the past is haunting our present.
Bringing together international artists, researchers, performers and cultural practitioners, Transgressive Memory Festival examines memory not as something fixed or complete, but as a living process, which we constantly negotiate. We give space to artistic works that move beyond biased categories separating documentary and fiction, the archive and the practice of speculation, physical and digital worlds. To us, to be transgressive means: to refuse inherited limits, to aim for a disruption of official histories, to cross disciplinary boundaries, and to reshape memory culture by listening to often unheard voices as well as using new technologies to investigate invisiblities and power relations.
Our curated programme challenges established forms of commemoration and memorialisation by focussing on artistic and critical contributions to memory culture and its socio-political environment. The works presented propose new ways of building relationships between histories, technologies and urgent questions of our contemporary, mediated global society shaped by new ways of seeing and hearing.
Transgressive Memory Festival is organised by eCommemoration, the programme for artistic and trangressive forms of (digital) memory-making initiated by Körber-Stiftung. With contributions by transmediale, CTM and VideoClub.
And what happens when media, performance, and sound artists, rather than institutions, negotiate cultural heritage and histories to critically investigate our present and form alternative visions for our future?
Transgressive Memory is a new festival, which explores how contemporary art and critical thinking are transforming the ways we as societies relate ourselves to our multifaceted pasts.
Taking place on 12–13 September 2026 at silent green Kulturquartier in Berlin, Transgressive Memory Festival invites audiences to take part in art and critical research, exploring how the past is haunting our present.
Bringing together international artists, researchers, performers and cultural practitioners, Transgressive Memory Festival examines memory not as something fixed or complete, but as a living process, which we constantly negotiate. We give space to artistic works that move beyond biased categories separating documentary and fiction, the archive and the practice of speculation, physical and digital worlds. To us, to be transgressive means: to refuse inherited limits, to aim for a disruption of official histories, to cross disciplinary boundaries, and to reshape memory culture by listening to often unheard voices as well as using new technologies to investigate invisiblities and power relations.
Our curated programme challenges established forms of commemoration and memorialisation by focussing on artistic and critical contributions to memory culture and its socio-political environment. The works presented propose new ways of building relationships between histories, technologies and urgent questions of our contemporary, mediated global society shaped by new ways of seeing and hearing.
Transgressive Memory Festival is organised by eCommemoration, the programme for artistic and trangressive forms of (digital) memory-making initiated by Körber-Stiftung. With contributions by transmediale, CTM and VideoClub.
