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Sentimental Punk

View from the square on Kottbusser Tor on the event. The picture shows impressions from Sentimental Punk #69: Elena Kakaliagou improvises with a french horn to Janie Geiser films. The public space in front of Kotti-Shop is full of people watching the happening. The films and the shadows of the performing artist are projected on the shop windows. Photographer: Julia Herfurth

SENTIMENTAL PUNK 1.1 SOUNDTRACKS FOR A RECURRING DREAM

In three installments, from July through October 2026, the audiovisual concert series SENTIMENTAL PUNK 1.1—Soundtracks for a Recurring Dream—brings back film works and sound artists from the series’ early years, focusing on the perception and representation of bodies—female, non-human, and mechanical—as an artistic and curatorial leitmotif.

Since 2015, the format has been showing avant-garde films by female filmmakers of the 20th century, which are assembled into a film collage and shown twice in succession.

Each film is scored live by musicians, creating two different soundtracks per evening. In the week before each event, the original films with the original sound are shown daily in the window of the Kotti store. Sentimental Punk takes place in a public space, is barrier-free and free of charge.

Following the theme “Two Soundtracks. One Film Selection.” Sentimental Punk has established itself as one of the most important interdisciplinary forums between film art and contemporary music in Berlin. The setting at Kottbusser Tor also makes it a meeting place – closer to the asphalt than to the concert hall.

About Kotti-Shop

The Kotti-Shop is an experimental, non-profit art and project space founded in December 2008. It is located directly at the Kottbusser Tor, on the first floor of the New Kreuzberg Center. Exhibitions, performances, film screenings and concerts take place regularly at the Kotti-Shop. The special thing about the Kotti-Shop, however, besides the complexity of its activities, is its role in the Kiez and its strong connection to the neighborhood. It is a playful experimental space, a reference and activity space, especially for many of the children in the New Kreuzberg Center. In writing, drawing, collage and printing workshops, among other things, topics about and around the Kotti are worked on: feasible utopias and visions of the future for the Kottbusser Tor and its inhabitants. The Kotti-Shop is not only a project space within its fixed architecture, but also the starting point of larger-scale artistic collaborative projects in Germany and abroad, such as project weeks in Berlin schools, drawing festivals, workshops and participatory art projects in other art and project spaces.

Reference: Kotti-Shop website https://kotti-shop.net/en/

Image: Hanna Hartman plays her self-made instrument along to films of Maria Lassnig. Photographer: Amirali Ghasemi.

SENTIMENTAL PUNK 1.1 SOUNDTRACKS FOR A RECURRING DREAM is kindly supported by Musikfonds (BKM).