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Together with the visual artist Raul Walch, the composer Anushka Chkheidze, the digital artist Lucas Gutierrez and the dramaturge Ludwig Haugk, Robert Lippok creates a “night of transformation” in HELLERAU that addresses the correspondences between music, architecture and movement.
When Robert Lippok released the CD “Open Close Open” on the raster-noton label in 2001, it marked a turning point for him. The subsequent releases on vinyl in 2016 and as an extended version in 2024 make the album a special soundtrack to recent music history and the musical starting point and center of “OPEN - CLOSE - OPEN - ”. Raul Walch translates processes of change into space, creating an environment of transformation. The state of change becomes a concept and manifests itself in light modulation, kinetic sequences and soft textile structures and forms that continuously create new situations. Inspired by a courageous project in Tbilisi, in which vending machines on public transport were hacked and played pro-democratic messages, Anushka Chkheidze develops an immersive sound space to make it tangible how we listen to each other.
“OPEN - CLOSE - OPEN - ” begins with the audio-visual installation “+42.60” by Lippok/Gutierrez at 19:30, which deals with new plans and mutations of a building complex in Berlin redesigned by architect Arno Brandlhuber, which formerly housed the graphite factory VEB Elektrokohle Lichtenberg. From 8:30 pm, Anushka Chkheidze, together with a choir and her project “Hacked Voices”, will open the Great Hall in the Festspielhaus, where Robert Lippok and Raul Walch will establish an extraordinary concert space for “OPEN - CLOSE - OPEN -”, which will undergo a comprehensive transformation in collaboration with all participating artists.
The night program „UNIT“ starts at 23:00 in the club objekt klein a in the industrial area of Dresden-Albertstadt with Lea Occhi and Gabrielle Kwarteng, among others.
Participating artists: Robert Lippok, Anushka Chkheidze, Raul Walch, Lucas Gutierrez, Ludwig Haugk, Lea Occhi, Gabrielle Kwarteng and others.
Dasha Rush is unfortunately unable to perform as planned due to scheduling reasons.
Biographies
Photo: Silke Briel
Robert Lippok is a musician and visual artist. Influenced by his work at the Deutsche Staatsoper, his studies in Berlin-Weißensee and the bands Ornament und Verbrechen and To Rococo Rot, he moves between music, spatial art and performance. He works with sound technologies, found objects and his own instruments. His works have been shown at the Palais de Tokyo, Gropius Bau and at the 60th Venice Biennale (“Thresholds”), among others. He has released several albums on the raster-noton label and has performed at international festivals such as CTM, MUTEK, Sonar and Unsound. He is also a member of the board of trustees of the 4DSOUND system.
Photo: Levan Maisuradze
Anushka Chkheidze is considered one of the most promising Georgian musicians of her generation. Growing up in the village of Kharagauli, she was influenced early on by singing in a choir - an experience that still influences her music today. She frequently works with choirs, has composed for the Gori Women's Choir, among others, and performs internationally. Her sound installation “See Me” (Paderborn) explores the Pader river with choral and organ sounds. In 2025, her work “Intricate Pipes” was premiered at the Monheim Triennale.
Photo: Vitali Gelwich
Lucas Gutierrez is an Argentinian digital artist and industrial designer based in Berlin. His work combines digital art, design and audiovisual performance, exploring new forms of digital culture, remix and real-time visualization. He addresses social anxieties and dystopias in a colorful, chaotic visual language. He has exhibited at the Berliner Festspiele, CTM/transmediale, ZKM Karlsruhe and the Centre Pompidou, among others, and teaches at the UdK Berlin, the Kunsthochschule Weißensee and the NYU IMA program.
Photo: Rosa Merk
Raul Walch (*1980) is a visual artist based in Berlin. His works move between sculpture, textiles, installation and spatial composition. His projects develop from encounters, situational constellations and participatory actions in public spaces and combine collective experience, political awareness and poetic gestures. Sails, mobiles, kites and flags emerge from encounters and participatory actions, reacting to social and climatic currents. Raul Walch received the Villa Romana Prize in 2025.
In cooperation with objekt klein a
Funding
As part of the “Transformation Forever” festival. “Transformation Forever” is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
