E-WERK Luckenwalde is located in a former coal power station built in 1913, ceasing production in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall. Located 30 minutes south of Berlin, E-WERK Luckenwalde is jointly directed by artist Pablo Wendel and curator Helen Turner. In 2017, the art collective Performance Electrics gGmbH led by Pablo Wendel acquired the former brown-coal power station with the vision to reanimate it as a sustainable Kunststrom (art power) Kraftwerk to feed power into the national grid by burning locally sources waste wood chips to make electricity, and function as a large scale contemporary art centre. As part of POWER NIGHT in 2019, Performance Electrics gGmbH formally switched the power of the former factory back on.
ABIBA, Epsilove, Juba, Valentina Magaletti, Coby Sey
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A symposium tackling subjects such as sustainability, de-growth and environmental imperialism, Burn Out also offers a robust musical programme. Highlights include performances from ABIBA, Coby Sey, Juba and Valentina Magaletti.