stre!fen performance art festival
3. – 11. 07.2026
Kunsthalle Görlitz – Wilhelmsplatz 15
ARTISTS
aliveduo (Alena Starostina & Ivan Nikolaev), RU
Manuela Büchting, DE
Lena Czerniawska, PL
Emrah Gökdemir, DE/TR
Sebastian Hänel, DE
Vladimir Havlik, CZ
Josef Ka, FI
Lila Kalinowska, PL
Gerd Kempe, DE
Paweł Korbus, PL
Nataša Milojević, RS
Hans Narva, DE
Susanne Pomerance, DE
Lothar Quinkenstein, DE
Sascha Röhricht, DE
Christian Schmidt, DE
Stefanie Trojan, DE
Melissa Wagner, DE
Ewa Zarzycka, PL
Igor Zenzerović, HR
TEMPOTEMPO
curatorial text by
Emrah Gökdemir
Human life unfolds within a temporal condition it can never fully inhabit.
Time exceeds the body, escapes control, and accumulates unevenly. It stretches, collapses, accelerates, and suspends itself. Some lives are organised through urgency and continuous responsiveness, while others unfold within waiting, delay, and interrupted temporalities. A song once asks: How is it that while time never seems to pass, years and lives disappear?* Perhaps time is composed of contradictory rhythms.
With this year’s theme, TEMPOTEMPO, stre!fen Performance Festival approaches time not as a neutral continuum, but as a field of tension – political, affective, and embodied. The festival departs from the unstable intersections of acceleration and deceleration, continuity and rupture, presence and disappearance.