ONSITE FESTIVALSite-specific art residency and festival

ONSITE Herzberge
09.09. - 11.09.2022

In partnership with: Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge
Funded by:  Bezirksamt Lichtenberg, Amt für Weiterbildung und Kultur, Draussenstadt, Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge
Artists in residence: Allan Laurent, Anderson Kaltner, Andrea Galano Toro, Dmytro Goncharenko, Elissa de Brito, Evgenia Chetvertkova, Gustiele Fistaról,  Jae-Nder Fluid, Kim Wichera, Linda Zagidulina, MXM - Muep Etmo & Mirella Brandi, Tarlie Lumby, Zachary Schoenhut
ONSITE Grunewald
02.09. - 03.09.2023

In partnership with: Brücke-Museum 
Funded by: Stiftung für Kulturelle Weiterbildung und Kulturberatung, Draussenstadt
Artists in residence: Andressa Cantergiani, Jee-Ae Lim, Lale Willan, Maju Passos, Omar Adel, Paola Bascón, Paul Wiersbinski, Raquel Rosildete, Rayne, Riley Davidson, Samaquias Lorta, Thomas Mayer, Viviane Tabach The international site-specific art festival ONSITE takes place every year at interchanging locations. The festival is preceded by a two-week artist residency, developed by Po:era and invited guest collectives. Interdisciplinary practitioners apply with an artistic or action proposal for the site to strengthen both neighbourhood structures and international collaboration.  Guest artists are invited to develop site-specific proposals in a self-organized process. So far, the project has been realized in partnership with Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge in Berlin-Lichtenberg (2022 & 2024) and with Brücke-Museum in Berlin-Dahlem (2023).  
 
During the festival weekend the participating artists present the results from their individual and collective research on site. Po:era promotes site-specific, context-related works that emerge from transdisciplinary collaborations as well as participatory processes in cooperation with the local project partners and the neighbourhood. In recent editions, the results of the artistic process have included site-specific workshops, guided tours and audio walks, guerrilla performances in public spaces, visual-creative and performative responses to institutional (power) contexts, sculptures and installations using local materials, sound art in dialogue with the urban environment and nature.

ONSITE raises relevant questions in urban policy discourse at each new location. The local partners participate in the discussion of these issues, bring them into their areas of activity and represent their own positions and perspectives. The artistic results of this process presented at the festival bear witness to the traces that the project participants leave behind and that the site in turn leaves behind in them.