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Photo: Matthias Heyde
GEGENGIFT
Music Theatre by Junger NKO and TU Berlin/Kunst-Pilzlabor
Date:
April 03 – May 11, 2025, 8–10 p.m.
The event will be held on May 10 and May 11, both at 8 p.m.
Tickets available via the website of the Neuköllner Oper.
From 03.04.2025 to 11.05.2025: world premiere of GEGENGIFT: Music Theatre by Junger Neuköllner Oper and TU Berlin Pilz-/Kunstlabor. The artistic team of the Junge NKO networks – mushroom mycelium-like – beyond fiction into real life and creates a musical theatre with young performers and professional singers. The idea of networking extends to the play’s stage design, which consists largely of mushroom mycelium.
The experimental building material is growing in the laboratories of the TU Berlin towards its premiere. Thermally insulating, lightweight, water-repellent and compostable – a material for a better future? The Neukölln Opera is collaborating with biotechnologist Prof. Vera Meyer and her scientific and student teams at the TU Berlin and the PILZ KUNST LABORATORY of the MITKUNSTZENTRALE from the House of Materialisation. In addition, students from the interdisciplinary, research-oriented Master’s programme Design and Computation at TU Berlin and UdK Berlin under the direction of Prof. Albert Lang will accompany the artistic research with the mushroom materials.
Under the scientific supervision of Prof Dr Vera Meyer.
Side events
What the Fungus
April 11, 2025, 8 p.m.
After the performance of GEGENGIFT, the artistic team will talk to biotechnologist Prof Dr Vera Meyer about her research into fungal materials in the middle of the mushroom-based stage set.
GEGENGIFT: Collective Thinking
April 30, 2025, 8 p.m.
The artistic team talks about the special process of the collective development of the play. They will discuss how they dealt with conflicting opinions, diverse backgrounds and different experiences.
Partners
A production of Neuköllner Oper. The event is realised in cooperation with the House of Materialisation and the Master's programme Design and Computation at TU Berlin and UdK Berlin. The Schering Foundation supports the research of the mushroom mycelium-based stage design and its use as performance stage.
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Schering Stiftung
Unter den Linden 32-34
10117 Berlin
Telefon: +49.30.20 62 29 62
Email: info@scheringstiftung.de
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Thursday to Monday: 1 pm - 7 pm
Saturday to Sunday: 11 am - 7 pm
free entrance