11. to 31. July 2025
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Futur3. - Art and Discourse Weeks
July 11 – 31, 2025
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Since its founding in 2017 by Netzwerk für revolutionäre Ungeduld [Network for Revolutionary Impatience], Futur3. has become an integral part of Kiel’s art and cultural scene. Through close collaboration with cultural practitioners and growing partnerships with independent initiatives and established city institutions, Futur3. creates a diverse, broad and accessible cultural offering and landscape.
With a thematic focus that evolves through changing curations, the program spans various formats: art exhibitions, discursive events, theater, art and music performances, artistic interventions in institutional or public spaces, and workshops.
Since its redesign in 2025, Futur3. has placed a stronger focus on the principles of Community, Common, and Care, standing for a democratic, open, and pluralistic society. Serving as a bridge between art and the city community, the Futur3.Program creates open spaces for art and discourse, supports young artists, and actively works to promote their interests while strengthening the independent cultural scene in Kiel.
»The Strength of Weak Ties«
This year’s focus »The Strength of Weak Ties« was developed in response to global crises and ongoing processes of societal transformation. It explores the social and cultural consequences of political upheavals and examines the role of both individual and collective resilience. Our curatorial approach brings together queer-feminist and anti-capitalist perspectives on self-care with the sociological idea that it is precisely loose social connections (“weak ties”) that can significantly contribute to the stability and diversity of a society.
Team 2025
Project Management: Mia Fyu
Technical Management: Meike Schlemmer
Art Curation: Mateusz Dworczyk
Program Curation: Thies Warnke
Curation of Education: Alisa Nieto Lühr
Design: Miriam Hartung
Web: Adrian Herzig
Public Relations and Social Media: Maj-Brit Wussow
Foto and Video: Hans Noffke
NfrU Primary Contact: Steffen Bockhorst
NfrU Assistant: Luis Oberföll
For this year’s Futur3.Exhibition »The Strength of Weak Ties«, we are looking for four students to work as art mediators, designing and leading dialogical tours.
Fundings and Sponsorships
Futur3. is organized by the Network for Revolutionary Impatience (NfrU) e.V. — with kind support from the City of Kiel, the Kiel Citizen Foundation, the State Working Group for Sociocultural Affairs Schleswig-Holstein e.V., the AStA of Muthesius University of Fine Arts, the AStA of Kiel University, the CAU Kiel | ZfE Inkubator, studio hoop, and AV/IT.
Additionally funded by:
F3.Treat
»DIY-COMMUNITY«
Wednesday, July 23, 2025 | 6:00–8:00 PM
Location: Office NfrU, Medusastraße 16, 24143 Kiel
Speakers: Lennart Holzborn (Visual Artist) and Esteban Pérez (Visual Artist)
How do initiatives, communities, and exhibition spaces come into being? What pathways lead to collective organization, and how can structures be created that are both sustainable internally and visible externally? At the second networking meeting as part of Futur3 – Weeks for Art and Discourse, we will explore this year’s theme: “The Strength of Weak Ties.” In conversation with Lennart Holzborn from the Kunst- und Kulturzentrum Casablanca e.V. (Kiel) and Esteban Pérez from the Galerie Gruppe Motto (Hamburg), we will open up diverse perspectives on forms of collaboration in the arts.
Drawing on concrete experiences and insights, we will examine networking strategies that enable collective working methods—from everyday collaboration in the studio to cultural-political positioning. The discussion will address both structural and conceptual questions: What motivates collective action? How can shared interests be consolidated, and in what spaces can they be negotiated?
This gathering offers an opportunity for exchange, inspiration, and the strengthening of those often underestimated yet powerful connections that underpin cultural work.
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F3.Treat serves as networking platform for the independent art and culture scene that facilitates professional exchange between institutions, city actors and artists of all disciplines.
F3.Performance
F3.Finissage – Live Sound & Visual Set
with MIKA and Mik Nim
Thursday, July 31, 2025 | 7:30–8:00 PM
Location: Studio Hoop, Wilhelminenstraße 13, 24103 Kiel
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Within the intimate setting of F3.Fields’ Makgeolli Bar, MIKA delivers a live sound performance inspired by »Rebus« (2023), the conceptual starting point for Mik Nim’s project »MITGERJU – a Test of Trust.«, while Mik Nim shows video recordings made during her stay in Kiel. The real-time projections merge with the live audio, creating an immersive audiovisual composition where sound, image, and space seamlessly converge.
MIKA
Mik Nim
Mik Nim, *1982 in Samchuck (KOR); lives and works in Berlin (DE) and Seoul (KOR). She studied sculpture at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig. In addition to sculpture, she works with photography, video, as well as performative, participatory, and research-based formats. Several projects have been realized in Lower Saxony and Berlin, with solo exhibitions among others in Wolfsburg, Lübeck, and Seoul. In 2023, she received the Förderpreis of Kunsthaus Bella Martha. Her works are included in the collection of the Museum für Photographie Braunschweig.
Contact: https://miknim.com/
Cycles – Liveset
with Von Dannen
Sunday, 20 July 2025 | 7:00-8:30 PM
Location: Off-Space (Entrance at Schloßstraße 18)
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Von Dannen crafts a sonic tapestry that unfolds between breakbeat, house, sound collage, and ambient. Organic and synthetic textures, ethereal and energetic moods, narrative and abstract elements are intricately woven together; the authorship, age, and origin of the sounds are blurred and recontextualized. All of this serves to create an atmosphere that invites both contemplation and exhilaration in equal measure.
Augustin Lose, *1996 in Halle an der Saale, Germany, lives and works in Düsseldorf, where he creates under the alias “Von Dannen.” Following his studies at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts in Kiel and Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences, his work in the cultural sector is complemented by a current focus on independent music and sound production.
F3.Opening – Liveset
by d.n.a.
Friday, 11 July 2025 | 8:00-9:30 PM
Location: Off-Space (Entrance at Schloßstraße 18)
F3.Talks
F3.Fields
»Makgeolli Bar: A Test of Trust«
Mik Nim
Duration: 19.07. – 31.07.2025
Open: Wed. - Sun, 4 - 8 p.m.
The new format F3.Fields aims to create temporary spaces where social, cultural and democratic aspects take centre stage. The goal is to offer accessible places that provide a counterbalance to the academic art world and benefit the people of Kiel. The focus lies on exchange and networking as a driving force for social cohesion and participation – rather than presenting art as something isolated or exclusive. The invited artists are tasked with designing a space that serves a real, practical purpose and is understandable without any prior knowledge of art. The core of this artistic practice is to create an open, participatory space with an accompanying programme. This year, South Korean artist Mik Nim, based in Berlin, has been invited to realise the project entitled »Makgeolli Bar: A Test of Trust.«
F3.Fields - Workshop Series
Free of charge | registration via mail: miknimartwork@gmail.com | max. 5 people |
Location: studio hoop, Wilhelminenstraße 13, Kiel
The workshop will be conducted by the artist and consists of three parts that build on each other. Participation in all three dates is recommended.
Part 1: Sunday, July 20, 2025, 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Part 2: Saturday, July 26, 2025, 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Part 3: Thursday, July 31, 2025, 6:00 PM
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Part 1: »Brewing Makgeolli«
Sunday, July 20, 2025, 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Together, we will make traditional Korean rice wine. The brewing process is experienced as a collective act of trust and transformation. In doing so, participants immerse themselves in a new cultural practice and experience it through their own hands.
Part 2: »Filtering, Cooking, Telling Stories. Building trust, one meal at a time.«
Saturday, July 26, 2025, 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
While cooking and tasting together, recipes, rituals, and personal stories come together. There will be an exchange about faith, doubt, and belonging over food and drink.
Teil 3: »End of Futur3. and Workshop Series«
Thursday, July 31, 2025, 6:00 PM
We celebrate the conclusion of the workshop series with the homemade Makgeolli—as a drink, a gesture, and a starting point for conversation. To finish, we will prepare Bibimbap together, sharing a meal as a moment of trust.
Mik Nim, »Überzeugungen sind nicht logisch«, 80 x 120 cm, digital photograph, Lübeck, 2022.
In collaboration with studio hoop, Mik Nim will open a Makgeolli bar for the duration of Futur3. This year’s F3.Fields concept builds on the artist’s ongoing exploration of trust and doubt in everyday life, as well as her engagement with cross-cultural, collective, and individual belief systems. Rather than focusing on consumption, the project centers on the process of creating traditional, unfiltered rice wine — a shared practice that forms the foundation for human connection. In this way, Mik Nim uses the act of filtration in the brewing process as both a social and political metaphor, symbolizing the dynamics of doing, telling, believing, and doubting. As an artist with a history of migration, Mik Nim brings her own cultural background into the work. In preparation, Mik Nim will arrive in Kiel one month early, in June, to engage in dialogue with local communities. This process of sharing and questioning social codes, while including both communities and outsiders, forms part of an intercultural exchange making political and societal meanings visible in everyday life. The bar itself will be activated and performed by the artist as a space for conversation, for listening, and mutual confiding.
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Mik Nim, *1982 in Samchuck (KOR); lives and works in Berlin (DE) and Seoul (KOR). She studied sculpture at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig. In addition to sculpture, she works with photography, video, as well as performative, participatory, and research-based formats. Several projects have been realized in Lower Saxony and Berlin, with solo exhibitions among others in Wolfsburg, Lübeck, and Seoul. In 2023, she received the Förderpreis of Kunsthaus Bella Martha. Her works are included in the collection of the Museum für Photographie Braunschweig.
Locations
The Network for Revolutionary Impatience e.V. organizes Futur3. – Weeks for Art and Discourse. As a non-profit arts and culture association, it offers a platform for diverse stakeholders to promote, plan, and execute cultural projects. The association is defined by the interdisciplinary collaboration of artists and cultural practitioners across various fields.
F3.Exhibition
»The Strength of Weak Ties«
Franca Behrmann, Alime Ertürk, Laura Nan, Max Prange, Aura Roig, Xiaoyi Zhang
Duration: 12.07. – 27.07.2025
Opening hours:
Thurs. / Fri. 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Sat. / Sun. 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Closed Mon-Wed!
The theme of this year’s Art and Discourse Weeks has been developed in response to current societal and cultural transformations in our globally interconnected world. At its heart are questions about the consequences political upheaval and social ruptures have on the dynamics between individuals, communities and society at large. The starting point is a curatorial concept grounded in the sociological observation that even weak social ties can open up new resources and perspectives for individuals, thereby contributing to the stability and diversity of communities. The group exhibition The Strength of Weak Ties offers an artistic approach to this inquiry. Six emerging artists from Germany and Switzerland explore the complex facets of human relationships through a range of media, artistic techniques, and narrative strategies. Between ideals and reality, Franca Behrmann, Alime Ertürk, Laura Nan, Max Prange, Aura Roig and Xiaoyi Zhang each bring their personal perspectives into play.
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However, the works on display do not simply dwell on personal experience. Instead, they open up a deeper understanding of collective processes and social connections. They generate momentum, revealing how it is precisely the fragile that can give rise to the kind of resistant strength needed to confront societal challenges. From familial archives in the work of Alime Ertürk to the collective scream in Xiaoyi Zhang’s paintings, the featured works explore in different ways how fractures can give rise to new connections. These approaches also run through Franca Behrmann’s engagement with her family history, Laura Nan’s endless sleepover, Max Prange’s voices of solitude, and Aura Roig’s visual concepts of radical tenderness. The exhibition invites viewers not to fear these tensions, but rather to understand them as the seed and resource of community.
Franca Behrmann, from the series: »Auf getrenntesten Bergen/On separate mountains«, Sneem (IRL) Braunschweig (DE), 2024, digital collage (archive image, project book, instant photos, necklace, textile graphic), size variable, Courtesy of the artist.
Franca Behrmann’s »Auf getrenntesten Bergen« (On the Most Distant Mountains) is a personal engagement with the death of her mother. The extensive body of work, comprising performative, staged photography and archival material, is rooted in a road trip to Ireland with a friend and her father. In the work, Behrmann combines staged scenes with her family photo archive to develop a distinctive and intimate narrative around family and closeness. The photographic story, which can certainly be read as a form of psychological processing, links past and future, fact and imagination. The title references Friedrich Hölderlin’s hymn Patmos, in which proximity and distance are not treated as opposites but are placed in a paradoxical relationship: «Those dearest dwell […] on the most distant mountains.»
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Franca Behrmann, *1998 in Lemgo, (DE); lives and works in Braunschweig (DE). She studied Fine Arts at the Braunschweig University of Art, supervised by Norbert Bisky and Hartmut Neumann, specializing in painting. In 2024, she completed her studies as a master student of Natalie Czech in the class for Photography, Media, and Poetics. Her work has been exhibited at the Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam and the Kunstverein Braunschweig, among others. From October 2025, she will be an Artist in Residence at the Künstlerhaus Otte 1 in Eckernförde.
Alime Ertürk, “Untitled (Don’t Fall for It!),” Frankfurt, 2025, laser print transfer on tape, 215 x 220 cm, Courtesy of the artist.
While Behrmann pieces memories together, Alime Ertürk disassembles them. Ertürk draws on the phenomenon of the family photo album, a form of photography that emerged in the early 19th century and continued to shape visual culture until the advent of mass digital photography. Even if individual albums may appear mundane to outsiders, the cultural practice behind them, where social and cultural patterns emerge through motifs and visual codes that can vary by milieu, is all the more intriguing. In her collage work »o.T. (Fall’ nicht auf!)« (untitled (Don’t Stand Out!)), the artist fragments her family photos: faces disappear, hands intertwine. The resulting gaps are not losses, but rather prompts for reflecting on social codes. These absences also complicate the immediate recognition of personal stories, cultural references, or external markers. By deliberately breaking expectations and disrupting how we read images, the work engages with the phenomenon of Othering – the process by which people are marked as different, often through seemingly minor details. It becomes clear: being «other» is not a fact, but a perspective that constructs difference. At the same time, the work addresses the mechanism of passing – the attempt to blend in or remain as inconspicuous as possible in line with social norms.
Alime Ertürk, *1989 in Frankfurt am Main (DE); lives and works there. After studying Art and Politics in Frankfurt, she studied Visual Communication at the HBK Braunschweig and Art - Media - Cultural Education at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Her work has been shown, among other places, in Braunschweig, Rüsselsheim and at festivals in Amsterdam (NL) and Chaumont (FR).
Laura Nan, »10:00 or 100oC«, Zurich, 2025, 3D animation, color, mono audio, 14:49 minutes, Courtesy of the artist.
Laura Nan’s animated short film »10:00 or 100C« tells the story of a never-ending sleepover. Structured like a chamber play, it takes the dynamic between hosts and guests to absurd extremes, creating a tension between social ideals, everyday reality and personal needs: the practice of hospitality and the gesture of care come up against the concept of home as a private retreat and the desire for one’s personal safe space. The 3D animated film, which resembles stop-motion, features figures that only vaguely resemble humans— a design choice that creates visual distance, yet paradoxically highlights the deeply human and touching nature of the depicted situation. The story not only explores the characters’ inner conflicts but also skillfully creates narrative gaps that must be filled by the viewers themselves. Whether the guest is grappling with loneliness, homelessness, or genuinely trying to cook magical rice as thanks is left to the audience’s imagination.
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Laura Nan, *2000 in Sibiu (RO); lives and works in Zurich (CH). She completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in the Department of Fine Arts of the Zurich University of the Arts, with animation as her main medium. Her work has been shown at various art exhibitions and film festivals in Switzerland and abroad.
Max Prange, »Le Stade du Miroir«, Kiel, 2025, sound installation (wood, speakers, polycarbonate, mirror), 94 x 94 x 110 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
With his sound installation, Max Prange creates a time capsule: by speaking with young queer men about their experiences of loneliness and the associated feelings of shame, transforming the recorded interviews into a composition of voices. The wooden object from which the voices emanate evokes a range of associations. Whether interpreted as highlighting the cathartic power of speaking as a communal practice, or as giving voice to unconscious knowledge, the installation invites listeners to lean in and immerse themselves in someone else’s reality – sometimes, listening is the first form of community and care. The title »Le Stade du Miroir« is a clear reference to the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan. Lacan’s concept of the mirror stage describes the moment when an infant first recognises itself as a coherent individual. Crucially, this moment of realisation requires an external cue, for instance, a mother saying: «Look, that’s you in the mirror!». In this work, the artist takes on that role, both as interviewer and through the artwork itself, which speaks on behalf of others.
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Max Prange, *2000 in Kiel (DE); studied art and history as a teacher at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design until February 2025, funded by the Cusanuswerk since 2024. He is currently working as a curatorial assistant for the NUKLEUS Kiel project by curator Sven Christian Schuch and plans to continue his studies at the University of the Arts in Berlin from October. In recent months, his work has been shown at the Atelierhaus im Anscharpark, Kiel, St Johannes Church, Lychen, and Studio 36, Rostock.
Aura Roig, »Hot dog with mustard on top«, 2024, oil on wood, 31 x 38,5 cm, Courtesy of the Artist.
Aura Roig’s drawings and paintings are marked by a fusion of autobiographical references and a political, queer-feminist stance. Roig often personifies objects, plants, body parts or organs, using them as means of figuration and narration. This allows them to sideline gendered attributions and instead foreground the emotional depth and vulnerability of individuals through facial expression. Recurring themes include the depiction of female* bodies and nonconforming gender identities within the patriarchal system, as well as the social roles assigned in the context of care work. However, Roig’s images are far from overt political statements. They respond to broader systemic conditions through the eyes of an individual, with humour, grotesquery and radical softness.
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Aura Roig *1994 Tortosa (ES); lives and works in Berlin, and graduated in Fine Arts from Universitat de Barcelona. Recent exhibitions include StadtWERKSTATT Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (2025), Mèdol Centre d’Arts Contemporànies (2024), Centre de Lectura de Reus (2024), 101 Projectspace (2024), Centre d’Art Lo Pati (2023), Culterim Gallery (2023), and Museu de Tortosa (2022). Currently, they are part of the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt 2025.
Xiaoyi Zhang, «Screaming,» Kiel, 2025, oil on canvas, scented candle, 25 × 45 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
Xiaoyi Zhang’s series »Screaming« is based on film stills from horror movies. The selection spans from the 1960s to the present and focuses explicitly on the mouths of female characters at the moment of fear. The source material is cropped into close-ups and translated into small-format paintings covered with scented wax. At first glance, the series appears to address the well-known male gaze, the tendency to exaggerate or sexualise female emotions, especially in moments of fear. However, the use of scented wax lends the work a domestic, everyday context and underscores that female body horror is neither an exception nor fiction, but the lived reality of many women. By isolating the mouth and removing the context of fear, the expression is reinterpreted: the scream becomes a defiant baring of teeth, a gesture of defence and collective resistance. (MD)
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Xiaoyi Zhang, *2000 in Yunnan (CHN); lives and studies in Kiel (DE). She is currently studying painting at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel. Her artistic practice is based on painting and material experiments, with a focus on the transformation of media and the expansion of visual forms of expression.