Forum 10, July 18-20, 2025

Experience Audacious New Projects

Join the Forecast Forum from July 18–20 in Berlin for a weekend of bold ideas and immersive experiences by visionary creatives from all over the world.

Across three days, the Forum features a vibrant program of performances, installations, and interactive events throughout the venue.

As Forecast marks its tenth anniversary edition, for the first time an alumna of the program serves as a mentor—Lulu Obermayer, who participated in Forecast 5. To celebrate this milestone, the Forum will open on Friday night with performances by her three mentorship nominees.

 

Out of over 1,000 submissions, each of the six mentors has invited three creative practitioners to develop and showcase their concepts in Berlin. At the Forum’s close, each mentor will select one mentee. These six chosen projects will then be developed further and premiered at the Forecast Festival in March 2026.

Daily Program:

Doors open one hour before start time
Projects marked with * are accessible throughout the Forum.

 

Friday, July 18

From 8pm
Opera: Uprooted, Upended, Unhinged
Mentor: performer and theater-maker Lulu Obermayer
Performances:
Deepika Arwind, I Speak to Sita
Milena Cestao Kolbowski, ¡GUAU!
Wojciech Rybicki, Three Sisters. Pas de mark.

Intermission

From 9:30pm
Locked Timbre
Mentor: electronic musician Sote
Live sessions:
Nurah Farahat, Kindasa FF
Corin Ileto, Resonance
Nicholas Morrish, Belly and Other Members

 

Saturday, July 19

5pm Guided tour of installations in German sign language (free, registration required via the ticket link)

 

From 7pm
Emotional Technologies
Mentor: artist and filmmaker Ruth Patir
Installations and talks:
Ebrahim Alipoor*, Bullets Have No Borders
Diane Cescutti, Gods of Calculation
Andrea Guizar, Plastic Aches

Intermission

From 8:45 pm
Don’t Overthink It
Mentor: vocalist and composer Elaine Mitchener
Live music:
Ibrahim Babayev, MughaMutations: Sonic Embodiment and the Disappearing Horizon
María Gabriela Rubio Hernández, The Larva
Aga Ujma, Songs for a Voice and a Chair

 

Sunday, July 20

From 6pm
Image, Sound, Collaboration
Mentor: video and installation artist James Richards
Installations and talks:
Siri Black*, All Future Generations
Bethan Hughes, Shadowing
TaeHwan Jeon*, And So We Silently Sleep

Intermission

From 7:15 pm
Reclaiming the Self
Mentor: designer and artist Hussein Chalayan
Performances:
Mirte Bogaert, As You Like It
Kihako Narisawa, Layers of Diversity
Yotam Peled, Destroy Me