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Forecast 9: It’s a Wrap!

Watch the Recap of the 2025 Forecast Festival

Forecast 9 culminated in a two-day event which marked the conclusion of the 2024-25 edition. From March 14–15, the mentees premiered their projects at Radialsystem and the mentors each presented unique work. In addition, five LINA fellows offered workshops and participatory activations relating to their respective practices as urbanists and architects. →

The Work-Stay: São Paulo

Gustavo Gomes and Roee Rosen Explore Embodied Practices

In September 2023, Gustavo Gomes and his mentor, Roee Rosen, met in São Paulo as part of their concentrated work-stay to further develop Gomes's project Blue Shoe. While there, Gomes also produced and filmed choreographic material with São Paulo-based dancers. →

The Work-Stay: Las Vegas

Tom Cassani Challenges Our Willingness to Be Deceived

Tom Cassani tests the limits of body-based illusion while mapping new territories in contemporary performance practices. In February, he visited Las Vegas with his mentor Florentina Holzinger to explore the long-running shows in this center of entertainment. →

The Work-Stay: Digital

Hamza Baig Portrays a Community with Humor and Drama

Comedy anchors filmmaker Hamza Baig’s project, which revives a traditional Pakistani game to imagine a homegrown female superhero for a live-action series. He worked on the show's script with his mentor Daliso Chaponda in concentrated digital sessions. →

The Work-Stay: Beirut

Alexis Guillier Explores the Latent Politics of a Film Set Accident

Alexis Guillier and his mentor, investigative reporter Alia Ibrahim, met in Beirut in mid-January to deepen his artistic research into the deadly fire that broke out on the set of a film by Lebanese director Gary Garabedian in the late 1960s. →

OPEN CALL 2023

Apply to Forecast 8

We’re happy to announce the six new mentors in Forecast's eighth edition and the call for ideas. →

The Work-Stay: Barcelona

Artist Mia Štark Turns Expectations on Their Head

Mia Štark and her mentor, artist Ana Prvački, traveled to Barcelona in early December for a concentrated work-stay at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, where they deepened Štark's research into habits of looking and seeing, and how these can be altered and challenged by using the body in unexpected ways. →

The Work-Stay: Berlin

Peny Chan Brings the Female Gaze to the Peking Opera

Malaysian singer and performer Peny Chan and her mentor Rully Shabara met in Berlin in mid-November to work on Chan’s composition, which reimagines the character of the concubine in the Peking opera. →

The Work-Stay: London and Paris

Luciana Decker Orozco's Film Narrates Nature's Personhod

Bolivian filmmaker Luciana Decker Orozco and her mentor Laura Huertas Millán got together to conceptualize the film's pre-production and reflect on the decolonial practices the work employs. →

Forecast 7: The Selected Mentees 2022

Announcing the Six Projects in Forecast’s Seventh Edition

On the weekend of July 15–17, Forecast and Radialsystem invited the public to experience 18 multidisciplinary projects by artists, musicians, performers, researchers, filmmakers, and comedians. →

Forecast Forum 7, July 15–17, 2022

Experience 18 Trailblazing Projects

Join the Forecast Forum in Berlin's Radialsystem for a weekend full of thought-provoking experiences conceived by audacious thinkers from all over the world. →

Forecast Festival 2022

Forecast 6 will culminate in a two-day event

The entire venue will be activated through interactive artworks and sensory experiences, guided walkthroughs, workshops, and showcases. See the full program here. →
Iman Jesmi in Rome. Photo: Francesco Daverio Russomanno ©Forecast 2022.

The Work-Stay: Rome

Iman Jesmi Captures Cities as Sonic and Olfactory Scapes

Iranian composer and sound artist Iman Jesmi and his mentor Emeka Ogboh traveled to Rome in early March, where they were hosted for a Work-Stay at the MAXXI Museum. →

The Work-Stay: Antananarivo and Bucharest

Simona Deaconescu Traces a Dance Epidemic

Choreographer Simona Deaconescu and her mentor Mathilde Monnier got together in Bucharest in late March to finetune the performance Ramanenjana, which explores the 1863 “dance epidemic“ in Madagascar. Before meeting in Bucharest, Deaconescu and her dancers spent a nearly month-long work-stay in Antananarivo, Madagascar. →
Özge Samancı and Ulli Lust ©Adrien Dournel

The Work-Stay: Angoulême

Özge Samancı and Ulli Lust at the International Comics Festival

Özge Samancı is working on a novel set in mid-90s Istanbul. Through the main characters and plot, she explores what it was like to be a woman in 1990s Turkey, and looks at the roots of today's political situation there. Samancı met with her mentor Ulli Lust at the international comics festival in Angoulême to present the work to industry insiders. →

The Work-Stay: New York

Luísa Sol Confronts Suburban Utopia

Portuguese architect and researcher Luísa Sol and her mentor, architect Tatiana Bilbao, spent a week in New York together as part of their work-stay. →

Open Call 2022

Apply to Forecast's Mentorship Program

We're happy to announce the mentors in Forecast’s seventh edition and call for ideas. →

Forecast Forum 2021

Watch the Recording of the Sixth Forecast Forum

From September 9–11, 2021, the nominees in Forecast’s sixth edition shared their projects with the public in a livestreamed digital event. A recording of the three-day Forum is now available here. →

Forecast 6: Nominees Announced

The Six Mentors Have Each Selected Three Projects

Forecast again enables an extended mentoring period for all eighteen nominees. →

Forecast Festival, Edition 5

Watch the Recording of the Two-Day Festival

The six mentees of Forecast's fifth edition unveiled their productions at the Forecast Festival, which took place as a hybrid event staged at radialsystem and streamed online on April 9–10, 2021. →

Forecast Festival 5: Conversations

Watch the Conversations in Full Length

The mentees and mentors of Forecast's fifth edition invited leading figures in their fields to engage in conversations around their projects at the Forecast Festival. →

Forecast Festival, Edition 4

Watch the Recording of the Hybrid Festival

Following the postponement of the fourth edition’s closing event by a year due to the pandemic, the Festival was livestreamed from radialsystem in Berlin on April 1–2, 2021. →

Forecast Festival 4: Conversations

Watch the Talks in Full Length

The mentees and mentors of Forecast's fourth edition invited leading figures in their fields to engage in conversations around their projects. →

In Conversation

Ozoz Sokoh on Food as a Key to a Culture

In the days leading up to the fifth Forecast Festival, Sokoh spoke to writer Olamiju Fajemisin about her practice, and why she thinks the transatlantic stories of certain food items belong in museums. →

The Work-Stay: Digital Encounters

Connecting through Cooking

Andrea Nones-Kobiakov was about to board a plane from Mexico City to Curitiba, Brazil, when she received the message that her work-stay with Manu Buffara, her mentor in the category Cooking for Change, couldn’t take place as planned. What would have been their first physical encounter since the beginning of the fifth edition of Forecast had been ultimately called off. Instead, the two decided to hold a series of digital cooking sessions, open to anyone interested in experimenting with recipes. →

The Work-Stay: Kumasi

Deep Collaborations in Ghana

Jonathan Reus and his mentor in the Future Traditions in Music category, Du Yun, travelled to Kumasi, Ghana, in early February 2021—after having taken all necessary safety measures—where they were hosted by another Forecast 5 participant, Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi, at her interdisciplinary residency program pIAR. →

The Work-Stay: Berlin

Adéola Ọlágúnjú and Tobias Zielony at radialsystem

Ọlágúnjú traveled to Lagos weeks before the work-stay to record sound for her mixed-media work Born Throw Way! In Berlin, she and Zielony planned the installation in situ. →

The Work-Stay: Lulea

Only Game in Town in the Belly of the Beast

In late February 2021, Only Game in Town and the three performers in their durational piece LD50: The Vorkoster traveled to Lulea, in northern Sweden, for a two-week work-stay with mentor Markus Öhrn in his studio. →

Forecast Festivals 2021

Editions 4 and 5 Culminate in Hybrid Events

The Festivals will be livestreamed from radialsystem in Berlin on April 1–2 and April 9–10 →

Forecast Forum 2020

Watch the Recording of the Digital Forum

From October 29—31, 2020, the nominees in Forecast’s fifth edition shared their projects with the public in a livestreamed digital event. A recording of the three-day Forum is now available here. →
Forecast Mentees Edition 5

The Selected Mentees 2020

Announcing the Six Projects of Forecast’s Fifth Edition

For the first time since the program’s inauguration in 2015, the Forecast Forum took place digitally rather than as a physical event in Berlin. →
Forecast Forum: Mentors and Nominees

Join Our Livestream from October 29–31

The Forecast Forum Goes Digital

The eighteen nominees in Forecast’s fifth edition will share their projects with the public for the first time during three days of live performances, music, films, and lecture performances livestreamed online from their locations around the world. →

News

The Fifth Edition of Forecast Welcomes a New Nominee →

The Work-Stay: Rio de Janeiro and Sāo Paulo

Parasite 2.0 and Jerszy Seymour Meet Collectives in Brazil

In mid-February, just a couple of weeks before most international travel was stopped, two members of the three-person collective Parasite 2.0 flew from Italy to Brazil for a two-week work-stay in Rio de Janeiro and Sāo Paulo. Goethe-Institut hosted them in both cities, and they met with some of the local collectives working on the intersection of art and activism, focusing on participatory projects: Coletivo Em Silêncio, OPAVIVARÁ!, Esponja, AVAF, and Centro Cultural São Paulo. →

The Work-Stay: Miami

Sue Montoya and Paolo Cirio Workshop at the ICA Miami

Miami-based artist and researcher Sue Montoya examines how climate change affects Miami-Dade County. She was joined by her mentor, Paolo Cirio, for a weeklong work-stay and a workshop at the ICA Miami in February. →

The Work-Stay: Reykjavik

Olli Aarni and Okkyung Lee at the Nordic House

In early February 2020, Finnish musician Olli Aarni met up with his mentor, Okkyung Lee, for a work-stay at the Nordic House in Reykjavik, Iceland. In this new element of the Forecast program, the mentee and the mentor—who usually live and work in different parts of the world—come together for a period of creative exchanges and concrete mentoring. →

The Work-Stay: Berlin

Candice Breitz Hosted Renée Akitelek Mboya at Her Studio

Writer and filmmaker Renée Akitelek Mboya and her mentor in the category Moving Images, artist Candice Breitz, spent two weeks together in Berlin this winter as part of their work-stay. In this new element of the Forecast program, the mentee and the mentor—who usually live and work in different parts of the world—come together for a period of creative exchanges and concrete mentoring.  →
Anders Nilsen and Jonas Madden-Connor at Comic Arts Brooklyn fair

The Work-Stay: New York

Jonas Madden-Connor and Anders Nilsen Explore the Comics Library at Columbia

The work-stay is a new element of the Forecast program. Here, the mentee and the mentor—who usually live and work in different parts of the world—come together for several days of creative exchanges and concrete mentoring. Cartoonist Jonas Madden-Connor and his mentor in the Ink Paper Thought category, Anders Nilsen, were the first tandem to meet for an intensive five days of in-person collaboration. →
Forecast Forum, 7. Juli 2019, Radialsystem, © Camille Blake

The Selected Mentees 2019

Announcing the Six Selected Projects of the Fourth Edition

On the weekend of July 5–7, Forecast and radialsystem invited the public to experience works by the six mentors of its 2019 edition, and 18 multidisciplinary projects by artists, musicians, radio producers, researchers, designers, and cartoonists. →
Forecast Mentors

Meet the Mentors, July 5 at radialsystem

The Six Forecast Mentors on the Themes that Move Them

Each edition of Forecast is different; the six mentors, selected annually, impact the nature and content of every iteration. →

Commonplace Studio

Invasive Design: Backchannel Tools

In mid-July, Canadian-born designer Jon Stam, who is one half of the Amsterdam-based practice Commonplace Studio, traveled to the Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of Applied Arts) in Dresden to work with his mentor Tulga Beyerle, the museum’s director, on ways in which design can invade the collection. →

Forecast Forum 2018, Program

Experience These 18 Projects at the Forecast Forum →

Kalliopi Tsipni-Kolaza meeting Joe Namy

Interview

Playing with the unexpected

In Conversation with Barbara Vanderlinden and Kalliopi Tsipni-Kolaza What made Kalliopi’s proposal stand out from the rest? Barbara: In the case of Kalliopi’s project proposal, it was definitely the fact that she touches on some underdeveloped aspects of curating, those being sound in relation to space and auditory culture in general. To me, it feels →

Interview

Watch an Algorithm at Work

In Conversation with Jürgen Mayer H. and Tobias Nolte   Jürgen, what initially sparked your interest in Tobias’ project Mine the Scrap? Jürgen: I was drawn to his complex concept, which linked new digital technologies, innovative approaches to design and, by extension, the basis of our daily work, to concrete and important thematics: How do →

Interview

The physical process of hiking the Alps

In Conversation with Bas Princen and Agnieszka Kozlowska   How would you describe your working process? Bas: We have a strange relationship in the sense that there is not a lot of communication. But, when the communication is there, we try to pinpoint a couple of things that are possible routes or paths that could →

Interview

A virtual landscape of radical activism

 In Conversation with Arne Vogelgesang and Eric Joris   How did you both start working together on Arne’s project? Eric: 
The idea was to have Arne join my team and me from CREW in a project which has some similarities to Arne’s project in terms of its technological set up. That project had to do →

Interview

Describing reality from multiple sides

In conversation with Lars Petter Hagen and Leila Albayaty   What milestones or re-arrangements did you cross or experience from the beginning until today? Leila: When I presented the project at Forecast, it was very fresh and pretty much centered around my personality. I think that Lars’ way of working with me and understanding the →

Wendy Di Wang and Markus Diebel

Interview

Changing human behavior by light

In conversation with Wendy Di Wang and Markus Diebel Markus, what was the thing that most sparked your interest when you first looked at Wendy Di Wang’s project? When I looked at her proposal, the simplicity of her idea caught my attention. It was strikingly easy, in a way that anybody could understand: Changing human →

Presenting Multiplicity

The Mentors' Meeting at the HKW

On May 11, the mentors met each other in person for the very first time. After touring the HKW – Haus der Kulturen der Welt together, they engaged in an animated discussion about the applicants, their project proposals and how to present them at the Forecast Forum.   More than 360 applicants from a total →

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