THE KRYPTONALE

Interdiciplinary Festival of Arts thats deal with architecture
Conzerts, Dance, Performances, Soundinstallations
Wasserspeicher Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg

Why are people always so fascinated by dark, hidden, subterranean places, where you can hardly get to? Why do investigators force themselves into caves through narrow holes, dive deap down to find lost ships and hunt for secret passages and chambers in egyptean pyramids?

Man will never rest until all dark and unknown places in the world are filled with light. As long as there is something new to discover, something new to know, and any problems to solve human beings will continue to seek the truth.

What do these dark places tell us? Do they as a mirror of the unconsciousness give us insights, creative ideas and hints for our numerous unconscious questions? They for sure challenge us in their peculiar, though, and alien nature, that opposes the utilization by man. Not only do we explore such unknown and frightening areas, we as well explore ourselfes in a new way. While exploring we see with new eyes, hear, sense, feel, taste and even smell differently. We invite the audience to a transforming new experience.

And even more. The Wasserspeicher which is an old reservoir could become a place for the audience to meet the arts in various ways and for the different artforms to explore a new cooperation. As a continuous group of artists in the Wasserspeicher we want to open up our annual festival of arts - KRYPTONALE - as a festival for new ideas and projects. You can apply for the festival and send us your concept, if your work deals with special places in general, if you are interested to get inspired by the Wasserspeicher and to work together with other artforms.

KrypTonale-Group of Artists
The Place
Press Coverage
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Since 1994 it gets organized every year from the Kryptonale - a group of artists. Situated in the old waterreservoir of Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin is a forum for developing contemporary art with its concepts dealing with architecture, its sound- and spaceinstallations and all kind of performances. There will be a laboratory during the festival for the first time. Topics of presentations and discussian will be the values and problems in interdisciplinary cooperation and in the dialog between art and architecture as well as visions about cultural developement.