Pop-Kultur Festival
My role: Deputy Head of Production
Location: Berlin, Germany
Pop-Kultur Festival is a platform for creative ideas, artistic experimentation, and international exchange. Seven days of live concerts, DJ sets, experimental music formats, talks, workshops and networking. The festival explores how pop culture shapes society today and tomorrow and stands for diversity, awareness, and accessibility.
I was the Deputy Head of Production for three consecutive editions of Pop-Kultur Festival at Silent Green Kulturquartier and Kulturbrauerei in Berlin, holding a central supervising position directing and liaising with production managers, stage crew, suppliers, tech crew, security team, logistics team and awareness team.
Artists: Boko Yout, Bar Italia, Discovery Zone, Jassin, Beaks, Apsilon, Eli Preiss, Ebb, Los Bitchos, Die Nerven, AratheJay, PVA, Sorvina, Grenzkontrolle, futurebae and many more
Video filmed and edited by Katharina Tress
Music: PVA »Hero Man«
Panophilia
My role: Curator & Artistic Director
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Panophilia is an orchestral performance project where visual artists, musicians and performers collectively create a site-specific piece beyond the notion of result/product but rather explore the process in itself. The happening is the outcome, the process of producing art and live music collectively and being the productive body becomes the actual artwork.
As curator, I conceptualized, arranged, produced, financed and managed the first edition of Panophilia at Röda Sten Konsthallen in Gothenburg, with support by the Swedish Arts Council and the City of Gothenburg.
Participants: Christoffer Berg, Kymat, Lisen Rylander-Löve, Tora Vinter, Alexandre Contout Doan Van, PC Nackt, Christina Vantzou, Lindi Ladron de Guevara, Maja Molander, Emelie Molander, Alma Möller, Chérie and many more.
Video directed and edited by Tim O’Driscoll
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Hansa Heroes
YouTube at Meistersaal
My role: Production Manager
Location : Berlin, Germany
I organized this event for YouTube's Global Head of Music at Hansa Studio Meistersaal. The objective was to perform for the client some of the legendary songs by David Bowie, Iggy Pop, U2 and Depeche Mode that originated at Hansa Studio to connect the attendees with the artistic heritage of the site.
I was the key producer liaising between the client’s Head of Music Germany, the performing artists (members of Moka Efti Orchestra as well as singers/ actresses featured in the TV show Babylon Berlin), venue representatives, vendors, technicians and other contractors and the artistic directors behind the Ein Hit ist ein Hit format.
The Los Angeles Suite
My role: Executive Producer
Location: Los Angeles
Recording workshop at Optimist Studios, Los Angeles. 70 performers, singers, songwriters, musicians and composers from Los Angeles and Berlin gathered at Optimist Studios in LA with the objective to compose, arrange, rehearse and record a whole album of 12 songs in four days and nights.
In cooperation with the LA-based production company California Music, I curated the line-up, negotiated agreements with involved management and publishing companies, managed the record production and publishing rights, licensed the record to a record label, and organized the European promotional campaign.
Participants – Zaire Black, vōx, Morgan Sorne, Grayson, Addie Hamilton, Sekou Andrews, The String Theory, Jens Kuross, Shana Halligan, FreQ Nasty, Robot Koch, Grayson and 50+ musicians and singers.
Video directed by Tim O’Driscoll
Edited by
Art Director: Nathalie Barusta Gäbel
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Sekou Andrews &
The String Theory
My role: Executive Producer
Location: Los Angeles & Berlin
Record production with Los Angeles-based spoken word poet Sekou Andrews and Berlin-based artist collective The String Theory. The album was nominated for a Grammy 2020 in the Best Spoken Word Album category.
I negotiated agreements with involved management and publishing companies, managed the transcontinental production, coordinated the orchestra performers, licensed the record to an American record label, organized the European part of the marketing campaign, and participated in promotional activities in the US.
I also co-produced two video shoots in Los Angeles and Berlin. The video for the focus track Love Says was produced in collaboration with California Music, Optimist Inc. and Color of Change.
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Clandestino Festival
My role: Production Manager
Location: Gothenburg
Clandestino Festival promotes diversity and peripheral music production by presenting contemporary African/ Asian/ South American artists at various venues in and around Gothenburg.
I was the Production Manager for two editions, where I worked closely with the Artistic Director and held a key position liaising with all departments, technicians, artists and their crews, as well as coordinating 30 volunteers.
I was also in charge of logistics, international travel and ground transport and initiated a corporate sponsorship with Volvo’s carsharing platform Sunfleet. I also managed advertisement campaigns and devised strategy and created content for the festival’s social media channels.
Artists: Oumou Sangaré, Altın Gün, King Ayisoba, Kokoko, Faka, Moor Mother, Sudan Archives, Bedouine and many more.
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Prism
My role: Curator & Producer
Location: Gothenburg and Berlin
I curated and produced the experimental performance project Prism that took place simultaneously in Berlin and Gothenburg.
20 performers (10 in each city) played compositions by PC Nackt and Ben Lauber. The sound was transmitted to the other city via internet. The light installations were created by the artist group Transforma (Berlin) and myself (Gothenburg).
Prism explored transformative approaches that combine different musical modules that can be performed independently yet experienced in synchronicity.
Participants: Brandt Brauer Frick, Earl Harvin (Tindersticks), The String Theory, T.Raumschmiere
Video directed and edited by Tim O’Driscoll
Schall & Rausch
My role: Visual Artist
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Artist residency at Järnhallen in Gothenburg. I received grants from the City of Gothenburg and The Swedish Art Grants Committee to realize the site-specific installation project Schall & Rauch.
The project and exhibition were part of the Gothenburg International Biennial of Contemporary Art 2015. Curated by Elvira Dyangani Ose.
I also curated a participatory performance concept in collaboration with Hamburg-based artist Kymat, where the audience interacted with the installation to create sounds and visualizations.
500 visitors, 2 interactive performances.