Pogo Bar
Göksu Kunak a.k.a. Gucci Chunk, Cabaret Portrait: Döner Blackout II, Performance on 28 November 19
The Pogo Bar is located in the basement of KW and reintroduces the format of the bar of the same name that existed there in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Since the beginning of 2017, the bar has a program and provides space for performances, readings, interventions, film screenings, and conversations.
Since KW’s establishment in the early 1990s, the space has undergone various transformations and has been used in a variety of ways. An installation by artist and designer Robert Wilhite revived the bar concept under the name Bob’s Pogo Bar and became an integral part of KW’s program until April 2018. Wilhite’s design, with asymmetrical mahagony furniture, stage elements, dark velvet curtains, and stuffed animals evoked a surreal dream that formed a unique backdrop for the events. During the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, the so-called Mastur Bar, a traveling project by artist Fabiana Faleiros, moved into the cellar and dedicated weekly events to female pleasure.
From October 2018, the Pogo Bar—reminiscent of its past—carries forward elements from its earlier iterations and continues its program, occasionally moving into KW’s courtyard or its fourth floor.
The upcoming program at Pogo Bar will be published on our website and will be sent to all members, and followers in a monthly newsletter. Please subscribe to the newsletter at pogobar@kw-berlin.de, to receive the monthly Pogo Bar program, as well as the newsletter of KW. KW Friends get exclusive access to all events held at Pogo Bar.
Enter at your own risk.
The program is currently curated by Linda Franken, Assistant Curator, and Lara Scherrieble, Curatorial Assistant. Former curators are Sofie Krogh Christensen, Léon Kruijswijk until 2023, as well as Katherine C. M. Adams and Nikolas Brummer (for one iteration each in 2023). Furthermore Kathrin Bentele until August 2021, Cathrin Mayer until May 2020 and Maurin Dietrich until July 2019. A former formate was the Lichtspiele series—focusing on the notion of the moving image—which was curated by Mason Leaver-Yap.
Nigin Beck, My yellow is yours, your red is mine, 2017
Podcasts
Pogo Bar Podcasts is a series of long poems, sound scapes, essays, speculative interviews, and potential histories—the creative space of Pogo Bar in the digital realm.
Pogo Bar Podcast:
Root Canal
I’ll Never be a Star I’ve Always Been the Moon
December 21
Pogo Bar Podcast:
Phung-Tien Phan
The Podcast City
July 21
Pogo Bar Podcast:
Nicholas Grafia and Mikołaj Sobczak
It’s 10PM. Do You know where your children are?
June 21
Pogo Bar Podcast:
Taylor Le Melle
Orion J. Facey’s The Virosexuals
June 21
Pogo Bar Podcast:
Nour Mobarak
Memory Talk
May 21
Pogo Bar Podcast:
Alexander Iezzi
Heehaw Angel Hunting—Lesson in Companionshit
May 21
Pogo Bar Podcast:
Beth Collar
Scatter Cushion
April 21
Pogo Bar Podcast:
Joshua Leon
Lamentation No.1: A Smuggler’s Guide to Loss
April 21
Pogo Bar Podcast:
Luzie Meyer
The Acquisition of Language & The Language of Acquisition
March 21
Pogo Bar Podcast:
Thea Reifler und Philipp Bergmann
Truth is a Matter of the Imagination
March 21
Pogo Bar Podcast:
Simnikiwe Buhlungu
Anecdotal Through-isms
February 21
Pogo Bar Podcast:
Nadja Abt
Mutiny on the Bivalvia – Interview with a Seafarer
February 21
Previous events
Ludovica Carbotta
Monowe
1 October 24, 8 pm
Belle Santos
Matadora
17 October 24, 9 pm
Liina Magnea
15 August 24, 9 pm
Stefanie Schwarzwimmer
11 July 24, 9 pm
Edward Thomasson
Grace and Harmony
9 May 24, 8 pm
Andrea Felizitas Karch /<br>Mina Amiri Kalvøy
WARP
12 April 24, 9 pm
Vika Kirchenbauer
21 March 24, 8.30 pm
Lauryn Youden
you’re seeping into my bloodstream
14 December 23, 9 pm
@nnast_antn
CLWNciaga
1 December 23, 8 pm
Amanda Lee Koe
A Cyborg Island Manifesto
16 November 23, 9 pm
Lotte Nielsen
Yaoi (bōizu rabu)
9 November 23, 9 pm
Anchoress
19 October, 9 pm
Elizabete Balčus
Hotel Universe
12 October 23, 9 pm
James Batchelor & Collaborators
Hyperspace
15 June 23, 9 pm
Ania Nowak
- 12 May 23, 8 pm
Beatrice Marchi
- 04 May 23, 9 pm
Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong
Days
17 March 23, 8 pm
King Kong Magazine Launch Party
Body Politics – On Masculinity
Mit PHILTH HAUS, marum und ābnamā
3 March 23, from 8 pm
virgil b/g taylor x Pogo Bar:
zur Entwicklung der Jüdenstraße
4 February 23, 8 pm
BPA// x Pogo Bar:
Dina El Kaisy Friemuth x Alvozay x Duygu Ağal
what cannot be said will be wept
9 December 22, 8 pm
Michel Majerus x Pogo Bar:
Steven Warwick
Gesamtkunstwerk: Dopplereffekt & Staging Evil
4 November 22, 8 pm
Klosterruine x Pogo Bar:
July Weber with Fifi x Abortion
omnivore_excerpts
14 August 22, 7 pm
Klosterruine x Pogo Bar:
Abigail Toll
Matrices of Vision
6 July 22, 8 pm
Klosterruine x Pogo Bar:
Verena Buttmann and Niclas Riepshoff
Offene Fenster
24 June 22, 7 pm
Kinder Limo
10 May, 7:30 pm
Melanie Jame Wolf
Three Possibilities Walk into A Bar
7 April 22, 9 pm
Mohammad Shawky Hassan
31 March 22, 9 pm
Kasia Fudakowski and members of the Association for the Palliative Turn
An Evening On The Palliative Turn
10 March 22, 9 pm
Amalia Ulman
El Planeta
3 March 22, 9 pm
Elisabeth Molin
-165 meters, times zero and 18 suns in space
25 November 21, 9 pm
Thanos Frydas, Luka Aron, Coy Mistress
Rose in the Dark
18 November 21, 9 pm
An Evening With Queer Ear Mastering
9 September 21, 9 pm
Mahmoud Khaled, Marwa Arsanios, Mariam Mekiwi
Eve’s Confessions. From Radio to TikTok
19 August 21, 9 pm
Kristian Vistrup Madsen
Book Launch of Doing Time: Essays on Using People
8 July 21, 9 pm
ONLINE STREAM:
Maria Malpecki & Tomek Pawłowski Jarmołajew
There is no such thing as internet
ONLINE STREAM:
Haku Sungho & Misantrop
Shifts
ONLINE STREAM:
Lilly Pfalzer
SUNNY 4 POGO TV
Susan Sontag
Duet for Cannibals
5 March 20, 9 pm
Rat Rights, Kris Lemsalu Malone & Kyp Malone Lemsalu
Love Song Sing-Along After Party
28 February 20, 10 pm
Hassina Taalbi
20 February 20, 9 pm
Pogo Bar Invites Stella Zekri and Friends for the Last Pogo of the Year
19 December 19, 9 pm
Göksu Kunak a.k.a. Gucci Chunk
Cabaret Portrait: Döner Blackout II
28 November 19, 9 pm
Ebow & Meg10
K*nack 4 Life
30 October 19, 9 pm
Billy J. Bultheel
Spat from My Mouth: Piano Concerto
7 November 19, 9 pm
Nina Beier and Bob Kil
23 October 19, 9 pm
Marina Pinsky
Coastal Dimensions—Cocktails with Joe Hoyt and 333 Boyz
3 October 19, 9 pm
Dyke TV
Incite, Subvert, Organize, and Provoke – Volume 2
25 July 19, 9 pm
High Heal
18 July 19, 9 pm
Kandis Williams
Fusing Ethics and Aesthetics, the Work of Cassandra Press
11 July 19, 9 pm
27 June 19, 9 pm
Dena Yago
On Orchids & Precarity
20 June 19, 9 pm
Niclas Riepshoff & Michaela Schweighofer
SPOONS OVER KNIVES
23 May 19, 9 pm
Ramaya Tegegne
16 May 19, 7 pm
Ashley Hans Scheirl & Jakob Lena Knebl
Dandy Gfrast – non sono solo*_’
25 April 19
Lamb Kebab & Yemed
Hissing
18 April 19
Dyke TV Screening
Incite, Subvert, Organize and Provoke
4 April 19
Selected films by Marvin J. Taylor
28 March 19
Leda Bourgogne
IN THE FEELINGS OF OUR SHADOW
DJ Set by Melanie Ohnemus & Mascha Jacobs
14 March 19
HIV/AIDS Today
21 February 19, 9 pm
Philipp Gufler
I Wanna Give You Devotion
14 February 19
Philip Poppek
FLUFF
31 January 19
Hannah Anbert
The land of milk and honey
24 January 19
Pfeil Magazin
Mainstream
13 December 18
Lichtspiele:
The Wooster Group: Rumstick Road
6 December 18
Steven Warwick & DeForrest Brown
Elevator to Mezzanine – Performing America (Iconic America)
29 November 18
Astrit Ismaili
The New Body
22 November 18
Lichtspiele
1 November 18
Neda Sanai and Hengameh Yaghoobifarah
Shut the fuck up when you talk to me regarding nuances of language
25 October 18
Marshall Vincent
Frozé Afternoon & Trust Issues
1 September 18
Kamilla Bischof & Laura Welker
19 August 18
Rosa Rendl
Invited by Barbara Rüdiger
14 July 18
Bendik Giske
Surrender
26 April 18
Lou Drago und Pedro Marum
Quantum leaps in trans-semiotics through psycho-analytical snail serum
19 April 18
Jacob Peter Kovner:
12 April 18
Lichtspiele
5 April 18
Samantha Bohatsch
SHE SAID
22 March 18, 9 pm
Adam Shiu-Yang Shaw feat. Angharad Williams & Economy of Meaning:
Clerks’ Quarters
15 March 18
Lichtspiele:
Episodes of Horror: Gestures
1 March 18
André Harris, Ricarda Messner, Mark Stroemich, Marshall Vincent Garrett, Zeit+Geld, Nicolas Hue, Michelle Phillips, Paul Kramer, i.ruuu, Sophie Douala, and Fabio M. Silva
ROM*.COM: a 90’s Trauma workshop (*Read only memory)
22 February 18
Dardan Zhegrova
Lucky Pierre: Crush at the other table
15 February 18
Lichtspiele:
Episodes of Horror
Gudo: A Wounded Spectacle
- 1 February 18
Lichtspiele:
7 December 17
Laura Catania & Isabelle Fürnkäs
HEAVEN
w/ Baal & Mortimer, Marion Benoit, Pola Fendel,
Nora Hansen (feat. Mary Lake), Josefine Reisch, Siansull
16 November 17, 8.30 pm
Lichtspiele
Brett Story
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016)
2 November 17
HC
Alle Pizze fast rund
26 October 17
Lichtspiele
Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras:
Flag Wars (2003)
5 October 17
Jonas Wendelin
A Toast to My Consent
28 September 17
Berlin Community Radio
feat. Jessica Ekomane & DJ Morgana
21 September 17
Berlin Community Radio
BCR 4th Birthday at the Mall
14 September 17
Nora Rekade and Liesl Raff
My Moment is now yours
13 July 17
Lichtspiele:
She was a full body speaker standing tall in the corner of the room, “West End Angel Of Love Teacher For My It Girl” plays in the background
6 July 17
Natasha Stagg and Chris Filippini
The Hot Glue Factory
22 June 17
Neda Sanai
feat. the xextraterrestrial wrap
- 15 June 17
Lichtspiele:
Ellen Cantor: Pinochet Porn
7 June 17
Lonely Boys
A night for lonely boys
25 May 17
Marianne Vlaschits
Cake Ceremony
27 April 17
Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Antonia Carrara, Benjamin Thorel
Unintended Experience
20 April 17
Dafna Maimon
Related Primates
13–15 April 17
A new 8-person ensemble, developed with Emma Waltraud Howes, costumes Tea Palmelund, produced by Caique Tizzi
With: Dan Allon, Tara Dominguez, Laura Hemming-Lowe, Jos McKain, Marie-Delphine Rauhut, Wissam Sader, Jorge Vega, Xinyue Zhang
Lichtspiele:
Will Holder and Mason Leaver-Yap
”The activity of framing a performance and the intentions that accumulate around that activity produce a certain anxious kind of mode. and I became bothered by that / by the flurry of activity that tends to make so many things.”
6 April 17
Nigin Beck
My yellow is yours, your red is mine
30 March 17
Ayamin Awazuhara and Christophe Burman
Conversation Piece
Barbara Kapusta
The 8 and the Fist
16 March 17
Lichtspiele:
Charlotte Prodger: BRIDGIT
8 March 17
Vincent de Hoÿm and Jade Fourès-Varnier
Thursday Best
3 March 17
Alex Hunter and Timo Feldhaus
Ryan
23 February 17
Heike-Karin Föll and Leon Kahane
Club Tropicana
16 February 17
Lichtspiele:
9 February 17
CREAMCAKE
COOL FOR YOU: MOOD MANAGEMENT
2 February 17
Bitsy K.
Hydroholic Pilorum
26 January 17
Nora Turato
show personality, not personal items
19 January 17