Pogo Bar

 
<p>Göksu Kunak a.k.a. Gucci Chunk, <em>Cabaret Portrait: Döner Blackout II</em>, Performance on 28 November 19</p>

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.

 

<p>Nigin Beck,<em> <span class="">My yellow is yours, your red is mine</span></em><em class="">, </em><span class="">2017</span></p>

Nigin Beck, My yellow is yours, your red is mine, 2017

 

 

Upcoming events

 

Pogo Bar:
Vika Kirchenbauer
COMPASSION AND INCONVENIENCE
21 March 24, 8.30 pm

 

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

 

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

Cockdust

19 October, 9 pm

 

Elizabete Balčus
Hotel Universe
12 October 23, 9 pm

 

James Batchelor & Collaborators
Hyperspace
15 June 23, 9 pm

 

Ania Nowak

UNTITLED 3

  1. 12 May 23, 8 pm
  2.  

Beatrice Marchi

Friend-chips

  1. 04 May 23, 9 pm
  2.  

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 

Red Table Gate 

10 May, 7:30 pm 

 

Melanie Jame Wolf

Three Possibilities Walk into A Bar

7 April 22, 9 pm 

 

Mohammad Shawky Hassan

Early Films

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

Cosmic Arbeitsamt

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

Braver Lovers

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

Void Sessions Berlin

18 July 19, 9 pm

 

Kandis Williams

Fusing Ethics and Aesthetics, the Work of Cassandra Press

11 July 19, 9 pm

 

bandwagon nr.1

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


On Defense


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

Jamie Crewe: Bucolic Coda

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

Muse Mustermann

19 August 18

 

Rosa Rendl

Opportunity Lover

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:

Bruno Zhu

12 April 18

 

Lichtspiele

Leon Filter: MUMMYTHEDADDY

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. 1 February 18

 

Lichtspiele:

A Farewell to Progress

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:

Evan Ifekoya

She was a full body speaker standing tall in the corner of the room, “West ​End ​Angel ​O​f ​L​ove ​T​eacher ​F​or ​M​y ​I​t ​G​irl” 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

  1. 15 June 17
  2.  

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

Facebook 

 

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:

Jamie Crewe: Potash Lesson

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