Events | Plasmatron - Felix Kubin & Josephin Böttger
Berlin | July 11, 2025 – July 13, 2025
Plasmatron
Sound Installation
In his multichannel installation, Hamburg-based sound artist Felix Kubin transforms the Great Water Reservoir into a sonic high-voltage laboratory straight out of a science fiction narrative. Drawing on experimental recordings from the high-voltage labs of HSU Hamburg and ETH Zurich, he crafts a vivid soundscape of crackling overhead power lines, artificial lightning strikes, humming electric fields, and abstract signal flows. Sharp pulses and modulated waves animate the reservoir’s rich acoustic environment, creating shifting sonic perceptions as visitors move through its concentrically arranged chambers.
Audiovisual Live Performances
Extending the installation into live experience, Felix Kubin joins forces with video artist Josephin Böttger for a series of audiovisual performances. Böttger navigates the structure’s spiral corridors with a mobile projection unit, orchestrating a choreographed interplay of light and architecture. Her video sequences, shaped by dynamic visual patterns, interact with the reservoir’s vanishing lines and resonate with Kubin’s live-generated sonic impulses and sequences—producing a striking fusion of image and sound in motion.
Born in Hamburg in 1969, Felix Kubin is a multidisciplinary artist known as a composer, audio drama producer, curator, and media artist. At the age of 12, during the early days of home recording, he began experimenting with tape on a four-track recorder. Since then, his artistic universe has expanded to include futuristic pop, audio dramas, electroacoustic music, lecture performances, contemporary chamber music, and his own label, Gagarin Records.
His music is driven by a passion for experimental pop, industrial noise, and the avant-garde of the 20th century. In 2018, he was featured in Marie Losier’s film Felix in Wonderland. In 2022, he was a Villa Aurora fellow in Los Angeles.
Hamburg-based video artist Josephin Böttger began her career producing experimental short films. Since earning her diploma from the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HfBK) in 2002, she has primarily worked on multi-channel video installations exhibited internationally and projected in public spaces.
Her works interweave drawing and real images, documentary footage and filmed performances into loosely structured narratives, often centered around architecture and time. The public space is one of her preferred arenas of action, with the unique characteristics of urban environments becoming integral to her performances. Building façades serve as dynamic projection surfaces, temporarily altering their visual structure.
Location:
Großer Wasserspeicher Prenzlauer Berg
Entrance Belforter Straße
10405 Berlin
Opening Hours Installation:
July 11 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
July 12 1:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
July 13 1:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Live-Performances Felix Kubin & Josephin Böttger
July 11 7:30 p.m.
July 12 6:00 p.m. & 8:00 p.m.
July 13 6:00 p.m.
Tickets:
Installation entry: Admission free.
Shows: €7
Link to ticket pre-sale here
Two Sound Spaces - Two Anniversaries:
Plasmatron is part of the three day program at the Wasserspeicher in Prenzlauer Berg.
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Villa Aurora and in remembrance of the 10th anniversary of the passing of musician and composer Dieter Moebius, the large and small water reservoirs in Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg will transform into extraordinary sound spaces for experimental electronic music.
With special thanks to:
Hauptmann Winterfeld, Johannes Schräder
Hochspannungslabor
HSU Hamburg
Hannah Kirchner
ETH Zürich
Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House is funded by
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