3hd 2026: Beyond Imagining
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Thu 29 Oct 2026 · 6pm → 10pm · 4 hours
Who’s playing3 artists
In the order the promoter lists them.
Set times not published.
Good to know
- “Alex Quicho & Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee’s “Headless” opens the program on October 29 at 6pm with free entry.”
𝟹𝚑𝚍 𝟸0𝟸𝟼: 𝔅𝔢𝔶𝔬𝔫𝔡 imagining
Looking on is never neutral. 3hd festival’s “Beyond Imagining” month-long film program at Berlinische Galerie and 3hdTV weighs the costs of our watching. Four films by four artists set a single figure, real or invented, against a force beyond their control. The state. The crowd. The camera. The institution. Found footage and essay film, allegory and impersonation each trace what gets remembered and who bears the blame for forgetting.
Sara Sadik’s “Ultimate Vatos: Force & Honneur” portrays marginalized newcomer Zabuza, who must face an initiation trial in a fictional game arena to join a military-like program, forcing them to question loyalty, strength, and the meaning of belonging. In Simona Andrioletti’s “Defence. What do you do with your anger?,” a collage of individuals attempting, and failing, to defend themselves against physical, emotional, and environmental oppression is re-filmed with a smartphone pointed at a monitor. Following a Hillary Clinton impersonator in the lead up to the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, Simone C. Niquille’s “The Fragility of Life” questions the ownership of one‘s own image in a time of visual saturation. Vika Kirchenbauer’s “This Suffocating Now” reflects on the fascist tendencies the artist identifies in contemporary Germany, drawing on Palestine solidarity, queer and trans rights, and archival, protest, and personal footage to expose the illiberal undercurrents of a supposedly liberal society.
Alex Quicho & Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee’s “Headless” opens the program on October 29 at 6pm with free entry. Presented in front of a painting from Berlinische Galerie’s Lovis Corinth retrospective, their romance-scam thriller immerses its audience in a world staged through Telegram channels, burner phones, and music made from notifications, asking who’s really on the other end of every declaration of love. The night will close with a DJ set from NAS TEA, whose playful and vulnerable presence coaxes strangers into confessions of their own.
Image by Saish Kotecha
from the promoter’s listing on Resident Advisor
Who they are
Recently at KREUZWERK, Bar131, Panke · often with Mariana Benenge dance workshop, Visál Kim, Oldyungmayn, none of them here on Thursday
names these artists often play with — not on Thursday
- Amowia1 with NAS TEA
- Chinyere1 with NAS TEA
- Mariana Benenge dance workshop1 with NAS TEA
- Nissa Carrington1 with NAS TEA
- Oldyungmayn1 with NAS TEA
- Robin Flux1 with NAS TEA
- Sanaz (2)1 with NAS TEA
- Slimgirl fat1 with NAS TEA
The room
Berlinische Galerie — 1 event and 3 distinct artists since Oct 2026.
Who’s putting it on
Creamcake — 8 events and 58 artists since Oct 2025.
Also that night
how this one is connected
- Hybrid Concert Series - DAY 3 — RA tags both listings experimental.