LIVE ART FESTIVAL #16: HITZE.HEAT.

Overheated debates meet real global warming, national isolationism meets global crises. The lines of conflict are hardening as temperatures rise. Decisive, sustainable answers to burning questions are needed - and spaces in which they can be tested together.

For the grand finale before the renovation, Kampnagel is opening all its halls - radically, widely and with many voices. Under the motto HITZE.HEAT., the Live Art Festival #16 will become a platform for artistic debate, solidarity-based practice and cross-border thinking. Especially in the climate crisis, if you only think about yourself, you heat up everyone.

For several days, Kampnagel will be transformed into a walk-in sculpture. Music, video, performance and discussion intertwine and link climate, society and political power.

Five artistic positions, all long-time Kampnagel companions, will explore the phenomenon of heat with different intensities and aesthetics:

• Tianzhuo Chen opens at k6 with a work-in-progress showing of his work FIRE WALK WITH ME - an energetic prelude between ritual and the present, AI and the sun as a power factor.

• God's Entertainment transforms k2 into a surreal underwater world and continues its performance series with IT'S GETTING HOT IN BIKINI BOTTOM! - between pop, abyss and overheating.

• Nesindano Namise curates artistic positions from Namibia that take a critical look at the "New Green Deal" and reflect global climate policy from a southern perspective.

• Prof. Dr. Fahim Amir and his philiosophical guests at k1 are developing a thinking space that uses "forensic ecology" to dissect post-colonial power relations and bring ecological issues to a political head.

• And Migrantpolitan invites you to the heated pool to literally negotiate burning issues: Who cooks whom?

The festival sees itself as an open parcours. Each hall opens up its own artistic world, each decision made by the audience forms an individual path through aesthetics, discourses and encounters. Linger or move on, immerse or contradict - the dramaturgy is created while walking. The song line "Fighting fire with fire" becomes a curatorial principle: The Heat is on! Let the Live Art Festival begin.

🗓️ June 11-13, 2026
📍Kampnagel International Culture Factory