Look at Me
a performative installation in collaboration with artist Niklas Apfel, 2025
Look at Me explores the artistic struggle for visibility and recognition in a world overwhelmed by digital information.
The distinction between perception and reality continuously blurs: those who gain attention are seen and can participate in shaping realities, while those who are forgotten risk disappearing entirely, as if they never existed. The installation showcases an economy of perception, where the gaze of the audience becomes the ultimate currency in the face of a collective fear of insignificance: 100% Sale.
Artistic Direction: Niklas Apfel
Text & Concept: Stefanie Messner
Performance: coll. blitzbereit (Eva Weibel, Matilde Flor Usinger, Julie Savery)
Light: Spaik
Sound: Niclas Moos
Electronics: Lukas Esser
Photos: Ida Weber
CLOUD9 @ SPOILER, Berlin, 2024
Have you ever been sitting in an airplane right above the clouds and wondered how it would feel to touch them? Have you imagined how you would jump onto them and rub yourself on them? Well, we did.
Performance: coll. blitzbereit (Eva Weibel, Matilde Flor Usinger, Julie Savery)
Stage & costumes: MOTHER (Camilla Lønbirk und Olivia Schrøder von Lüttichau)
Sound: SABIWA
Photos: Alex Bex and SPOILER
VULNERABILITY HURTS
VULNERABILITY HURTS is an ongoing movement research project that explores vulnerability as the foundation of intimacy in interpersonal encounters. We investigate how intimacy can arise, how it is expressed, and what effects it has on the surrounding environment.
Performances at:
Dancetopia Symposium, Fuchs2, Prague, 2024
ALLE GEGEN ALLE (wrestling show), ZiK, Berlin, 2024
9. Biennale LANDschafftKunst, curated by SPOILER, Neuwerder, 2023
ONEIROI - where dreams come true
a living fountain performed in Körnerpark during 48H Neukölln 2023 (first video) as well as in a waterwork somewhere near Berlin (second video)
Concept, choreography and performance: coll. blitzbereit (Matilde Flor Usinger, Julie Savery, Denis Thuillé & Eva Weibel)
Video: Nanna Finding Koppel
TANGA
a heart-core performance exploring and enduring discomfort
Concept, choreography and performance: coll. blitzbereit (Matilde Flor Usinger, Julie Savery, Denis Thuillé and Eva Weibel)
Dramaturgy: Valentin Schmehl
Soundscape: Mathias Savery
Photos and video: Lucas Bihler
hosted by Brotfabrik Berlin
Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR.
Supported by Fachbereich Kunst und Kultur des Bezirksamtes Pankow.
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PERSONEELFEST - Kunsthal Gent
blitzbereit had the pleasure to perform at the artist staff party organized by Nein arts hosted in Kunsthal Gent
photos by Lukas Neven
Anna Deletaille OCTOPUS COLLECTION
Video material for danish jewellery designer Anna Deletaille
Art Direction: Agnes Maagaard & Ami Jessica Runge
Camera & Editing: Luis Hartmann
Performance: coll. blitzbereit Matilde Flor Usinger, Eva Weibel, Denis Thuillé & Julie Savery
APELBAUM02
blitzbereit performing at Anomalie Art Club with the light-engineered paintings of Jonathan Apelbaum, music by Giulio Frigerio, sensory gloves controlling light and sound by Paul Schuladen and Leon Wenzel, costumes by UY Studio, and video by Malek Hosni.
GLIMPSES
In November 2020 we had the opportunity to decorate the window of the Black Rabbit Bar Berlin, which temporarily had to close due to the pandemic measures. Over the course of five weekends, various performances, installations, and exhibitions were presented for the bypassing audience.
QUALITÄT IST KEIN ZUFALL
In October 2020 collectif blitzbereit reunited after one year of being geographically apart. For the Tag der Klubkultur, the collective held a site-specific performance at Chicken Center Berlin.
PANKUMENTA - ONLINE EDITION
Pankumenta is a multidisciplinary art festival that brings the opportunity for young starting artists to present their work in dialogue with the city of Berlin. In the 2020 online edition of Pankumenta, we reflected our version of "Undergrowth" through a peephole into our virtual backstage. Welcome to Blitz Bereit’s undergrowth; it’s warm, flashy, and full of glitter. Click on the image to enter the exhibition.
LONGDIS(D)ANCE
A short documentary made by alg, about how we approached the limitation of physically distanced creative collective work.
SYNAESTHETIC WEB SERIES
Multidisciplinary performance in collaboration with Kreatress and Knockout Knob Grooves.
BEREIT FÜR DENIM
blitzbereit travelled back to the eighties at Schwelgerei Berlin
HIER KOMMT HELM
First edition of Pankumenta festival at Two Yellow Chairs Berlin.
The day collectif blitzbereit was born, during Gallery Weekend 2019 at Gallerie Z22.