A machine that promises to tell you what's coming.

MishMash built an oracle.

Prophecy is a piece about the one thing almost everyone who has emigrated has tried to do at least once — read the future before it arrives.

An oracle promises to tell you what's coming. This one sits inside a festival literally called Emigration to the Future — which makes the joke land and keeps the question open: if you could get a straight answer about the life ahead of you, would you actually want it?

Put your question to it on 9 August, 16:00, at ExBrache.

MishMash is one of the artists rehearsing a livable future with us.

7–9 August
Berlin

This performance installation by Agata Sadkewitch invites participants to wrap themselves in cocoon dresses and explore them through movement. The experience can unfold individually or collectively—sharing a cocoon, embracing, moving, and exploring the space together. Throughout the performance, a hypnosis by Anastasia Lukomskaya accompanies the experience, inviting participants to imagine a future without violence—a world shaped by feminine values for everyone: love, care, beauty, and harmony. The intention is to create a space where everyone can experience themselves as already belonging to this future.

Berlin, Wedding 7–9 August 2026
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𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 · 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗳𝗿𝗮 𝗞𝗮𝘇𝗵𝗱𝗮𝗻

An audio play you don't watch — you overhear it. Staged inside a real Charlottenburg apartment.

No stage, no exposition. The audience walks into a residential interior and listens in on the everyday talk of a triad family: three adults living together, negotiating love, care, and who takes out the rubbish. Nobody performs at you. The conversations just happen, and you happen to be standing there.

The apartment is the argument. Not a future that has to be explained or defended — one that has already quietly moved in and started doing the dishes. Two versions: one all-male cast, one all-female cast. English and German.

"Realists" by Ruslan Kruzhinsky;
Staged by Shifra Kazhdan;
Design: Sasha Radzievsky
Sound: Mitya Vlassik
Voices: Sergey Fisher, Dmitry Gerchikov, Lyudmila Kornienko, Vera Kuznetsova, Anna Glanz-Margulis, Igor Sergeev.

Runs throughout the festival · Neukölln

𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗳𝗿𝗮 𝗞𝗮𝘇𝗵𝗱𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘂𝘀.

7–9 August
Berlin

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗿 · 𝗗𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘀 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗳𝗶𝗻

"My name is Denis Mustafin. I am performing the action, The Scene with the Daughter."

The action is a bicycle ride. Mustafin is riding from Burgundy to Berlin, and the ride is the whole piece.

"A migrant father who fled the war and was granted asylum in another country is trying to bike from Burgundy, where he lives, to Germany, where he has never been, to meet his daughter, with whom he has not spoken for several years."

Mustafin founded the street-art festival "Let's go! Where did you go?" in 2010 and spent five years inside the Media Udar collective. The ride keeps that logic: the material is the road, the audience is whoever the road produces.


7–9 August
Berlin

𝗢𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 · 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗸𝗮 𝗔𝗸𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮

"Inside the box were scattered parts — components of a construction set, tools, nuts, and the like. Samodelkin put himself together right there in the box."

Veronika Aktanova is showing Objects at ExBrache: a design for a monument to the Terminator, Hero of Digital Resistance.

The hero in question has an ancestor, and he is not American. Samodelkin, the robot from Soviet children's books, was never built by anyone. He arrived as a box of loose parts and did the assembly himself.

Aktanova's claim for him is not a modest one. "He is the Terminator of socialist descent — the one who can sway today's AI to turn against the imperialists."

Samodelkin was a tin man of screws, springs and offcuts, and the point of him was always the method: whatever is lying around is enough. No factory, no owner, no engineer taking the credit.

That method has aged into an argument. Every machine being assembled now belongs to somebody. A machine that put itself together out of loose parts is the only kind you could still talk into switching sides — and that is who Aktanova is proposing a monument to.

𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗸𝗮 𝗔𝗸𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘂𝘀.

7–9 August
ExBrache, Berlin

The future has three addresses in Berlin.

Glad to finally be able to say where. Emigration to the Future happens in these three houses, 7–9 August:

📍 ExBrache Wedding — main venue
Reinickendorfer Str. 41, 13347 Berlin

📍 BAS CS Gallery
Soldiner Str. 103, 13359 Berlin
@bascsgallery

📍 Chto Delat Emergency Project Room
Brunnenstr. 43, Berlin

A few events happen somewhere else entirely, and we'll say where when the programme is out.

Save the addresses in your phone and come by in August. We'll be at all three, all three days, and we'd like you there.

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𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 · Jenya Kukoverov

"Hello dear friends, my name is Jenya Kukoverov, I'm musician and artist from Paris. I'll come to Berlin for the festival Emigration to the Future and will perform on August 8th in the gardens of Wedding."

Jenya plays ExBrache on 8 August, with songs from his upcoming album Fragile Music.

"I'm gonna perform the music from my upcoming album, Fragile Music — lightweight, psychedelic rock, crazy shit. And this concert will be especially for the squirrel in this garden, but you could come too and check my weird sound. So see you there."

7–9 August
ExBrache, Berlin

"Hello, my name is Ekaterina Sisfontes. I'm a Swedish performing artist. On the 8th of August I will be showing my piece Borders Unlimited at the Emigration to the Future Festival.

I do not believe in countries. I don't believe in their existence in the form they have now.

So I invite you to enter seven other countries of my own. You can definitely see how it can become.

The performance is quite long, with the means for you to fill in applications to the countries that are still not existing, but are very possible to exist in the future.

Welcome to my future."

BORDERS UNLIMITED runs on 8 August. You walk through the space, and without warning a border checkpoint is standing in front of you. Guards ask for your documents and hand you a form to fill in before you are allowed through the barrier into a country you have never heard of. Nobody agrees to take part. That is the design.

The border does not hold still. Every time you come back to it, the flag has changed, the country has a different name, the guards behave differently and the questions on the form are new. You can never re-enter the same state twice. Behind the barrier there is always another dictatorship, monarchy, anarchy, theocracy or republic of militant equality — and each of them can collapse in a coup at any minute, as long as somebody has thought up what comes next.

The guards are parade guards. They decide nothing, they only carry out orders from above, and they take bribes in any form. They get tired, wander off to the bar and leave the border unmanned, or ask a visitor to stand in for them. Some people are refused passage for being unworthy. Groups get split at the barrier on criteria invented on the spot. There is no equality and no logic — only the temporary laws of an unstable state, obeyed without question.

The only things prepared in advance are the forms. Some ask reasonable, official-sounding questions. Others are intrusive, conspiratorial, or have no justification at all. You may be asked for a photograph for the state espionage service.

Borderless Borders is the temporary collective Sisfontes assembles for each intervention, and the collective grows as it runs: visitors are recruited into the guard, and the line between the person being checked and the person doing the checking stops being clear. What the piece is actually watching is how fast the absurd becomes routine — how quickly people settle into the roles they were never assigned, and start treating a border invented an hour ago as a fact of life.

Ekaterina Sisfontes is one of the artists rehearsing a livable future with us.

8 August
ExBrache, Berlin

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