Body of Work 3: Post-Rave Aesthetics
BODY OF WORK at STUDIO1111 is a 270° showcase series where leading visual artists present their most defining creations, immersing the audience in their signature (virtual) worlds. Each event features a deep artists talk, offering rare insight into the stories and processes, unpacking the hacks and ideas behind their work, plus a sprinkle of future-flavored trivia.
❇️❇️❇️ PROGRAM
20:00 OPENING
21:00 ARTISTS TALK (hosted by Dr Amelia McConville)
22:30 DJ REDFEM x VJ SANTABRO
23:30 DJ KINTEL
❇️❇️❇️ARTIST LINEUP
COLORS AND THE KIDS (IG, www)
PFA STUDIOS (IG, www)
SANTABRO (IG, www)
❇️❇️❇️ DJs
KINTEL (IG)
REDFEM (IG)
𐦂𖨆𐀪𖠋 Entrance fee at the Door
10€ (regular) 15€ (after 22h)
8€ (students)
Studio 1111
Potsdamer Str. 96, 10785 Berlin
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With support by: VOJD, DEFASTEN, ANTONIA ANGEL
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POST-RAVE AESTHETICS looks at how the visual language of rave culture (past, present, future) continues to shape contemporary design. Emerging from an intersectional access to early digital software, DIY flyers, VJ culture, club-born experimentation, internet 1.0, rave aesthetics developed its own grammar: raw typography, signal distortion, synthetic textures, a future-facing obsession with rhythm, repetition, and intensity.
Today, those visual instincts live on: refined, abstracted, and recontextualized across music videos, brand identities, motion systems, large-scale digital environments, and dynamic social media. What was once underground now circulates globally, influencing how international market energy, subcultures, and futurity are communicated in visual form.
Body of Work 3 explores that transition. With artists influenced by club culture, the one-hour talk session (hosted by Dr Amelia McConville, PhD in Visual Poetry & Visual Poetics with Neurohumanities) examines how experimental, non-commercial practices evolve into sustainable creative careers. How do you preserve an ethos built on freedom, risk, and community while working with international clients? Where does authorship shift, and what remains intact?
Hosted at Studio1111, the discussion connects past and present,mapping how post-rave aesthetics continue to inform the visual systems of today, and the professional realities behind them.
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COLORS AND THE KIDS
IG, website
Colors And The Kids is a creative company. They develop visual worlds, brand systems, campaigns, and sonic identities, treating image, motion, and sound as one discipline. The name is a daily reminder: trust your intuition, stay open, approach everything without prejudice. The work is about evoking emotion. Built on love, partner-led since 2008.
Their portfolio spans global campaigns for Nike, Lego, and Apple, and award-winning audio-visual work for IBM. Precision matters, but it comes from somewhere deeper. Every project is pulled from the same pond of care, whether it's a product launch or an entire sound world for a new service.
The studio has exhibited work in Antwerp, Mumbai, New York, among others. For the Bauhaus Dessau centenary, CATK created a large-scale audio-visual installation, a full-circle moment since all partners studied at Bauhaus University Weimar. They run the independent music label Running on Cliffs. The line between commercial and artistic output was never drawn in the first place.
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PFA STUDIOS
IG, www
Pfadfinderei, founded in 1999, is a collective of seven artists with backgrounds in graphic design, video and animation, communication science, and technology. It began as a studio for print design, creating flyers, posters, and cover artwork primarily for Berlin’s rising electronic music scene.
During the early years, labels, artists and clubs such as BPitch Control, Modeselektor, Paul Kalkbrenner, Hard:Edged, and WMF Club were the playground for Pfadfinderei’s distinctive, vector-based graphic language. Logos, fonts, and visual identities formed the core of the studio’s output before it expanded into VJing and spatial experiences.
Their unique visual language soon evolved into the “Labland” event series. Organized by Pfadfinderei and the newly founded electronic music act Modeselektor, these weekly events brought together experimental electronic music and visuals, featuring artists such as Jamie Lidell, Apparat, Phon.o, Hermann & Kleine, Monolake, François Chalet and Bowling Club.
Live visuals (VJing) became a major focus in the early 2000s. Alongside their own events, Pfadfinderei held VJ residencies at WMF Club and created monthly slide projections for the newly opened club Watergate. In 2005, the studio released “Labland,” an audiovisual DVD album in collaboration with Modeselektor. Over the following decade, Pfadfinderei toured festivals and clubs worldwide as live visual performers.
As their practice developed, stage concepts and lighting design broadened their scope. The studio created shows and stage designs for artists such as Moderat, Paul Kalkbrenner, Tiga, and Boys Noize, while major commercial acts including U2 and Sunrise Avenue commissioned Pfadfinderei’s content for their stadium tours.
Beyond their deep involvement in visualizing music, the studio has produced numerous entertainment projects, including several collaborations with Flying Steps that combine dance, visual illusion, and animation.
In the commercial field of brand experiences, Pfadfinderei has realized a wide range of productions for the automotive industry (including Volvo, MINI, and Lynk & Co), particularly for trade shows, product reveals and presentations.
With the rise of interactive possibilities, Pfadfinderei expanded into interactive installations for architecture and museums. This work is reflected in projects such as the exhibition for Porsche’s “Traumwerk” and media installations for Deutsche Bahn and ANH.
Today, Pfadfinderei/PFA Studios operates as a multidisciplinary studio at the border of graphic design, moving image, stage design, and interactive environments.
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SANTABRO
IG, www
Victoria Mikhaylova, known as santabro, is a media artist and performer creating immersive visual worlds in dialogue with live sound. Her work transforms spaces through real-time projections, turning music into moving light and emotional landscapes. Moving between dark intensity and fragile, poetic moods, she explores the edge where sound, image, and presence merge. Combining live coding with node-based systems, she develops a unique hybrid workflow for visuals that are both raw and intricate. Alongside her performances across clubs and immersive venues, Victoria also teaches live coding for visuals, sharing her practice with others.
Venues Victoria performed at: studio dB, Alte Münze, studioIIII, ELSE Club, Gallery P61 (Berlin), ADK Ludwigsburg, Mouches Volantes (Cologne). Events: Berlin New Media Week, Love Family Park Festival (Frankfurt), Liquid Sound (Bad Sulza).
Worked with DJ collectives and labels: 999999999, Hot Meal Records, BRUTALISM Cologne, Reflected Radio, Rill, X TiN.
Ran visuals on Times Square.
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DJ REDFEM (IG)
RedFem London-born, now Berlin-based DJ & producer exploring & navigating through live electronic music.
Rooted in the rhythmic intensity of the UK music culture and shaped by Berlin’s raw techno underground spirit, he navigates across many sub genres in house music. Grooves ranging from minimal, tech house, acid, Dub & more; create both a percussive and immersive sound through his standalone drum machines or analog synths.
An instinctive hands on approach while playing live; offering bouncy melodic grooves in real time with subtle but layered elements of intricate & trippy sound Fx and heavy basslines.
Now based in Berlin, surrounded by an overflow of inspiration and an abundance of talent RedFem continues to dig & refine his sound…
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DJ KINTEL (IG)
Berlin-based Mongolian DJ - KINTEL is inspired from the sounds she’s picked up from across continents she has lived in, from underground Afrobeats from the Beijing jungle, to Surf Rock in Bali, to Baile Funk from Lisbon outskirts to Deep house floating in Ulaanbaatar rooftops. She weaves a continental groove into house & techno rhythms.
KINTEL has played in some Berlin staples like Lokkschuppen, Marmor Bar, Mikropol, Crack Bellmer and as well as travel gigs throughout Germany. She has exciting upcoming shows in Mom’s Limousine, Bar Tausend and Anima Rooftop. Consistently delivering funky house and as well as groovy techno.
Equipped with 7 years of event organizing experience, she is happy to contribute to the scene through DJ ing now.
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