Nachtsicht Festival 2025 

Nachtsicht Festival 2025 is created in collaboration with lithuanian curator Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė and in conversation with artworker Airi Triisberg from Tallinn and brings together positions from the Baltic countries with positions from Stuttgart and the surrounding area. 

Set within the context of Europe’s ongoing war and political, cultural conflicts, this art festival is a collective inquiry into closeness, intimacy, and the transformative potential of being together. Bringing artists, curators, and city dwellers into shared spaces, the festival explores how bodies—vulnerable, resistant, desiring—create meaning in relation to one another and against the backdrop of political and social fragmentation.
Here, relation is both subject and method. Whether through queer kinships, collective mourning, sensual ritual, or shared vulnerability, the festival foregrounds art that insists on proximity—in defiance of the forces that seek to divide, silence, or control.
This is not just a celebration, but a reclamation: of space, of bodies, of the right to feel, touch, desire, and resist—together. 

14.+ 15. November 2025

BRüCKENSTUDiOS auf dem Rilling Sekt Areal

Brückenstraße 8, Bad Cannstatt

free entry

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photomontage left side ◌ Nachtsicht

Friday 14. November  

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17:00 Landing Doors are open and hot and cold drinks are served

18:00 untitled Live Soundperformance

Augustė Vickunaitė is a sound experimentalist with a background in physics. Augustė exclusively employs vintage reel-to-reel tape recorders to play articulating diverse layers of recordings including found material, field recordings, voice, music instruments, objects, and the whole spectrum of malfunctions of decaying technology. Auguste specializes in tape music, noise, and collage music and is known for her theatrical and darkly humorous approach often exploiting errors of analog audio equipment.

18:40 Mood Machine Live Soundperformance

For djytb, every concert is a one-off live performance. At Nachtsichtfestival, he will perform in a push-and-pull with his laptop, moving between Alleinunterhalter, percussionist, larger-than-life persona, and uncomfortably close living-room encounters. The fragmented, micro-dosed songs are bits of djytb — moments of shedding, preservation, and comedic, post-ironic reflection.
In doing so, djytb plays with the ambiguity of artistic identity and authorship in the post-indie/post-internet era of AI music, virality, and commodification.

19:15 Breathing Through Salt Water Willkommensworte 

Nachtsicht Kollektiv und Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė are warmly welcoming you.

20:15 Nogake II Installation 

In old japanese language Nogake means an outdoor meal. In this, one enjoys the season and seasonal food.Nogake II the title of a mobile installation by artist Shinroku Shimokawa, that serves as a table and projection surface.

20:15 ⏳ 55’00” Three Boarders Film (DE, RU, ENG Subtitle)

Alisa Berger creates films and installations, often in a collaborative process, that are accompanied, created, changed or destroyed within performative interventions. At Nachtsicht Festival her 55 minute long found footage film Three Borders is shown. In the style of Magic Realism the video narrates anecdotes of the families of Alisa Bergers Jewish father and her North Korean mother. The ten stories address the overcoming of the construction of inner, outer, national, ethnic, spiritual or emotional borders which span three generations. 

21:15 ⏳ 12’52’’ Xover Film (ENG, DE Untertitel) 

In her Video Xover Anastasia Sosunova explores Senukai, Lithuania’s largest DIY retailer. Founded in 1992, the chain’s birth and expansion coincided with the transitional period that saw the collapsed socialist system give way to a nascent liberal economy with the promises of eternal growth. Senukai founder later expanded into ventures including a radio station, shopping malls and SPA resorts, and even his own religion. We follow a friend group going on a DIY pilgrimage: quoting sacred texts, performing rituals and searching for religious symbols embedded into the logos and architecture throughout the business empire, juxtaposing their fandom with ‘real’ reality – if such a thing exists at all. 

21:45⏳ 17’30” Night Gardener (Nakties Daržininkė) Film (ENG, DE Untertitel) 

The film The Night Gardener (Nakties Daržininkė), written and directed by Saskia Fischer, follows a surreal character roaming dim landscapes during the blue hours. We listen to their inner voice, their thoughts on being a fluctuating, migrating, shapeshifting, ever-changing character that mirrors the changing seasons. They witness the persistent human alteration of geography and its corresponding effect on individuals and their surroundings. Saskia is a visual artist based between Stuttgart and Vilnius. 

Saturday 15. November

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from 14:00 coffee, tea & cake 

14:00 ⏳ 2h30min Writing Bad Poetry Workshop

Sveta Grigorjeva is an Estonian choreographer, dancer, poet and critic. At Nachtsicht Festival you are invited to join her bad poetry workshop. In the workshop we will explore how to be on purpose a bad poet. How can we emancipate ourselves and our writing especially when literature is usually considered a very prestigious medium? A bad poet writes how it / they want to write: with silliness, joy, softness and roughness! With and for oneself and for their allies. Everyone who misses or wants to explore their inner radical bad bad poet, is welcome!
⚀ Registration in advance by email is requested

15:00 On the Trail of Cellarmaster Mijo Rilling Sparkling Wine Cellar Tour (DE)

Mijodrag Markovic has worked in winemaking for Rilling Sekt GmbH in Bad Cannstatt for 25 years. Every year, he has guided up to 3 million bottles of sparkling wine and wine through the extensive cellars during the beverage technology process. He himself studied viticulture and oenology in Sarajevo. For the visitors of the Nachtsicht Festival, he will bring the vacant site to life with his rich and precise memories and, through retelling and in conversation with Nachtsicht curator and winemaker Hannah Liya, will shed light on the structural changes in the wine industry 

⚀ Limited number of participants! Register by email.

16:00 Mein Herz ist ein Saphir conversation 

»The older I get, the sharper my vision becomes. The older I get, the less clear everything is,« sings Ukrainian musician Blooms Corda in Sapphire. This conversation also finds itself somewhere between sharpness and growing complexity. Festival participants Liza Baliasnaya, Alisa Berger, and Maryna Zevako discuss emancipatory artistic practice in the context of post-Soviet identity history in Germany. The conversation will be moderated by Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė, the festival’s co-curator.

17:00 ⏳ 45min Kõrgepingen, Überspannung, Tremble Storytelling Session (ENG)

Arle Saar is a storyteller with poor health who uses afternoon walks as their working method. While walking, they let their mind drift. In these fleeting thoughts, everyday worries and creative phantasies intertwine and diverge, mixing with fragmented personal memories and historical audiobooks playing through headphones. They feel a kinship with history’s side characters. When tracing their forgotten stories, they occasionally disturb the silent sleep of archival files.

18:00 Transient Flow Food Installation 

In the former sparkling wine production facility, artist Sarai Rose Duke creates a temporary structure. A floating module responds to remnants of past use. Old processes are absorbed, traces are read, and translated into new sequences. The space becomes part of the activity, its rhythmic sound hinting that something is still at work beneath the surface. A hydraulic pulse pushes water through the pipes somewhere. The pavilion becomes a place of condensation: taste as material, space as an ingredient. Between industrial past and uncertain future, the place seems to continue to breathe.

19:00 Shield Is A Weapon Dance

The solo performance Shield is a Weapon by Liza Baliasnaya explores the dual nature of the shield—offering protection while simultaneously signaling the anticipation of conflict. The work zooms into social choreography of gestures and voice, investigating the interplay between the vulnerability and aggression, covering and confrontation. Detailed and sculptural movement style is employed to convey the qualities of smoothness and stuckness. Shifting between the perspectives of those behind and in front of the shield, the work reflects themes of polarization, (self-)censorship and the politics of defence.

20:30 ⏳ 60min The Spark Eine queere Flirtperformance (DE, EN) 

i see you. i like you. i’m interested in you. i want to make you laugh. you make me nervous. i want to give you little things. is this flirting? are we flirting right now?
with music, lyrics, and their bodies, the performers of flirts&friends search for answers. the spark approaches the spontaneous, interpersonal, and exciting and asks: what could flirting be if it’s more than a precursor to marriage or sex? If it’s fun, loving, aimless, and non-linear? 

22:30 WE ARE PROPAGANDA Party @ Hype Club

 ⚀ To party together, we’re moving on to Hype Club. It’s located at Schulstraße 3 in Stuttgarts city center.

WE ARE PROPAGANDA is a counter-culture queer movement, hailing from the desire to create an alternative queer safer space during the Baltic Pride march in Vilnius, 2016. The Lithuanian Gay League’s tagline for the event that year was »we are people, not propaganda«, thus, subversively inspired by this slogan WE ARE PROPAGANDA reminded then and reminds up until this day that Pride was, first of all, a protest, and suggests to refrain from a rhetoric of apology and conformism, whilst also aiming to disrupt the neo-liberal human rights discourse with more radical ideas. As a self-organized collective operating on non-commercial and queer-feminist principles, it amplifies the voices of queer individuals often unrecognized by institutions, nurtures an alternative drag scene, and actively works to transform the heteronormative nightlife environment, offering an alternative to the dominant neoliberal LGBTQ+ discourse and mainstream party culture.

ongoing Installations 

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Finding Center Everywhere Installation

Finding center everywhere is a work by Ingrid Helena Pajo and Eugenio Marini on nomad thinking. Without the need for settling in neither a clear goal, thoughts and experiences on how to live in this world, have gathered simultaneously with the collecting of materials. The found has been given the form of tents and carpets – spaces providing rest, recovery and cover – reflecting on the rootless nature of nomad life, on roaming as a way of living.

Sauna Wellness

⚀ Bring your towel and announce your needs

A small wood-heated sauna will be available for warming up from the November temperatures, sweating, socializing, or as a simple washing ritual. Freshly bottled mineral water from the nearby springs will be available for refreshment.
Inspired by the sauna cultures of Estonia and Finland and the established place of everyday communal sauna bathing there, the sauna was built by artist Martina Buck in Stuttgart in 2019.
You are welcome to sauna bathe naked and in swimwear, and those who would like to sauna in a specific group are welcome to inquire on site or to register their needs in advance via email. Please bring a towel. A shower is available.

⏳ 21’30” Gay by Nature Film+Installation 

The Shortmovie Gay by Nature by Isa Schieche and Helen Weber transforms the idyll of Heimatfilms into a queer, anti fascist fantasy of freedom and subversive nature.
In a dystopian future, two lesbian cat people are locked up in an overgrown outdoor enclosure. As the violence inflicted on them by human guards and visitors becomes increasingly unbearable, the two decide to break out.

Nachtsicht Poster-Illustrations

My name is Ines Brost, and I draw. Reading comics has been my passion for a long time, and not so long ago I started drawing my own. Listening to stories, telling them, feeling them—that’s what I want to do, that’s what I do. And stories are best told in company. For this year’s Nachtsicht Festival, I was able to design the illustrations for posters and other events. It’s a truly wonderful event, and I’m so happy to be a part of it. See you soon, and happy night vision, everyone! 

Curation ◌ Christine Koschel, Sophia Sadžakov, Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė, Hannah Liya
In conversation with ◌ Airi Triisberg 

Technical Management ◌ Nadja Weber
Production ◌ Christine Koschel, Sophia Sadžakov, Hannah Liya

Illustration ◌ Ines Brost 

Graphic Design ◌ Maryna Zevako