08 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMT?.css-1txiau5-AnswerContainer{color:var(--GlobalColorScheme-Text-secondaryText2);}FSV Luckenwalde vs Hallescher FC on Sat Predicted lineups are available for the match a few days in advance while the actual lineup will be available about an hour ahead of the match The current head to head record for the teams are FSV Luckenwalde 0 win(s) Have scored 9 goals in their last 5 matches Who won between FSV Luckenwalde and Hallescher FC on Sat 08 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMT?FSV Luckenwalde vs Hallescher FC on Sat 08 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMT ended in a 1–1 tie.InsightsHave scored 6 goals in their last 5 matches FSV Luckenwalde is playing home against Hallescher FC on Sat Commissioned and Presented as part of ‘The Drop Out: Tell them I said No’ Presented as part of ‘The Drop Out: Tell them I said No’ E-WERK Luckenwalde in partnership with Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf E-WERK Luckenwalde’s two-day art festival was an eclectic mix of performance for a site soon to open a performance art festival headlined with raucous angst from Pussy Riot and the variety of ancillary pavilions and buildings that E-WERK Luckenwalde’s founders – artist Pablo Wendel and curator Helen Turner – had transformed into spaces for experimental culture when E-WERK Luckenwalde opened with a bang writer Emma O’Kelly was told by Wendel that the project would be ‘offering art as a power supply’ I confidently strolled straight up the entrance steps of Stadtbad and through the double doors to encounter the light-filled Bauhaus hall empty other than for a musician at a piano I took out my camera and started recording a kneejerk reaction to a space and situation I was totally at ease and familiar with the musician stopped playing to say ‘hello’ Taking its title from an essay series by Martin Herbert considering artists who had withdrawn from or rejected an art-market-focused art world the festival – programmed by Turner and freelance senior curator Katharina Worf – sought to explore modes of separation spoke about the lack of space in a competitive precarious and constraining art world for caregiving parents and those who don’t want to conform to a rigid capitalist rhythm Florence Peake nestled her crotch into that of life- and art-partner Eve Stainton the entangled two then manoeuvred up and down the emptied swimming pool slope for Practice 1 struggle and anxiety that for all its poetic poise always seemed on the edge of serious injury In a discussion on expectations upon being an artist and making work and the compression into or fight away from conforming neoliberal tendencies Abbas Zahedi spoke beautifully about his practice as a performance poet in relation to former employment as a medic and community worker Zahedi considers himself a ‘participatory ethnographer’ an outsider less interested in sculpting utopia than engaging with concerns ‘People think that galleries are where you go and look at things,’ the performer said then asked ‘but how does that space get converted into something that's more about witnessing and how can I engender that within the work itself or require that from the institution or audience?’ Eglė Budvytytė’s workshop in collaboration with Fernanda Muñoz Newsome also spoke to the body unceremoniously being taken through space Training how a pair can alternatively support the movement of another the work draws inspiration from how authorities drag disobedient bodies away from sites of protest but here transforms into mutual support and tenderness Within E-WERK Luckenwalde’s geodesic dome Asad Raza’s workshop also explored co-dependency and nurture but with soil – his session training participants how to create a neo-soil and through it more deeply understand ecosystems and relationships The football team I had supported for 30 years were playing an important final game of the season in which they could get promoted to the English Premier League Holed away in Wendel’s office with my laptop and two cans of beer I watched Ipswich Town’s 2-0 followed by a pitch invasion and outpouring of collective joy thinking of how my father would have been so full of life today had prostate cancer not taken him I didn’t want to be staring at a laptop in Luckenwalde but in that Ipswich crowd reliving memories for and with my father A sense of grief I don’t think I had felt in the eight years since he died was building inside escapism and design stories from around the world direct to your inbox Back in the power station’s Turbine Hall hauntological soundtrack that conjured the mechanics of the building’s past four dancers adhered to chronological order floating between collaboration and independence before an equilibrium of freedom was found I tried talking to people about Ipswich’s promotion and how witnessing such pleasure could fill me with an empty pain the exploits of a small Suffolk football team didn’t seem that important to the down-from-Berlin art crowd and there are far bigger issues right now in the world A panel of Lamis Ammar, Candice Breitz and Zoë Claire Miller discussed Gaza within a world of grief, the art world’s response, and the delicate situation of funding and free speech in Germany – a situation that makes E-WERK Luckenwalde’s political event not only an act of bravery ‘I think there is definitely fear,’ Turner said ‘but what is the point of having a cultural institution if you can't keep it open and invite people to have discourse – I think that is the priority above everything else.’ The final hours of the event comprised performances in the Stadtbad the empty pool’s slope and two tiers of balconies creating a perfect auditorium not only for headliners Pussy Riot ‘I got an email that said when life gives you lemons…’ Abbas Zahedi says in his audio-visual performance using the fruit as a vehicle to explore trauma ‘I have been told that speaking of the past is bad form so I speak of lemons instead,’ and in speaking through lemons Zahedi turned the Stadtbad into a space of collective grief – for his neighbours from Grenfell Jjjjjerome Ellis came on to perform the poetic Aster of Ceremonies Ellis spoke of stuttering from a young age and how it is now folded into the artist’s identity They read: ‘The art of the stutter is to give away being on time the art of the stutter is to utter in time not on time.’ Ellis owns the stutter then uses it to empower a broader memory of Black and disabled people using it as a tool to appropriate the language of escaped slave adverts to speak to timeless trauma and grief When they sat at a piano to put words to music I immediately realised that it had been Ellis’ rehearsal I had so arrogantly walked in on and started filming Who was I to have imposed myself into the space yesterday thinking of not only Ellis’ connected ideas of taking loss and grief to rebuild and renew but all the other ways these themes were woven into modes of opposition creativity and network over ‘Tell Them I Said No’ my own grief didn’t feel trapped or interior one of acknowledged vulnerability and with a potential to create new kinds of collective power if considered with care ‘The Drop Out: Tell Them I Said No’ at E-WERK Luckenwalde in 2024  Supported by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation), Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Canada Council for the Arts and the City of Luckenwalde kunststrom.com educator and artist based in London and is a regular contributor to Wallpaper* Will is interested in how arts and architectures intersect and is editor of online arts and architecture writing platform recessed.space and director of the charity Hypha Studios as well as a member of the Association of International Art Critics Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker E-Werk is housed in a former East German power plant Louisa Buck looks at how the art world is responding to the environmental and climate crisis It is a given that in order to save the planet we in the cultural sector need to embrace the principles of “less is more” and “enough is enough” But rarely has the notion of stepping off the art world’s profligate carousel been as effectively and comprehensively put into practice as at E-Werk Luckenwalde The former East German power plant situated just south of Berlin now operates as a sustainable contemporary art centre having been taken over in 2017 by the art collective Performance Electrics co-directs E-Werk with his partner Helen Turner Using what Wendel dubs “Kunststrom”—or “art power”—the defunct brown coal power station has been transformed into a beacon of institutional eco-friendliness with its fossil fuel generators now converted to run on locally sourced waste wood from the surrounding Brandenburg forest Such is the success of this art-powerhouse that E-Werk now not only meets its own energy needs but also supplies local businesses and households It also sells surplus power back to the national grid with all profits feeding back into E-Werk’s projects These projects reflect the art centre’s eco-ambitions it hosted the German premiere of the Golden Lion-winning opera-performance Sun & Sea in the Bauhaus designed swimming baths next door with the event—including underfloor heating for the performers—entirely powered through E-Werk’s wood gas energy given it is a performance dealing with catastrophic climate change this was so far the only iteration of Sun and Sea to run on a sustainable power source The German premiere of Sun & Sea (Marina) an opera-perfomance by filmmaker and director Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė writer Vaiva Grainytė and artist and composer Lina Lapelytė was hosted by E-Werk in nearby swimming baths in 2021 E-Werk continues to enhance its reputation as both a radical and environmentally sound institution by hosting The Drop Out: Tell Them I Said No It aims to underline the importance of restraint as a weapon of protest with organisers explaining that the programme is devoted to “the power There are performances from Eve Stainton and Florence Peake, who are responding to ideas of co-operation, struggle and vulnerability among artists. The New York-based artist Asad Raza and the designer and curator Prem Krishnamurthy, meanwhile, are offering more light-hearted contributions in the form of an open sauna and karaoke session, along with a soil workshop for children. The designer and curator Prem Krishnamurthy taking part in a previous workshop The Drop Out embodies the holistic approach to climate action at the heart of E-Werk. “We wanted to use an old coal station as an image… to transform it into an example of how progress in society is possible,” Wendel declared at the time the art centre opened, in 2019. “By connecting electricity with art we were fusing function with metaphor—after all, energy is the purest metaphor for art there is!” The aim, Turner says, is to “think about the institution from every angle through a sustainable lens”. She adds that in order to be effective in changing attitudes it is important to practice, rather than preach. E-Werk's in-house transport system takes the form of an American fire engine converted to run off wood gas Turner acknowledges that there is no simple, one-track route to success. “Pablo and I are interested in doing things in a fun way, we don’t want to be too dogmatic, but instead to show that it is fun to problem solve and come up with creative, innovative solutions,” she says. “We are all just trying to do the best we can, the most important thing is just to do something and accept the imperfections in the process and then you can ameliorate change,” she continues. And as in the forthcoming Drop Out programme, sometimes this can mean taking action by actively saying no. , E-Werk Luckenwalde, Luckenwalde, 3-4 May news22 August 2019Danger! High voltage: former German power station sparks back to life as green arts centreE-Werk Luckenwalde will be powered with locally sourced biomass post-industrial German town of Luckenwalde your new contemporary art destination Words: Benoît Loiseau Photography: Lukas Korschan13th September 2019 ​“Art electricity” (translated from the German) might power your house sooner than you think from wind sculptures to solar panel-based performances and guerilla-style hijacking of electricity supply points to produce electricity that can be monetised and fed back into the national grid It’s an artistic method that reveals the process of its own production utopian model in the age of climate change This freshly-opened sustainable arts centre and energy provider has set up camp at a former coal power station in the humble town of Luckenwalde the listed building (which features elements of art deco and art nouveau) spans four floors and 10,000 square metres of workshops three exhibition spaces and eight artists studios It now joins the ranks of post-industrial art meccas à la Tate Modern Dia: Beacon or Hamburger Bahnhof (all housed in similarly converted buildings from factories to tram depots) only E‑WERK remains loyal to its original purpose “I thought a lot about autonomous ways of producing art that aren’t dictated by the market,” says founder Pablo Wendel as he shows me around the vast industrial space which he acquired in 2017 under his non-profit organisation It was while living precariously off irregular grants and in rundown studio spaces across Stuttgart that the RCA graduate ​“I started to produce electricity with art,” says the German artist-cum-energy provider a quarter of the old power station was reactivated for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union (with the guidance of supportive former factory workers) creating 40 kilowatts an hour — enough to power the arts centre and up to 200 homes ​“It’s a critique of power,” comments joint artistic director Helen Turner Wendel’s work and life partner and the former head curator at Chichester’s Cass Foundation pointing to the centre’s combination of production The sustainable art hub opened this month with a solo exhibition of radiators sculptures by French artist Nicholas Deshayes an outdoor flags commission by the Brit Lucy Joyce an architectural pavilion by German studio umschichten and a performance series in collaboration with the London-based organisation Block Universe E‑WERK is set to lead the cultural revival of Luckenwalde an otherwise-understated industrial suburb which including a derelict Bauhaus swimming pool and a former hat factory designed by expressionist architect Erich Mendelsohn E‑WERK’s affordable studio spaces provide a timely alternative for priced-out artists.” Considered Europe’s ultimate artists paradise since the fall of the wall ​“poor but sexy” Berlin is now on the verge of becoming yet another gentrification horror story As real-estate prices continue to skyrocket (up to 20.5% in 2017 artists communities are increasingly vacating trendy areas like Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain to make way for start-ups and corporate offices E‑WERK’s affordable studio spaces (twice as cheap as in the capital) may well provide a timely alternative for priced-out artists ​“It creates a sense of community,” says Turner of the rolling scheme whose rents help fund the exhibition programme ​“It’s a good economic model: everybody wins.” While we’re far from seeing the effects of urban gentrification spreading to this former East German town (its population has been in near-constant decline since the reunification of the country) the team at E‑WERK is conscious of their impact on the locality and its population ​“The worst thing would be to become an international contemporary art island,” says Turner who leads the community-outreach programme ​“I really want to try and make it as accessible as possible,” she continues ​“but I also don’t want to dilute the programme I don’t want it to not be challenging.”So can kunstrom change the world Art has the power to project realities we couldn’t have otherwise imagined ​“You see the world how you want to see it and how you want to change it.” As for Luckenwalde and its inhabitants whose world once revolved around the power plant the future will tell whether they’re prepared to see it change too New webinar! Driving the future: EV trends transforming the global and European market Sign up Automotive supplier Schaeffler will shut down its German Luckenwalde site which is heavily focused on producing parts for internal-combustion engine (ICE) vehicles The company cited challenging market conditions saying ‘structural adjustments’ were inevitable The location has seemingly lost significance for Schaeffler as it increasingly shifts its focus to electromobility It said Luckenwalde’s product and component portfolio was ‘at the end of its lifecycle’ and will now be gradually closed The company was unable to reach an agreement on alternative solutions with employees despite engaging in extensive negotiations for well over a year It now plans to commence negotiations on reconciliation of interests ‘The closure of the Luckenwalde location is painful for all involved,’ said Corinna Schittenhelm Schaeffler’s chief human resources officer ‘Our focus now is on coming to the most socially responsible solution possible in negotiations with the employee representatives for Luckenwalde that are due to start as soon as possible.’ Schaeffler announced structural measures in September 2020 in an effort to stay competitive and transform the group These mainly affect 12 of the company’s German locations at 11 of which it was able to secure agreements with employee representatives on capacity reduction and consolidation The German supplier said the transition to electric mobility has left its automotive-technologies division in a difficult market environment arguing that structural adjustments and consolidation of locations are essential The company aims to offer many of the 330 employees at its Luckenwalde site possible employment at other locations ‘We have held extensive discussions with the local employee representatives over the past 15 months,’ said Matthias Zink ‘Although both sides did their best we did not come to a common solution in the end The works council in Luckenwalde does not comprehend the decision to close the location, saying the site is profitable. ‘The Schaeffler board of management sees the products in Luckenwalde for the ICE as being phased out in the long term,’ said the deputy chairman of the general works council, Ulrich Schoepplein ‘We are watching with concern that new products in the process of transformation are predominantly located to Eastern Europe,’ he added Local politicians were also concerned about the closure, with Brandenburg’s economics minister Jörg Steinbach telling German publication Stern that he is expecting Schaeffler and employee representatives ‘to conduct the upcoming talks on the reconciliation of interests and the social plan in a fair manner.’ Last year, Schaeffler announced a package of measures, aiming to downsize and consolidate locations, while also bolstering competitiveness. The plans include a net workforce reduction of 4,400 in Germany and Europe by the end of 2022. The company justified its decision, saying market and revenue projections for the years leading up to 2025 point to a slow recovery. The industry has been hit hard by COVID-19, with Schaeffler not expecting a return to pre-crisis levels until 2024 at the earliest. 07 Feb 2025 18:00:00 GMT?.css-1txiau5-AnswerContainer{color:var(--GlobalColorScheme-Text-secondaryText2);}FC Eilenburg won 2–0 over FSV Luckenwalde on Fri The current head to head record for the teams are FSV Luckenwalde 2 win(s) Have scored 5 goals in their last 5 matches Who won between FSV Luckenwalde and FC Eilenburg on Fri 07 Feb 2025 18:00:00 GMT?FC Eilenburg won 2–0 over FSV Luckenwalde on Fri 07 Feb 2025 18:00:00 GMT.InsightsHave scored 9 goals in their last 5 matches FSV Luckenwalde is playing home against FC Eilenburg on Fri 06 Apr 2025 11:00:00 GMT?.css-1txiau5-AnswerContainer{color:var(--GlobalColorScheme-Text-secondaryText2);}Chemnitzer FC won 2–0 over FSV Luckenwalde on Sun The current head to head record for the teams are Chemnitzer FC 5 win(s) Have scored 3 goals in their last 5 matches Who won between Chemnitzer FC and FSV Luckenwalde on Sun 06 Apr 2025 11:00:00 GMT?Chemnitzer FC won 2–0 over FSV Luckenwalde on Sun 06 Apr 2025 11:00:00 GMT.InsightsHave scored 6 goals in their last 5 matches Chemnitzer FC is playing home against FSV Luckenwalde on Sun E-Werk Luckenwalde will offer workshops and studio space for artists squeezed out of Berlin the locals were both relieved and concerned “Finally people could hang out their laundry without it getting covered in soot,” said Bernd Schmidl Worries about jobs were soon allayed when the workers were given better-paid employment elsewhere But fears remained that the listed building “Who was going to find a long-term use for an old building spanning 10,000 metres over four floors?” almost 30 years since it ceased operating as a power station But instead of powering local industry as it did for almost 80 years it will fuel the contemporary art centre housed within it E-Werk Luckenwalde will offer exhibitions, a residential programme, workshops and studio space for artists, who increasingly are being squeezed out of Berlin by its lack of affordable space. It will open to the public on 14 September with Power Night, a performance and music festival run by Block Universe Pablo Wendel, 38, is the brains behind Performance Electrics, a not-for-profit art collective that bought the plant in 2017. E-Werk is his most ambitious project yet to involve the production of electricity through artworks or artistic methods, patented as Kunststrom (art electricity) In recent years Wendel has produced electricity from wind sculptures developed out of recycled street reflection posts and from guerrilla-style appropriations of electricity supply points using mobile battery packs His first successful production of Kunststrom was in 2008 and involved him tapping into the light of advertising hoardings attaching solar modules to them and using the resulting energy to feed art gallery lightbulbs His clients include three public galleries and 23 private households in Germany Profit created from the production of Kunststrom is invested directly back into Performance Electrics The plant’s turbine hall as it was c1928. Photograph: Photo courtesy of Paul Damm.On a tour of the plant, Wendel, who trained at the Royal College of Art in London described the intricate process of renovating the plant and familiarising himself with every pipe “It’s like bringing a dinosaur back to life,” he said Instead of environmentally unfriendly brown coal E-Werk will be powered by spruce pine woodchips provided by the leftovers from the production of wooden cable drums in a neighbouring factory The resulting charcoal will be used as a soil nutrient as part of E-Werk’s ambition to be carbon neutral and the heated waste water will eventually go into on-site coffee roasting and beer brewing facilities “We’ll turn a quarter of the station on in September starting with 40 kilowatts an hour (enough to power 200 homes) then gradually increase production,” Wendel said Artists from Berlin were knocking on the door as soon as they heard there were large spaces to rent at affordable prices just 30 minutes by train from Berlin a drawer and a sculptor had moved into studio spaces on the third and fourth floors who previously worked as a senior curator at Cass Sculptor Foundation in Chichester said involving local people had been a vital part of the process “This is their history and we’ve been really grateful that many of them have wanted be part of it offering us vital technical advice as well as regaling us with their accounts of what it was like to work here and bringing us relics from the factory,” she said Wendel is used to deploying subversive techniques, having squatted in a fish and chip shop for his MA show knocking down a wall between it and the adjoining RCA as well as inserting himself among the Terracotta warrior ranks He pointed to the bright blue stained glass window pane over the entrance way, which depicts a left fist clutching a spray of electricity bolts, and said it symbolised the collective power of the workforce. Now it has become E-Werk’s logo and embodies the political message Wendel would like to convey. “We were so fed up about the economic model we were forced to live in as artists. We want to establish an alternative,” Wendel said. “We would like to insert artists in industry rather than being at the whim of the commercial art market. “It’s an act of subversion every time we bring art into the national grid. A homeopathic dose, but it’s a start.” 27 Apr 2025 11:00:00 GMT?.css-1txiau5-AnswerContainer{color:var(--GlobalColorScheme-Text-secondaryText2);}Carl Zeiss Jena won 1–0 over FSV Luckenwalde on Sun Have scored 10 goals in their last 5 matches Who won between FSV Luckenwalde and Carl Zeiss Jena on Sun 27 Apr 2025 11:00:00 GMT?Carl Zeiss Jena won 1–0 over FSV Luckenwalde on Sun 27 Apr 2025 11:00:00 GMT.InsightsHave scored 4 goals in their last 5 matches FSV Luckenwalde is playing home against Carl Zeiss Jena on Sun Who would know that a small 20th century power station in Brandenburg would have become the centre for new artistic discussions as well as a renewable energy enterprise that powers art was once a renowned industrial town 50 km south of Berlin its cloth and wool factories were prominent the city became a key manufacturer of hats Luckenwalde today seems to have a very different life Sending the majority of its workforce to big cities it presents the qualities of an abandoned town with absolutely silent streets was one of those buildings when artist Pablo Wendel acquired it in 2017 Wendel experienced financial precarity and unreliability of resources first-hand The rents in Berlin were – and are still - increasing and artists have been pushed out of the capital through the last decade Wendel didn’t only see the potential for a great exhibition studio and residency space in the power station but also for financial self-sustainability He collaborated with the local community and engineers and transformed the originally coal-based power plant into woodchip burning power station carpet or metal from the old days is wasted They are all turned either into art or part of the regeneration of the factory E-Werk Luckenwalde lives on fully renewable materials Woodchips are donated by the local playgrounds and building companies Ashes from the woodchip burning machine return to the forest The factory is located by an unused train line and even the old train tracks have been re-purposed Wendel says: “Change one thing and you’ll see that everything changes It is indeed all interconnected and vast what Pablo Wendel and Helen Turner the artistic director of E-Werk Luckenwalde can fit in the 10,000 square meter space of the factory There is electricity that supports the art and the town to an extent; there is art and more that is cultivating as part of this project Performance Electrics GmbH is the not-for-profit company that sells electricity to its 26 clients and powers Super Kunststrom which is E-Werk’s first sculpture commission and offers the public free electricity to charge their bicycles and mobile phones The artistic programme is very much interconnected with the town and the building’s heritage Turner says that the city loves the project The art programme in E-Werk Luckenwalde opened with an exhibition that responded to the heritage and the potential of the space Nicolas Deshayes activated his abstract radiators with E-Werk’s electricity Lucy Joyce created a series of drawings and a live Aktion on the opening day Aktion involved seven people who have a distinct relationship with the building and its history such as an ex-worker of the factory and Helen Turner mirror covered arrows in different parts of the factory curated by Katharina Worf and Louise O'Kelly of Block Universe artist Nina Beier invited the local wrestling club for a performance in the impressive turbine hall with people occasionally knocking on the door to discover the space where their parents or grandparents used to work The artistic team constantly work towards finding ways to explore the space through archive materials The factory hosted 70 volunteers of engineers and artists This is also an interesting model for artistic and cultural exchange and surely a very exciting place to be for volunteers as it creates a real sense of collaboration and togetherness The metal workshop and wood workshop are shared by artists and engineers which are made out of the local products and the vegetables grown in the garden of TRAFO the low carbon public kitchen bar of the factory The kitchen generates biogas in TraShed designed by architectural collective Cherry 26 which is a close circuit model taken from a grassroots method in Africa and is a 100% biological alternative to fossil resources It works with a large digestor and creates compost from leftover food and organic waste TRAFO opened to the public and will host a workshop programme Essen Für Alle (Food For All) in Spring 2021 fermentation and closed-circuit cooking in collaboration with Studio Olafur Eliasson Kitchen Workshops will emphasise the eco-political aspect of food and how it can be used as a vehicle for social justice They were designed to be suitable for anyone and inspire to explore zero-waste and low carbon cooking methods TRAFO proposes creative solutions to the global problem of waste E-Werk Luckenwalde is an ecological model for the arts and culture sector Wendel says “When talking about global warming it is often suggested that we need new technology to save the earth It is an epic point that the population constantly needs newer technology that ends up creating a lot of unused materials and wasted energy We can return to old technologies and reactivate and make use of them We don’t have basic skills to support ourselves; we don’t know how to fix our own boiler or plant our vegetables They are easy to fix and will be with us another 100 years.” the overall ‘E-WERK spirit’ is a manifestation that speaks of hope when maybe the art world most needs it The Covid-19 pandemic exposed the vulnerability of arts on a global scale Galleries and museums had to shut their doors for a significant time and some culture institutions and venues State rescue funds for the arts and culture sector have been criticised for being nowhere near sufficient and were taken as testament to the insignificance of arts before the eyes of some governments that is self-entrepreneurial and very strongly connected to the local knowledge or material resources something positive could also come out of this A project like E-Werk Luckenwalde could be a new model We experienced a little bit of relief from artistic limitations which are all needed for showing works.” Wendel says that electricity is metaphor for art E-Werk is also proposing a sustainable model for artistic freedom which is hard to practice or maybe even to imagine for some nowadays which will play host to a roster of performance artists at the power station's opening Now I can use art to power the washing machine As originally featured in the October 2019 issue of Wallpaper* (W*247) – on newsstands now kunststrom.com VIEW GOOGLE MAPS Emma O'Kelly is a freelance journalist and author based in London Her books include Sauna: The Power of Deep Heat and she is currently working on a UK guide to wild saunas FAD Magazine FAD Magazine covers contemporary art – News Exhibitions and Interviews reported on from London In our current times of climate crisis and energy crisis artist Pablo Wendel brings a new project for 2023 that seeks to bring art to audiences across Germany in the shape of an old red fire engine – Super Duty –  using only discarded wood to do so A former American fire engine, built in 1968 in the United States, has been transformed by the interdisciplinary Kunststrom laboratory: instead of putting out fires,  SUPER DUTY will supply cultural events and institutions with Kunststrom – CO2-neutral energy generated from works of art which generates wood gas based on a pyrolysis process and thus powers the existing combustion engine SUPER DUTY runs on waste wood and without gasoline or fossil fuels and produces electricity and heat for multi-storey buildings The inaugural journey is a prototype with more journeys to be announced for 2024 Artist Pablo Wendel,  co-director of E-WERK Luckenwalde has been creating projects using Kunststrom (electricity which is produced through artworks or artistic methods) since 2012 2023 sees his most mobile and one of the most ambitious projects to date across the Thuringian Forest and ending in the Swabian Alps making a journey of over 1000km through regions of Germany that are traditionally culturally forgotten The first tour will take place from December 4th to 10th beginning in  Brandenburg at E-WERK Luckenwalde the vehicle and sculpture will dock at various cultural and educational institutions and supply regular museum operations with CO2-neutral electricity produced on site.  The CO2-neutral vehicle – named Super Duty – is able to hold a full tank of wood chips to travel 500km before it needs to be filled up once more Whenever the tank light comes on it can be filled back up with residual wood Then either wood has to be collected or the population has to be asked for fuel – waste wood: chairs the objects are processed into wood chips with the shredder Each time a small tree sapling is planted as a symbol of taking and giving.  There will be a SUPER DUTY energy feed-in Wagenhallen at the Pylonia sculpture on Thursday The vehicle has been repurposed by Wendel to control fire to generate wood gas on the basis of a pyrolysis process and drives the existing combustion engine in the vehicle so that it can run without fossil fuels.  As well as raising awareness of climate issues and renewable energy as it travels Super Duty acts as a pandemic-friendly stage outdoors and offers the possibility of showing installations and performing arts in surroundings far away from the established arts and culture centres and cities.  Wendel founded the artistic enterprise and practice Performance Electrics which operates as an electricity supplier producing and distributing Kunststrom (electricity which is produced through artworks or artistic methods) with co-Artistic Director Helen Turner launched E-WERK Luckenwalde a former GDR-era brown coal power station reimagined as a cultural institution producing and distributing Kunststrom to the German National Grid as well using it to power the centre’s own artistic programme Super Duty has been built and developed both in Stuttgart and at E-WERK Luckenwalde over the past year and in response to multiple lockdowns and pandemic circumstances Super Duty acts in many ways as a mobile power station – it can supply multi-storey houses with electricity and 200 kWh of heat by connecting to an electricity network The team will demonstrate this at educational institutions in order to create sensitivity for functional and ecological alternatives and tree planting campaigns are also planned.  The project also marks 10 years of Performance Electrics and a renewed drive to encourage citizens across Germany to sign up to Kunststrom for their own homes.  and in 2019 we founded the ‘hq’ of Kunststrom powering our own institution as well as public and private buildings across the country with renewable energy to me,  is to take Kunstsrom on the road giving those in our society the opportunity to exchange ideas about alternative forms of mobility power and artistic practice in their own local communities and civic settings We are looking forward to taking Super Duty on the road and offering people the opportunity to switch to Kunststrom during our visits Super Duty is supported by Innovation Fund for the Arts Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media) Spanner Re2 and LKW Werkstatt Stephan Hampel Mark Westall is the Founder and Editor of FAD magazine - In early 2025, a much loved and respected sculpture by Pablo Wendel in an iconic cultural destination in South West […] This spring, E-WERK Luckenwalde will convene The Drop Out: Tell Them I Said No, a major international programme of performances, conversations and workshops reflecting on the power, politics and potential of saying ‘no’.  E-WERK Luckenwalde to present the largest scale solo show to date by Berlin-based artist and choreographer Melanie Jame Wolf. The Creep is an exhibition that includes a new film installation, ceramic works, textile sculptures, and performance. E-WERK Luckenwalde has announced its first project of 2021, in the third year of programming at the world’s first arts […] Join the FAD newsletter and get the latest news and articles straight to your inbox 12 Apr 2025 11:00:00 GMT?.css-1txiau5-AnswerContainer{color:var(--GlobalColorScheme-Text-secondaryText2);}FSV Zwickau won 1–0 over FSV Luckenwalde on Sat Have scored 8 goals in their last 5 matches Who won between FSV Luckenwalde and FSV Zwickau on Sat 12 Apr 2025 11:00:00 GMT?FSV Zwickau won 1–0 over FSV Luckenwalde on Sat 12 Apr 2025 11:00:00 GMT.InsightsHave scored 2 goals in their last 5 matches FSV Luckenwalde is playing home against FSV Zwickau on Sat 11 Mar 2025 18:00:00 GMT?.css-1txiau5-AnswerContainer{color:var(--GlobalColorScheme-Text-secondaryText2);}BFC Dynamo vs FSV Luckenwalde on Tue The current head to head record for the teams are BFC Dynamo 7 win(s) Who won between BFC Dynamo and FSV Luckenwalde on Tue 11 Mar 2025 18:00:00 GMT?BFC Dynamo vs FSV Luckenwalde on Tue 11 Mar 2025 18:00:00 GMT ended in a 0–0 tie.InsightsHave scored 9 goals in their last 5 matches BFC Dynamo is playing home against FSV Luckenwalde on Tue E-WERK Luckenwalde has announced its first project of 2021, in the third year of programming at the world’s first arts institution powered by 100% CO2 neutral energy Kunststrom. E-WERK will open in May with a new commission and exhibition by Berlin-based artists Peles Empire a collaboration between artists Katharina Stöver and Barbara Wol inspired by the building’s history and its recent transition Peles Empire have created new work for both the building’s flagpoles and E-WERK’s 360m2 Turbine Hall The exhibition will be on show until 18th July The flagpole commission will remain on E-WERK’s flag poles until the end of December 2021 The artists were invited to produce work in response to the building’s historic flagpoles at the entrance of E-WERK Luckenwalde E-WERK’s Flag Commission is an annual commissioning opportunity for an artist or collective to create an outdoor installation inspired by and for display on the three historic flag poles which stand at the building’s impressive entrance that heralded the building when it functioned as a coal power station Peles Empire will also present a new series of large scale sculptural ceramic and jesmonite works in E-WERK’s Turbine Hall which connects the history and future of the power station Peles Empire have created jesmonite panels using samples of archival coal dust from the former fossil fuel power station which have been cast in the material entropically These will be displayed alongside new large scale ceramic works which pictorially reference early experiments with electricity from Ancient Egypt and Greece Some of these ceramic works will be fired directly in Performance Electrics’Kunststrom wood-chip oven has provided renewable electricity to the entire building contemporary art programme and the German National Grid Some works will also be fired in a pit fire in E-WERK’s grounds; a three-day process using wood- chips to slowly and gently re the ceramics in time for the exhibition opening By materially combining coal and wood ash in their works and using the very process which powers E-WERK the exhibition is a fitting homage to the transformation of E-WERK from a relic of the fossil fuel era into a contemporary ecological power station The flags will abstractedly combine Peles Empire’s pictorial reference points E-WERK’s archive of engineering blueprints and photography from the pit ring to form a large scale outdoor textile commission The exhibition has been curated by Helen Turner (Artistic Director and Chief Curator E-WERK Luckenwalde) and Adriana Tranca (Assistant Curator  Peles Empire 1st May to 18th July  www.kunststrom.com a summer residence built for King Carol I at the end of the 19th Century in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains Peles Empire explore the potential of simulacra originals and reproduction – shifting processes to abstract perspectives Their work has recently been shown at the Künstlerhaus Graz Art Encounters Biennial (Timioara) Art Encounters Biennial (Timioara) Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern One) Kunstverein Hannover and Skulptur Projekte Münster E-WERK Luckenwalde is located in a former coal power station built in 1913 ceasing production in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall E-WERK Luckenwalde is jointly directed by Pablo Wendel and Helen Turner the art collective Performance Electrics gGmbH led by Pablo Wendel acquired the former brown-coal power station with the vision to reanimate it as a sustainable Kunststrom (art power) Kraftwerk and to both feed power back to the national grid as well as function as a large scale contemporary art centre Performance Electrics gGmbH formally switched the power of the former factory back on the flags will be on view to the public as they walk drive or cycle through the city of Luckenwalde until December 2021 The inaugural E-WERK Luckenwalde Flag Commission was created by artist Lucy Joyce In our current times of climate crisis and energy crisis, artist Pablo Wendel brings a new project for 2023 that […] 01 Apr 2025 17:00:00 GMT?.css-1txiau5-AnswerContainer{color:var(--GlobalColorScheme-Text-secondaryText2);}FSV Luckenwalde won 1–0 over FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin on Tue The current head to head record for the teams are FSV Luckenwalde 3 win(s) Have scored 7 goals in their last 5 matches Who won between FSV Luckenwalde and FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin on Tue 01 Apr 2025 17:00:00 GMT?FSV Luckenwalde won 1–0 over FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin on Tue 01 Apr 2025 17:00:00 GMT.InsightsHave scored 2 goals in their last 5 matches FSV Luckenwalde is playing home against FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin on Tue Essential digital access to quality FT journalism on any device Complete digital access to quality FT journalism with expert analysis from industry leaders Complete digital access to quality analysis and expert insights complemented with our award-winning Weekend Print edition Terms & Conditions apply Discover all the plans currently available in your country See why over a million readers pay to read the Financial Times.