Forecast

Forecast is a platform dedicated to facilitating, mentoring, and promoting trailblazing creative practices and audacious artistic practitioners.

As an international mentorship program and interdisciplinary network for knowledge transfer, Forecast offers artists and creative thinkers from anywhere in the world the chance to work with accomplished mentors toward bringing their projects to fruition. Forecast transcends neatly defined disciplines and genres to provide insight into creative production processes, and carve out space for the ques

tions on the minds of the next generation of trailblazers. For each edition, Forecast selects six mentors of various disciplines who offer interested participants their expertise in specifying and realizing their pioneering project ideas.

20/03/2026

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Forecast Festival
July 16–19, 2026
Radialsystem, Berlin

Four days of art, performance, and creative exchanges.

More details coming soon.

20/03/2026

We wrapped up the 10th edition of Forecast Mentorships with the premiere of the six final projects presented across different venues in Berlin.

Each project is paired with an essay by an invited expert reflecting on the proposal.

"Seismic Resonances" is an essay by curator and theorist Renan Laru-an on Corin's work, Resonance.

"My friend used to work for the state’s volcanology agency. She took the job in order to travel across the Philippines. Her task was to install alarm systems in secluded rural and mountainous areas, preparing communities for earthquakes and the trembling ground. In her next posting, she welcomed seismic events like the first rain of May on another island. Outside the realm of geology, she encountered the tremor in children’s bodies, in women’s incessant prayers, in evacuation centers, and in her dreams of anthropomorphizing animals. Once I called her and asked, “What if the earthquake was following you?”

I anticipated the settlement of vibrations from CORIN’s new composition Resonance within my somatic vocabulary. I was informed about the piece’s incorporation of kulintang, a percussive instrument I grew up with in the Philippines’ southern Mindanao region. This event, along with other new-media offerings in the second half of Berlin’s winter, stirred us concert goers to venture outside ourselves, assembled into a temporary tension of communion. I immediately saw the ensemble of gongs when I entered the venue. Unassuming, fixed onto a makeshift table loaded with cables, electronics, and digital music equipment, these nippled bronze structures drew people to intuitively form a circle around them as the performance neared its premiere at CTM. As soon as CORIN began to caress the instrument, her fingers running through the contours of the kulintang, the gongs’ metallic song silenced the crowd."

Read the full text by at the link in bio.

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20/03/2026

We wrapped up the 10th edition of Forecast Mentorships with the premiere of the six final projects presented across different venues in Berlin.

Each project is paired with an essay by an invited expert reflecting on the proposal.

"Dancing With Ghosts" is an essay by researcher and author Teresa Fazan on Wojciech Rybicki solo work SISTERS.

"In his solo work SISTERS, premiering at Sophiensaele in Berlin in February 2026, the emerging Polish choreographer Wojciech Rybicki draws on archival material to explore the micro-history of Poland’s transition from communism to democracy in 1989, while also processing the loss of his beloved grandfather. Structured around these two unrelated events, this intimate, séance-like performance confronts the vulnerability of memory and the realization that some events—and some people—are irretrievably lost to the past."

Read the full text at the link in bio.

Photos by Pauline Ruther

Choreography, performance: Wojciech Rybicki
Mentorship, dramaturgy support: Lulu Obermayer
Music: Ernest Borowski
Vocal-acting creation: Aga Ujma
Costume, scenography: Paweł Włodarski
Light design: Victor Piano

This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.
Co- financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.

06/02/2026

Apply for a chance to work with Tom Cassani as your mentor!

Tom Cassani is an award-winning performance maker working with magic and the body. His ongoing artistic explorations draw on an expanded approach to magic, using strategies of Live Art, techniques of circus sideshow, and methods of illusion to create performance art. Cassani is known for illusory texts, imagery, and physical skills that expose the body as an unreliable measure of truth. He performs durational hair suspension, deconstructed sleight of hand, and sword swallowing. This work often reveals the mechanics of trickery and dangerous feats while making us aware of our role in experiencing the seemingly impossible.

Cassani was the UK participant in the BETA Circus program from 2020–22, developing contemporary magic across Europe with artists from twelve countries. In 2023, he was awarded a Forecast mentorship with choreographer Florentina Holzinger, from which emerged the foundation for his solo show Iterations. In 2024, Cassani was selected as an Aerowaves artist with Iterations and subsequently toured across Europe. That same year, he was awarded a scholarship to undertake a PhD at the University of Huddersfield, focusing on expanded and experimental performance magic.

Cassani is interested in working with artists keen to expand the frames, contexts, and possibilities in which magic and deception can operate. Applicants do not need to be magicians or have prior experience with magic. Practitioners may come from Live Art, performance art, theater, contemporary circus, choreography, cabaret, or related fields, with or without experience in magic-aligned practices such as sleight of hand, illusion, mentalism, or sideshow.

He is particularly interested in contemporary and experimental approaches to performance magic that explore authenticity and deception, foreground the mechanics of trickery, and question how belief, perception, and the body are constructed in performance. As a mentor, he offers reflective dialogue and creative support grounded in experience across multiple forms and contexts, creating an open, thoughtful, and experimental space for developing methods and testing ideas.

06/02/2026

Apply for a chance to work with Keren Cytter as your mentor!

Artist Keren Cytter works across video, film, performance, theater, dance, and drawing. She is widely recognized for her distinctive moving-image works and theatrical productions that blur the boundaries between cinema, performance, and rehearsal. Her practice is characterized by fragmentation, repetition, and abrupt tonal shifts, foregrounding language, gesture, and structure over narrative-driven storytelling. Dialogue in her films is often circular or disjointed, exposing how meaning, intimacy, and power are constructed—and destabilized—through speech.

Cytter’s work examines relationships, gender, and desire, presenting intimacy as scripted and performed. Blurring fiction and autobiography, she treats performance as a social condition, combining humor, melodrama, and discomfort. Her films use sparse, minimal aesthetics and resist narrative closure, exposing filmmaking itself as a force shaping perception.

In 2012, Cytter founded the dance company D.I.E. Now. She is also an author of five novels and three children’s books, and a professor at the Art Academy in Münster, where she is based alongside New York. Her work has been exhibited internationally at major institutions, and she received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2021. Her feature film The Wrong Movie was selected for the Berlin International Film Festival in 2024.

As a mentor, Cytter is interested in working with artists who are confident in their practice, experienced enough to work independently, and open-minded enough to engage seriously with critique. Her mentorship is especially suited to artists developing video art, film, or installations that incorporate moving image.

Her guidance focuses on the technical and formal dimensions of a project—editing, structure, rhythm, staging, performance, and duration—and how these decisions directly affect a work’s clarity and effectiveness.

More info: link in bio.

06/02/2026

Apply for a chance to work with Almagul Menlibayeva as your mentor!

Artist Almagul Menlibayeva works with video, photography, and cyber-textiles shaped with AI. Her practice reinterprets contemporary processes in Central Asia through mythologies and collective memory, centering women’s autonomy via the epistemic heritage of nomadic feminism, especially in Kazakhstani culture. Her work critically reflects on environmental degradation, modernization, and the politics of visibility in global image systems.

Menlibayeva has exhibited internationally at major biennials including, among others, at Venice, Sydney, South Korea, Thailand, and Ulaanbaatar. She held the solo exhibition Transformation at the Grand Palais, Paris (2016). Recent projects include a major multi-channel video installation on the Kazakh Famine at the 2023 Sharjah Biennale, and participation in the 2025 Digital Biennale Hamburg in collaboration with sound artist German Popov (OMFO). From 2025–2026, she is presenting a retrospective solo exhibition, I Understand Everything, curated by Gridthiya Gaweewong, at the Almaty Museum of Arts (AMA), Kazakhstan. She is a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

As a mentor, Menlibayeva seeks artists who are ready to critically engage with image systems and the politics of memory in the AI era—examining how algorithms, platforms, and global narratives shape the visibility, value, and perceived credibility of images. She is especially interested in artists who approach autonomy not as total control, but as authorship-as-intervention: the capacity to intervene in circulation, framing, and interpretation, while addressing the ethical and ecological consequences of technology.

“This mentorship is a strong fit for artists questioning how images circulate today—how context flattens, memory fractures or multiplies, and trust is reshaped—and who are ready to iterate rigorously through research and practice,” Menlibayeva says.

Artists working in any medium are welcome to apply. Projects that revisit the past as a form of intervention—questioning archives, institutions, platforms, and algorithmic power—are particularly encouraged.

More info: link in bio.

06/02/2026

Apply for a chance to work with Lucy McRae as your mentor!

Artist Lucy McRae leads a multidisciplinary art-research studio investigating the impact of technology and science on the planet and the natural world. Alongside her gallery- and museum-focused art practice, she works as a director and maker and moves fluidly between the writer’s room and the lab.

McRae pioneers new narratives about how future technologies may transform human intimacy, reproduction, biology, and health, while foregrounding the ethical implications of genetic engineering. Through speculative, world-building approaches, her work uses hypothesis as a tool to question who we are, how we relate to our bodies, and where we may be headed.

Based in Los Angeles, McRae is a visiting professor at architecture school SCI_Arc, a TED fellow, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. She also works as a world-builder and futurist consultant on Hollywood productions with multiple Oscar-winning directors and producers.

As a mentor, McRae seeks candidates who lead with intuition, kindness, and courage—people willing to be vulnerable, to experiment, and to trust frustration as part of the creative process. Many may be motivated by feeling like outsiders and are collaborative by nature, unafraid of challenge or friction. Projects may emerge from dance, architecture, or hybrid practices that exist between disciplines.

“I’m especially interested in immersive work that engages the body—movement-based practices, music and visual environments, fashion, machines and apparatuses, spatial design, motion capture, sport, and other forms that explore physical intelligence and embodied experience.”

Working with McRae offers an honest exchange shaped by over two decades of navigating an interdisciplinary practice built through invention and uncertainty. “I value curiosity, deep listening, and collaboration across very different backgrounds. Mentorship is not one-directional—I’m equally interested in learning from mentees, and in shaping a shared space where uncertainty is welcomed and exploration is actively supported.”

Application deadline: Monday Feb 16, 11:59pm CET

Find out more through the link in bio.

06/02/2026

Apply for a chance to work with Vidura Bandara Rajapaksa as your mentor!

Vidura Bandara Rajapaksa is a comedian, writer, and director. His self-directed and self-written comedy specials include Monsoon Season (2022), French Kiss Tunnel (2024), and Woodapple Jam (2024).

Bandara Rajapaksa’s deadpan style puts audiences at ease while challenging conventional wisdom with a unique tone that is often irreverent, at times poignant, and always hysterical. He is currently working on a puppet show slated for the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in his native Sri Lanka.

“If I were to describe what I do, I’d say it’s a form of memoir to some extent,” he says. “I care a lot about applying the craft of stand-up to the things I have to say.”

As a mentor, Bandara Rajapaksa is looking for applicants who engage with the challenge of “properly expressing a feeling,” as he puts it. “One of my favorite things about stand-up is the aspect of risk in it. I would greatly enjoy working with someone whose practice has some aspect of risk.”

While he is open to applications from across disciplines, Bandara Rajapaksa would be particularly interested in taking on a comedian, performance artist, or writer who is in the process of creating their first long-form piece of work—be it a stand-up show, performance piece, play, or any other work meant to be performed live to an audience. Ideally, applicants should already have at least three years of stage experience.

Application deadline: Monday Feb 16, 11:59pm CET

Find out more through the open call link in our bio.

06/02/2026

Apply for a chance to work with Heinali as your mentor!

Oleh Shpudeiko, kown as Heinali, is a composer and sound artist whose work channels early Western music through electronic composition and modular synthesis, using the past as a “distant mirror” to expose contradictions in contemporary life.

Born in Kyiv, Heinali gained international recognition with Madrigals (2020), which blends period-instrument improvisations with quasi-Renaissance polyphony generated on modular synthesizer. His 2023 album Kyiv Eternal, described by The New York Times as “a ravishing audioscape,” is a hauntological portrait of his home city under attack, layering prewar field recordings with ambient memory loops from his own archives. His 2025 release Гільдеґарда (Hildegard), praised by Pitchfork as “a chilling meditation on wartime trauma and the endurance of faith,” reimagines Hildegard von Bingen’s music through the embodied experience of war, combining Ukrainian traditional vocals by Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko with modular synthesis inspired by medieval polyphony.

Heinali treats the past not as a fixed archive but as a reflective surface—like Perseus’s shield—capable of confronting the present without its blinding glare. His practice centers on reterritorialization: extracting sounds and ideas from their idealized origins and forcing them into modern, contradictory contexts. Rejecting postmodern deconstruction, he reclaims beauty as a vehicle for truth rather than ornament, animating historical material to reveal the hidden tensions of the present.

Working from a position of non-belonging, Heinali uses the “outplaced” voice of history to articulate diasporic and exilic experience. As a mentor, he seeks music and sound artists engaging critically with tradition who resist both academic insularity and market conformity, and who value accessibility over institutional approval and seek resonance beyond professional circles.

Application deadline: Monday Feb 16, 11:59pm CET

Find out more through the open call link in our bio.

06/02/2026

Forecast 11: How to Apply?
Join our webinar.

Are you unsure about how to fill out Forecast's Open Call application? Join our step-by-step webinar on Monday, February 9, at 3:00 pm CET.

We’ll walk you through the application process and answer common questions. Sign up at the link in bio to receive the webinar link.

Before joining, we recommend reading the guidelines and FAQ to get the most out of the session.

Anyone who has already submitted their application is welcome to participate. If they then wish to revise their application, it is possible to send a new one. Please notify us by mail so we can delete the older version.

28/01/2026

Are you interested in working with us? Forecast currently has one open position for a parental leave replacement:

Leiter:in Personal, Fundraising und Netzwerkentwicklung
Beginn: 1. April 2026 – 15. Dezember 2026

Full specification through the link in our bio, deadline to apply is 2 February 2026.

Fluency in German and English is required.

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