Room to Expand is a transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary festival in which students critically examine current concepts of art.
The seemingly fixed framework concepts such as authorship, exhibition space, collaboration, production conditions, and art reception are examined and renegotiated as part of the art project.
The 4th edition of Room To Expand is a collaboration between the Faculty of Fine Arts, Stage Design, and the Studium Generale.

Vernissage: 31.01.2026 | 16:30 – 21:00
Winter Kino: 01.02.2026 | 16:30 – 20:00

@studio1 – Uferstudios 1, Berlin – Germany

With(in)

The 4th edition of Room To Expand Festival establishes a temporary interior where different imaginative worlds come into contact. The space moves between proximity and distance, familiarity and strangeness, allowing shifting inner states such as memory, longing, and broad forms of dreaming to surface within a communal
atmosphere. In this frame, home becomes a mutable idea, shaped by emotional, cultural, and perceptual exchanges.
With(in) approaches, this notion of a space as a condition that emerges over time. It is understood as something lived, continually formed by shared presence and the subtle dynamics that occur when individuals inhabit it together. Belonging is not given but gradually sensed, carried by cultural traces and by rituals that connect everyday practice with more symbolic or inherited gestures.

Gaston Bachelard, in “The Poetics of Space: The classic look of how we experienceintimate places”, suggests that the lived house transforms from a simple construction into a world shaped by experience. WITH(IN) extends this thought into a collective stage-setting, where a shared world arises in response to presence,
practices informed by diverse backgrounds, and the imaginative currents that momentarily bind strangers. With(in) presents a lived situation, a time-based environment in which belonging is continually composed, unsettled, and renewed by the act of being with, and within, others.

Room To Expand 4 Team:

General coordinator: Mathilde ter Heijne
Mentoring: Mathilde ter Heijne, Christiane Kühl, Valentina Primavera, Chris Kondeck, Max Senges
Dramaturgy: Javier Blanco Núñez
Curatorial assistance: Tetiana Kornieieva
Workshops: Anastasia Putsykina, Sascha Benedetti
Winter Kino: Christoph Manz
Technical support: Sandra Bak, Uferstudios
Graphic design: Tetiana Kornieieva