Patch Point Gallery Opening
On May 10th + 11th, we're opening the Patch Point Gallery with concerts, installations, and a special announcement and hands-on demo of a new instrument!
Entrance is free but RSVP is encouraged as space is limited: email support@patch-point.com to let us know you're coming!
10 May 2025
14h: New Instrument Presentation - Peter Blasser (Ciat-Lonbarde)
16h: Workshop tba
19h: Gijs Gieskes (concert) and Takako (dj)
11 May 2025
14-21h: Interactive installations:
Robert Lippok
"Musik" (Prepared harpsichord, transducers, amps, resonator, speakers, effect processor. 2025)
In Musik, the gallery space becomes both an instrument and a listener. The installation centers around a meticulously tuned harpsichord—an unfamiliar yet evocative percussive instrument—suspended in tension between silence and resonance. Surrounding it is the barely perceptible hum of room tone: the acoustic presence of the space itself, captured and sustained as a sonic bed.
As visitors move through the installation, the interplay between the harpsichord's tuned metallic notes and the ambient murmur of the environment creates a layered soundscape that is both meditative and uncanny. Each tone is calibrated to harmonize not only with the room but with the psychoacoustic thresholds of the human ear—drawing attention to the subtle sonic architecture that usually goes unnoticed.
Musik is less about performance and more about presence. It invites the audience to pause, to listen not just to what is played, but to what is always there: the air, the room, and the quiet between notes.
Gieskes
Cammack Lindsay
World Gang
"Tape Tipi"
Tape Tipi" is a structural tape loop installation in the shape of a tipi (a cone shaped tent) that invites you to enter sonic shelter. The Tape Tipi is a generative music machine: It will never play the same song twice. The Tipi is comprised of 8 tape loops joined together at the top by 1 wobbly ring: any movement, catch or slip is rippled throughout the structure.
+ Jamaican patties and wine
On May 10 and 11, Patch Point Gallery, a new space for contemporary art with a focus on sound, will open its doors in Berlin-Kreuzberg. With its inaugural exhibition, the gallery launches as a platform dedicated to sonic exploration and artistic exchange.
The opening weekend will feature a selection of internationally recognized and emerging artists presenting new work across various formats — including installations, concerts, artist talks, and hands-on experiences with experimental music instruments. Participating artists include Robert Lippok (Germany), Cammack Lindsey (Germany), Gijs Gieskes (Netherlands), Takako (JP), World Gang (INT), and Ciat-Lonbarde (USA).
Patch Point Gallery is an extension of the original studio and workshop of the same name, where over the past eight years, artists and makers have developed and built experimental electronic instruments. The gallery offers a more focused venue for presentation and conversation, providing space for both established and emerging voices in sound art and music.
About the artists:
Gijs Gieskes is an industrial-designer/artist from the Netherlands specializing in the design of electronic devices, for audiovisual use. His instruments are inspired by creative intuition and naivety.
Robert Lippok has been testing art’s outermost edges for over four decades. His background at the costume department of the German State Opera in Berlin, the studies at the School of Art and Design Berlin-Weissensee, and the pioneering band projects Ornament und Verbrechen (1983) and To Rococo Rot (1995 – 2014) informed a transversal practice spanning from music composition, visual art, stage design, performance and costume design.
Cammack Lindsey is a Berlin-based artist who combines complex oppression networks to embody collective resistance by investigating scientific and historical relics of failures from extractive capitalism. This intent is often explored through collaboration with cyanobacteria, micro-algae, code, the voice, sound and the materialization of colours, magic, ghosts and clouds.
Worldgang is a collective sound art project.
Peter Blasser is an artist and instrument designer known for his work under the 'Ciat-Lonbarde' umbrella.
Takako is a Japanese, Berlin-based DJ, and producer who uses an unbound creativity rooted in rave culture aesthetics with noise spirit.