15th
Pictoplasma
Conference & Festival
Berlin
08 – 12 MAY 2019
This May 08–12, the 15th annual Pictoplasma Berlin Festival awaited all international character pioneers, creators, artists, newcomers and enthusiasts for a special 5 day celebration of contemporary character design and art!
Creators and producers met for a central conference to exchange strategies for figurative aesthetics, while the wider festival awaited the general public with cutting edge screenings that bring the latest animation to the big cinema screen, numerous exhibitions throughout the city presented original works and outstanding character craftsmanship, and performances put the characters into direct play with the audience.
ARTIST TALKS,
LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
09 – 11 MAY 2019
At the heart of the festival, the central Pictoplasma Conference presents 21 key lectures by the world’s most influential artists and upcoming talents, cutting-edge graphic and game designers and leading animation filmmakers, offering the chance to learn from and be inspired by some of today’s most innovative and avant-garde artists.
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CHARACTER WALK
08 – 12 MAY 2019
A Character Walk in Mitte showcased exhibitions by ten artists, many of whom presented their work in Berlin for the first time.
At Silent Green, the former crematorium in Wedding, a group show zoomed in on the charged space between viewers and the viewed, with multimedia installations that probed the unreciprocated emotions between humans and virtual characters.
ANIMATION
SCREENINGS
09 – 12 MAY 2019
At Babylon on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, a new selection of no less than eighty hand-picked animated shorts lighted up the screen in four thematic programs full of psychedelic eye candy and ingenious storytelling—a far cry from family entertainment.