No physical tickets are sent out prior to the event. After payment, all attendees receive a personal registration code via email (sent to the email address used during the payment process, so keep an eye on your Spam-folder!). Attendees are asked to print out this email (especially the included registration code) and bring it to the conference venue together with their valid ID. The full festival passes (wearable, non-transferable wristbands) will be available directly at the conference venue.

We will record all conference talks and are working hard to make them available as Video on Demand shortly after the IRL event on our website pictoplasma.com.

Unfortunately we can only offer a very limited amount of reduced tickets to offer for companies, organizations or student groups larger than 10 attendees.
Reduced professional group & student group tickets are granted on a first come, first served basis:
Please contact us for more information.

We’re sorry, but unfortunately not. The entire event’s financing is calculated tightly in accordance with the available seats that the conference venue offers – and from our experience, we tend to be sold out several days prior to its opening. And once we’re sold out, we are legally not allowed to let more people into the auditorium. 

Tickets are generally not refundable once purchased. A participant, who is unable to attend the conference, can name a substitute in writing, and the ticket is transferred.
Cancellation of registration might be possible in writing before October 1, 2023, but an administrative fee of $50 will have to be subtracted from the refund. There’s no chance for reimbursement after October 1, 2023, and absence from the conference does not entitle to reimbursement of the admission fee – simply because all income by then has been spent on the production of the event.

Please carefully read the full version of our terms and conditions >>> HERE

Pictoplasma is an unique project wholeheartedly focussed on contemporary character design and art — abstract figurative entities that create a direct emotional bond with the viewer and who have invaded all media over the past decade. The brainchild of Peter Thaler and Lars Denicke is renowned for its style-defining book publications, immersive exhibitions, international conferences and festivals, that continuously push anthropomorphic appeal to new limits.

Since its inception in 2004, the annual Pictoplasma Berlin Festival has established itself as the main meeting point for an international audience of visual creators and producers. The event is an unconventional design conference, a forward looking animation film festival, a communal playground for collaborative creation, a surprising tour of gallery exhibitions – and is all about the fun of encountering like-minded people. In 2008, Pictoplasma established a second home in New York in collaboration with Parsons The New School for Design, while further events keep bringing the project from Mexico via Paris to Madrid and around the globe.