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.

Change of plans:

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, due to the ongoing pandemic and resulting safety measures, we can only offer a very limited amount of reduced tickets to offer for companies, organizations or student groups larger than 10 attendees, available if all 10+ tickets are purchased in one order via international bank transfer.
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 is possible in writing before March 1, 2023, but an administrative fee of 50,- Euro will have to be subtracted from the refund. There’s no chance for reimbursement after March 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

Given the pandemic, international events on a Uber-Festival-scale are currently still not 100% possible. As such, the admitted amount of attendees will be more intimate and personal than usually. The event will follow every governing rule of hygiene and social distancing while gathering all activities at one very special venue: the vast and friendly premises of a former crematorium, now the beautiful, vibrant cultural venue Silent Green, offering more than enough space for all conference talks, panels, animation screenings, workshops, exhibitions, delicious food & drinks – both inside and Open Air.

For more information, please refer to the current hygiene precautions of the venue, Silent Green: silent-green.net/hygienevorkehrungen

If we have to cancel the Berlin event for political or pandemic reasons before March 1, all attendees will be reimbursed minus the administration fee of 50€ as set in our terms and conditions.
In case the situation appears stable on March 1, but turns bad after this date and makes the execution impossible, Force Majeure applies and reimbursement will no longer be possible. Please be assured that we will act responsibly in the interest of all involved.

No worries, more than 80% of the attendees don’t come from Germany, so doing a crash-course in German is not required: the official conference language is English!
In some rare cases, we organise consecutive translation for those lecturing artists that don’t feel comfortable giving their speech in English.

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.