The Fool / Esoteric Space

Four years of The Fool. Four years of magick, rituals, encounters, experiences and art in Berlin. We invite you to a shared evening of visions and creative expression, to meet your occult community in Berlin. Featuring: Francis Heery — Moon Phases Performance Sutura — Performance Ivana Samoilenko — Art Exhibition Arte Trinum — Divination Suit Kei — Soundscape 22.05.26 Doors open 19:30 Skalitzer Str. 43 Entry on donation #magick #witchesofberlin #occulture

We welcome the New Moon with an intermedia evening of film, live experimental music, voice, and ritual action. Vacant Possession is a fantasy documentary reflecting on the poetics of an abandoned house that is slowly slipping into the marshes near the east coast of England. It documents a tangle of love, landscape, property, power, and decay. Can the dead be dispossessed? For us, sites and landscapes are alive with past traumas and joys, feelings and passions, nascent futures, hauntings, and magical potential. Our film combines documentary, animation, poetry, photography, field recording, on-site ritual performance, and music. The energies of New Moon connect and bind us through intention setting and dream ritual and will climax within an improvised finale, the Berlin debut of our improvised voice and electronics duo, Pauper Palace. There will be inexplicable synchronicities. About us. Jackie Montague and John Bowers have recently established a collaboration, as a writer and a sound artist, to explore experimental film and improvised performance. In particular, our work studies the esoteric aspects of landscape and place, particularly sites of abandonment and loss, as settings for our own DIY ritual magic. We are informed, inspired and often haunted by the artistic methods of surrealism and the feminist magical practice of women within that tradition (e.g. Ithell Colquhoun and Leonora Carrington), experimental film makers who investigate magical rituals and symbolism (e.g. Derek Jarman and Kenneth Anger), essay film forms (e.g. Chantal Akerman and Chris Marker), and intermedia performance (e.g. Yoko Ono and Fluxus). In particular, we practice what we call ‘laminamancy’ - studying the effects of layering phenomena, materials, histories, geographies, memories, and ideas to explore how they interact, combining varied artistic forms. @brainwavesarebetterthanperms @johnthemodulator @vacantpossessionfilm @thefool_berlin

🌹An ongoing series of séances that explore and experiment for higher developments in spirit contact. We create a safe room for authentic manifestations and transformative experiences. After three years of formal public séances Marc Wilke - Europe’s youngest publicly demonstrating séance medium - revives the egregoric structure of the rose circle to develop further. Led by spirit. 🕯️The séance is one of the oldest continuous spiritual group ritual traditions of the west. And by its very nature: You best grow together. We expressly not only focus on the development of new phenomena connected with Marc as the main facilitating medium and his spirit team. But also want to grow as a group and give each participant a chance to develop their innate mediumship abilities as well. All inside a functional and stable ritual framework so they can profit from the manifested energies, presences and spirit communications. Possible focusses on this journey: - deeper and tangible contact with your spirit guides - ectoplasm - face morphing - materialisation phenomena - development of trance mediumship and channeling - working within a séance cabinet - working with spirit voices and a spirit trumpet 🪽Please reach out to find out if it makes sense for you to join the next séance. 📍 The Fool, Berlin 🕒 Doors open at 7:00 pm. We begin sharp at 7:30 pm with closed doors. Duration: approx. 2 hours Please arrive at least 15 min. before to ensure a relaxed beginning. 🎟 DM us to reserve your spot. Feel free to DM Marc or the Fool if you have any questions or concerns about contemporary séance protocol or etiquette. All info on our website 💸 #thefoolberlin #physicalmediumshipcircle #physikalischemedialität

Women’s World VII – Performances 15 May 2026 · 7:00 PM The Fool, Skalitzer Str. 43, Berlin Women’s World VII brings together an international collective of artists from the USA, UK, Ireland, Switzerland, Italy, and Poland for an evening of bold, interdisciplinary performances in Berlin. This edition centers on uncensored, personal reflections on feminism, women’s rights, and gender. Through diverse artistic languages, the participating artists confront and question dominant narratives, offering raw, unfiltered perspectives shaped by their individual experiences and cultural backgrounds. More than an exhibition, Women’s World is an act of resistance—a response to conservative ideologies and patriarchal social structures. It is a space where boundaries are challenged, taboos are dismantled, and experimentation is embraced as a form of freedom. Audiences can expect an immersive and provocative program that pushes beyond comfort zones, inviting dialogue, confrontation, and reflection.

I’m happy to finally share that @thefool_berlin is hosting my “Major Arcana Tarot Cards” exhibition. Opening night on Saturday, 16th May with a live drawing + soundscape experience with @franco_lapache (ambient,noise,drone). Doors: 19:30 Start: 20:00 The Fool Berlin Skalitzer str.43 Entry fee: donation See you there 🌙

Zahr - A Shibari, Live Soundscape and Poetry Performance by Roja and Jessa "قطره تویی بحر تویی لطف تویی قهر تویی قند تویی زهر تویی بیش میازار مرا" مولانا *You are the droplet, you are the sea; you embody compassion and rage. You are sweetness and poison. Do not torment me any longer.* — Rumi Do we have the courage to embrace the flames of our rage? Our culture often teaches us to see rage as a toxic force, leading us to extinguish it. But what if this so-called poison "Zahr" is, in fact, a vital element for shedding the parts of ourselves that stifle our true revolutionary spirit? What if it helps us flow into a radically authentic self? In this performance/ritual, Roja and Jessa invite you to explore the transformative power of rage through an intimate exchange of a r0pe session, enhanced by live Iranian traditional soundscapes and Farsi Sufi poetry as mantras of surrender. Together, we will celebrate the interplay of fierce flames of rage and gentle waters of compassion, embodying the Sufi principle of unity. Join us in this alchemical journey where we channel s*xual energy ignited by righteous rage through r0pes and b0ndage, all while immersing ourselves in traditional Iranian Sufi sounds and poetry from an intersectional feminist perspective. 🗓 Date: Saturday, May 9th ⏰ Time: Doors open at 20:30; performance begins at 21:00 📍 Location: The Fool: Skalitzer Str. 43, 10997 Berlin, Germany Photos by: @nickphotos.berlin at @daruma_berlin_ Edited by: @jessa.bloom #roja_ropes #mistress_roja #Jin_Jîyan_Azadî #woman_life_freedom

Ciao a tuttə, oggi lancio questa call per trovare due performer su Berlino a fine giugno! È un grande esperimento per me, dai toni fortemente esoterici, se conoscete qualcunə di interessatə girate loro la call, grazie ❤️ Per altre info scrivetemi in DM senza problemi Hi everyone, today I’m putting out this call to find two performers in Berlin at the end of June! It’s a big experiment for me, with strongly esoteric tones. If you know anyone who might be interested, please send this call to them, thank you ❤️ For more info, feel free to message me in DMs anytime. Hallo zusammen, heute starte ich diesen Open Call, um zwei Performer*innen in Berlin für Ende Juni zu finden! Es ist ein großes Experiment für mich, mit stark esoterischen Tönen. Wenn ihr jemanden kennt, der daran interessiert sein könnte, leitet den Call gerne weiter, danke ❤️ Für weitere Infos schreibt mir jederzeit unkompliziert eine DM. In collaboration with @thefool_berlin

2 day workshop with @religionvirus May 30 @ 11:00 am – 06:00 pm May 31 @ 11:00 am – 06:00 pm ONLY 13 PLACES AVAILABLE DM “THE FOOL” TO REGISTER Chaos Magick emerged in the 1970s as postmodernity’s contribution to the Occult. Its practitioners rejected the hierarchies of the Western magickal tradition, advocating the use of “belief” as a creative tool, and Magick as a technology of hacking the source-code of reality. Chaos Magicians make active use of Sigils — magical symbols charged with intent – reconceptualized and modernized by Austin Osmand Spare and Thee Temple ov Psychik Youth in the early 20th century. The Sigil takes a desire or intent, folds it down into its key aspects, and produces a magickal symbol which acts as a conduit between conscious and unconscious projection. Chaos Magician and comic-book writer Grant Morrison upgraded the concept of “the Sigil” through his invention of “the Hypersigil” — which “develops [the sigil] beyond the static image and incorporates elements such as characterization, drama and plot.” The hypersigil is magickal narrative construction that re-codes reality through transmedial storytelling —including comics, stories, videos, films, installations, animations, performances, concept albums and rituals. WEAVING HYPERSIGILS is a two-day workshop led by performance artist/witchdoctor [M] Dudeck, whose 15-year ongoing hypersigil RELIGIONVIRUS has involved inventing an entire fictional religion as art. Combining theory, practise and exercizes, WEAVING HYPERSIGILS invites 13 practitioners/participants to imagine magical intention as an ongoing mythopoetic process rather than a device invoked to generate “results.” This workshop will introduce the hypersigil as methodology, inviting participants to “storyboard” new realities through magickal mythopoesis, and each participant will create their own hypersigil in any media and begin to craft it in the workshop. Infos and financial energy exchange on our website, Link in Bio #thefoolberlin #chaosmagick #hypersigils #sigilmagick

Occult Talk & Discussion with @religionvirus and @marcwilke_official 27 May 8 pm We inhabit a reality that tries to Overcode All Options. The Collective Unconscious is shrinking in the numbing entropy of ‘content’ ravaging the imaginal plane. Our imaginations are assimilated, our desires are colonized and our visionaries are institutionalized. Make-Believe is a framework used to describe games enacted by children, alone or in groups, wherein ‘actors’ perform elaborate fictions and ask those interacting with them to treat their fictions as real. Make-Belief is what happens when we intentionally access that same imaginal realm when we are no longer children. It is what happens when we hack the Overcode and liberate our own imaginations and start worldbuilding alternate futures. A Sigil is a desire or intent, folded it down into its key aspects, producing a magickal symbol that acts as a conduit between conscious and unconscious thought. Chaos Magician and comic-book writer Grant Morrison upgraded the concept of “the Sigil” with his invention of “the Hypersigil” — which “develops [the sigil] beyond the static image and incorporates elements such as characterization, drama and plot.” The hypersigil is magickal narrative construction that re-codes reality through transmedial storytelling. In this talk, [M]Dudeck will introduce RELIGIONVIRUS, their 16-year hypersigil, wherein they have invented their own queer sci-fi religion as art. Following this, [M] will be joined in conversation with Europe’s Youngest Séance Medium, Marc Wilke, about the role of art in magickal practise and the hypersigil as narrative tool to liberate the unconscious from the Collective Overcode. ❗️More info, Bios, and donation info on our website ⚠️Note: [M]Dudeck will also be leading a 2-day workshop entitled: WEAVING HYPERSIGILS: HACKING THE SOURCE CODE OF REALITY, May30-31, 2026 at The Fool. Limited to 13 participants, DM The Fool to register.

ARTHEMIST lighthouse 48 is a 63-minute performance film and an accompanying book, ARTHEMIST lighthouse 48: Why tie your head to a tree when no one is looking? In this fully independent work, Norwegian artist Bjørn Venø inhabits the Arthemist: an outsider traversing liminal, deeply personal spaces. Through visceral emotion, intuition, and symbolic gestures, he fractures the boundaries of structured perception and reaches toward a state of becoming that exists outside imposed ways of being. Filmed over 15 months on the island where he grew up, the project is bound to the memory of the land and the need for healing and reclamation. Venø authored every facet of the work, embodying it as a performance artist, cinematographer, sound designer, and editor. Across 54 intuitive actions performed over a year, the film distils 48 of them into lived ritual, movement, resistance, and communion with the unknown. The book holds the wider archive through still images, experimental poetry, and text, and includes a foreword by philosopher Hans-Georg Möller. Each page oscillates between documentation and incantation, image and word, presence and absence. There is no fear of failure, no guardrails leading to success; the work fumbles through darkness into the uncaring embrace of the unknown, where words are eaten by fish. Together, film and book extend the enquiry of Venø’s first book ARTHEMIST STATEMENT 2.6, translating meditations on struggle, transformation, and the unknown into a practice that challenges commodification and the passive gaze. What remains is a living archive of perception and becoming.

April 24 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm The Fool Skalitzer Strasse 43 Berlin, Germany Germany ARTHEMIST lighthouse 48 is a 63-minute performance film and an accompanying book, ARTHEMIST lighthouse 48: Why tie your head to a tree when no one is looking? In this fully independent work, Norwegian artist Bjørn Venø inhabits the Arthemist: an outsider traversing liminal, deeply personal spaces. Through visceral emotion, intuition, and symbolic gestures, he fractures the boundaries of structured perception and reaches toward a state of becoming that exists outside imposed ways of being. Filmed over 15 months on the island where he grew up, the project is bound to the memory of the land and the need for healing and reclamation. Venø authored every facet of the work, embodying it as a performance artist, cinematographer, sound designer, and editor. Across 54 intuitive actions performed over a year, the film distils 48 of them into lived ritual, movement, resistance, and communion with the unknown. The book holds the wider archive through still images, experimental poetry, and text, and includes a foreword by philosopher Hans-Georg Möller. Each page oscillates between documentation and incantation, image and word, presence and absence. There is no fear of failure, no guardrails leading to success; the work fumbles through darkness into the uncaring embrace of the unknown, where words are eaten by fish. Together, film and book extend the enquiry of Venø’s first book ARTHEMIST STATEMENT 2.6, translating meditations on struggle, transformation, and the unknown into a practice that challenges commodification and the passive gaze. What remains is a living archive of perception and becoming. €10 – €20 Donation based sliding scale

E: A warm invitation to the workshop "Animism & Art" @thefool_berlin Saturday 25th of April. Doors 19:30, Start 20:00. In a world where images can be generated in seconds using AI, art is in crisis. Why create art at all? What is worth depicting? What ideas are worth investing time and energy in? Together, we want to explore this from a transcendental perspective. I will bring my shamanic drum, and under guidance, participants will embark on a trance journey to find personal answers. Afterwards, there will be time for discussion and a further, more in-depth shamanic journey. D: Herzliche Einladung zum Workshop „Animismus & Kunst“ im @thefool_berlin am Samstag, den 25. April. Einlass: 19:30 Uhr, Beginn: 20:00 Uhr. In einer Welt, in der Bilder mithilfe von KI in Sekundenschnelle generiert werden können, steckt die Kunst in der Krise. Warum überhaupt Kunst schaffen? Was ist es wert, dargestellt zu werden? In welche Ideen lohnt es sich, Zeit und Energie zu investieren? Gemeinsam möchten wir dies aus einer transzendentalen Perspektive erkunden. Ich bringe meine schamanische Trommel mit, und unter Anleitung begeben sich die Teilnehmenden auf eine Trancereise, um persönliche Antworten zu finden. Anschließend gibt es Zeit für Diskussionen und eine weitere, tiefergehende schamanische Reise. #animism #art #shaman