All Events - asphalt Festival

Summer of arts
8 — 27 July 2025

This was the programme
of the 13^th asphalt Festival.

Festival opening

Festival speech by Amir Reza Koohestani and music by Desmadre Orkesta

8 July ²⁰²⁵

Words | D’haus, Großes Haus

Blind Runner

Chamber play by Amir Reza Koohestani / Mehr Theatre Group

Paris / Tehran

8 + 9 July ²⁰²⁵

Theatre | D’haus, Kleines Haus

Lehmanns Brothers

Nu-Soul / Funk

France

10 July ²⁰²⁵

Music | D’haus, Kleines Haus

Ophelia’s Got Talent

Florentina Holzinger

asphalt Coproduction

11 + 12 + 13 July ²⁰²⁵

Theatre | D’haus, Großes Haus

One Song

Concert performance by Miet Warlop & NTGent

Belgium

12 + 13 July ²⁰²⁵

Performance | D’haus, Kleines Haus

Artist Talk: Florentina Holzinger

The 'Artist of the Year 2024' in conversation

13 July ²⁰²⁵

Words | 34OST

Goldstück

Theaterkollektiv Pièrre.Vers

Text by Verena Güntner / asphalt co-production / Düsseldorf

14 + 15 + 16 + 21 + 22 + 23 July ²⁰²⁵

Theatre | Alte Farbwerke

Sorvina

Neo-Soul / Hip-Hop

New York / Berlin

14 July ²⁰²⁵

Music | Seebühne

Demokratie plus X – Die Show

A form of government review by Annette Frier and Peter Trabner

NRW

15 + 16 July ²⁰²⁵

Performance | Seebühne

Decazeville – Der Berg, der brennt

Performance by Nina Gazaniol Vérité

France

17 + 18 + 19 + 20 July ²⁰²⁵

Performance | 34OST

Weeland

Retro-Soul

Berlin / Ulm

17 July ²⁰²⁵

Music | Seebühne

Muito Kaballa

Afrobeat / Funk / Jazz

Cologne

18 July ²⁰²⁵

Music | Seebühne

Ich bin Bulgare?!

Solo by and with Vidina Popov

Vienna / Berlin

18 July ²⁰²⁵

Theatre | 34OST

Nico Brandenburg Quartett

Jazz

NRW

19 July ²⁰²⁵

Music | Seebühne

Selbstportrait zwischen Steppe und Wald

Solo by Alexej Lochmann

Guest performance from the Deutsches Theater Berlin

19 July ²⁰²⁵

Theatre | 34OST

Sofia und Juri Andruchowytsch

Writing in times of war – an exchange of ideas

Ukraine

20 July ²⁰²⁵

Words | 34OST

Omer Moskovich

Alternative Pop

Tel Aviv

20 July ²⁰²⁵

Music | Seebühne

Heimat, Fußball, Rockmusik

Cabaret solo by Frank Goosen

NRW

21 July ²⁰²⁵

Words | Seebühne

Maik Krahl

Jazz

Cologne

22 July ²⁰²⁵

Music | Seebühne

Jesper Munk

Singer-Songwriter-Blues

Berlin

23 July ²⁰²⁵

Music | Seebühne

Tango del Sur

Tango Nuevo

NRW

24 July ²⁰²⁵

Music | Seebühne

War Diaries

Theatrical documentary by and with Uri Fahndrich & Nadia Migdal

Israel / Germany

24 + 25 July ²⁰²⁵

Performance | 34OST

Vehicle/Passenger

Spoken Word & New Jazz

New York / Amsterdam / Cologne

25 July ²⁰²⁵

Music | Seebühne

A Doll’s House

Immersive play by Fix+Foxy

Copenhagen

25 + 26 + 27 July ²⁰²⁵

Theatre | Site-Specific

Vox Sambou

Afrobeat / Caribbean Hip-Hop

Haiti

26 July ²⁰²⁵

Music | Seebühne

asphalt Festival x THE DORF x Friends

Festival party with DJ Daniel Wang and DJ Robin Mario

26 July ²⁰²⁵

| 34OST

Stadtklaviere

Music in public spaces

24 Juni — 27 July ²⁰²⁵

Performance | Site-Specific