Franka Marlene Foth & Verlag

silent green presents

Fragile: A sound installation by Simone Antonioni
Franka Marlene Foth pres. Rear Window—A performance unfolding through sound, expression and atmosphere, defined by a sharp yet fluid physical language
MILYMA (live) invited by Verlag
FMKF: Bass
 

Fragile
Sound installation Fragile by Verlag, spatialized and mixed by Simone Antonioni for the site-specific immersive speaker installation. The piece will be composed of the tracks from the compilation FRAGILE released by Verlag. The tracks will be deconstructed to their original stems and spatialized in the system, providing a soundscape of the lengths approx one hour. The public will be able to experience the work while relaxing on pillows inside the soundscape. 

Full contribution credits list:
Biosim, Swell (Laura Marie Madsen), Bungalovv, Borusiade, Jakub Kubica, Mari 3000, Alberto Boni, Hannah Archmbaut, Daniel Cherney, Alie, Imaginary Part, Carlos Villamizar, Onirologia, Avalon Nights

Simone Antonioni
Simone Antonioni is a Berlin-based artist who releases electronic music, publishes art material, and produces sound design. Active in the Berlin scene, he performs regularly at the Roter Salon in Volksbühne. He also curates events with the label Verlag—a platform for music curation, literature, and clothing that he founded in 2020 together with Johanna Nothroff. Verlag functions both as a music label and as a digital archive for projects and events. 

His event series Verlag Vault presents sound artists from the field of experimental electronic music, as well as Berlin-based lighting designers. As sound designer he worked for fashion houses and media outlets. In 2024, he received the award for “Best Sound Design” at the ASVOFF 16 Festival in Paris for his work on Tyra Galieva’s short film Work drains my soul, but I love it.

Franka Marlene Foth: Rear Window
I live on the twenty-seventh floor of a downtown apartment building, with a partial view of the river. Spontaneous gestures coexist with controlled compositions. On the dimly lit stage, a performer emerges. Each movement is at once sharp and fluid. Traveling through sound, gesture, facial expression and atmosphere, the performance creates a sensory landscape where meaning is felt as much as it is seen. Memory surfaces as something malleable and fluid, allowing a fabricated past to assume emotional truth in the present moment. 

Concept, Scenography and Performance: Franka Marlene Foth
Soundtrack: Malibu

Franka Marlene Foth
Franka Marlene Foth is an Artistic Director and Choreographer
operating between live performance, film and installative work.
Hailing from Berlin her acclaimed work traverses high culture through the vision of a multifaceted artist who defies labels to self or creativity and aims to create a dialogue that shifts the perception of movement into poetic narratives. Her artistry as a Movement- and Artistic Director and decade long experience of working in art, fashion and film has been translated into both performative and commercial fields. Her aesthetic combines a precise sense for the visual, expressive art practice and a distinctive, eclectic stance thriving on dramatic extremes.
Specializing in directing the mise en scène and executing creative visions she is an initiator that morphs cultural and social messaging through a redefined, scenographic context that is palpable to the senses.

She is the founder of the FMKF artist collective which further expands as a creative studio working at the intersection of art and culture. With an approach that dispenses with conventional narrative structures FMKF embodies the exceptional synergies of mutual and shared mindsets that kinetically absorb the
process of collaboration allowing the poetry of dance and
athletic strength of the dancer to become visible.  Their genre-defying creations and choreographic works span film, video, 
installations and live performances, renowned for their strong auditory and visual impact.

MILYMA
Milena Mayordomo is a Berlin-based artist performing under the name MILYMA. She began classical piano at the Bern Conservatory at age nine and developed an interest in music software at fifteen. At eighteen, she bought her first synthesizer and looper, marking the start of her work in electronic music. 

Today, she has been active as a solo artist, creating abstract R&B/Pop that blends synthesizers, loopers, piano, and English-language vocals. 

Her practice extends beyond sound: she treats music and visuals as inseparable. After leaving her fashion design studies, she fully committed to music while continuing to explore design and aesthetics. Fashion remains central to her creative process, influencing her music videos, performances, and artistic identity, with an emphasis on immersive audiovisual experiences.

FMKF: Bass
dB measures the intensity of sound pressure, a force that transforms the car into both centerpiece and sound source. FMKF dancers respond to the bass-heavy system, translating the immersive sound into expansive movement and concise choreography by Franka Marlene Foth. 

Director and Choreographer: Franka Marlene Foth
Performance by FMKF: Amalie Stitz, Marharyta Pasliadovich, Yi-Wei Tien

Verlag is a Berlin based platform for music curation and artistic projects with a focus on sound, literature and fashion. With a catalog encompassing about 40 releases that includes music and design items, Verlag represents artists whose practice is multidisciplinary, with a foundation in music.

Thursday, February 5
Betonhalle
Doors/Start: 7 pm
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