XS
noun /'ɛksɛs, ɛk'sɛs, ɪk'sɛs/
  • an amount of something that is more than necessary, permitted, or desirable.
    "Are you suffering from an XS of stress in your life?"
  • lack of moderation, especially in eating or drinking.
    "bouts of indulgent XS"  

adjective /'ɛksɛs, ɪk'sɛs/
  • exceeding a prescribed or desirable amount.
    "an incredible amount of XS heat"


When we think of the size XS, we often associate it with smallness, delicacy, and fragility. But what if we flipped that script and saw XS as a symbol of eXceSs, eXceSs in all its queer and political glory?

Let's consider the way the fashion industry and mainstream culture often pigeonhole femininity, queerness, genders and body shapes into a narrow set of size and appearance standards. The pressure to conform to a certain body type can be suffocating, especially for those of us who don't fit the mold. But what if we embraced the eXceSses of our bodies and identities, rather than trying to shrink ourselves  down to fit someone else's idea of perfection?

XS could be a rebellion against this constricting norm, a celebration of the quirks and imperfections that make us unique. It could be a middle finger to the forces that try to police and control us, whether it's the fashion industry, the media, or even our own internalised biases.

The politics of eXceSs also have wider implications for how we see and treat others. It's about rejecting the toxic idea that some bodies are more valuable or worthy than others, and instead embracing a radical inclusivity that values all bodies and identities equally.

Size XS should not be the only acceptable way to be eXceSs. It should be about challenging the narrow definitions of beauty and worth that are imposed on us and finding ways to eXpreSs ourselves authentically and unapologetically, no matter what size or shape we are.

Join GEGEN for three XXXS days to eXSplore all of your XSs in all of its eXceSs and let them be a symbol of defiance, self-love, and political resistance. Let's reclaim the term and use it as a rallying cry for a more inclusive, diverse, and liberated world.

Embrace your XS,
celebrate your eXceSs, 
eXpreSs your authentic self.

GEGEN XS

photo courtesy of Bruterdam
graphics & logo by Enrico Bardin

video teaser by Alessandra Leone


LINEUP

ROBUS FLOOR
AIDA ARKO
AND
ANGEL KAREL
CRISTIAN MARRAS
HEADLESS HORSEMAN
HENNING BAER
L Ʌ V Σ N
LA FRAICHEUR
LADY MARU
LESSSS
LUNA VASSAROTTI
MAR/US
MÉTARAPH
OCD
PAULA TEMPLE
RADICAL SOFTNESS
SAMANTHA TOGNI
SCALAMERIYA
SNTS
ZNZL


SUMME FLOOR
ALVA
AUSPEX
CRYME
DANA MONTANA
FLAVIA LAUS
KIAR OSCURO
MARUM
MELATRONIX
MIRO VON BERLIN
PROJEKT GESTALTEN
RÆZA
RAKANS
RQVX
RUIZ OSC1
TWEEMAN
VINVAR
X.I.R.A


PERFORMERS
TBC

AWARENESS TEAM
YELLOW VEST AWARENESS

HARM REDUCTION
MAN*CHECK / SONAR

event links: RA / IG / FB

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DRESSCODE

︎Exuberant, uncomfortable, excessive, flamboyant, big, decadent, boisterous, inadequate, extra, kinky, fetish.Please read carefully the concept and show us your excess.  
︎After checking your coat, please be aware that there will be an additional selection process in order to reinforce the dresscode, no refunds will be proccessed if you don’t respect the dresscode.
︎No casual wear

IMPORTANT

︎Reduced tickets will be available via Telegram
︎Online purchased tickets are not refundable.
︎The ticket allows multiple re-entries.
︎Being in possession of an e-ticket does not guarantee entry, we reserve the right to deny the entrance, refunds will be processed when this happens.

︎Please calculate time for the full process of getting into the club.

HOUSE RULES

︎In order to protect each other's privacy, we discourage the use of image recording devices in all the areas, we’ll have our own photographers.
︎We want you and our other guests to feel comfortable, regardless of gender, race, religion, class, or sexual orientation.
︎Please make sure there is consent before approaching any physical contact. Gegen is not a place for nazis, racism, any kind of discrimination, sexual harassment, or any sort of violence.
︎If you should observe or experience an inappropriate situation, please don't hesitate to contact our yellow vest awareness team or any of the staff at the bars/coat check, guest service, or our door crew.
︎Those who shall not comply with these rules will be invited to leave.

GEGEN Ritual

A ritual is a collective performance that can produce altered states of consciousness and suggestive healing power.

JUST CLOSE YOUR EYES

Enter GEGEN RITUAL, where each dance temple is designed for enhancing transcendent states of (dis)possession and each encounter is a magic revolution.

FORGET YOUR NAME

Dive into a dramaturgy of sonic edge play where fog, water, shadows, lights, impressions, glimpses, dark rooms and secret dungeons expand, limitless, in celebration of not knowing what’s going to happen next.

FORGET THE WORLD

Shed your clothes at the door and step beyond the threshold in this nocturnal celebration. Surrender your static identity at the door. Conjure spirits of ecstatic dance with beat-driven endurance on an orgy of wavelengths. Honor the shared intentions that bring us all together.

FORGET YOUR SELF

Let the repetition of lights, sounds and vibrations elevate your neurotransmitters and enhance your telepathic sensitivities. Get situated right here, in the present, on harmonized frequencies. Descend into a trance matrix where all is one, one is none, and none is all.

JOIN GEGEN RITUAL


GEGEN Ritual



concept courtesy of Sir Rita & Flo Heiden
photo courtesy of Florian Hetz
graphics & logo by Enrico Bardin

 


LINEUP

GEGEN FLOOR
FLAVIA LAUS
HENNING BAER
KHLOE
MANNI DEE
RACHEL NOON


HELL FLOOR
ADAM X
KRISTA BOURGEOIS
MAEDON live
PETRA FLURR
KALMA vj


HOUSE OF GEGEN
AFONSO & ALEX
CHERIII
MIKEY WOODBRIDGE & LUCIO VIDAL

BEARCAVE
GLORIA VIAGRA
MISS ITALIA


PLEASURE DOME
RANGELOVA all night long
PERFORMERS
DARVISH
JADE LEE
MATT SKULLY
MISS IMMIGRATION
SANDRA X

PRISMA FLOOR
BERLIN BUNNY
SITSOPE


PHOTOGRAPHER
RAF&WAY

AWARENESS TEAM
GEGEN YELLOW VEST AWARENESS

HARM REDUCTION
MAN*CHECK / SONAR

event links: RA / IG / FB

Join our Telegram group for advance reduced tickets and more information.

DRESSCODE

︎Ritualistic, solemn, opulent, liturgical, ceremonial, evocatory, sensual, eclectic, ornate, skin. 
︎Read carefully the concept and show us your symbols. A rigid selection will be enforced on this basis.
︎No casual wear


GEGEN SOCIAL

Have you heard the latest?? Check! It!! Out!!!

Here's some fleeting entertainment for your bored brain! NEW!! user-generated content scrolling past your screen on some corporate social media platform for promoting disembodied personas online. YOU: one big surfing eye, unable to dive...

Somewhere between social media and social distancing we have started to lose track of what it means to be social. Socializing in the physical world has become more rarefied but also (seemingly) more tedious, repetitive even, compared to the diffused celebrity show ceaselessly broadcast by individual identity bubbles online. Here the automatic satisfaction of desires means outsourcing everything to algorithms where nothing is left to imagine.

Welcome to the performance society! a reality show of participatory surveillance!! In this comfortably numb state of constant distraction and self-control we look at our own image and lament we can’t be more in love with ourselves...

👾😇🕳🍆😈🦄😎🥳😍🤌✊🦾🦶🏼🫀🗣👅🧑‍🎤🧜🏼‍♀️💅🧚🧜🤳🏿👠🦩🍼🍑🤸‍♀️🧸🔈🌈🚀🌶🍌🐽🧞‍♀️🧦🥰🍄🏳️‍🌈🌽🦪📱❤️‍🩹🪱🤦🏽‍♀️🙍🏿‍♂️👯‍♀️🦄🦚👨‍❤️‍👨🤏🏿🧢👋💃👗👈🏾🥵👙👀😋

DO YOU WANT MORE than a flat reflection of your #fears #whims and #ambitions ?? Then keep following and liking. We’re almost there...

In the cracks of hegemony people are in fact finding each other; recovering subjugated knowledge, rethinking time, reappropriating space, hacking technologies, pushing back against discipline and control. Our identities are complex bundles of characteristics that undergo continuous mutations. The memory of who we are is built upon a process of forgetting, selection, and narrative – not on the total recall of a fixed profile. Identities can be managed, multiplied, altered, re-created, upgraded and trance-formed. What makes the difference is what is actually commonly shared by exploring the unknown together and expecting the unexpected, in yourself and others.

Experiment. Make mistakes. Learn without instruction or coercion. Practice silence, nuance, listening, exploration, and the subtleties of tone and body language...

Dance beyond dawn and dusk, beyond night and day... Beyond identity and social norms and all binaries...

The party is out there, out there!

Be GEGEN SOCIAL

concept courtesy of Sir Rita & Flo Heiden
photo courtesy of Bruterdam
graphics & logo by Enrico Bardin

video teaser by Alessandra Leone


LINEUP LINEUP LINEUP

ROBUS FLOOR
ADRESTIA
AIDA ARKO
FALSE WITNESS
MAR/US
MÉTARAPH


SUMME FLOOR
FKA.M4A
LA SCHMOCK
LUIGI DI VENERE
STATHIS


PERFORMERS
JAZBAZMAZ
MISS ANERIS
DAMIEN THORN



AWARENESS TEAM
GEGEN YELLOW VEST AWARENESS

HARM REDUCTION
MAN*CHECK / SONAR

event links: RA / IG / FB

Join our Telegram group for advance reduced tickets and more information.

DRESSCODE

︎Colorful, emoji, shiny, disembodied, censored, vibrant, naked, kinky, fetish. 
︎Please read carefully the concept and show us your drip. A rigid selection will be enforced on this basis.
︎No casual wear


IMPORTANT
 
︎Reduced tickets will be available via Telegram
︎Online purchased tickets are not refundable.
︎Being in possession of an e-ticket does not guarantee entry, we reserve the right to deny the entrance, refunds will be processed when this happens.

︎To access the venue, a unique AwarenessPass QR code will be given after completing an online house rules test. The test is mandatory so please complete it before your arrival or while in line by scanning the QR code at the front of the queue or using the link

HOUSE RULES

︎In order to protect each other's privacy, we discourage the use of image recording devices in all the areas.
︎We want you and our other guests to feel comfortable, regardless of gender, religion, class, or sexual orientation.
︎Please make sure there is consent before approaching any physical contact or invading someone's private space / intimacy. Gegen is not a place for nazis discrimination, sexual harassment, or any sort of violence.
︎If you should observe or experience an inappropriate situation, please don't hesitate to contact our yellow vest awareness team or any of the staff at the bars/coat check, guest service, or our door crew.
︎Those who shall not comply with these rules will be invited to leave.


EPIC GAMES

As the spring equinox approaches, the Olympians call forth to all mortals to gather at the sacred halls of the Transbordeur in Lyon. This hallowed ground, once a temple to the water nymphs, has been reborn as a haven for the deities of gender, pleasure, and techno.

The [NO GENDER] X GEGEN BERLIN: EPIC GAMES, a grandiose festival of revelry and athleticism, shall be the centerpiece of this divine gathering. As in ancient times, the Games will be a time for laying down arms and competing in a spirit of togetherness and honor. The beat of the drums and the pulse of the crowd will be the heartbeat of this epic spectacle, a marathon of rave, bodies, and games of desire that shall rival the grandeur of Mount Olympus itself.

Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, shall be your guide and protector as you indulge in the pleasures of the flesh. Zeus, king of the gods, shall oversee the competition and provide the thunderous soundtrack that shall shake the halls to their foundations. But be warned, the gates to Olympus are guarded by fierce creatures, and only those who abide by the principles of benevolence, consent, listening, and respect shall be granted entry. The enemies of the gods shall be denied passage, their fate sealed to eternal damnation.

All who possess a heroic spirit and a heart for adventure, come and join us in this grand celebration of life, where immersing in massive sound that as mountainous as Olympus and reveling in the company of fellow gods and goddesses is closer to the heavens than the depths of the earth.


LINEUP

MUSIC
ANGEL KAREL
MAR/US
METARAPH
OCD
SORAÄ


PERFORMANCES
GANG TFIF EVENTS
AZELKA
DIA
DIANE KILLER

GUEST GEGEN
KATY PERRACHE
MOGAN TOX
MYCOSE
OH.JULIETTE
PATRICIA CHAUDEPISSE
SIREN
STANOO & LOOKI.

GANG GEGEN BERLIN
MISTRESS ANERIS
+ GUESTS



event links: RA / IG / FB / TICKETS

Join our Telegram group for advance reduced tickets and more information.

DRESSCODE

︎Festive, gala, sumptuos, majestic, ceremonial, polished, jubilant, celebrative, evening gown, extravagant.
︎Read carefully the concept and show us your opulence. A rigid selection will be enforced on this basis.
︎No casual wear


IMPORTANT
 
︎Reduced tickets will be available via Telegram
︎Online purchased tickets are not refundable.
︎Being in possession of an e-ticket does not guarantee entry, we reserve the right to deny the entrance, refunds will be processed when this happens.

︎Regular tickets will be available at the door

HOUSE RULES

︎We like to remind you of our zero-tolerance policy towards GHB/GBL.
︎In order to protect each other's privacy, we discourage the use of image recording devices in all the areas, we’ll have our own photographers.
︎We want you and our other guests to feel comfortable, regardless of gender, race, religion, class, or sexual orientation.
︎Please make sure there is consent before approaching any physical contact. Gegen is not a place for nazis, racism, any kind of discrimination, sexual harassment, or any sort of violence.
︎If you should observe or experience an inappropriate situation, please don't hesitate to contact our awareness team or any of the staff at the bars/coat check, guest service, or our door crew.
︎Those who shall not comply with these rules will be invited to leave.


AN-N-UL-US

The two main motions of the Earth are rotation and revolution – reciprocally transforming one into the other in coital rhythm with the Sun and the Moon. Consider the Moon and the tide; life comes from the sea and the sea continuously beats off. Plants rise in the direction of the Sun and then collapse in the direction of the Earth. Time is spatialized by this discoidal form – the ring, the ANNULUS – and each cycle is a new cosmopoietic act.

AN-NU-AL

The foremost symbolic space of temporal repetition is the Earth's revolution around the Sun. Each ANNUAL "new year" marks the point when days becomes longer and time begins again. The wish for a new start can be found in orgiastic ceremonies symbolizing chaos; the primordial moment before creation when all values and rules are abolished and contradictions are integrated into a dramatic harmony of the (w)hole.

AN-NIHILATION

Connected to the nocturnal order of the Moon cycle, the number 12 carries mythological and magical symbolism representing cosmic order; a (w)hole where everything coexists with its opposite, opening up the potential for new forms of pleasure and the ANNIHILATION of fixed identities.

AN-US

The ANUS is not only a ring; it is a bioport through which a body stays open and exposed. (The ANUS, having neither sex nor gender, escapes erotic difference like a hand.) For 12 revolutions, GEGEN has opened its (w)hole to orgiastic chaos – against hierarchies, gentrification and the commercialization of queer identities – because when we scream I AM THE ANUS we mean I AM AN 'US' destroying a sense of self.

AN-AL

On January 6th 2023 at KitKatClub, GEGEN invites you to celebrate its 12th ANAL(versary) revolution by collectivizing your ANUS. The method is modest, but the possibility of action is close and infinite.

~ Dedicated to the (w)hole of you who have brought 12 years of revolutions and liberation to our dancefloors.

GEGEN ANALversary



concept courtesy of Sir Rita & Flo Heiden
photo courtesy of Florian Hetz
graphics & logo by Enrico Bardin

video teaser directed by Zoey Lee 
camera Chase Mohrhardt Becsey

w/ so much love from:
Aries, Cristian, Davide, Didi, Ella, Flavia, Gioia, Ini, Lexi, Michele,
Miss Aneris, Sebastian, Tristan
 


LINEUP

GEGEN FLOOR
CASSIE RAPTOR
ESTHER DUNE
GRACE DAHL
LADY MARU
OCD


HELL FLOOR
AMPERIA
ANCIENT METHODS
LUNA VASSAROTTI
ZNZL
KALMA vj


HOUSE OF GEGEN
ADY TOLEDANO
ELECTROSEXUAL
MAURO FEOLA
NAT WENDELL

BEARCAVE
CRISTIAN ZANOTTI
PIT


PLEASURE DOME
RANGELOVA
PERFORMERS
FIBI EYEWALKER
INKEDBRLN
LUCIO DAVOLI
MISS ANERIS
OSKAR MAURICIO
REVERSO

PRISMA FLOOR
RQVX
VINVAR


PHOTOGRAPHER
DARREN BLACK
RAF&WAY

AWARENESS TEAM
GEGEN YELLOW VEST AWARENESS

HARM REDUCTION
MAN*CHECK / SONAR

event links: RA / IG / FB

Join our Telegram group for advance reduced tickets and more information.

DRESSCODE

︎Festive, gala, sumptuos, majestic, ceremonial, polished, jubilant, celebrative, evening gown, extravagant.
︎Read carefully the concept and show us your opulence. A rigid selection will be enforced on this basis.
︎No casual wear


IMPORTANT
 
︎Reduced tickets will be available via Telegram
︎Online purchased tickets are not refundable.
︎Being in possession of an e-ticket does not guarantee entry, we reserve the right to deny the entrance, refunds will be processed when this happens.

︎Regular tickets will be available at the door

HOUSE RULES

︎We like to remind you of our zero-tolerance policy towards GHB/GBL.
︎In order to protect each other's privacy, we discourage the use of image recording devices in all the areas, we’ll have our own photographers.
︎We want you and our other guests to feel comfortable, regardless of gender, race, religion, class, or sexual orientation.
︎Please make sure there is consent before approaching any physical contact. Gegen is not a place for nazis, racism, any kind of discrimination, sexual harassment, or any sort of violence.
︎If you should observe or experience an inappropriate situation, please don't hesitate to contact our yellow vest awareness team or any of the staff at the bars/coat check, guest service, or our door crew.
︎Those who shall not comply with these rules will be invited to leave.

PHOTOREPORT




PHOTOREPORT










GEGEN PRE-CUM

or: Oh JOI! How to prepare for the Ordeal – where Everything happens but nothing is more real than Nothing.

A struggle of this kind requires Training. The Metaphor of Athletic Competition does not serve merely to designate the Nature of the Relationship one has with Desires & Pleasures; it also relates to the Preparation that enables one to withstand such a Confrontation. A properly designed Regimen includes ponoi [exercises], sitia [foods], pota [drinks], hypnoi [sleep], and aphrodisia [sexual relations] – Everything that Needs to be Measured.

  1. In the Weeks leading to the Intiation, the Candidates will get ready for the Ordeal by general Athletic Training and feasting on nutritious Provisions, thus strengthening their Organism and unlocking Hidden Powers [often identified with the Unconscious Mind] that by a Variety of Techniques give Greater Perception.                                                                                                                              
  2. On the Appointed Day, the Candidates are assisted by chosen and experienced Attendants whose Duty is to rouse them by every Known Means. Nor should the Attendants reck of Danger, but hunt down ruthlessly their Appointed Prey.                                                                                                                                                                    
  3. The Attendants immobilize the Candidates in a Position that they can find convenient for the long Practice ahead, so that they may not offer any Resistance to the Impending Activities.                                                                                                                                             
  4. Having ascertained the Candidate cannot move, Attendants will submit them to all known Pleasure Manoeuvers. Thereby, all Devices and Artifices of the Pharmacopornographic Era are to be employed. Such Edging will be constantly aimed at bringing the Candidate to the Climaxing Point – yet will presently halt so that the Candidate may understand the Journey on the Road of Pleasure is more important than the Destination.                                                                                                                                    
  5. The Intiation will involve all Erogenous Zones – Head to Toes, Armpits to Groin, Nipples to Anus – and will be of penetrative and non-penetrative Nature, bringing Pleasure & Pain alike in the necessary Dosage. Despite changes in Rhythm & Pace, such Practices will continue relentlessly until the Attendants observe clear signs of Enlightened Desire in the Candidate. This may appear in the form of Transparent Fluids unwillingly flowing from the Genitals despite the Lack of an Apparent Climax.                                                                                                                                       
  6. Thereafter the Candidate will fall into a State of utter Exhaustion. With exquisite Delicacy & Skill, the Attendants now demonstrate how Sexual Experience requires far more than adroit physical Manoeuvers. Let the Candidate be continually roused by Stimulation of an indefinite sexual Type. Yet, where convenient, Music wisely regulated will assist.                                                                                                                                                                                
  7. Appropriately clothed, the Candidates will finally join the Rite. Now fully aware there is neither Failure nor Success in the Ordeal, the Candidates are forever prepared to submit to the Rule of Incessant Pleasure.

As it is written: Relax. Don't do it when you want to come.


GEGEN PRE-CUM
concept courtesy of Sir Rita & Flo Heiden
photo courtesy of Bruterdam
graphics & logo by Enrico Bardin

video teaser by Alessandra Leone


LINEUP LINEUP LINEUP

ROBUS FLOOR
DEEPNEUE
FLAVIA LAUS
LUCINEE
SAMANTHA TOGNI
SLAM
XIORRO


SUMME FLOOR
CHERIII
LA SCHMOCK
MELATRONIX
PAULETE LINDACELVA


PERFORMERS
AXEL RUBBERAX
JAMAL PHOENIX
MASTER TIMOTHEUS
NOVA
PABLO BRAVO



AWARENESS TEAM
GEGEN YELLOW VEST AWARENESS

HARM REDUCTION
MAN*CHECK / SONAR

event links: RA / IG / FB

Join our Telegram group for advance reduced tickets and more information.

DRESSCODE

︎Sporting, athletic, bulgy, skate, sneaker, lycra, wet, spandex, tracksuit, scally. 
︎Please read carefully the concept and show us your drip. A rigid selection will be enforced on this basis.
︎No casual wear


IMPORTANT
 
︎Reduced tickets will be available via Telegram
︎Online purchased tickets are not refundable.
︎Being in possession of an e-ticket does not guarantee entry, we reserve the right to deny the entrance, refunds will be processed when this happens.


HOUSE RULES

︎We like to remind you of our zero-tolerance policy towards GHB/GBL.
︎In order to protect each other's privacy, we discourage the use of image recording devices in all the areas.
︎We want you and our other guests to feel comfortable, regardless of gender, religion, class, or sexual orientation.
︎Please make sure there is consent before approaching any physical contact or invading someone's private space / intimacy. Gegen is not a place for nazis discrimination, sexual harassment, or any sort of violence.
︎If you should observe or experience an inappropriate situation, please don't hesitate to contact our yellow vest awareness team or any of the staff at the bars/coat check, guest service, or our door crew.
︎Those who shall not comply with these rules will be invited to leave.


Open me up and cut me loose.
I’ve got a vibrator and brand new boobs.
Am I your type?
Your plastic type?

P-p-p-plastic, so dildonic!
It’s official,
I’m ecstatic.
I’m so plastic,
oh so orgasmic.

Make me walk. Make me talk. Then recycle me. I can fuck like a butch. I can act like a queen. My prosthetics are so aesthetic.
Let’s go party!

I’ve got big blue hair and botox hips. I’m state of art. I’m microchipped.
Am I your love?
Your plastic love?

P-p-p-plastic, so ironic! It’s official,
I’m revolting.
I’m so plastic,
so polluting.

I’m a wetware girl in the cyborg world.
I got a plastic cock under my pink frock.
My life diversion is your perversion.
Let’s go party!

P-p-p-plastic, so subsonic!
It’s official,
I’m galactic.
I’m so plastic,
pandrogenic.

I’m a shallow curve in a straight line world.
But gotta admit it, I’m a cute cynic.
Life in plastic, iconoclastic.
No matter – Let’s go party!

So fantastic!

GEGEN PLASTIC



concept courtesy of Sir Rita & Flo Heiden
photo courtesy of Florian Hetz
graphics & logo by Enrico Bardin

video teaser by Chase Mohrhardt Becsey
w/. Jade & Jamal Phoenix
directed by Zoey Lee

LINEUP

GEGEN FLOOR
AYAKO MORI
BLOODY MARY
JOEFARR
MIRO VON BERLIN
SAMANTHA TOGNI


HELL FLOOR
DENISE RABE
KINOMATIK vj
LIZA AIKIN
MELANIA.
MONYA live


HOUSE OF GEGEN
2FARO
AEREA NEGROT
LA SCHMOCK

BEARCAVE
FEASTING
GIO


PERFORMERS
KALIKEAN
MASTER TIMOTHEUS


PHOTOGRAPHER
RAF&WAY

AWARENESS TEAM
GEGEN YELLOW VEST AWARENESS

HARM REDUCTION
MAN*CHECK

event links: RA / IG / FB

Join our Telegram group for advance reduced tickets and more information.

DRESSCODE

︎Elastic, synthetic, shiny, fake, rubbery, unnatural, cheap, artificial, inflatable, plastic.
︎Read carefully the concept and show us your plastics. A rigid selection will be enforced on this basis.
︎No casual wear


IMPORTANT
 
︎Reduced tickets will be available via Telegram
︎Online purchased tickets are not refundable.
︎Being in possession of an e-ticket does not guarantee entry, we reserve the right to deny the entrance, refunds will be processed when this happens.

︎Regular tickets will be available at the door

HOUSE RULES

︎We like to remind you of our zero-tolerance policy towards GHB/GBL.
︎In order to protect each other's privacy, we discourage the use of image recording devices in all the areas, we’ll have our own photographers.
︎We want you and our other guests to feel comfortable, regardless of gender, race, religion, class, or sexual orientation.
︎Please make sure there is consent before approaching any physical contact. Gegen is not a place for nazis, racism, any kind of discrimination, sexual harassment, or any sort of violence.
︎If you should observe or experience an inappropriate situation, please don't hesitate to contact our yellow vest awareness team or any of the staff at the bars/coat check, guest service, or our door crew.
︎Those who shall not comply with these rules will be invited to leave.

PHOTOREPORT







Originally meaning “inhabited” and ultimately “cared for”, the Latin word cultus was embodied in ceremony and ecstatic adoration. Beyond passive devotion, cultus implies the necessity for active worship, the “cultivation” necessary to give the divine its due. Many cultures identify a pattern of ceremonial behavior within a framework of spatial and temporal coordinates elected as sacred, erecting shrines for recurring rituals accessible solely to those sorted out by the wardens of the temple. Continued social tensions and discrimination require the repeated periodic release from established normativities found in catharsis; a carnival of subversions aimed at bringing the world as it is and how it should be together. Here, existence takes on a different light; new and very old meanings gather in the air. Consciousness expands.

Adorned in colorful feathers and glittery makeup, celebrants shout “We must not just liberate our desires but make ourselves infinitely more susceptible to pleasure!” as they ascend to exhilarating heights. Gesticulating flagellants in leather chokers ready for the Great Rite swirl to sparkling vocals. Burning effigies illuminate black robes marching to four/four beats as sacred vestals in industrial sanctuaries invoke the spirit that levitates over the priestess behind the altar. Join us in communion! Sacrifice your ego and your sense of reality. Confess your sins in crowded stalls. Share your offerings. Choose ascetics, your personal agenda, your prayers and your saints. Choose your Sunday best, even if it’s Friday night. Choose your own corner to get lost in the blinding lights while stuffing sacramental hosts into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all. Choose your path. Choose a future. Choose your cult and be healed!

GEGEN CULT
concept courtesy of Sir Rita & Flo Heiden
photo courtesy of Bruterdam
graphics & logo by Enrico Bardin

video teaser by Alessandra Leone


LINEUP LINEUP LINEUP

ROBUS FLOOR
COMMON POETRY
CRISTIAN MARRAS
LɅVΣN
PERC
SCALAMERIYA


SUMME FLOOR
DIRTY DADDY DON
LEONARD DE LEONARD
LUIGI DI VENERE
MIKE STARR
SHERØ


PERFORMERS
AMBRITA SUNSHINE
ADRIENNE TEICHER
BAST
CIRQELA
DAVIDE IACO
JADE LEE
JP



AWARENESS TEAM
GEGEN YELLOW VEST AWARENESS

HARM REDUCTION
MANCHECK

event links: RA / IG / FB

Join our Telegram group for advance reduced tickets and more information.

DRESSCODE

︎Sinful, divine, immoral, depraved, seductive, unprofaned, sainted, chaste, ungodly. 
︎Please read carefully the concept and show us your faith. A rigid selection will be enforced on this basis.
︎No casual wear


IMPORTANT
 
︎Reduced tickets will be available via Telegram
︎Online purchased tickets are not refundable.
︎Being in possession of an e-ticket does not guarantee entry, we reserve the right to deny the entrance, refunds will be processed when this happens.


HOUSE RULES

︎We like to remind you of our zero-tolerance policy towards GHB/GBL.
︎In order to protect each other's privacy, we discourage the use of image recording devices in all the areas.
︎We want you and our other guests to feel comfortable, regardless of gender, religion, class, or sexual orientation.
︎Please make sure there is consent before approaching any physical contact or invading someone's private space / intimacy. Gegen is not a place for nazis discrimination, sexual harassment, or any sort of violence.
︎If you should observe or experience an inappropriate situation, please don't hesitate to contact our yellow vest awareness team or any of the staff at the bars/coat check, guest service, or our door crew.
︎Those who shall not comply with these rules will be invited to leave.


When your streaming service has a better idea of what you want to watch next than you have... When you try to somehow reproduce the image you created of yourself on social media each and every day... When you are paying money to get back a body you never had... When the "realistically" shaped sex toy feels more intense than any human... When this hot person you are chatting with on a dating site seems to be a bot… then you have finally arrived in hyperreality.

In the hyperreality, nothing is false nor true. It is a beautiful apparatus that was created to "remember" the fiction of something real that never existed. Hence, hyperreality protects us from the consensus reality of the previous generations, which has been banned here. Influencers create identities and tell stories, inviting countless people to become part of these realities. They are not sharing news. They are making news. The hyperreality created on social media platforms is so powerful that their content and emotions are translated into physical reality.

But there are dangers to this: People can view and accept hyperreal images as models for their own reality, even though the images do not necessarily represent real people. Our own bodies are actually left behind only in the non-mediatized niches of the invisible. With these bodies, however, one does not gain access to the virtual worlds of the metaverses of the large media corporations. In their hyperrealities, the under- and overwhelming game of confusion rules. It is no longer clear exactly which fakes are supposed to be real. AI accounts act as individual personalities with artificial social circles and self-programming preferences and consequently impact trends and the process of political opinion formation.

But the entertainment industry disguises the fake because revealing it could lead to a loss of trust. True, hyperreality is the inability of consciousness to recognize reality. Nevertheless, the implosion of the medium and the real need not lead to a total loss of control (all right, sometimes losing control is exactly what we want). Let's consciously enter the hyperreal nebula and let us consciously desire the total fake and make its creation visible. It's about actively crafting a false reality that's meant to be consumed as real. It is a GEGEN space. Let's turn the dance floor into a perversion of reality and into a space that knowingly includes parts of our consensus reality while going far beyond it. An otherworldly reality in which gender and body norms are left behind and that at the same time shows traces of imperfection and vulnerability. Let's build our own collective hyperreality.

GEGEN HYPERREAL 
concept courtesy of Mirko Winkel
photo courtesy of Florian Hetz
graphics & logo by Enrico Bardin

video teaser by Wiebo
w/. Kasia Jamroz & Ini Incisive

LINEUP LINEUP LINEUP

GEGEN / MYST FLOOR
ABSL
FLAVIA LAUS
MAR/US
MARUM
MAXIME IKO
TIGERHEAD


HELL FLOOR
CODEX EMPIRE live
HYBRAL
KALMA vj
UNHUMAN
X TIN


HOUSE OF GEGEN
SHAMSA
SHERØ
SPARKLY PONY


BEARCAVE
BEEFTRÄGER
TUMULTO

PERFORMERS
FARU DARK
NOVA


PHOTOGRAPHER
RAF&WAY & GEORGE KANIS

AWARENESS TEAM
GEGEN YELLOW VEST AWARENESS

HARM REDUCTION
MAN*CHECK

event links: RA / IG / FB

Join our Telegram group for advance reduced tickets and more information.

DRESSCODE

︎Hyperreal, fake, exaggerated, unrealistic, fabulous, exalted, superfetishized.
︎Read carefully the concept and show us your hyperreality at its best. A rigid selection will be enforced on this basis.
︎No casual wear


IMPORTANT
 
︎Reduced tickets will be available via Telegram
︎Online purchased tickets are not refundable.
︎Being in possession of an e-ticket does not guarantee entry, we reserve the right to deny the entrance, refunds will be processed when this happens.

︎Regular tickets will be available at the door

HOUSE RULES

︎We like to remind you of our zero-tolerance policy towards GHB/GBL.
︎In order to protect each other's privacy, we discourage the use of image recording devices in all the areas, we’ll have our own photographers.
︎We want you and our other guests to feel comfortable, regardless of gender, race, religion, class, or sexual orientation.
︎Please make sure there is consent before approaching any physical contact. Gegen is not a place for nazis, racism, any kind of discrimination, sexual harassment, or any sort of violence.
︎If you should observe or experience an inappropriate situation, please don't hesitate to contact our yellow vest awareness team or any of the staff at the bars/coat check, guest service, or our door crew.
︎Those who shall not comply with these rules will be invited to leave.

PHOTOREPORT PHOTOREPORT PHOTOREPORT







As an ongoing commitment to our queer community in Poland, also this year Gegen will actively take part of the 4th edition of the SZCZECIN’s Equality March.

On 30 July 2022, queer activists in Szczecin, Poland, are organising a Pride demonstration for the fourth time to protest against the anti-queer sentiment and policies in their country. In the face of opposition from the state, the Catholic Church and far-right movements, this takes a lot of courage, so we need to support them and show solidarity!

Together we will travel by bus to Szczecin on 30 July to join the demo.

The bus starts at 10:00 at Berlin Central Station (at the BVG bus stop on Europaplatz) and goes back there in the evening. For the trip, we will charge a solidarity fee of 10-20 euro per person. Please get in touch if you can't afford that.

You can also travel to Szczecin with the 9-euro ticket. Due to the bus journey, we will not accompany the train journeys this time. We recommend the following meeting points:

08:00 - Hauptbahnhof, in front of McDonalds
10:00 - Hauptbahnhof, in front of McDonalds

The demonstration of Szczecin Pride starts at 15:00, there will be a picnic from 12:00 Łąka Kany close to Szczecin's main railway station.

Share this call to action! Invite your friends!



We are working with the organizers to ensure out safety from the train station to the March and they have requested a rough count of how many people are coming from Berlin. We will also provide you with more detailed information on safety and logistics.


TO RECIEVE MORE INFO AND UPDATES FOR THE SZCZECIN MARCH
PLEASE SIGN UP HERE




SZCZECIN

Pride March 2022

BERLIN QUEERS GATHERING ︎DEPARTURE:

︎BUS FROM BERLIN HBF

0800
Berlin HBF, in front of McDonaldsBVG BUS stop on Europaplatz

1000
Berlin HBF, in front of McDonaldsBVG BUS stop on Europaplatz


︎TRAIN FROM BERLIN HBF
0824
RE2 + RE4


1022
RE3 + RE4


1131
RE3 + RB66

1146
ICE1045 + RB66


︎TRAIN FROM BERLIN SÜDKREUZ
0815
RE RE2 + RE4



1118
RE RE3 + RB66

1121
ICE1045 + RB66

︎TRAIN FROM BERLIN GESUNDBRUNNEN
0833
RE RE2 + RE4

1029
RE RE3 + RE4

1139
RE RE3 + RB66

1153
ICE1045 + RB66


MARCH SCHEDULE

1200picnic in front of Łące Kany
(NGO’s info points, DIY banner workshop, fun for children)


1500
march starts from pl. Solidarności

1700-1800
march finishes at Jasne Błonia

2200
after party in Hala Odra




BERLIN QUEERS GATHERING ︎RETURN:
︎SAME DAY
TRAIN 1701
Szczecin Glowny
RE4 + RE3

TRAIN 1901
Szczecin Glowny
RE4 + RE3

[Recommended] BUS 2000
REGISTER HERE

LAST TRAIN 2110
Szczecin Glowny
RB66 + RE3

︎NEXT DAY
TRAIN 0701
Szczecin Glowny
RE4 + RE3

TRAIN 0901
Szczecin Glowny
RE4 + RE3

TRAIN 1011
Szczecin Glowny
RB66 + ICE1042
or RB66 + RE14



IMPORTANT



FOR SAFETY REASONS, NO ONE SHOULD TRAVEL ALONE!

We are in close contact with the organizers of the Pride Demo regarding safety precautions in Poland and will keep everyone informed. They have emphasized that it is VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE TRAVEL IN A GROUP AND ONCE IN POLAND NO ONE GOES OFF BY THEMSELVES.

We look forward to a joyous and successful Pride Demo in Szczecin with you!

Important information about differences between Poland and Germany:

1. Stettin is relatively open, safe and progressive city. But even here, walking around with rainbow flags and gadgets alone and/or in dark, small side streets can cause agression. Please walk together with the group and use main roads.

2. Police in Stettin supports CSD organizers and LGBT+ community. It is not common in Poland and Lambda worked long time to achieve this state of things. Please do not provoke or attack police officers. In any danger, you can turn to them for help.

3. Any kind of drugs is illegal in Poland. We believe you can have absolutely awesome fun at our CSD without artificial chemistry in your brains. Please leave it at home. Any situation involving drug possesion or drug use by CSD participans would cause the CSD organizers a lot of trouble. We have enough trouble already from Polish gov't and church, so please do not add us problems.

4. Please have in mind that displaying nudity is a contravention in Polish law. Pride Organizers kindly request to respect this on the day of CSD, to avoid media focusing on nudity rather than our main demands: protecting queer teens from self harm and suicide, hate crime protection bill, same-sex partnership/marriage, dignified transition law, anti-discrimination education in schools. We will work on body positivity when we are done with these basic rights.

5. CSD is a peaceful demonstration. We do not use any violence. If attacked (which is highly unlikely to happen), we do not fight but flee and the police takes care of the situation.

6. If you are not able to follow these requests, please do not take part in the CSD. Please follow this event for more information!

HYGIENE CONCEPT /COVID-19 REGULATIONS WHEN TRAVELING TO POLAND:

PLEASE BRING A PASSPORT / ID

WEATHER-APPROPRIATE CLOTHING
WATER /SNACKS
FACEMASKS ARE MANDATORY ON PUBLIC TRANSPORTS
PLEASE TEST YOURSELF IN SOLIDARITY WITH VULNERABLE GROUPS





HALA ODRA

bulwar Maurycego Beniowskiego, 70-642 Szczecin

Love, Music, Dance!
On 30th July, Hala Odra will turn into the most colourful place on the city map of Szczecin. A friendly atmosphere where love and equality will continue throughout the night and make sure you'll have the best time of the year.


Two explosive dance floors, a food court with delicious meals are waiting for you so you can feed both your body and soul.

Entrance: 20pln
All proceeds will go towards the Lambda Szczecin Association's official activities.



LINEUP LINEUP LINEUP

MAIN STAGE

SHEYKER
DRAG SHOW
CRISTIAN MARRAS
FLAVIA LAUS


2ND STAGE

ONKALO
CHARLOTTE DRAG QUEER


Sex.
Is it hot?
Is it gay?
Is it oral?
Is it anal?
Is it safe?
Is it smut?
Is it deep?
Is it kinky?
Is it queer?
Is it sacred?
Is it vanilla?
Is it lesbian?
Is it straight?
Is it mindless?
Is it about love?
Is it superficial?
Is it about trust?
Is it about desire?
Is it about power?
Is it about magic?
Is it about money?
Is it about control?
Is it about coming?
Is it about pleasure?
Is it about fantasies?
Is it about attraction?
Is it about chemistry?
Is it all about yourself?
Is it all about the other(s)?
Is it about exchanging fluids?


Fuck Yes! This concept text is a dildo.

Wrap your head around it in excited circlusion.