13th Edition
ABOUT
PLATAFORMA BERLIN FESTIVAL
13th Edition
"TODAY, HERE, THE WORLD BEGINS"
Dance, Performance, LAB, short film,
Critical Thinking, New & Ancestral Technologies.
TODAY,
HERE,
THE WORLD BEGINS
©Thiago Liberdade
Welcome to the 13th edition of Plataforma Berlin Festival! Join us from September 30th to October the to celebrate dance, performance, film, new and ancestral technologies, eco-somatic movement sessions, critical thinking sessions, and special celebrations.
Curar, ‘To Curate’ means ‘to heal’ in Spanish. This is what Plataforma Berlin and its curatorial approach are all about: curating a space for the diversification of perspectives, of gazes, enabling a multitude of viewpoints and encounters across pluriverses to cure colonial wounds.
Our Festival
Plataforma Berlin Festival was founded by the Colombian BIPoC choreographer, performer, and curator, Martha Hincapié Charry. Plataforma has established itself as a relevant platform for a critical dialogue on decolonialism.
The festival invites Global South and Berliner artists and cultural workers from the diaspora and their home regions to present and exchange their artistic visions and perspectives. It creates a unique space where new and ancestral narratives and discourses emerge, encouraging the Berlin global and local audiences to reflect.
Plataforma Berlin Festival is possible through the valuable partnership and commitment of our co-producers DOCK11 and Barazani and our partners South Embassy and Spore.
THE FOUNDER
Martha Hincapie Charry
©Dieter Hartwig
BIPoC Colombian artist, decolonial curator, choreographer, performer, researcher.
MA -Art in Context- at the University of the Arts, UdK Berlin. BA dance theater & solo dance studies at the Folkwang University, Essen under the direction of Pina Bausch. Martha has been awarded the prestigious Pina Bausch Fellowship. She is ISPA Global Fellow and IETM Global Connector 2025.
Her work has been invited to Europe, Asia and the so-called Americas. She is an artistic director of Plataforma/SurReal Berlin Festival. Her curatorial praxis reflects on (de)coloniality processes and forms of survival of artists migrating to Europe or engaging in geopolitical approaches of native peoples of the Abyayala.
In 2021 and 2022 Martha was associate curator at Radialsystem Berlin. She has curated for La Bienal de Danza de Cali, Barazani Berlin or La Sierra Artist Residency a.o.
Hincapié Charry has unfolded several unlearning spaces focused on underrepresented BIPoC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) expressions. She facilitates a dialogue between continents with an ancestral wisdom perspective, embodying earth and water based native ontologies, while addressing topics such as climate chaos, the human/more-than-human kinship, and the interplay between the visible and the invisible worlds, with an ecofeminist position.
THE TEAM
Samaquias Lorta
Samaquias Lorta is an interdisciplinary artist whose work bridges ecological thought, mental
health, and identity, deeply influenced by personal experiences of loss, perseverance and poverty.
Within this exploration Samaquias has found live-performance to be the rooting of this exploration
often building feedback systems alongside graphic notation to depict these narratives. Lorta’s
most recent works include original compositions and performances with Rundfunk-
Sinfonieorchester Berlin (2022, 2024), Sound Director for permanent installations with Poer:a
Collective at Bruecke Museum + Kesselhaus Herzberg Museum, featured artist at Manifest:IO,
and the most recent composition releasing on the label re:natura titled Soil & Spirits (available on
Bandcamp, 2025.
Outside of his artistic career, Samaquias is Student Community Coordinator and Etikett Radio
Mentor at Catalyst Institute for Creative Arts & Technology.
Areli Moran
Areli Moran is a Mexican LGBTQ+ artist based in Berlin, Germany. Her work presents visually powerful perspectives on current feminist and political topics through deep autobiographical excavation. Her work have been presented in Mexico, Canada, Berlin, Denmark and Spain where she also developed diverse artistic collaborations.
Her connections with Mexico continues as artistic director of multidisciplinar studio Espacio Expectante that she founded in 2017 and Festival Artes Vivas in 2022. She is actively involved as producer and stage manager with Macromatter by Robin Leveroos, Festival Plataforma Berlin and Encuentro Metropolitano de Danza Contemporanea en Monterrey, Mexico.
Since her arrival in Berlin Areli has been supported on different occasions by the Federal and State founding bodies of Germany and premiered her first German production at Tanztage in Sophiensaele Berlin, 2019.
Lina Gómez
Lina Gómez is a Colombian-born, Brazilian-raised choreographer, dancer, and teacher based in Berlin. Her work blends diverse movement traditions with persistence, repetition, and musicality. Her creations—A Passo di Mulo, Restraint (Aerowaves Twenty19), Träumerei des Verschwindens, Vagarosas, WIRRUNGEN – Sapatos Cegos, and Antigone—have been presented in Europe. She has taught and mentored internationally, collaborated with artists such as Penelope Wehrli, Yoshiko Chuma, Tino Sehgal, and Jorge Garcia, and undertaken Goethe-Institut-supported residencies in six countries. Since 2017, she has collaborated with Plataforma Festival several years.