ABOUT
PLATAFORMA BERLIN FESTIVAL
12th Ibero-American edition
"EROS & THANATOS"
Dance, Performance, LAB, short film,
Critical Thinking, New & Ancestral Technologies.
PLATAFORMA BERLIN is the decolonial, independent platform for Dance, Performance, Film, Critical Thinking, and New & Ancestral Technologies, centering intersectional bodies as protagonists.
The focus is on BIPoC/Latinx (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color of Latin American origin) artists and their lived experiences, with the festival exploring intimate expressions of ancestral connection in the twilight of geopolitical and ecological catastrophe.
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For its 12th edition, PLATAFORMA BERLIN 2025 opens space for a wide range of proposals, from expressions of pleasure and carnival to critical reflections on the genocide of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon rainforest.
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PLATAFORMA BERLIN invites artists from AbyaYala (the so-called Americas) and the Iberian Peninsula including voices from Chile, Brasil, Cuba, España, Colombia, Portugal, USA/ Liberia and México,to share transdisciplinary reflections on the existential experiences of humanity, while embodying the transfiguration of colonial wounds.
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PLATAFORMA BERLIN offers windows for reflection, celebration, and mourning with these dualities holding space for multiplicity, resistance, and stories that might otherwise remain silenced. Alongside performances, the program includes two podium discussions, a LAB, a short film screening, an online performance in Chile, an on-site intervention in Mexico, two workshops, and a surprise celebration.
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Eros and Thanatos represent two fundamental forces: life and death. Eros (Lebenstrieb), the life instinct, is a creative, generative principle that pulses through human beings, animals, the earth, and the waters. In contrast, Thanatos (Todestrieb) is the death drive, a force of destruction, entropy, and return.
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The world as we know it is collapsing. We don’t have to collapse with it. In these times of Pachakutiy (In Quechua language, this cosmogonic concept means ‘the turning of the world’), Eros shows us how to move with change, while Thanatos would have us crushed by it. Eros enables renewal, offering the possibility to thrive. This spirit of transformation lies at the heart of PLATAFORMA BERLIN 2025, shaped by the vital perspectives of the Global South (Global Majority).
Frantz Fanon, the Caribbean psychoanalyst and theorist, deeply analyzed the psychological violence of colonialism through the lens of Eros and Thanatos, exploring how these opposing forces shape individual and collective identities under the "white gaze."
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This year, marking the 100th anniversary of Fanon’s birth, the festival foregrounds works that navigate the complex interplay between Eros and Thanatos. We believe that an excess of Thanatos must be countered by an excess of Eros.
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As we face the continued dismantling of Berlin’s independent arts scene, we extend our deepest gratitude to everyone who makes PLATAFORMA BERLIN possible. To our co-producers, DOCKART and partner South Embassy; to the friends and allies who show up when they are most needed; and above all, to the artists whose courage, brilliance, and vitality lie at the heart of this festival, nourishing it and inspiring us all.
THE FOUNDER
Martha Hincapie Charry
BIPoC Colombian artist, decolonial curator, choreographer, performer, researcher.
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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
Areli Moran
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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 continue 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.
Giovannina Sequeira
Giovannina Sequeira is a Nicaraguan artist and cultural worker currently based in Berlin. Her practice bridges socially engaged art, community building, and interdisciplinary collaboration, grounded from commitment to social justice and cultural exchange.
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She is the founder and director of Colectivo Las Lajas, a community art hub in Nicaragua created in response to rapid gentrification processes impacting local residents. The project combines cultural programming, artistic residencies, and participatory events to foster dialogue between local communities and internationals.
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In July 2022, Giovannina completed her studies in Dance Science at the University of Music and Dance (Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, HfMT) in Cologne, Germany. She currently focuses on supporting, generating, and activating spaces for collective artistic creation.
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.
