CONCEPT, INTERVIEWS, PERFORMANCE, ARTISTIC & MUSICAL DIRECTION

NİHAN DEVECİOĞLU

Emine Ulusen, Evgenia Karakolidis, Anayurt Kırımlı, and Evgenia Maltezaki are Yoldaş – friends and companions. Since the 1970s, their lives have been centered around the BMW factory in Munich. There, they experienced physical and psychological exhaustion, but also self-empowerment. Nihan Devecioğlu grew up in the vicinity of the BMW factory as the granddaughter of workers of Turkish origin. She connects with the experiences of the women and creates a poetic-musical space, a lively collage of contemporary history.

Directional Assistance Frank Abt Musical & conceptional Collaboration Alexey Kokhanov Scenography Ragna Heiny Video artist & Camera Cana Bilir–Meier & Tizian Stromp Zargari Sound Design & technical guidance Ada Binaj Management of artistic production Rat & Tat Kulturbüro Dramaturgy Viktorie Knotková

In the multimedia performance FAMILY RESEMBLANCE, Alexey reflects on two journeys

to Uzbekistan, taken more than 30 years apart. The first, a childhood trip in 1991 with his family

to the Soviet Tashkent, occurred during the final summer of the Soviet Union and also marked

the end of his childhood. The ensuing economic crisis deeply affected his family. A personal

tragedy — the loss of both his mother and father — unfolded in parallel with turbulent political

events. On the second trip in 2024, Alexey attempts to trace the roots of that catastrophe in his

memory, reconstructing emotions such as anxiety, longing for his mother, fear, and love for his

father.

In FAMILY RESEMBLANCE, Alexey maps the emotional landscape of his 1991 childhood

journey to Uzbekistan. Video projections of Uzbek landscapes and landmarks, along with

processed field recordings from the trip, serve as the framework for his vocal performance. He

combines original compositions, diary excerpts, and interpretations of songs to create an

autoethnographic space of memory. FAMILY RESEMBLANCE acknowledges that personal

remembrance is inseparable from the political. The work reveals how the comfort and security

promised by empire are ultimately illusory.

Program of Festival

Tracés de l’Écoute
THE BOOK PROJECT — IN SIX CHAPTERS by Grgur Savić

Conceived as a performative object, the book invites interpretation by sound poets, musicians, and action artists. It continues his exploration of recontextualizing found materials, transforming them into platforms for collective gathering, artistic expression, and socio-political reflection.

together with:

Asta D. [voice]
Anna Clementi [voice]
Mat Pogo [voice]
Elisabetta Lanferdini [voice]
Alexey Kokhanov [voice]
Christian Kesten [voice]

accompanied by the music of Francis Heery [modular synthesizer]

doors at 19:30 | music sharp at 20:00
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Gerichtstraße 25, Laden links, 13347 Berlin Wedding

Tracés de l’Écoute
THE BOOK PROJECT — IN SIX CHAPTERS by Grgur Savić

Conceived as a performative object, the book invites interpretation by sound poets, musicians, and action artists. It continues his exploration of recontextualizing found materials, transforming them into platforms for collective gathering, artistic expression, and socio-political reflection.

together with:

Asta D. [voice]
Anna Clementi [voice]
Mat Pogo [voice]
Elisabetta Lanferdini [voice]
Alexey Kokhanov [voice]
Christian Kesten [voice]

accompanied by the music of Francis Heery [modular synthesizer]

doors at 19:30 | music sharp at 20:00
Sign up for our newsletter: odamusik@gmail.com

Gerichtstraße 25, Laden links, 13347 Berlin Wedding

Hošek Contemporary is pleased to host two improvised and experimental sound installations, the first one with Teresa Hackel (recorders) & Eiko Yamada (recorders), the second one with Dasha Zvezdina (voice, electronics), Andrey Guryanov (luth, electronics) & Alexey Kokhanov (vocals).

Admission: Suggested donation 10 € at the doors
Doors: 19:00
Start: 19:30

The gallery is located at
Motor Ship HEIMATLAND
Märkisches Ufer 1Z
10 179 Berlin-Mitte
+49 1525 7486496
www.hosekcontemporary.com

Performance at the opening of Resonant Spaces exhibition at the Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße

In sound performance “Cruising Ship”, Alexey  reproduces the sounds of mating nightingales using voice and electronics. By blending electronic voice loops, backing tracks, vocal riffs, melodies, and original lyrics an immersive soundscape emerges. In performance Alexey explores the idea of queer cruising as a strategy of claiming and inhabiting spaces. How does sexual desire shape and reshape an environment? Cruising Ship is dedicated to LGBT+ people who face discrimination in the world today.

https://www.stw.berlin/kalender/resonant-spaces.html

(c) Milo Schinker

Open Hours:

Fr, 11.07.2025 18.00-21.30 Uhr (Performance at 20:00)

Sa, 12.07.2025 13.00-21.30 Uhr (Performance at 18:00)

So, 13.07.2025 13.00-19.00 Uhr

Mo, 14.07.2025 13.00-19.00 Uhr

KUNSTRAUM Potsdamer Straße
Potsdamer Str. 65 - 67, Parkhaus im Hof

Performance at the opening of Resonant Spaces exhibition at the Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße

In sound performance “Cruising Ship”, Alexey  reproduces the sounds of mating nightingales using voice and electronics. By blending electronic voice loops, backing tracks, vocal riffs, melodies, and original lyrics an immersive soundscape emerges. In performance Alexey explores the idea of queer cruising as a strategy of claiming and inhabiting spaces. How does sexual desire shape and reshape an environment? Cruising Ship is dedicated to LGBT+ people who face discrimination in the world today.

https://www.stw.berlin/kalender/resonant-spaces.html

Open Hours:

Fr, 11.07.2025 18.00-21.30 Uhr (Performance at 20:00)

Sa, 12.07.2025 13.00-21.30 Uhr (Performance at 18:00)

So, 13.07.2025 13.00-19.00 Uhr

Mo, 14.07.2025 13.00-19.00 Uhr

KUNSTRAUM Potsdamer Straße
Potsdamer Str. 65 - 67, Parkhaus im Hof

Performance "Cruising Ship" at the opening of the exhibition ‘SORRY, BUT I'AM NOT SORRY’ with artist Béla Váradi.

Stiftung Kai Dikhas

Curated by: Álvaro Garreaud
Co-curated by: Merel Maan Galama

Instrument and Voice

Konzert mit Werken von Alexandra Filonenko, Peter Ablinger, Sergey Newski, Lisa Streich, Joanna Bailie, Mauro Hertig und Alexey Kokhanov UA

Das Duo Loxodroma ist migrantischer Herkunft und hat sich auf das Genre der Improvisationsmusik unter Verwendung von Elektronik und performativen Elementen spezialisiert, im heutigen Programm mit Werken Berliner Komponist:innen.

Alina Anufrienko Violoncello, Elektronik

Alexey Kokhanov Stimme, Elektronik

Info and Tickets

Concert at the opening of In To the Open Fesitval:

as part of vocal quartett rabbit hole:

Hugo van Rechem: kollektive MAL(A)K(h)UT(h) – dream crafting for vocal ensemble, piano & percussion (World premiere, commissioned by ITO)

https://www.intotheopen.eu/events/opening-martynas-levickis

“Vocal improvisation” Workshop

Description:

Would you like to improve your singing? Pick up some new vocal techniques? Or just let loose a bit? In this vocal improvisation workshop with vocalist and sound artist Alexey Kokhanov, you will experiment with new methods of vocal expression (frying vocals, ingressive vocals, plateau sound etc) and explore voice-body coordination in order to gain a deeper understanding of your natural voice and what it can do.

duration 2.5 hours.

Registration per email: alex.kokhanov@gmail.com

Fee: 30 Eur.

Exploratorium Berlin (Studio 2): https://exploratorium-berlin.de

Zossener Straße 24
10961 Berlin (Kreuzberg)

“Vocal improvisation” Workshop

Description:

Would you like to improve your singing? Pick up some new vocal techniques? Or just let loose a bit? In this vocal improvisation workshop with vocalist and sound artist Alexey Kokhanov, you will experiment with new methods of vocal expression (frying vocals, ingressive vocals, plateau sound etc) and explore voice-body coordination in order to gain a deeper understanding of your natural voice and what it can do.

duration 2.5 hours.

Registration per email: alex.kokhanov@gmail.com

Fee: 30 Eur.

Exploratorium Berlin (Studio 2): https://exploratorium-berlin.de

Zossener Straße 24
10961 Berlin (Kreuzberg)

At Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo

Join us for PERFECTLY REASONABLE DEVIATIONS - a film program with a live performance by Alexey Kokhanov in the lower gallery as part of the opening of James Richards' exhibition Our Friends in the Audience. Full program below.

Organised by the curatorial collective anorak and James Richards. Our Friends in the Audience continues: 12.04.24–04.08.24.

Program:

Films:

Tolia Astakhishvili, Which Bitch is a Witch?, 2000, 2:44 min.

Tolia Astakhishvili & James Richards, I Remember (Depth of Flattened Cruelty), 2023, 10 min.

Marguerite Duras, Les Mains Négatives, 1979, 14 min.

Performance: Alexey Kokhanov, Oslo solo 2024, ca 15 min.

Films continue:

Jordan Strafer, SOS, 2021, 11 min.

Mary Helena Clark, Orpheus (outtakes), 2012, 6 min.

Total running time approximately 70 min.

https://kunstnerneshus.no/en/program/events/perfectly-reasonable-deviations

Workers in Song by Billy Bultheel and James Richards

Immersive audiovisual installation and performance takes visitors on a journey through a whirlwind of original material and citations, spanning the pleasures of online hookups, underground films and subcultures of bygone eras, as well as the darker dimensions of romantic subjectivity. At Mudam, Bultheel and Richards present a choreographed performance with live music and film on 28 March 2024, alongside an installation that probes the tension between liveness, sentimentality and desire in the absence of the living body.

https://www.mudam.com/exhibitions/workers-in-song

Carte Blanche In Dark Times

Event in Facebook

Natalia Pschenitschnikova (voice, performance)

Lorena Izquierdo (voice action)
Alina Anufrienko (cello)
Alexey Kokhanov (vocals)

Doors, 18:30, Concert starts 19:00
Tickets donation: 8-10 Euro at the entrance
How to get there: directions

Lautsprecher: maulwerker performing music

U. Wassermann »Camouflage« (UA)
S. Ercklentz »Fremd_körper«
E. Grosskopf »Prozess der Veränderung op. 12« (UA Version 2023)
R. Hoyer »Schreistück«
S. Weismann »platophonics«
S. Roigk »worte wie schall & raum« (UA)

Billy Bultheel & James Richards: Workers in Song

The result of a collaboration between visual artist James Richards and composer Billy Bultheel, Workers in Song brings together new music, archival film and text. The performance is haunted by histories of occult photography and spectral music, as well as more quotidian pleasures such as internet hook ups, drugs, fanship and Franz Schubert’s “Winterreise”.

Directed by James Richards and Billy Bultheel, and performed by Alexey Kokhanov (voice) and Adam Sinclaire (flute), with filmed appearances by Sebastian de la Cour (voice) and Sara Neidorf (drums).

Co-commissioned by WIELS Centre for Contemporary Art, Batalha Centro de Cinema, Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean and KW Institute for Contemporary Art.

Billy Bultheel & James Richards: Workers in Song

The result of a collaboration between visual artist James Richards and composer Billy Bultheel, Workers in Song brings together new music, archival film and text. The performance is haunted by histories of occult photography and spectral music, as well as more quotidian pleasures such as internet hook ups, drugs, fanship and Franz Schubert’s “Winterreise”.

Directed by James Richards and Billy Bultheel, and performed by Alexey Kokhanov (voice) and Adam Sinclaire (flute), with filmed appearances by Sebastian de la Cour (voice) and Sara Neidorf (drums).

Co-commissioned by WIELS Centre for Contemporary Art, Batalha Centro de Cinema, Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean and KW Institute for Contemporary Art.

PROGRAM

Alexey Kokhanov, Adam Asnan

Voice recording: Natalia Pschenitschnikova

Finissage of the Exhibition "Seven deadly sins"

Zilberman Gallery Berlin

Goethestraße 82, 10623 Berlin

"Voice Actions”

PROGRAM

In vocal performance Voice Actions vocalists integrate voice to objects (gloves, glasses) regarding the matter of sound as a result of these actions. 

Berlin Impro Group:

Lorena Izquierdo,

Gabriel Pedrosa

Alexey Kokhanov

"Voice Actions”

FESTIVAL ¡ESCUCHA! OTOÑO ’22: LORENA IZQUIERDO

Cruce Contemporaneo Madrid

In vocal performance Voice Actions vocalists integrate voice to objects (gloves, glasses) regarding the matter of sound as a result of these actions. 

Berlin Impro Group:

Lorena Izquierdo,

Gabriel Pedrosa

Alexey Kokhanov

Improvised & Experimental No. 131 (sound installation)

BIG (Berlin Impro Group)

-Set 1- Lorena Izquierdo Aparicio (voice), Alexey Kokhanov (voice), Gabriel Pedrosa (voice)

-Set 2- Gosia Zagajewska (voice), Wojtek Kurek (percussion), Antonina Nowacka (voice)