Tóth, Kinga

(c) Borbala Zergi

Kinga Toth (1983, Hungary) is a writer, intermedia artist and performer. Tóth lives on the road, has been writing in German, Hungarian and English for more than 15 years and presents her texts in installations and performances. She comes from the punk and noise scene and works with musicians and composers, such as Silvia Rosani, with whom she performed the music theatre piece and installationElectrical Jungleabout domestic violence and communication without words as part of the Hansmann Author Award. She is committed to equal rights and the representation of women in the literary scene in Hungary. Since 2021, she has been working academically and artistically on the life and work of nuns. In 2020, she received the Hugo Ball Prize for her intermedia/international work and the Prix Littéraire Bernard Heidsieck from the Centre Pompidou-Fondazione Bonotto. She is currently a fellow of the he DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, her vocal album will be released in autumn and her next book of poetry – an ecofeminist prayer bookwill be published by Matthes & Seitz in 2025. 

Festival Content

VOCATIONS – OPEN SPACE

Songs and vocal practices based on poetry

Kuppelhalle | 4/2 € Tickets

Vocations – open space 2024 will organise four evenings of radically open transdisciplinary experiments and collaborations at the interface between music, sound and poetry at silent green Kulturquartier’s event space Kuppelhalle (29.5. / 8.7. / 9.10. / 3.12.). As a meeting place for Berlin’s contemporary poetry and music scenes, Vocations offers an open space to up to twenty artists to perform at any one time, combining a wide variety of musical and vocal practices based on or rooted in poetry.

Abdulla-zadè, RaminaBrand, UlrikeDunajcsik, MátyásFeizabadi, AmenHansen, JannesHolland, TimKeskinkılıç, Ozan ZakariyaLin-Siedler, LixueMacken, JosephineDilek, MayatürkOleschinski, BrigitteOpitz, BirteSaul, FabianSeither, CharlotteTóth, Kinga