The 2022 Expo Festival

Welcome to the ninth edition of the annual Expo Festival: A Showcase of Wahlberliner*innen! Over the last nine years, the Expo has been able to present more than one hundred performances of new work by international artists who have made Berlin their adopted home. In doing so, it holds a unique position in Berlin’s vast cultural landscape as both a local and international festival. Berlin’s Freie Szene, the independent performing arts community, is remarkable for its diversity of background, artistic and aesthetic practice, working method and philosophy. One of the Expo’s most important goals is to ensure that this is reflected in the performances that make up the festival. To that end, the 2022 Expo features a curatorial team that begins to represent the community’s own diversity. Multidisciplinary artist Maque Pereyra and theater director and scholar Christin Eckart joined festival founder Daniel Brunet to select the performances for this year’s festival from nearly 200 submissions based on the criteria of artistic quality, internationalism and creative diversity.