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Beiträge von Thomas Venker
Photo Gallery Niclas Weber
Performance Reflections; Pioneer Works, New York, September 2026
Transatlantic Breathing Exercises: Colin Stetson & Brìghde Chaimbeul
Bagpiper Brìghde Chaimbeul and saxophonist Colin Stetson recently forged a Cologne-Monheim-New York…
“INDUSTRIAL: Silk Roads 3000” – Interview with Ali Kazma
Ali Kazma: “We make all of these things, but we don’t see this beauty”
At the center of Ali Kazma’s work “Subterranean”, filmed roughly a decade ago in a vast factor…
Punk-Special by Kaput - Magazin für Insolvenz und Pop and Gegenüber the transatlantic magazin of the Goethe Institut North America
Jan Röhlk: “I’m not going to wait until I’m 67 anymore—I’m going to do everything I can from my bucket list right now.”
The “blessing of being born late” often opens up a unique perspective on history: you experience…
Punk-Special by Kaput - Magazin für Insolvenz und Pop and Gegenüber the transatlantic magazin of the Goethe Institut North America
Love in Slow Motion: Peter Sempel – A Portrait of a Man Who Has Remained True to Punk
Since filmmaker and photographer Peter Sempel passed away on March 20, four days before his 72nd bir…
Interview
Emir Barin “It is about to make the people feel like they are a part of the family at Barın Han”
"We believe that if we limit an artist or say "no" to their work, we would be like the people who sa…
Jazzfest Berlin – Interview Rob Mazurek
“I search for the sound inside the sound.A note is never just a note. There is air, attack, grain, overtone, decay, vibration.”
On 31 October, the duo brings this history to Jazzfest Berlin, presenting primarily material from "H…
Punk-Special von Kaput - Magazin für Insolvenz und Pop und Gegenüber dem transatlantischen Magazin des Goethe-Institut
Princess Hollywood: “The places where people used to score drugs or throw up are now hidden behind a VIP barrier”
Witchcraft, copy art, and the lingering echo of LA punk – a meeting at the cemetery with Pleasant …
Kapute Szene, Köln
BAT. Olivia Mole & John Russell
Of course, this cute-crazy BAT, ravenous and euphoric, is spreadeagled on the outside of the window,…
Punk-Special by Kaput - Magazin für Insolvenz und Pop and Gegenüber the transatlantic magazin of the Goethe Institut North America
Ichi – Ni – San – Shi / Japanese Noise as a Radical Punk Mutation
In this sense, Japanese noise is perhaps the most consistent realisation of what punk once sought: t…
Taiwanese artist Li-chin Li in conversation with Thomas Venker
Li-chin Li : “I enjoy exploring my own limits through the interaction of body, sound and space”
"What has always fascinated me most is the act of creation itself. In every performance I am not onl…
Interview
Tomoko Sauvage: “Working as an independent musician, with independent festivals and labels, and with people who are passionate about art, is precious”
Tomoko Sauvage is sharing artistic insights with Thomas Venker on water, resonance, fragile matter, …
Sarah Szczesny & Ani Schulze & Pui Tiffany Chow
„Medium Size Paintings (Born to Be Old)“
Nothing more tedious than artists – especially male painters – working in series. The same forma…
Türkische Fassung des Interviews
X-BERG Kız Meslek Chor “Müzik, sınırların, pasaportların ve kategorilerin işlemediği nadir alanlardan biri”
HAU - Hebbel am Ufer’in sözleriyle ifade edecek olursak, “Berlin bleibt! #5” kapsamında HAU2…
Guests: Gudrun Gut, Laureen Kornemann, Christin Nichols, Anton Teichmann – Moderation: Thomas Venker, Linus Volkmann
Insolvency & Pop – A Roundtable Discussion “The Social Fabric of Culture is Disintegrating”
For our first print issue, we posed this question to four very different figures from the pop music …
Mark Fell, 2026
Macaroni synthesis revisited… on the life, work and philosophy of Yasunao Tone (1935-2025).
" ... Tone rejected any singular reading of his work. It was as if he saw our thoughts and theories …
Following in the footsteps of “Musiki” in Kadıköy
Ahmet Sinan Hatipoğlu: “Demos are always better, because there is no “mathematics” in a demo, only feeling.”
A conversation about the reinvention of Turkish New Age, the spiritual force of Jethro Tull, and the…
25 from 2000-2025
All sounds like a dream to me … Destroyer „Kaputt“
Let’s go for a ride today“ – Thomas Venker über „Kaputt“ von Destroyer ……
Kapute Szene No.6
Niko Chodor “supplanting”
Kapute Szene VI – 07.05.2026/ 16-21 Uhr Kapute Szene presents the exhibition by Niko Chodor supp…
Festival
“It concerns the relationship between human presence, physicality, and perception on the one hand, and algorithmically driven systems on the other”
Kaffe Matthews (Photo: Etta Gerdes) Blaues Rauschen is a festival dedicated to contemporary sound, p…
Kaput – Magazin für Insolvenz & Pop goes print
Say I’m Your No. 1
We hope that the first Kaput – Magazine for Insolvency & Pop print edition will create a place whe…
Kapute Szene - Conversations I: Stephan Mathieu
Stephan Mathieu: “Cutting hair, playing drums, computers, Early music, mastering. Ultimately, it all fits together and defines me as a person. Keep learning every day; slow growth is good growth.”
His mastering work is internationally known and covers a broad range of genres, with clients includi…
Interview
Chris Ryan Williams: “I’m a relatively introverted person. Leaving my house to get on the bus or the train and just “being” there is a shared experience that I don’t take for granted.”
The screen flickers, and for a fleeting moment, the transatlantic distance between Cologne and New Y…
Interview
Amelia Holt: “Are you interested in being part of something special, or are you here for the money?”
I catch up with the New York-based DJ, promoter, and agency head Amelia Holt. Between the snow-duste…
“Heavy Waters” at CTM 2026
Zeynep Schilling: “I can’t imagine making art only for art’s sake. I’ve always been political, starting in high school.”
“Heavy Waters” is not a metaphor in search of gravity; it is gravity. It asks what it means to m…
„Rentrer à la maison“ – video premier
Coming home with good intentions with Anadol & Marie Klock
Whenever you go home You start off with great intentions And then shove ‘em up your ass Nice …
A conversation with Chloé Zhao by Daniel Kothenschulte
Chloé Zhao: “To me, love is not about happiness (…), love is about transformation”
"I don't think you can love with an open heart without the capacity of handling the pain from being …
book review in 4 situative acts
Spector Books feat. Sonic Resistance in Non-democratic Europe, Bunker Archéologie, Krieg & Wallenstein und Wolfgang Tillmans
On some page of ‘A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia’ (originally published in 198…
Interview
Sera Kalo “Vulnerability and surprise. That’s what I’m looking for. Always.“
On February 23 at HAU1, the Caribbean–US American singer and composer presents her latest album, …
Festival
a dense topology: CTM Festival 2026
CTM Festival’s 27th edition unfolds a field of artistic forces. Under the theme “dissonate < > r…
Philipp Joy Reinhardt
Kapute Szene III – “What Is Sex?”
A collective painting consisting of garments by Paula Breuer, Luke Calzonetti, Katrin Fuchsloch, Rah…
Record of the Week
Anne Imhof „Wish You Were Gay“
Looking at the images and sounds shared by Imhof, one feels more like an observer of a staged produc…
25 from 2000-2025
The biggest party evers: Kante “Die Tiere sind unruhig”
Kaput author Marcus can't dance fell in love with “Die Tiere sind unruhig” by Kante several time…
Interview
Elia Einhorn: “I thought I’d fried my brain forever—music saved me”
""The American music industry is absolutely fucked for artists right now. Streaming pays almost noth…
Kaput Revisited – Interview / Reportage
Akufen “I butcher Sound”
Marc Leclair (Akufen) has taken minimal music to a new level with radio samples in the style of Cada…
Chakeiya Camille Richmond – Interview
KeiyaA: “Black healing music coming from Black pain, that’s the tradition that I still follow” Interview with Chakeiya Camille Richmond
"Do I always have to be the fat Black feminist that's educating y'all on stuff? It's yes and no. Yes…
Interview
Daniel Avery “The older I get, the more I realize that the exciting thing about an artist’s journey is the journey”
"I feel that everyone on the record played an equal part. It has my name on the cover, but I'm just …
for Keith McIvor
On friendship and transience – between Fuji, Unsound and Making Time
It is 12 September 2025 and I am dancing. It is not just sweat running down my forehead and elsewher…
M for Montreal
Karneef: „The script is written, the set is half-built, and I get to weave everything together exactly as I hear it”
Every November, M for Montreal turns the city into a vibrant hub of discovery — a showcase where t…
Unsound Osaka 2025
„We’ve produced seven festivals this year. It’s not great for one’s mental or physical health — but at least life isn’t boring.“
"The result was less an imported festival than a temporary rewiring of the city’s circuits — a w…
25 from 2000–2025
The prologue to an idea
So why not ask 25 authors about the albums that shaped this period for them? A crazy undertaking, of…
Festival
Le Guess Who? 2025: The Full Map of the Unknown
"This year’s curators — Amirtha Kidambi, Asher Gamedze, Edna Martinez, gyrofield, Lonnie Holley,…
Unsound Festival Osaka 2025
Unsound Osaka
Unsound has always thrived on dislocation. This first September weekend, Osaka becomes the latest no…
Monheim Triennale – Interview
Tyshawn Sorey “I’ve got this!”
Tyshawn Sorey is one of those rare artists who collapses the usual partitions between worlds: contem…
Interview – Enjoy Jazz Festival
Adrian Younge: Jazz Is Dead
"It’s a hard line between white and black people. It's strange to me because it’s just classism,…
„UNCANNY VALLEYS"
Talking Kaput #17 w/ ECE ÖZEL & MARIA WILDEIS
In conversation with Kaput editors-in-chief Thomas Venker and Linus Volkmann, Cologne-based artist M…
EM GUIDE — STRUMA+IODINE – INTERVIEW
Lorenzo Senni: ”I´m not scared of what I desire”
"Everything we do matters. I speak about my work — so about myself — every second of my life. On…
EM GUIDE – Struma+Iodine – Interview
HANNAH TODT AKA AUTOR: “FLUTES CAN BE VERY PUNK”
HANNAH TODT IS A VIENNA-BORN, BRUSSELS-BASED ARTIST AND MUSICIAN WHOSE INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICE SP…
EM GUIDE – Easterndaze
Jugoslavija Wave: New compilations revisiting the ex-Yu post-punk and new wave legacy
If I had a single ticket for the time machine that could take me to any historical or prehistoric pe…
Interview GAJEK – Struma+Iodine – TEXT: MARA NEVER, PHOTOGRAPHY: PHILIPPE GERLACH
Gajek “There are many tricks for white male artists to be kind of absent from our work, absent as people”
"World history playing out in the daily lives of people, geopolitical conflicts and siblings not tal…
Interview – DURCHLÜFTEN – 2025 – EM GUIDE
Etran de L’Aïr “To us, the desert is freedom. It is our home”
"We have no worries there. We're at ease, we're at home, we do what we want, work on our music. We'r…
