krema 2023 – open-call

KREMA – a festival for art at the crematorium Bern, August 11-13, 2023.

During three days the old crematorium, the surrounding urn corridors as well as the two chapels will be activated with a multi-layered program.

The festival will be held for the second time in 2023.

The program of KREMA 2022 included, for example, an amuse bouche of transience; celery heads charred in coal, a mourning ritual for queer ancestors packaged as stand-up comedy, an organ work composed especially for the organ of the Small Chapel, and a Hindu priest’s fire ceremony.

Visit the archive for all the contributions from last year’s program.

Celebrating in a place of mourning? How can the culturally pleasurable be compatible with the act of commemoration? The KREMA-Festival dares to place art as an interface between the living and the dead.

The KREMA-Festival 2023 invites up to 15 artistic positions that dare to locate themselves at an interface between life and death and simultaneously illuminate the site of the crematorium in a creative way. These contributions may be in the form of exhibitions, installations, performances, concerts, workshops, or other more hybrid forms.