Location
Kunstakademiet, Kongens Nytorv 1, 1050 København K + Husets Teater
Time
25/4 at 10.00-13.00
Genre
Workshop & performance
Workshop with Daniel Wetzel from Rimini Protokoll
Offered in collaboration with the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts – Schools of Visual Arts and the Danish National School of Performing Arts – Continuing and Further Education
Experience SWEAT. A MuscLical by Rimini Protokoll at Toaster’s Performance Biennale 2026, and gain a unique insight into their artistic choices, expression, and working methods in this 3-hour workshop with Daniel Wetzel.
The workshop is based on seven existential questions that not only explore Rimini Protokoll and Daniel Wetzel’s individual working methods and artistic expression, but also invite you to reflect on your own creative processes:
- What methods do you use in your work?
- How do you come up with ideas for projects?
- What kinds of experiments do you conduct during your process?
- How do you generate material?
- What inspires your work?
- How do you decide which material to use from your experiments?
- What criteria do you use when selecting your material?
ABOUT DANIEL WETZEL & RIMINI PROTOKOLL
Daniel Wetzel was born in Constance in 1969, studied Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen, and now lives in Athens and Berlin. Since 2000, he has formed a writing and directing team with Helgard Haug and Stefan Kaegi under the name Rimini Protokoll. Their projects—created in duo or trio constellations as well as solo works—span theatre, radio drama, film, and installation.
Central to their work is the further development of the respective artistic fields in order to offer unconventional perspectives on our reality. For example, Haug/Kaegi/Wetzel declared an annual general meeting at Daimler a theatre piece and turned the audience into temporary shareholders (Annual Shareholders Meeting, Berlin 2009). They staged 100% City in more than 25 cities with 100 local residents statistically representing their city. In Berlin and Dresden, they developed interactive Stasi audio plays (50 Kilometers of Files, 2011, and 10 Kilometers of Files, 2013). Since the 1990s, their work with “experts of everyday life” has been described as pioneering and leading within new forms of documentary theatre.
Their work Shooting Bourbaki (2003) received the NRW Impulse Prize. Deadline (2004), Wallenstein – a documentary play (2006), and Situation Rooms (2013) were invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen. The Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis awarded Karl Marx: Capital, Volume One (2007) both the Audience Prize and the Dramaturgy Prize, and Quality Control(2014) also won the Audience Prize.
Further awards for Rimini Protokoll include the German Theatre Prize Der Faust (2007), the European Theatre Award in the category New Realities (2008), the War Blinded Audio Play Prize for Karl Marx: Capital, Volume One (2008), the Silver Lion at the 41st Venice Theatre Biennale (2011), the Hörspielpreis der ARD (2014), the Hörbuchpreis der ARD (2015), and the Swiss Grand Prix Theatre / Hans-Reinhardt-Ring (2015).
RIMINI PROTOKOLL AT THE BIENNALE
Who composes? Who performs? On what? In SWEAT, Rimini Protokoll asks these questions in a humorously new way. Fitness machines—borrowed from the world of physical self-optimization—are transformed into musical instruments on the concert stage, and working out muscles now means making music. Read more
PRACTICAL INFO
PARTICIPANTS
Participants in the workshop will include a mix of students from the art academy and professional performing artists from across disciplines who are interested in performance.
TIME AND PLACE
Workshop: Saturday, 25 April, 10:00–13:00 at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Kongens Nytorv 1, 1050 Copenhagen K.
Rimini Protokoll’s work can be experienced at Husets Teater on Friday, 24 April, 18:00–19:00.
PRICE AND REGISTRATION FOR THE WORKSHOP
Price: 75 DKK.
To register for the workshop, apply via the link. Once your place has been confirmed, you will receive an email with a payment link.
DISCOUNT ON BIENNALE PASS
As a workshop participant, you receive a discount on both the Full Biennale Pass (access to the entire 2026 Biennale programme) and the Mini Biennale Pass (three performances of your choice during the Biennale). Select “Under 27 / Seniors / Students” when booking your Biennale Pass.
Once you have received your Biennale Pass, you will need to book tickets for the performances you wish to attend. Click here for Biennale Passes and ticket booking.
Language: English
