May 24, 14:00 – 21:00
Vernissage and live interventions at roam projects, Berlin
Shared Space II concept by Biliana Voutchkova.
Installation by Elsa Mencagli Andersen & Biliana Voutchkova
Music Interventions at 18:00, 19:00, 20:00
Guests: Sabine Vogel – flutes, objects
Emilio Gordoa – percussion
Michael Thieke – clarinet
SHARED SPACE II is an open day of showings and interventions, concluding the collaboration between Biliana and Elsa during Elsa’s residency at roam projects, Berlin. The event continues Biliana’s concept Shared Space of the Liberated Sound, first presented in 2023 at Toplocentrala Sofia in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Sofia. It brings together Berlin-based guest artists alongside a newly created installation by Biliana and Elsa, creating a shared performance environment.
The project explores thresholds between sound, silence, word, meaning, and non-meaning, focusing on non-verbal communication through presence, gesture, voice, instruments, and collective listening. The gallery becomes a living installation, shaped by Mencagli’s ceramics, fabrics, and found natural materials, interwoven with Voutchkova’s sound compositions, based on collected lullabies transmitted through embedded mini-speakers. Live musical spacial interventions in shifting constellations will respond to the installation, which functions as both score and habitat. Guest performers are invited into a co-compositional process, developing shared material in advance and activating the space through live interventions. The emphasis is on attentive listening and collective resonance, merging individual expression into a shared sonic space.
SHARED SPACE II offers an immersive, participatory experience that expands performance into a shared act of listening and exchange, opening space for encounters between performers, installation, and audience.
Biliana Voutchkova is an interdisciplinary artist, violinist, composer-performer, improviser, educator, and curator based in Berlin. Her practice encompasses contemporary composition, improvisation, installation, and long-duration performance, exploring the connection between inner worlds and sonic space. Biliana is a member of the Splitter Orchester, Jane in Ether, and the Voutchkova/Thieke Duo; founder and curator of the DARA String Festival; and a lecturer at the Bern Academy of the Arts. She has toured extensively across the Americas, Asia, and Europe, and her work has been supported by numerous international residencies, grants, and commissions.
Photo: Fabio Dondero
Elsa Mencagli Andersen is a Danish-Italian installation artist working across sculpture, sound, performance, and space. With a background in architecture and performing arts, she creates immersive environments that invite sensory perception and reflection on care, ecology, and collective presence. Her recent exhibition (t)hereat Galleria EContemporary (Triest, 2025) combined sculptural installation, sound, and participatory actions. Mencagli is co-founder of Celestial Bodies, a platform for interdisciplinary exchange exploring empathy and perception through art. In 2023, she received a working grant from the Danish Arts Foundation and continues to develop new site-specific collaborations across Europe.
Photo: Fabrizio Farroni