Club DOM and the festivals 180° and ACT join forces for a shared opening - with short introductions of the artists and programs and what’s ahead during the festival week. Expect an informal meet-and-greet with participants, highlights announcements, and a light warm-up for the evening in Casa Paradiso style, where anything can happen.

23:00 | Opening Party

After 23:00, music takes the lead. DOM turns into a stage for electronic, experimental, and techno-club sounds with international and local artists. Expect a vibrant mix of sets and live performances in a night full of nice grooves and vibes.

Line Up: Jan Brauer, ilyoBoy and Roberto Maqueda

Free admission until 21:30.

Phoebe Bognar (Switzerland/Australia) is an Australian-born flutist, performer, and composer based in Basel. Her artistic practice explores corporeality, identity, and sound through prepared flutes, voice, objects, and environments, often in close collaboration with artists across disciplines. Nolundi Tschudi (Germany) is a multidisciplinary artist who works as a performer, musician, director, visual artist and author. In her own solo-performative work, she creates shows that oscillate between the poles of socio-political debate and neo-surrealist extravagance. Yanitsa Atanasova (Bulgaria) is a choreographer and dancer. She works in the field of contemporary dance, focusing on exploring diverse expressive languages through movement.

Ping-Hsiang Wang (Germany/Taiwan) is a theatre director. His work is focused on how human behavior is being disciplined and modified through the evolution of materiality, the internet, systems, machinery, the environment, and commerce. Ralitsa Georgieva (Bulgaria) is a visual artist working with video, photography, sound, and installation, often using documentary footage, archives, and objects. Gabriel Valtchev (Switzerland/France) is a percussionist and composer in contemporary and experimental music. He blends acoustic and electronic instruments, improvisation, and performance; he participates in projects across Europe and Asia. 

Free admission.

Marcus Peter Tesch (Germany) writes texts for spoken theatre and performance. His projects explore the visibility of queer perspectives and narratives, and critically engage with classism. Slava Savova (Bulgaria) is a researcher, artist and architect currently working at the crossing between environmental history and the history of medicine. She focuses on water, resource extraction and waste and the entanglements between nature, politics and healthcare. Roberto Maqueda (Switzerland) is an artist and musician working with electronics, voice, and sound design. In live sets and audio installations, he creates hybrid sonic environments on the border between concert and performance. 

Free admission.

Early-career artists from Switzerland, Italy, and Bulgaria - selected through an open call - meet for the first time within CoLab°, an interdisciplinary collaboration lab for young artists from different fields. Over several days, they work in teams, bringing together diverse artistic approaches, cultural perspectives, and personal practices to create an original project to be presented to the public. CoLab° encourages artistic risk, dialogue, and process-based thinking without expectations for a predetermined final outcome. Mentor: theatre director Ksenia Ravvina. Participants: Simona Angelova (Bulgaria), Rossella Delvecchio (Italy), Iren Dimitrova (Bulgaria), Veronica Messinese (Italy), Dakota Wayne (Switzerland), Yehu Sha’ashua-Dar (Switzerland).

Free admission.

Official closing of the 180° festival and the finale of Videomotion, a short silent film competition for professionals and amateurs. The finalists will be screened with live musical accompaniment by festival artists - an evening where sound and image meet in an improvised form. This year’s theme, parad-ISO, serves as an open starting point for interpretation, without fixed frames.

23.00 | Paradiso Perduto°
Closing event with a music selection by Smetana

Free admission.