Night in Venus’ Forest
On the Alchemy of Empathy
We live in an age of anger. Night in Venus’ Forest invites us to explore alternatives: How do anger and pain transform into connection and creativity? The Lovelab becomes a test laboratory for empathy with ceremonial cacao & sparkling wine on ice. With music & art by Saskia Baumgart, Lavanya Honeyseeda & Tim Ra and a film by Stefanie Müller.
Humanity has built a global hate machine. Outrage has become a commodity, attention is the currency. The machinery runs on its own: Offense turns into anger, shared anger into outrage, outrage into reach. Those who strike back are rewarded — and the world shatters into us and them.
Beneath that lies something deeper: a pain that has never found a place. Instead of being felt, it is passed on. Retribution is the quickest way to get rid of it – and the surest way to multiply it.
Night in Venus’ Forest is a moment to pause. Not a program against hatred. Rather, an evening where pain is given room without immediately turning into anger, and is allowed to transform: into sound, into images, into encounter, into laughter. Tim Ra described in his dialogue with Igor Levit why anti-fascism needs no enemy stereotypes.
In Venus’ Forest, the god of war finds rest while Venus watches. The satyrs take his weapons and make toys out of them. What loses its seriousness loses its power.
To begin, Venus’ Forest fills with the scents and sounds of love. In addition, sparkling wine on ice and ceremonial cacao are served. The raised glass becomes the counterpart to the raised weapon.
Stefanie Müller's documentary about the World Peace Conference shows peace as what it can be: lived encounter – with other people and with one's own shadows. The space opened up in the process is subsequently filled with the cosmic sounds of Sasperella la Sirène.
Under the title »Guide to Making Peace«, Tim Ra speaks with Saskia Baumgart, co-initiator of the 2024 World Peace Conference, and Lavanya Honeyseeda as the extraterrestrial peace ambassador Lakhura on the art of encounter, on utopias, and on how peace can be made.
On view for the first time: Tim Ra's psychedelic Venus’ Forest collages and Lavanya Honeyseeda's mystical Dream assemblages – visual worlds that open up spaces of consciousness and give form to the dream of peace. Both tell of a world that consists not of opponents, but of relationships. And of a wilderness within us that remembers our elemental connectedness.
Lavanya Honeyseeda and Tim Ra continue these thoughts musically: As sound messages from space, we encounter the peace messages of the extraterrestrial ambassador Lakhura, accompanied by Tim Ra's cosmic reggae. A psychedelic dialogue between Earth, cosmos and dream.
To close, Sasperella la Sirène returns. With anthemic sounds, she leads the evening »Toward Perpetual Peace« – to where it began: in the sound of love.
Program · August 29, 2026
from 19:00 – Alchemy of Love
Ceremonial Cacao & Sparkling Wine on Ice
Arrival, encounter, and attunement to an evening dedicated to peace.
19:30 – World Peace Conference (23 minutes)
A documentary by Stefanie Müller
19:55 – Venusian Sounds
Cosmic sounds with Sasperella la Sirène
20:15 – Guide to Making Peace
Tim Ra in conversation with Saskia Baumgart & Lavanya Honeyseeda
On the art of encounter, on utopias, and on how peace is made.
21:00 – Sound messages from space
Ambassador Lakhura with extraterrestrial peace messages
Cosmic reggae: Tim Ra
21:45 – Toward Perpetual Peace
Anthemic music with Sasperella la Sirène
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The initiators Saskia Baumgart and Dr. Dominikus Vogl on the World Peace Conference — recorded at the Venus’ Forest opening