UPCOMING EVENTS
Fanning the Fever
of Fungi Fascination
October 10 & 11, 2026 at Holzmarkt
A Festival of Art, Performance, Science,
and Mycelial Thinking.
I’m excited to announce a co-creation with Holzmarkt to create Berlin’s first Fungi Fever Fest!
Holzmarkt will transform into a mushroom festival for 2 days! Together with Berlin’s fantastic fungi enthusiasts, we’ll create a festival for fungi lovers and those who are curious to find out more about one of the most mysterious kingdoms/queendoms of the natural world.
Open to all. Entrance is 5€ / day.
Sat. Oct. 10 • 12 - 22 Uhr
Sun. Oct. 11 • 12 - 20 Uhr
The Program
The Details
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EXPERT TALKS
Saturday
2pm – Mold is Gold with Alexis of Edible Alchemy
–– Koji and tempeh are microbial alchemy at its finest: spores transforming humble grains and legumes into edible gold. We’ll explore how fermentation creates value through flavour, nutrition, preservation and the ingenious work of the microbial world.
3pm – Insight into the Future of Fungi - Q & A with Marc Violo founder of @Mycostories
–– Hear from the man who has his finger on the pulse of the business of fungi across functional mushrooms, mycelium materials, mycoprotein, agricultural biologicals and beyond.
4:30pm – The Art of Fungal Extraction - Bruno Leal, founder of Cogu @cogu.berlin
5:30pm –The Queer World of Mushrooms with Noah Fox, Queer Mycology @foxandfungi
––A talk and conversation about the myriad of way mushrooms challenge our ideas of gender, sex, identity, individuality and what we consider “natural.”
Sunday
2pm - Meet the Museum of Mushrooms: Creating a Fungi Wonderland – with Moco Schiller, Founder and Sharlene Durfey François, Experience Designer and Curator
–– Introducing the concepts behind a new museum all about fungi and why it’s so important to create awe in science education.
3pm - Magic Mushrooms: Medicine in the Making with Gabo Amezcua - Psychedelic Society Berlin and Adele from Arubi, systemic somatic psychotherapy.
5:30pm (in Salöön –upstairs) – Know Thyself: A Psychedelic-Inspired Participatory Ritual by Mareesa Stertz of tThe Global Psychedelic Society & Your Story Is Everything -
LIVE PERFORMANCES
Saturday
4-5pm - Skywater @weareskywater - electronic ambient project by Kimi Recor & Sandra Treydte. Sounds moving thru spacious textures, subtle pulses and sonic landscapes.
7-8pm: Battle of the Spores - Mushroom drag characters will battle with performances (lip syncs, dance and more) that you get to decide who moves forward and who ultimately wins!
Hosted by the Legendary Ambrosia - @so.ambrosia
Featuring
Glamanita - @hannahwhitlow_
Niksa - @niksa.askin
Queen Cordyceps - @stefiliciouslux
Pixie Arasol - @arasunshine
Sunday
3:30-4:30pm LIHLA - @lihlalih Live - multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, producer and storyteller who blends cello, electronics, and voice to create immersive hallucinatory sound worlds.
3:30-4:30pm - Strange Fur walking act @thestrangefur
5pm - FUNGI FASHION SHOW -we will gather all of you lovely fungi and have a mushroom fashion show / catwalk throughout Holzmarkt of anyone who dresses like a mushroom or inspired by a mushroom.
6 - 7:30pm Fungi Pub Quiz hosted by Glamanita (Hannahwhitlow_) - Get your teams together and see who knows the most about our favorite “Kindom”
FEATURED VISUAL ARTISTS
Timelapse Videos
Alfred Drummond-Herdman - @Scottish.fungi
Cedric Lebonnois - @cedric.lebonnois
M Y C O M O T I O N - @Myco_ Motion
SYMCYTO - @symcyto
Paintings
Irene Antonez - @irene_antonez_art
Photography
Jay Lichter @cyanesense
Barry Webb @barrywebbimages
Caroline Wimmer @carolinewimmerfotografie
Collage
Sharlene Durfey François @shhhroooms
Fashion & Sculptural Design
Kermit Tesoro - @kermittesoro
Mx. Donia Love - @discofungus
Bio-Art
Xristina Sarli - @xristinasarli
Let’s show the world how Berlin celebrates fungi! Free entry to anyone who comes dressed in mushroom theme on Sunday to join the fashion show! -
Saturday Workshops
1:30-3:30pm Mushroom Art Watercolor Painting with Irene Antonez
4-6pm Mushroom Cultivation with Julian Roth of Mycelionaires
Sunday Workshops
2-3pm Mushroom Movement with Sabina Moe – Create a post human relationship to the body using the magical realism that cordyceps offer us as well as the great and vast gender and biological diversity that our beautiful mushroom friends have to show.
3:30-4:30pm Mushroom Meditations with Olivia Sayward – join Olivia for a guided meditation journey into the strange, fascinating world of fungi. Expect playful mushroom role play and curious conversations about our relationship with nature. -
Come get a cup of mushroom tea at the Mush Bar by Mycelonaires Collective. They offer reishi, chaga, kombucha and more.
Get your mushroom stories ready to share with others during our story time tea party to help us all connect further.
Mycelial Mingling is one of our goals for this event, let mushroom lovers of Berlin all come together. -
We’re excited to offer you a selection of mushroomy things to take home with you! Let’s hope there’s mush-room in your life for more fun-gi!
Art Stalls
Irene Antonez @irene_antonez_art - prints, postcards, stickers, clothing
Doktor Creature @doktorcreature - handmade silicone mushroom beings
Shroomtopia @shroomtopia - jewelry and small sculptures
Coloro Mystic @coloromystic - prints, postcards
Shhhroooms @shhhroooms - prints, postcards, stickers, Intimacy Cards
Other offerings from:
Mycelionaires @mycelionaires (tinctures and tea)
Real foraged mushrooms identified and presented by Micha from Mycelionaires
Jonte @setatt_jatobokul (art and tattoos)
Isvrujos @mooncha.kombucha & @losvrujos_lab -tinctures, dry mushrooms, kombucha with adaptogenic
Krauterhütte - elixirs, abstracts, kombucha from barrel fairlsd.com - Microdosing @kraueterhuette.berlin
Wear a mushroom head and listen to a soundtrack by @mushroomsofus
Food Stalls
All the food stalls you know and love at Holzmarkt will be adding mushrooms to their menus!
We still have room for more offerings if you have something you’d like to sell, contact us with the form below.
Some highlights for you to look forward to!
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Jay Lichter aka Cyanesense
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Barry Webb
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SYMCYTO
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Alfred of Scottish Fungi
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M Y C O - M O T I O N
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Kermit Tesoro - in the Fungi Fashion Show
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Caroline Wimmer
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Irene Antonez
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Cedric Lebonnois
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Sharlene Durfey François
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Mushroom Drag Battle 7pm 10.10
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Pub Quiz hosted by Glamanita / Sunday 6pm / photo: Avan Aventura
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Skywater - LIVE musical performance– 4pm Sat. 10.10 / photo: Lily Cummings
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LIHLA - LIVE musical performance Sun. 11.10 – 3:30pm / photo: Kasia Idzkowska
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Fungi Fashion Show - photo by Rachel Jiam
Wanna be a part of the Fungi Fever Fest?
PAST EVENTS
Together with MaHalla’s UNRUHE – a group exhibition in the Mycelionaire’s Mushroom Lab
–Curated by Sharlene Durfey François
When people ask what I do, I often say “I’m a mushroom artist”. The look on their faces gets me every time – laughter, disbelief or confusion follow. Well, turns out I’m not alone. Mushrooms, fungi, and nature inspired artists are everywhere. Whether we come together through the love of fungi or some form of symbiosis, Mycelium Rising is a show that celebrates our connection to nature.
What better setting to display these artists than a mushroom lab? The Mycelionaires’ Mushroom Lab has welcomed mushroom lovers and artists for the last three years during Art Week at MaHalla under the name Primordia 1, 2, & 3. This year, Julian Roth (founder of Mycelionaires) asked me to curate the show that runs together with MaHalla’s UNRUHE. Not officially part of Berlin Art Week, we are crashing it with our own addition to the week’s spectacle.
Fungi keep pushing into medicine, architectural, agricultural, and beyond, but they have always inspired beautiful art. The connective nature of mycelium, the wonder and awe inspiring mushrooms that pop up from the strangest places in the oddest forms and the metaphors they offer – connection, symbiosis and the importance of taking care of our Mother Earth – are what brings us all together for Mycelium Rising.
The Artists
• Caroline Wimmer (photography)
• Cédric Lebonnois (time-lapse video & live collaboration with slime mold)
• Fernanda Porto (sculpture with light play)
• Irene Antonez (psychedelic oil painter)
• Kermit Tesoro (fashion design & sculpture)
• Lacy Barry (textiles)
• Lauschic (Shhhroooms & Philip François’ light installation)
• The Mycelionaires Collective (explore the lab, living mushrooms and their byproducts)
• Zoe Lohmann aka Alexander Cameltoe (fashion & sculpture)
UNRUHE off-grid and uninvited – crashing Berlin Art Week
You can find MYCELIUM RISING in the underground of MaHalla before you ascend upstairs.
Special Performances:
The Mycelium Cave has it’s own voice and soundtrack, but at for a several hours, it will breathe and pulse to a different sound. Come and experience it LIVE.
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Live ambient / drone.
No laptop.
Synths & organic samples, drifting into the cosmic. -
Ambient music duo will perform live under the Mycelium Cave.
8pm - 9pmLimited space.
The Dream Sanctuary of Hyphae
The Dream Sanctuary of Hyphae was an overnight connection experience where art, ritual, and mycelial networks converge to awaken your connection to the hidden intelligence of nature and the inter-connectedness of life.
I contributed to the costumes, the connections, the graphic design for the archetypal fungi rituals and created videos from my collages with the help of AI.
‘PRIMORIDA 2’
at Mahalla’s Open Together
Berlin Art Week 2024
I was honored to represent the artists curated by Mycelionaire on the poster for Art Week. If you are overwhelmed by Berlin Art Week.. just go to Mahalla’s event. It hosts over 100 artists and multiple curators throughout the entire massive old industrial factory.
The first Primordial was curated by Julian of Mycelionaire and was displayed in the mushroom lab which normally grows reishi and lionsmane and hosts many mushroom workshops and events. The Mycelium Cave was installed in the basement next to the lab and remains there today. I also displayed some of my collage prints, masks and a new wood sculpture. 
Underworld Mycelium
Brooklyn meets Berlin… this event was produced by two legends, Tiresias and Alexander Cameltoe. Tiresias – whose Underworld events are known for having experimental and queer sci-fi performances and cabaret. Alexander Cameltoe (the alter-ego of artist Zoe Lohmann) is Berlin’s most versatile drag king, genderfluid and species fluid performers. The show Included a full cast of incredible artists/performers such as: Hungry, Jon Darc, Reverso, 13, and Godxxx Noirphiles.
A Shhhroooms mask photobooth accompanied a full immersive mycelium light cave in the entrance of the historical Berlin Ballhaus. I even took the team on a mushroom walk after the show had ended. It was a real bonding moment. 
Shhhroooms @ The Rad
I held my first solo art show under the Shhhroooms moniker at the end of 2022 at The Rad. A beloved natural wine bar that still to this day showcases two of my prints in the front window along with two custom lamp shades commissioned by the owner and my friend Arran, in the early days of the bar. It was was a successful show –I sold all of the prints!
I also released the first series of postcards that night, which have since been sold out. You can see the second series in the shop.
Shhhroooms @ Pilzfestspiele
It was a real honor to exhibit my work at the Pilzfestspiele in Vienna along side some of my all time favorite mushroom artists. I also got to meet Stephen Axford and Catherine Marciniak aka Planet Fungi, whom many of my mushroom images are photographed by. Their work is so inspiring. Getting to meet them and to experience what sweet humans they are was one of the highlights of my time at the festival.
The Museum of Mushrooms
This was a special opportunity. It was my first time presenting the concept of the Museum of Mushrooms publicly, in front of a very savvy crowd at the Venture Café Berlin. I am the curator and experience designer for the MoM and I have been working with a small team for almost a year to create something so incredibly special. We are currently in the fundraising phase. The MoM is a non-profit project planning to launching in 2028.
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