Gegen Perfection

I imagine your worn body close to me, your wrinkly skin, your flabby hips, your spotty face, your greasy hair, your smelly armpits, your quirky personality, your loud laugh, your dirty fingernails, your smell of everything that scares the hell out of everyone. But not me.

The idea of the perfect body is a social fairy tale. It's the disciplining of human anatomy so that it always works and doesn't get sick. Anatomo-politics is “used to take control over bodies … to increase their productive force through exercise, drill, and so on” (Foucault). A control that seeks to govern bodies and normalize a standard of beauty, productivity, and desirability. We constantly move within a digital panopticon where we police ourselves and each other, reinforcing able-bodied heteronormative aesthetic standards through algorithms, likes, and face-filter fictions. But like gender, the body is not a fixed entity. It is complex, fluid, changeable, and surprisingly comical.

By resisting the myth of the perfect appearance, we challenge systems of oppression that profit from our insecurities.
Bodies can be sites of resistance, of defiance against the capitalist gaze that seeks to calm us down by making us busy with the suffering of imperfection.

Let GEGEN be your stage to prove that you can be perfect by showing our discordant selves and hot messiness.


▄ 5 Dancefloors
▄ Free Cloakroom
▄ Fruit Buffet
▄ Swimming Pool
▄ Queer Mama Awareness Team
▄ Sidekicks / Sonar Harm Reduction Stand
▄ Sexy Balconies
▄ Performance Arts
▄ Official Photographers: Darren Black & Raf&Way
▄ Stands: Gaba Gama & Lisa Majun
▄ Massage corner: Massimo Lo Cascio

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STANDARD TICKETS
are available for purchase at the door all night long.

LIMITED SKIP QUEUE TICKET
for faster access to the club using the guest-list entrance.

COMMUNITY TICKETS
for those in financial difficulties are available exclusively through the link at the bottom of the event page (telegram link).

All ticket prices include complimentary wardrobe service

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Plastic, artificial, unnatural, synthetic, doll-like, sublime, authentic, unique, unreal, fetish or simply naked.
Read the concept carefully and be perfectly imperfect.
No casual wear, a rigid selection will be put in place on this basis

▄▄▄▄ IMPORTANT ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
▄ To protect each other's privacy, we discourage the use of image recording devices in all areas, we’ll have our photographers.
▄ We want you and our other guests to feel comfortable, regardless of gender, race, religion, class, or sexual orientation.
▄ Please make sure there is consent before approaching any physical contact. Gegen is not a place for nazis, racism, any kind of discrimination, sexual harassment, or any sort of violence.
▄ If you should observe or experience an inappropriate situation, please don't hesitate to contact our yellow vest awareness team or any of the staff at the bars/coat check, guest service, or our door crew.
▄ Those who do not comply with these rules will be invited to leave.


Concept: Mirko Winkel
Photo: Florian Hetz
Graphics & logo: Enrico Bardin