Puwerty Festival 2025
The 2025 edition of Puwerty Festival, hosted by La Casa Encendida in Madrid (16–18 October 2025), will continue to celebrate artists under 26 who work from multidisciplinary creation, experimentation, and audiovisual and scenic hybridity. Built on the Power + Puberty formula, the festival serves as a stage for young creators shaped by meme culture and digital communities, inviting them to reconnect sound, performance, craft, and analogue visual storytelling into new artistic languages.
TMLAB activities across the festival – Aligned with the ethos of curatorial and artistic facilitation, the festival programme will feature:
- Vida Galleta by Cristina Moreno Vitas (16 Oct), the winning project of Inbox 2025, presented as a fanzine-snack-performance exploring youth housing precariousness
- Liquid Youth (16–18 Oct), a 3-session film series co-curated with ECAM students, mapping themes of gender, solitude, family, and economic precariousness in digital-era coming of age
- Swan Feather textile workshop with Agitad4 (17 Oct), creating hand-made textile amulets for identity expression
- Zumbada Talk with Inés Rodríguez (17 Oct), exploring political graphics and youth housing activism
- Elvira del Rocío + Plinio (17 Oct), intimate concerts merging self-designed scenography, songwriting, and Super8 film narratives
- Animation, Transformation workshop with illustrator Karmen Ameller (18 Oct), exploring 2D animation and creative metamorphosis
- I, the Apostle with Ascen.cura (18 Oct), building a trans-identity moodboard through queer reinterpretation of sacred archives
- Pole-dance performance with Colectivo MIM, Jade Carmen & Carola Jiménez (18 Oct), presenting embodied sensuality as dissident expression
- Closing concert by Puttaneska (18 Oct) + jungle-infused DJ set by KINARA, blending jersey club, jungle, cumbia, UK garage and drum & bass into the festival’s final dance ritual
Curatorial & visual identity
The 2025 visual world of Puwerty will be led by Karmen Ameller, while curatorial direction by Mireya Larriba, the first selected TMLAB curator, ensures the festival remains a generational lab of artistic transition, discipline collision, and sonic self-invention.
More information here: Puwerty 2025 | La Casa Encendida
