On March 21, 2025, Ensemble Modern and Brigitta Muntendorf release the vinyl album MELENCOLIC MEDLEY on Ensemble Modern Media: a post-digital medley based on the musical theatre show MELENCOLIA, featuring the media theorist Geert Lovink performing his own spoken texts. With Ensemble Modern and special guest Saeid Shanbehzadeh.

Brigitta Muntendorf will be the artistic director of the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, Hannover, from September 2025 and will direct its first festival edition in 2026. This was confirmed by the Cultural Committee of the City of Hanover. “I am delighted to be able to lead an outstanding festival with the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, which has been showcasing international art, music and theater and one of the most beautiful and important baroque gardens in Europe in a different way time and time again for many years. Together with my team, I will continue to run the KunstFestSpiele as a lively space for local and international cooperation, as a future parkour for art at the interface of technology, science and society: innovative, surprising and accessible to all. In the midst of dramatic global processes of change, art, music, dance and theater, salon and club culture between gardens and the city should open up new perspectives on the relationship between man and nature in the digital age”.