FUNDED PROJECTS

»I dance – it’s what I do.« Gigsta gets as much joy from dancing to music as she does reflecting on it – whether ...

Schorsch Kamerun and PC Nackt offer the discreet charm of reduction, joined by actress Annemaaike Bakker, performers from the Komische Oper Berlin, the Richardchor ...

Berlin based singer-songwriter and film producer, ANDRRA alias Fatime Kosumi was born in Rosenheim, as the daughter of Kosovar Albanian parents. She released the ...

On his debut album ›Monologue‹, released in 2019, Syrian singer-songwriter Yousef Kekhia questions the material and idealistic appropriation of reality. »Hal Ard Lamin?« (»Whom ...

Berlin-based rock ’n’ roll band Ponte Pilas have, since forming in 2017, established themselves as an integral part of certain music communities in the ...

Madam Data is a musician, composer, and sound scientist who explores machine and spirit interfaces. Their fantasies are about truly knowing what sacredness is, ...

The workshop series SWITCH has taken on the mission of strengthening women, PoC and the queer scene through accessible music education. The aim of ...

Known as half of Berlin-based indie duo Gurr, Andreya Casablanca’s solo project shows an eagerness to experiment with genres outside of her comfort zone. ...

As a collective and international network of creatives from a wide range of disciplines, CO:QUO has taken on the task of critically questioning the ...

What happens when a Dutch comic artist and an Israeli producer encounter in Berlin and decide to make music together? An interesting package in ...

With its diverse programme, Berlin’s musicBwomen* network specifically supports young FLINTA+ talents at all levels of the music industry. FLINTA+ individuals are personally supported ...

Exhilaration and ecstasy, or rather noise and confetti, are the principles of the inclusive band 21 Downbeat. Like satyrs, the cheerful demons in the ...

The situation for initiatives, clubs and free spaces for (cultural) projects within big cities becomes more and more precarious. New openings are exceptions proving ...

Spirit Design, a dynamic musical quartet, consists of Caterina Muran (bass/vocals), Flavio Gonnellini (guitar/vocals), Francesco Schioppa (guitar/organ/drones), and Tobias Kraller (drums/percussion). The band’s journey ...

South African musician, composer and cultural researcher Gugulethu Duma, aka Dumama, explores the deconstruction and critique of archaic modes of representation in Southern African/African ...

Jerusalem-born, Berlin-based multi-disciplinary artist Carmel Michaeli has constructed the vessel of KARMA SHE to transcend the stage and create extra-sensorial musical performances. KARMA SHE’s ...

Chrisman is one of the rising stars of the new electronic scene in Congo, his tracks tearing down the boundaries between gqom, tarraxinha, soukous ...

Unprofessional is a state of mind. The producer Unprofessional comes from a small town on the east coast of Italy. Coming from a visual ...

Muzi is widely acknowledged as the hottest young DJ/Producer emerging from the South African electronic music scene. Having relocated to the epicentre of electronic ...

Ria Boss, also affectionately known as Cat Mama, is a real jack-of-all-trades. She has met Kamala Harris, hosts the show ›Cat Mama World‹ on ...

Launched in 2020, Femme Bass Mafia is a mentorship programme dedicated to women, transgender and non-binary people for the learning and practising of DJing ...

Starting as angry Thuringian provincial teenagers, the band – which has since moved to Berlin – has developed into an important political mouthpiece for ...

Jascha Kreft and Tammo Dehn are childhood friends, native East Frisians, Berliners by choice and experts in curiosities. Since 2014, they have been fusing ...

Under the moniker TEll A ViSiON, Berlin-based singer, songwriter and music producer Fee Kürten is rediscovering herself: evolution not revolution! While she still served ...

In 2020, Bertil Thomas curated an interdisciplinary, four-part salon series on behalf of the artist group Die Kette, creatively questioning the conditions of the ...

The artist Christiane Rösinger, born in 1961, has been shaping the Berlin local music scene since the early 1990s as an »indie music icon« ...

Otto is a village of shipping containers at the Haus der Statistik situated directly on the corner of Karl-Marx-Allee and Otto-Braun-Straße, where the collective ...

Gotopo is a singer, composer, producer, and performer from Berlin. Her music reveals an Afro-indigenous legacy while combining folkloric stringed instruments and techno-inspired jams. ...

Hendrik Weber aka Pantha Du Prince is one of the popstars of the electronic music scene, and he definitely earned his fame. Born 1975 ...

Initiated in 2019 as an event by YAAM and its inclusive DJ collective Supa Star Soundsystem, the Supa Star Showcase celebrated its third anniversary ...

Lianne Hall has already been through quite a lot. In the 90s, she toured the squats of Europe with the feminist punk band Witchknot, ...

Saba Lou Khan grew up with R&B, soul, punk, spiritual space jazz and classic rock’n’roll. Her debut single, released when she was just six ...

Since starting in 2010, Sound & Vision has become one of the biggest events at the interfilm International Short Film Festival Berlin. Usually, up ...

As in the Griessmuehle, the predecessor of Revier Südost, the team behind the clubs focusses on a varied musical programme in their new location. ...

Queen Quail is the dream-pop/alt-country project of Kirstin Edwards. Reverberant guitar riffs and chilling vocals fill the open spaces of her songs with a ...

Growing up in the midst of his parents’ experience of political exile, Ahmed Mahmoud spent part of his life in Palestine before relocating to ...

Neo-soul artist MiDi KwaKwa grew up in two contrasting cultures: with her Ghanaian parents in a small West German town. In her formative years, ...

Zurück zu den Wurzeln (Back to the Roots) is a festival that has been actively promoting inclusion and participation at cultural events since 2017. ...

Berlin based ANNAVR is a pianist, producer and singer shrugging off the clichés of the music industry. Growing up in rural and coastal post-socialist ...

Temple Haze’s music is an ever-evolving and ever-changing tapestry. From his roots in blues and alt-country music to modern downbeat, ambient and lo-fi, Temple ...

James Chatburn is a Berlin-based Australian soul singer, songwriter and producer. He has combined influences from divided musical worlds to create something that does ...

Vamp Acid is a live acid dance producer, dark electro DJ and designer. Peppered with 80s analogue beats, her music combines sensual vocals with ...

»I am not necessarily interested in saying something that has never been said before,« says Max Prosa. »Rather, I want to articulate what has ...

Born and raised in Istanbul, Berlin-based artist R.A.N. explores the possibilities of how sonic textures and rhythm can be used to evoke a sense ...

Steven Warwick is an artist, musician and writer living and working in Berlin. His practice is paradigmatic of an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses theatre-making ...

Konstantin (born 1992 in Cairo) studied jazz drums at the Musikhochschule in Basel until 2014 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. He also ...

The SoundSysters are a feminist sound crew that was founded in 2013 by women working as self-employed audio engineers. The collective is united by ...

Tech Talk is an event series giving artists and musicians the chance to exchange ideas and knowledge on a regular basis. Berlin-based musicians can ...

People Club are a five-piece indie soul band formed in Berlin in late 2017. Their distinctive aesthetic blends social-commentary lyrics with classic soul-ensemble sounds, ...

In ›Stadt unter Einfluss‹ (›City Under the Influence‹), Christiane Rösinger deals with one of the most pressing political and social issues of the present: ...

Cherilyn MacNeil is the South African singer and songwriter most widely known under the pseudonym Dear Reader. Her singular style of alternative pop is ...

»Drei Asoziale mit einem Monsterbass kommen auf die Bühne und erklären dir was!« With a direct yet sympathetic approach, Guterzogene Asis is the crew ...

Pari Eskandari is an Iranian-German singer, composer and producer living in Berlin. In 1988 at the age of three, she fled with her parents ...

The DJ and producer duo MRJAH from Berlin is a pioneer in German trap music. In early 2013 the Duo produced the famous ›Splah!Mag ...

After a musical upbringing, Sam Barker moved to Brighton to study Digital Music in 2002, and became a key part of the city’s emerging ...

Jenseits von Nelken und Pralinen is a small, nicely curated festival on the International Women’s Day, March 8th. Besides discussions and award ceremonies, Berlin ...

OKAN FREI, born as son of a Turkish guest worker family in Berlin, is a child from Orient and Occident. In his self-written songs, ...

Ebow first came to attention with guerrilla performances in laundromats, supermarkets and demonstrations. Nowadays, the artist, who lives in Vienna and Berlin, performs on ...

An urban scenery. An adult girl in search of love. A young woman in search of extremes. Search for meaning and senseless crash between ...

In the heart of Berlin, right at Alexanderplatz, a new neighborhood is taking shape. The Chor der Statistik, initiated in 2019 by raumlaborberlin and ...

Noir moodscapes you can dance to was one critic’s response to Evvol’s 2015 debut ›Eternalism‹. The band – aka Irish singer Julie Chance and ...

The American techno producer has only recently moved to Berlin. The passionate musician has released two albums as well as numerous EPs and singles ...

In her many artistic approaches, spanning experimental installations and photography to video and audio works, Natalia Escobar follows an ongoing interest in investigating streams ...

Miss Red’s forthcoming mixtape is a mindblowing blend of microphone murder and electronic beat explosions. A futuristic vision for dancehall, grime and dub, the ...

Barbie Williams is an Argentinian singer, songwriter, and producer. She studied Contemporary music in Buenos Aires, where she developed a particular interest in jazz, ...

Wolf & Moon are Stefanie Martens and Dennis de Beurs, a Dutch-German artist couple from Berlin. Their first record was made when they packed ...

SO SORRY is a Berlin-based FLINTA* band composed of Zuza (vocals), Shanice (bass), and Käthe (keys). The three musicians have worked together on different ...

Glossy and angular,spacious and atmospheric. Ben Jackson’s music sweeps over a broad landscape of sonic textures. The Canadian producer takes rhythmic structures from the ...

Laurel Halo is an American electronic music composer and producer, currently based in Berlin. Since her now cult-status debut album Quarantine was released by ...

Oyèmi Noize is no stranger to the alternative music scene in Germany. Over a decade of shredding in noisy bands and international touring under ...

Kerim Melik Becker aka Kechou is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, rapper, producer, and instrument maker based in Berlin. He works with live loops and (North) ...

The internationally know brother duo of Ali and Basti Schwarz discovered its passion for electronic music and techno in the early 90s as club ...

Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Lotic has dominated Berlin’s electronic music scene for almost a decade now. She released her debut EP ›More ...

Sound System Culture is a project that was launched in 2018. Its aim is on exploring the different spectra of so-called bass music, from ...

In her native country, Switzerland, Berlin-based Mia Aegerter has released four highly acclaimed and awarded full-length albums– all written in Swiss dialect. With her ...

Sam Karugu is a musician, producer, and DJ who explores the boundaries of sound and music. His music is experimental and borders and blurs ...

Better known as one half of Berlin-based indie duo Gurr, Laura Lee is stepping away from its ashes and back into the furnace to ...

As the voice of Berlin’s club scene, the Clubcommission works to ensure that the interests of Berlin’s club culture are taken into account by ...

10 years ago, Johanna Knutsson left her native Sweden for Berlin to dive deeper into the music scene and find her sound in electronic ...

PeroPero is a progressive-metal duo from Austria, based in Berlin. PeroPero’s complex and explosive grooves confront drums and guitar with wafting analogue synthesizers, while ...

Reintroducing the complicated. With linguistic bulkiness, Trucks form the antithesis of both mainstream and teenage Deutschpop. Trucks are also about the self and its ...

Anneli Bentler grew up in Freiburg, Germany, with a classical music education and a passion for composers like Bach, Debussy, Ravel and Steve Reich. ...

With electric guitar, soft vocals and a VHS camera, Mynolia captures the melancholic side of summer. Her psychedelic folk is a New Zealand-Canadian-German cocktail ...

After dedicating a piece to Berlin’s U8 train line at the end of 2019, Syrian composer and percussionist Elias Aboud came up with the ...

Takseer started as a series of events and in 2022 launched the first edition of its festival. Its aim is at providing a stage ...

She Knows define themselves as more than a mere music act. Always inspired by the creative power of their peers, singer and lyricist Teresa ...

As a platform with events, GRRRL NOISY aims to connect musicians and music-lovers, helping them to reach their full potential. The collective, organized by ...

Paul and Leo Eisenach are siblings. For many years they shared a room – nowadays they share a drummer and a keyboard player and ...

Danielle de Picciotto is a wanderer. She explores the regions between the inner and outer edges of our collective psyche and turns her impressions ...

During the lockdown summer of 2020, the last planes from Tegel Airport hover close over the small Berlin island of Valentinswerder as singer, curator ...

BERvokal is hosting its fifth edition in 2018. From September 14th to 16th, the international acapella pop festival invites participants and listeners interested in ...

After a successful debut in 2021, Refuge Worldwide once again welcomed audiences to the Regenerate Festival. The aim of the festival is to bring ...

The Soldier Of Electro, Shawescape Renegade, or simply Shaw, hails from an area within the depths of Detroit, known as the »Red Zone« or ...

The Berlin Song Week is an event concept for the creatives »behind the song«. Songwriter and producer get the chance to present themselves to ...

World Wild Web (WWW) is the project of French producer Manuel Jesus. His sound is colourful and crowded, an organic conglomerate of distinct influences ...

As the child of a German mother and an African-American father growing up in Berlin, Celina Bostic learned early on to adapt to the ...

Born in Cape Verde, Creole singer Vera Tavares captivates audiences with her powerful stage presence and poppy, jazzy, soulful voice. When Vera Tavares sings, ...

In her music kaala combines elements of warm, electronical sounds with organic rhythms and profound lyrics. She sings of the hidden aspects of the ...

gölgede-güneşte (Eng.: in sun and shadow), borrowing its name from Eduardo Galeano’s famous book, is a collective musical project of four Berlin-based musicians from ...

Launched as a joint initiative of the synth-punk band Mexican Radio and the citizens’ association Zukunftswerkstatt Heinersdorf, the one-day Heinersdorfer Punk Fest in Pankow ...