FUNDED PROJECTS

The Poetry Meets Series ist eine seit 2014 bestehende kreative Plattform für lokale und internationale Künstler:innen, die ihre Arbeit im Kontext von »Love, Peace und Togetherness« ...

DICE RISING is a new experimental programme for emerging Berlin-based musicians, organisers and other people working in music: three days of online workshops, mentoring, ...

Silla Thorarensen and Julius Rothlaender are pretty best friends: they shamble through life together, don’t take themselves too seriously, and quarrel with their own ...

While guitarist Manuel and drummer Johannes were already working on a joint project, singer Maria initially joined the band as a feature guest. That ...

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 ...

Linda Finny is a Berlin newcomer who’s already perfected an infectiously energetic sound, managing to be both atmospheric and punk. She is currently working ...

Inaugurated in 2017, the monthly event Basement Bash has become one of Berlin’s most popular concert series. Its goal is to provide a stage ...

Those tender moments of cathartic house euphoria are what Sara Miller strives for, as the Irish-born DJ and producer conducts blissful trajectories through the ...

NOA is an English-speaking singer with Filipino and African-American roots who’s active in the world of alt-pop. Her songs are musical paintings that deal ...

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

Torn away by a wave into the depths of the sea, Voodoo Beach are surrounding us with dark psychedelic rock, which on the one ...

A major aim of the CTM Festival since its inception has been to make space for radical forms of musical expression and dissonant emotions. ...

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

Paul Frick was born in Berlin. He took composition classes since the age of twelve with Il-Ryun Chung. Since 2008 the group Brandt Brauer ...

Costantino Toth aka Onirologia works as a composer and sound engineer, conceiving sound as an »achronological archive«, tying in themes of transformation and home. ...

Paradise Lost by the queer-feminist art and sound collective Creamcake brought together a spectrum of experimental, progressive and genre-crossing live acts as well as ...

If you’ve ever spent a night roaming Berlin bars and tumbled into a blue-foggy morning, with a grin still on your lips, you should ...

Bad Hammer are a shadow pop band who live and work in Berlin. Close-ups of nostalgia and sensation inspire Bad Hammer‘s timeless and cinematic ...

Maryna Russo, Heike Rädeker and Frank Neumeier founded LeVent in 2015. The rock trio from Berlin has already shared the stage with Die Nerven, ...

For over a decade now – first in Paris, then Montreal and now in Berlin – La Fraicheur has been brewing her own blend ...

The Hoelogram Festival has set itself the task of boosting FLINTA* artists working at the intersection of VR, installation and music and providing them ...

Last year Irmin Schmidt turned 80. In honour of this and of the fifty-year anniversary of the band CAN, a tribute concert at the ...

Born and raised in Naples, Berlin-based sound artist, vocalist and DJ Sara Persico started experimenting in early age on the fringes of Naples’ fiery ...

There’s a lot to celebrate. Handiclapped turns 15. And the Special Olympics World Games come to Berlin. Dance with us in the open air ...

Christine Börsch-Supan is a singer, composer and performer. Her artistic focus is the band HOPE, a four-piece avant-garde pop formation founded in 2014. Their ...

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

Matching Outfits are a trio of adopted Berliners whose warped, wistful take on indie pop has been compared to »a Super 8 film from ...

Ofiri has made a name for himself in the Israeli hip-hop scene as a producer, rapper, DJ and Bboy. Early on, he formed his ...

The event series Sarau Mundi aims to create a stage for diversity. Berlin-based pop musicians and other artists had been invited to present their ...

J.A.W is a concert series producing a classical spectrum ranging from jazz over hip-hop to house music. The always musically adventurous concert settings deal ...

The AYO City Festival, launched by the artist collective Freak de l’Afrique, aims to provide a platform for BPOC artists and their communities, making ...

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 ...

Ein Hit ist ein Hit is the city’s probably most secret music show dedicated to pop music in its historical and sociocultural context. Musicians, ...

The Berlin Swamp Fest is dedicated to showcasing the musical genres of psychedelic-, stoner-, and hard rock as well as black-, death-, and doom ...

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 ...

From songwriting to the visual counterpart of her music: everything about the work of singer-songwriter and producer Mulay is aesthetic art, forming a counterpart ...

In her art, Sarah Martinus works with subtle energies of the body and their complex interactions within the environment. Through abstract images, sounds, rituals ...

Sally Dige (»Dee-Ah«) is a multidisciplinary artist known for her darkly poetic yet highly danceable electro-pop songs, DIY stylistic videos, design and visual art. ...

The ensemble and artist residency Grounded Outer Space People explores the relationship between transmigration and music, curating open listening sessions, workshops and presentation meetings. ...

AIWA: Beats, Rhymes and Beyond from the Arab World is a concert series aiming at intercultural exchange between Berlin-based hip-hop artists and musicians from ...

Klark Wolke aka Deaf Kat Night (DKN) was born in a small village near Schwerin. The deaf musician was able to feel music for ...

One minute the world was moving closer together, the next it was pulling up national borders again. Well, that’s the bad news. The good ...

The Bassquake Weekender is an inclusive and intergenerational festival for bass music. The aim of the event is not only to network, but also ...

EVÎN is a singer, songwriter, producer and one of the most exciting new voices in R&B. Her music blends elements from different genres with ...

In 2016, B O K E H, the artistic alter-ego of New Zealand-raised and Berlin-based artist, Chloë Lewer, was born. Alternating in performance between ...

The independent music label Alvozay, founded by rapper Ebow and DJ Tmnit Ghide, celebrated its festival debut in 2020. With the Alvozay Festival, the ...

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 ...

SOUND(ING) SYSTEMS tells the story of the Cold War continuum starting from the so-called Loudspeaker War and the Studio am Stacheldraht in Berlin. In ...

There’s a raw urgency to Soft as Snow’s debut album ›Deep Wave‹, which was released on UK label Houndstooth in 2018. Starheim’s background as ...

Born and raised in the rough industrial wastelands of North Jersey, oOoOO began playing in punk and hardcore bands in and around NYC as ...

Goodbye or hello? The art festival You Say Goodbye, We Say Hello invited to the Atelierhaus Australische Botschaft (Ost) with music, workshops, art installations ...

Mono Green – two words, almost like a first and last name, perfectly representing the person behind the project. A lone figure, a solo ...

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 ...

FAYIM is a singer-songwriter who creates a perfect balance between profundity and ease – with his lyrics, his distinctive voice and his empowering and ...

Having previously released two records of oneiric ambient music on Martin Hossbach as 1k Flowers and having worked with artists such as Jungstötter, P.A. ...

Alai K is the alias of Abdalla Khamis Abdalla – a Kenyan producer, musician, singer-songwriter and DJ now living in Berlin. Born in Mombasa ...

After moving to Berlin in 2010, Philipp Gorbachev befriended Rebolledo and Matias Aguayo, which set the wheels in motion for a series of debut ...

As Blazey, Millé and Nik are a duo active in the genres of pop, soul and hip-hop. Their respective musical backgrounds, as well as ...

A project by DISK Agency, Streaming – Tools for an Unknown Future uses qualitative interviews with artists, project makers and app developers to see ...

Hans Unstern is a multitude who writes songs, builds musical instruments, releases albums and radio plays, and gives dazzling performances. On ›DIVEN‹, their latest ...

Launched by the Latin American collective TRRUENO and curated in collaboration with the artists of Clam and FreeFormHyperSonixxXOrg, ꐦO111L is an event aimed at ...

Founded in 2012 by singer Tobias Bamborschke and guitarist Max Bauer, Isolation Berlin is a German-language indie band. Their lineup since 2013 includes Simeon ...

Stoic as fuck, with a baby face and a set of blue-collar shoulders, Ellison Renee Glenn aka Black Cracker (formerly Celena Glenn) rocks a ...

As a musician and installation artist, Jessica Ekomane was one of Berlin Community Radio’s 2017 Incubator residents. Her compositions seek a cathartic effect, interspersing ...

No Shade is a club night series and DJ training programme for female and non-binary DJs based in Berlin. The idea is to help ...

»I like to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. I don’t hesitate to irritate. I’m bored by the ordinary.« – xanah operates as ...

Julia Mikulec aka JUWEEL is a rapper, singer, producer and quintessential artist. Growing up in France, she began singing and playing the keyboard. Before ...

Amplify Berlin is a residency and mentorship programme designed to support projects by emerging musicians, composers, producers and performers in Berlin. Month-long residencies pair ...

With a colorful music, artistry and cultural programme, the SpreeSpektakel has been inviting visitors to the Holzmarkt grounds every year since 2015. The aim ...

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

Queer artist Chimp Hardy is no stranger to controversy. Performing painted and half naked, the Berlin-based, Austin, Texas-born DJ and producer challenges listeners to ...

The festival Kultur am Dorfplatz is committed to both the existence and preservation of open cultural spaces and to strengthening solidarity in civil society ...

Ziúr is a Berlin-based DJ and producer, dedicated to combining different sonic textures and brainy beats into a functional dancefloor framework – clearly intended ...

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 ...

Andreas Spechtl has been the singer, guitarist and songwriter of Ja, Panik since 2006, which has released five albums to date. In summer 2016 ...

Music for Cinemas is a concert series turning cinemas into sites for music. The screen becomes a back, making room for atmospheric sound explorations. ...

For the concert series Play Date, the FELD theater in Schöneberg is applying its expertise in cross-generational work for primarily younger audiences to concerts ...

Half Girl is Berlin’s scariest all-girl-super-group: Julie Miess (Mutter, Britta), Vera Kropf (Luise Pop) Anna-Leena Lutz (formerly Die Heiterkeit) and Gwendolin Tägert (Mondo Fumatore). ...

With the rising costs of rent and property, urban displacement has become omnipresent in Berlin. As part of Alles Muss Raus! – Für Schaffung ...

HYENAZ are Berlin-based sound and movement artists Kathryn Fischer (aka Mad Kate) and Adrienne Teicher (aka Bad Conscience). The dance tracks, soundscapes, performances, installations ...

Hailing from Crete, interdisciplinary artist and performer Abyss X became a virtuosa in experimental cross-genre composition by crafting a unique melange of her homeland’s ...

The Pop-Ambulanz (›Pop Ambulance‹) intends to act as a counselling service for Berlin pop musicians. It aims to tackle and research a curative-preventative approach ...

Favouring emotional expressionism and intense beats, Catnapp is pushing the boundaries of electronic music with a unique and bold take on songwriting and production. ...

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 ...

Berlin’s Kala Brisella outline their project with the words »Noise*Rock*Love«. Their music is highly energetic yet diverse, urgent and uncomfortable, feverish, and sometimes latently ...

Olivia Anna Livki (aka LiVKI) is a DIY force of nature: a singer, bassist, songwriter, producer, director and video-editor who also designs her own ...

The event series arkaoda Berlin NOW presents a diversely-curated music programme encompassing electronic music, acoustic music, pop, classical music, and noise. It sees itself ...

Unexpected calls emerge under, over and between layers of basslines, some thick and some thin. Here a voice answers, there an instrumental sample swings ...

Tatiana Heuman works on music and sound creation between Argentina and Europe. She plays drums, likes loops, repetitions and surprises. Her unique approach to ...

Two singers play guitar and bass and a guy plays drums with varying success. They all play with fire until the house burns down! ...

Dancing is MINCO’s passion and the core of her artistic expression. The music she spins is characterised by percussive energy and dynamic grooves. MINCO’s ...

Baby Satan Nights presents contemporary musicians and artists, unlimited by genre, from post-punk to experimental electronics. The aim of the event series is to ...

The collectively run venue ausland founded the series pop im ausland in 2015, dedicated to musical forms that lie between accessibility and experimentation. Current ...

The concert series Kidz Klang is an open-air event for kids, young people, and families – for people from 0 to 99 years old. ...

KOLLMORGEN is the project of Berlin-born and -raised musician, singer and producer Emma Kollmorgen. Songwriting and sound design go hand in hand in her ...

Berlin-based jazz pianist and composer Ramiro Zayas has been active on the scene for several years, combining his understanding of modal jazz with free ...

Radical Sounds Latin America is an online platform and annual non-profit festival based in Berlin that showcases innovative talent from Latin America and its ...

The collective Berlin Reggae United organised concerts in autumn 2020, partly live – in compliance with applicable health measures to contain the spread of ...

The first encounter of the members of Modha was rather unexpected, crossing paths as hired musicians playing in a live band. At the time, ...

Golden Diskó Ship is the alias of composer, sound and video artist Theresa Stroetges. As a member of bands such as Soft Grid and ...