FUNDED PROJECTS

What are roots? What is identity for people who carry several cultures within themselves, and what does it mean to be »mixed«? p a ...

Maous is no stranger to insecurity and fear, and much like the eponymous mammal, these two things don’t bother Maous either. Quite the opposite: ...

Since 2021, the conceptual artists Samuel Casata and Valentin Wagner have taken over the pavilion of the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, creating a space for ...

Since 2010, the event series Expatriarch Generations has focused on musicians who examine, question or artistically deconstruct traditional concepts such as gender, genre and ...

Corinne aka ARA found music through her family. Her father, who spent his life in Matonge, the most musical district of the Congolese capital ...

Edwin Oberender, born 1997 in Berlin, received piano lessons as a child and later taught himself the basics of playing the electric bass, electric ...

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 ...

On the occasion of the Transgender Day of Remembrance on the 20th November, 2021, Berlin-based sound artist Kim W. aka Bodyfool collected stories and ...

Eluize spends her time creating, curating and sharing a spectrum of electronic music to soundtrack the hours. The Adelaide-born, Berlin-based DJ, live act, producer ...

Blossom and bloom – that’s what the DJ collective BLVSH stands for, meaning the empowerment of women, trans and non-binary people in a club ...

Philo Tsoungui is a drummer, composer and producer. As an ensemble member and solo artist, Philo has performed at venues around the world. Philo ...

Gregor Heinze is a pianist, composer and producer. In the 1990s he was active as a musician in the Berlin hip-hop scene together with ...

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 ...

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

»Sisterhood, das sind wir!« (»Sisterhood, that‘s us!«) is a line from one of the many new rap songs on the label Sisterqueens, which focusses ...

Musician and performer Kupalua creates complex multidimensional works of art that – oscillating between sound installation and body performance – are both enchanting and ...

Berlin’s festival for contemporary music from West Asia and North Africa aims not only to create a space for experimentation and new music, but ...

Jungstötter is the moniker of Berlin-based singer Fabian Altstötter. The frontman of the band Sizarr, which split up in 2016, has teamed up with ...

hoyah חיה –  »to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out«, is an experimental electronic musician and visual artist, based in Berlin, ...

KAOS turns ten in 2023! Over the past few years, KAOS has offered talented artists and creators a space where they can work, grow, ...

With their neo-R&B, Soft Drug release a world of feelings that otherwise lies dormant in the band members, rarely getting the chance to surface. ...

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

Born 1986 in Germany, Daniel Freitag studied musicology and art history in Marburg and Berlin. During his studies he discovered theatre as a place ...

Monika Werkstatt highlights the image of female producers and artists and their work, thereby enhancing their value, rendering them visible and tangible. In electronic ...

Patrick Christensen aka PC Nackt is one of the most versatile artists in the German music scene. As a composer, producer and performer, he ...

Zeyo is a songwriter, rapper and producer who mixes and masters his songs alone. His work is at the intersection of art and activism, ...

Developed by musicians who emigrated from Asia Minor to present-day Greece because of their ethnic-religious affiliation, the cross-genre art form of rebetiko is now ...

slimgirl fat is a small fish in a big pond. You might know her through her further projects Gaddafi Gals and Nalan381. slimgirl fat ...

LiveBytes Berlin is a platform for up-and-coming Berliner artists and local venues – with the aim of giving them national and international attention. Audio ...

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. ...

For over ten years, Down by the River Festival has been focussing on unknown and up-and-coming artists from Berlin. Striding through a span of ...

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 ...

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

Sleepover Drone is a platform for artists working with drone, ambient, and experimental music. The focus is on female and non-binary artists. The concert ...

The Rendez Vous dinner parties organized by Musique Couture are a meeting point for people coming from the fashion, media, arts, movie, or music ...

Born and raised in Cologne, Germany, Noraa took her first serious steps in music after moving to Paris. In search for a wider range ...

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 ...

Timur Tokdemir aka Mechatok hails from Munich but calls Berlin his home now. With his debut EP ›See Thru‹ the producer proved a distinct ...

15 Minutes of Femme is not only a stage but also a platform created by and for women, trans and non-binary artists, musicians and ...

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 ...

Lion Sphere blend thumping electronic fragments with heavy hip hop grooves, spacious guitar licks and raw vocals. The Berlin four-piece creates a mesmerizing fusion ...

Tehran Contemporary Sounds is a Berlin-based hub, for musicians, artists and collectives living abroad as well as in Iran, with the aim to bring ...

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

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 ...

tuftyhead is a dark-disco duo based in Berlin. In early 2018, Max Hirtz-Wolf, composer and originator, moved from his home of Berkeley, California, to ...

Fall in Berlin is an event organised by the collective Shambala Temple with the aim of bringing together artists from West Asia, especially women ...

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

Amnesia Scanner’s beats sound so familiar, something you’ve definitely heard before but can’t quite place. Energetic kicks and deep bass drums jolt your body ...

Gloomy psychedelia, shoegaze and extravagant sound experiments characterize the music of Suns of Thyme. These four guys from Berlin create a mystical atmosphere that ...

Ava Vegas spent most of her youth on Ibiza, living in a small house her parents had built. Influenced by the Spanish island’s techno ...

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

More than half their lives – that’s how long Kicker Dibs have been making music together. They are more like the family you can ...

Berlin-based Rosa Landers is a singer-songwriter as well as a trained actress working across disciplines. So far, she has created a visual EP in ...

Born in Berlin and raised in Texas, rapper and producer DiscoCtrl has been dedicated to hip-hop since he was a kid. His sound meanders ...

Imagine if Portishead formed in Berlin today. Josef Beuys comes along, shreds the band with a coarse wire brush and exhibits them in a ...

Istanbul-born Başak Günak, also known as Ah! Kosmos, operates in an artistic field spanning production, live performance, sound installation works and composition for dance, ...

The Panafrican Festival Berlin was conceived with the idea of presenting strong and diverse pan-African perspectives to the Berlin public. Along the way, the ...

5 Seconds – Musik für Hall & Raum SPEZIAL is a project set in Friedrichshain’s Zwingli-Kirche in consideration of the church’s impressively long reverberation ...

M.E.S.H. was started by James Whipple. M.E.S.H. is a project situated within the interior grandeur of the digital, sometimes connecting to the socio-physics of ...

Mona Yim is a Chinese-German artist, producer, DJ and vocalist currently based in Berlin. Her music can be described as emotive electronica with elements ...

Born in New York City of Trinidadian heritage, singer-songwriter and vocalist Kosmo Kint has been part of the recent NYC music scene, singing in ...

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

Back before laptops and USB sticks were a thing, Leipzig’s own Josi Miller found her love for vinyl – and by now she can ...

The quartet Die Höchste Eisenbahn, consisting of Moritz Krämer, Francesco Wilking, Felix Weigt and Max Schröder, dominates the art of intermediate notes. Their music ...

Wanja Janeva grew up in Berlin as the daughter of Bulgarian parents. Since then, she has travelled the world with her voice. She is ...

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

Sohrab was born in Tehran in 1984. He was seven when the Iran-Iraq war ended. His name, originating from an old poem called ›Shahname‹, ...

»Friede Merz has mastered the art of being in several places at the same time. « – Wolf Kampmann, Jazz thing This applies to ...

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

KEØMA was founded by Chris Klopfer and Kat Frankie. Based in Berlin, the duo’s self-titled debut album was released in January 2016 on Embassy ...

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

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

junk-E-cat weaves acoustic and electronic elements into a sonic world where saxophones and bass clarinets – both arranged and solo – merge organically with ...

Meron is a Berlin-based singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist with a sound strongly rooted in R&B. He started making music at an early age, writing ...

Karmatürji is the musical project of Ceyhun Kaya and Petra Nachtmanova in collaboration with the well-known Berliner DJ and activist Ipek Ipekcioglu. Their sound ...

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

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 ...

Sound maker, poet, and artist Vida Vojić could be described as a vessel of untold secrets. Sound is the carrying vehicle for the outbursts ...

Discovery Zone is the moniker of musician and multi-media artist JJ Weihl who is also a founding member of the experimental pop project Fenster. ...

Hüma Utku, born and raised in Istanbul and based in Berlin, is an electronic music composer and sound artist. She combines her musical practice ...

Fascinated by Berlin and its possibilities, Anaïs Tuerlinck found the perfect playground for her freely improvised music, noise and performances of all genres. She ...

diveRcity has been enabling adolescents to express themselves through active participation in culture for over a decade. Be it a concert, jam session, graffiti ...

On November 14, 1990, twelve squats were evicted in Berlin-Friedrichshain. On the 30th anniversary of the eviction, various players from within Berlin’s subculture came ...

Born in Yaoundé and currently based in Berlin, Elsa M’Bala aka AMET is a sound artist who makes live podcasts as a mixture between ...

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

Armed only with Nintendo Game Boys and a penchant for mosh pits, DJ Scotch Egg began as an experimental 8-bit gabba and breakcore project. ...

A vantage point to experiencing GIL’s music is one’s body and the haptic-affective sensation music creates; this was also the way in which the ...

Inspired by hardcore sounds of the past plus the cutting-edge footwork, breakbeat and jungle that her label champions, Souci cultivates an ever-evolving style. Having ...

›Political Journalist‹ isn’t a credential we usually have in musician’s bios, but this is exactly what Anika was doing while living between Berlin and ...

Since 2009 Trashfest has been championing unabashed outsider DIY culture within the fields of music and art. Previous editions of Trashfest have had gender-balanced ...

Not much is said in Uwe’s garage. But that’s no big deal. The air smells like gasoline while analog synthesizers rustle in idle. Uwe’s ...

The Last Postman is a multilingual artistic-pop/indie post-rock experimental project with live electronic elements generated by playing multiple instruments and found objects. It was ...

Anti-cliché, anti-whack-rap, ANTIFUCHS! With an anti-everything-attitude, a fox won’t let himself be bothered by much. Quite to the contrary, he’ll simply bite back! A ...

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 ...

Born Tania Takoh, T’neeya is an Afro-R&B artist. Her Cameroonian father and German mother provided influences at an early age. Her father’s love of ...

Born Ronja Zschoche in Hamburg in 1993, Haiyti inherited her musicality. Her mother is a music teacher, her father the Croatian musician and music ...

What the Future Holds is dedicated to queer and feminist club and performance culture. Its mission is promoting the work of FLINTA* artists and ...

Instrumental work with audio samples is a fundamental component of contemporary music culture. The Sample Music Festival is the first educational music festival devoted ...

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 ...

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