FUNDED PROJECTS

The concert and event series Spotlight, held at Gretchen, was created to bring women into focus on stage. Women are still underrepresented in the ...

After years as a shy solo entertainer, Adrian Schull just happened upon a band. Or rather, he was looking for them. There are pros ...

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

With a total of 32 solo DJ sets, 16 B2B performances and three online live shows featuring artists from a wide range of artistic ...

Handiclapped has been organising accessible concerts in Berlin since 2008, making it a pioneer of inclusive events. The aim of the concerts is for ...

After a successful debut in 2017, the WHOLE – United Queer Festival enters its second round in 2018. In cooperation with Berlin’s most successful ...

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

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

Kaltès is a musician and DJ based in Berlin. She has an extensive background in music, having studied jazz and improvisation in Brussels before ...

The Down by the River Festival is a live music festival for »freaks, fans and family«. It celebrates the city’s non-commercial concert culture and ...

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 ...

Since its formation in 2003, Anti-Corpos has performed over 300 concerts around the world. Over the past decade, after establishing its base in Berlin, ...

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

Hani Mojtahedy was born in Sanandaj, a small city in the Iranian province of Kordestan. After studying traditional Persian music, she began her professional ...

The concert series Soul*Jazz*Mirror offers up-and-coming artists a stage, allowing them to present themselves to an audience in a professional environment. Especially for younger ...

Annie Gårlid is a classically-trained viola player, singer, and writer. She makes music under the name UCC Harlo. Many of her »ecclesiastical-wave« sound projects ...

Martyna Kubicz aka MIN t is a composer, producer and vocalist hailing from Wrocław, Poland. She has graduated from multiple music schools in Wrocław ...

Launched in 2018, Ick Mach Welle! (»I Make Waves!«) is a project giving people with disabilities further possibilities in making electronic music. Competent leaders ...

It was a cold winter in 2010 when five boys from Berlin raised the roofs of the flats in Neukölln. With a bit of ...

The international network female:pressure, a network founded by Electric Indigo that brings together female, transgender, and non-binary musicians from the field of electronic music ...

The Puschenfest is a two-day music festival that returned to the Festsaal Kreuzberg in 2018 after a five-year hiatus. Its aim is to create ...

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 ...

Laura Landergott (Ja, Panik) and Yair Karelic (Mystical Communication Service) first met in early 2017. The duo constructs a patchwork of indie rock, blues, and psych. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Berlin School of Sound returns with the three-day festival POP SOUNDS POP STORIES, this time with a thematic focus on crossover rap, poetry and ...

Steve Mekoudja travels the world with words. The Cameroonian writer is active as a computer technician and cook, runs a podcast and has mastered ...

Taking place in one of the city’s most rapidly changing neighbourhoods, the Veteranenstraßenfest in Berlin-Mitte strives to be a site of encounter and a ...

Michael Mühlhaus became a keyboarder for Blumfeld in 1998. He studied popular music in Hamburg, he has initiated the project Nautic United together with ...

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

This festival is all about the creative and content-related examination of the sound system as a cultural concept, offering visitors a participatory approach on ...

An-i is the latest musical moniker for former New Yorker Doug Lee AKA Lee Douglas, who emerged out NYC’s Leftfield Disco scene of the ...

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 ...

URIN are a Berlin-based raw-punk/d-beat/hardcore band with noise influences, whose band members from Poland, Sweden and the USA have come together in 2018 through ...

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 the revival of Berlin Atonal in 2013, the long-standing festival has been held annually in the disused Heizkraftwerk Mitte – an industrial complex ...

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

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 ...

Launched in 2020 with the Corona pandemic in mind, Picnic FM seeks to satisfy the hunger for a shared, live music experience in a ...

Sound of Berlin combines forces of different Berlin based electronic/dance labels and artists for a common international commercialization on streaming platforms. For the launch, ...

Jasmina de Boer and Lukas Streich are We Will Kaleid. In their experimental, electronic art-pop, the duo focuses on dysfunctional aspects of interpersonal communication, ...

The story of Chuckamuck is a classic rock’n’roll story. Founded by schoolmates Oska Wald (guitar/vocals), Jiles (drums), and Lorenz O’Tool (guitar/vocals), Chuckamuck were signed ...

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

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 ...

Susan Augustt, a talented singer-songwriter from Accra, that expertly blends neo afro-soul and contemporary jazz with traditional Ghanaian music genres such as highlife, agbadza, ...

Fenster is a psychedelic pop band consisting of Jonathan Jarzyna (DE), JJ Weihl (USA), Lucas Ufo (FR) and Elias Hock (DE). After releasing two ...

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 ...

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

Komet Bernhard is an icon of Berlin nightlife; he is a techno DJ, dancer at demonstrations, drugs tsar, alternative style icon, actor, cosmic researcher ...

The story of &love starts in early spring 2016. Two singer-songwriters from Israel met on one of Jaffa’s most hectic street corners during a ...

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

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 ...

NANA is a singer and songwriter who had previously roamed the Berlin subculture under various pseudonyms. But when a twist of fate pulled the ...

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 ...

Sissip grew up traveling around the world with her family before settling in a small town near Frankfurt as a teenager. She began her ...

Sera Kalo is a genre-fluid, Berlin-based Caribbean-American singer & songwriter. Quiet in nature, Sera’s music serves as a powerful outlet for her unfiltered thoughts ...

Wizzy is a Syrian singer-songwriter, performer and mentor for Queer Syria and the event series Dandanah and Queens Against Borders in Berlin, where he ...

DONBA₴GRL is a Ukrainian avant-pop artist based in Berlin. Her sound is characterised by deep bass and Ukrainian folklore. Originally from a small industrial ...

Since 2015, Berlin’s Cuntroaches have defiled countless venues across Europe and the UK, playing festivals and touring relentlessly. The trio’s influences range widely—from metal ...

Five Berlin boys and a small cellar: The result resembles a rather dense piece of pastry. It smells a little bit like Indie, tastes ...

London-born producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and DJ Sasha Perera startet her solo project Perera Elsewhere in 2013 on the L.A. based label Friends of Friends, ...

Alex St Joan is the multi-faceted creation of musician, producer, writer and artist Alexia Peniguel. Born next to a flooded valley in drought-prone Australia ...

Augustus Williams aka Gusto is best defined by his pure Detroit sound, while also incorporating funky house brought on by childhood memories. At an ...

Rap duo PALAS, consisting of female MCs Tina Turnup and Babylit, produces versatile, new-school music. Floating from the trap to the cloud, PALAS sound ...

Lucrecia Dalt first discovered the craft of music after a brief career as a civil engineer in Medellín, Colombia. Since that time, she has ...

RUI HO is a non-binary music producer and DJ from China (in the following called they/their as pronoun) whose work is a mix of ...

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

Since June 2020, YAAM’s indoor venue has been closed by building authorities, meaning that for the time being, events can only take place in ...

Obaro Ejimiwe is a British singer, songwriter and musician better known by his stage name Ghostpoet. After receiving recognition for his first two albums, ...

Women are all but invisible in the club landscape, especially when they belong to a sexual minority. The series GLOW provides young female DJs ...

Gaddafi Gals formed in 2016 with blaqtea, slimgirl fat and walter p99 arke$tra. All of them had other projects at this point: blaqtea as ...

Horst Weidenmüller (!K7) and Mark Reeder (B-Movie) proudly present: a very special evening with rare video material featuring bands like Einstürzende Neubauten, Malaria or ...

Eat my Fear make queer-feminist hardcore punk, loud and angry with a clear political stance. The songs deal with experiences of migration, foreignness, structural ...

With a mix of hip-hop, pop and everything in between, stockdale have been delighting their fans since their formation in 2018. Aiming to make ...

gespenster is the project of Phil Haussmann, a Berlin-based songwriter who has previously released two albums and toured extensively with indie-folk outfit Apples In ...

goldenair is a producer, songwriter and classically trained multi-instrumentalist living in Berlin. He is half of the R&B act GOLDA, signed to Majestic Casual ...

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 ...

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 ...

When two best friends found a band, the result is a world full of insider jokes. Gurr’s debut album ›In My Head‹ introduces their ...

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 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« ...

Started in 2015 by Berlin band Feline & Strange as a concert evening with sideshows and a costume-ball atmosphere, STEAM BALL increasingly evolved into ...

Jeannel is an interdisciplinary artist, producer, singer and cellist. Growing up in a musical household, she received classical cello lessons from age six, and ...

The singer and guitarist Timo Tolkmitt and the drummer Till Trenkel have know each other since the 90s, growing up in the outskirts of ...

Godmother are critical theory in pop-music drag. A non-binary identity becomes a Weltanschauung, challenging dichotomies such as real and artificial, self and other, sincerity ...

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

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

The multilingual rapper Yetundey knows how to rack up points with surprises. While she oscillates among the German, English and French languages and occasionally ...

Born in Istanbul in 1987, Nene H started at the Music Conservatory in Izmir when she was eleven. After spending two years in Ankara ...

The Down by the River Festival is turning 10 – reason enough to celebrate. As in past years, the 2018 issue of the one-day ...

It seems that fate is what brought Max Prosa and Sascha Stiehler together. No pianist could accompany Prosa’s lyrics and stories with such virtuosity ...

İç İçe, which is Turkish for »intertwined« or »interwoven«, is a festival for contemporary Anatolian music. The genre-spanning programme of music and culture shows ...

Under the title Menschu Hi Menschu (human is human) the DeutschSintiRoma Festival with free admission focuses on marginalised artistic perspectives. With a diverse programme, ...

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 ...

With a unique sound, Kaleo Sansaa immediately captivates audiences. The artist creates a mesmerising blend of experimental hip-hop, trap, and Afro-pop. Following the successful ...

YVY MARAEY grew up in Berlin as the daughter of a German mother, but she never let her father’s Brazilian culture escape her. Along ...

Friedberg are the brainchild of Austrian-born Anna Wappel. The four-piece, all-female band are a tour de force of gritty rock energy combined with intuitive ...

Kitty Solaris is underground and disco, cool, direct, soft and sincere: »Solaris sounds almost like a grunge Lana Del Rey; it’s dark and moody, ...

Mushiva is a Berlin-based Namibian street poet, rapper, and technologist. One-third of the award-winning hip hop poetry group Black Vulcanite and professionally trained as ...

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 ...