FUNDED PROJECTS

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 ...

With Pari San, two worlds collide. There’s the Berlin-based microsystems engineer Paul Brenning, who grew up with classical music and produces electronic synth music ...

Since its debut in May 2014, the XJAZZ Festival has quickly established itself as an important alternative Berlin festival that skillfully looks beyond stylistic ...

Die Wilde Jagd (›The Wild Hunt‹) is a project of Berlin-based musician Sebastian Lee Philipp in collaboration with co-producer Ralf Beck and several guest ...

What Luisa Babarro creates with her cello and her voice are gems in form of songs. Her compositions take the audience on an extraordinary ...

Gigolo Tears sounds like a banana split, broken hearts and the oiled muscles of a female bodybuilder on the beach. It is the solo ...

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 ...

Music is something the Berlin-born Stolze considers integral to his life – a need apparent in the passion he puts into each of his ...

Gregor Dys considers himself a sound researcher who transfers (natural) processes, ideas and emotions into soundscapes. Forming the basis of his acoustic storytelling are ...

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

Kudur is a music and performance-focused party series organized by the trans/queer PoC members of the Berlin-based collective with the same name. At Kudur, ...

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. ...

Cecilia and Sascha met on a date back in 2021. They quickly discovered they were both fascinated by the unknown side of music. Together, ...

The duo veenus x boats is active not only among different cultures but also between genres: German-born Vietnamese singer Vee aka veenus and producer ...

Before starting his most personal music project under the stage name Berus, the Berlin-based multi-instrumentalist and producer took a few detours. He toured the ...

What is the essence of the world? The musician Ariana Zustra aka ZUSTRA ponders nothing less than that. As a child, the native Croatian ...

By the Lake is a one-day-long festival for families, music lovers and adventurers. The warm-hearted, ambitious, and finely curated event enters the third round ...

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

Barcelona-born Laura Elle describes herself as a »fat queer singer-songwriter«. Intimate and introspective, her music revolves around soulful vocals that form the centre of ...

With its regularly occurring events, Berlin’s Dümtek collective presents first and foremost artists with migrational backgrounds from the fields of LGBTI and feminism. Musical ...

With the event series Zusammen Auf!, Mensch Meier seeks to support integration on various levels in order to help overcome societal barriers. The series ...

Meat Moabit is a four-part concert series focusing on the diverse genre that are Metal, Doom, Gothic, Rock, Post Punk, Indie (and their crossover-hybrids) ...

Influenced by German oldschool hip hop as well as influences spanning from Peaches to Die Goldenen Zitronen, Hole, Kurt Weill, John Frusciante, Suzi Quatro ...

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

Valentin Ginies is a musician, producer, DJ and owner of the label 11001 Records, which focuses on techno, ambient, experimental and other abstract musical ...

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 ...

Opera and Tango Argentino singer Feline Lang composes, programs and performs theatrical pop with an affinity for science fiction and spy thrillers. Her music ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Raised in France, DJ, radio presenter and music producer Monibi has arrived in her current home of Berlin after a phase in Scotland. Weaving ...

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

Schattenspiel is a three-member formation that combines cello and electronic dance music in a 90-minute audio-visual live experience of light and sound. At the ...

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

Every year, more than 70,000 people gather in Berlin for a peaceful demonstration, united by music, for a tolerant and humane society as ›Zug ...

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 ...

Kreuzberg-born artist Mesu Diye was inspired by her parents’ Turkish birthplace on the Black Sea when naming her project. Mesudiye, a small village in ...

Blending Live is an event combining concerts with dance, performance and art, putting an emphasis on local, up-and-coming artists outside of the mainstream. Artists ...

If Black Skin Lover Boy had the choice between paradise and Berlin, he would always choose Berlin. For Black Skin Lover Boy, Berlin was ...

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

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

Established in 2019, the Selected event series began with the idea of supporting collectives, newcomers and active players in the Berlin hip-hop scene and ...

Spoke, as a trained sound and light technician, started their musical career as a DJ in Berlin in the late 2000s, while the first ...

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 ...

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

The emerging Berlin-based duo NOSOYO (pronounced no-soy-yó) is composed of two dynamic artists: Donata (vocals, guitar, songwriting) and Daim (vocals, drums, songwriting). Daim is ...

The VUT mentoring programme aims to bring experienced industry experts from labels, publishing, distribution, booking and promotion as well as self-promoting artists together with ...

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 Borsig Amp Fest is a one-day festival for experimental music that has presented 17 projects from the fields of electroacoustics, ambient, industrial and ...

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

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

The weekly event series Hallo Montag at IPSE has set itself the task of promoting young Berliner artists, offering them a stage to present ...

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

Following a chance online encounter, a loose internet collaboration began between Tokyo-based Nicolai Zettl (vocals), Italy’s Dodo Dal Bosco (keys), and Munich native Flo ...

Nalan Karacagil is a musician, producer and DJ from Berlin. As slimgirl fat and part of the trio Gaddafi Gals, she has released three ...

Both old and new, organic and lively, harmonic and rhythmic, simple and complex – that’s the sound of the debut album by the three-piece ...

With urban world- and bass music, street art, and graffiti as well as a platform for alternative cultural offerings, the Spreeveria Festival aims to ...

The world of Nik Dandelion is transformed into a kaleidoscope of times past – a postmodern dream. Retro sounds and aesthetics are broken up ...

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 ...

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 ...

Presented by Dancing Shoes Promotion, NIRANIUM is a one-day rock festival at the Berghain Kantine  bringing Berlin’s rock scene together while celebrating the diversity ...

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

SEDA has been singing and performing since she was 8 years old. She was discovered by Sigmund Bothmann, a church musician and director of ...

Inspired by Parliament-Funkadelic, Prince and Liberace, SADO OPERA hail from St. Petersburg, offering a mix of disco, boogie and electro-funk fused into a high-energy, ...

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. ...

The Krake Festival for bold electronic dance music has been taking place since 2010 in Berlin. It promotes outstanding young artists and showcases the ...

Anthony Hüseyin is a non-binary musician and performance artist of Kurdish-Turkish and Arabic descent who works with voice, text, film and installation. Their works ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Breezy’s hip-hop music and visual art revolves around themes of mental health, inequality, gender expression, and racial identity as a »mulatto«, or person with ...

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 ...

Jumoke Adeyanju aka mokeyanju is a passionate dancer, writer, vinyl selector and DJ as well as a multifaceted artist and curator with a deep-rooted ...

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 ...

Convinced that it’s culture that gives meaning to life, Ace of Diamonds explores the club as the epitome of culture, because music is what ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Echo is one of the busiest singer and producers in Israel, performing all over Israel, Europe and the East. These days, Echo is releasing ...

Born to Bulgarian parents in Austria, Alexandra Ivanova grew up curious to meet and understand the »Other« – in herself, in society or in ...

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

Mapp has quietly been making appearances in the Berlin music scene for the last six years. She has released two EPs and performed at ...

The fem*ergy collective, founded in Berlin, brings together Ay Wing, Cégiu, Donia Touglo, Mari.ama, Mya Audrey, Shanice Ruby Bennett and Johanna Amelie as a ...

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 ...

Boundaries Congress was created as a networking event with the vision of promoting diverse cultural opportunities in Berlin. The aim is providing a space ...

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. ...

NextGen is a new event series by Creamcake, an art and sound collective for experimental music. The collective is devoted to developing innovative projects, ...

VALENTIN heralds a new era in the music industry. She paves the way for upcoming artists who, just like she did, grew up hand-in-hand ...

EASTER is the Berlin-based duo of writer Stine Omar and producer Max Boss, who place the deadpan delivery of riddling rhymes atop synthetic post-Eurodance ...

Johnny Kulo combines old-school soul and R&B. Laid-back grooves, thicc harmonies and catchy melodies – in his music, the Indian artist and producer, now ...

Yvois is an Aotearoa (New Zealand)-born, Berlin-based producer of warm, wonky beats and singer of moody aural treats. Armed with a collection of dusty ...

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 ...

DONBASGIRL is a new face in the emerging generation of Ukrainian acts who create contemporary pop including Alina Pash, alyona alyona, and Jerry Heil. ...

Chaos Commute are less than three years old, nevertheless the band has toured the country in over 50 concerts and with two EPs in ...

Nichtseattle stands for a bunch of sore songs about self-care in a precarious world. Nichtseattle comes along solo or with a band, melancholic but ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ari is an artist and electronic music producer based in Berlin. They write, produce and perform genre-bending music that thinks outside the box. Their ...