FUNDED PROJECTS

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

Mind:Body:Fitness is an Australian born and Berlin based artist whose distinctly idiosyncratic music has been showcased my CTM, RBMA, Tropical Waste, Creamcake, NTS and ...

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

Berlin Community Radio – Incubator is a project aimed at Berlin based emerging electronic music talents with a special focus on underrepresented and marginalised ...

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 ...

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 ...

berta.berlin is a sophisticated and expertly curated concert video format with a focus on Berlin. With hi-fi sound and HD video quality, berta.berlin presents ...

The event series 5 Seconds – Musik für Hall und Raum has set itself the goal of using the Zwingli-Kirche as a venue for ...

Martha Rose is a multi-instrumentalist based in Berlin. She has released two LPs on vinyl and collaborates regularly with her contemporaries in Berlin, specialising ...

In 2018, for the fourth time, AHOI Artists & Events presents the Africa festival VIVE L’AFRIQUE at Berlin’s LabSaal-Lübars in collaboration with PROFOLK e.V. ...

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

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

Spoon is a DJ workspace for women*, trans and non-binary people. Initiated in 2018, Spoon regularly offers practical training on turntables for DJs, whether ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tucké Royale and Hans Unstern founded BOIBAND in early 2016 with Black Cracker as producer. Boy with I stands for the problematization of manhood, ...

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

Since 2019, Das Rattenkabinett have been playing in a new constellation with a new sound: female-fronted and more experimental than ever. Live hip-hop from ...

The female producer and artist collective Monika Werkstatt was founded in 2015 by Gudrun Gut in reference to free jazz label FMP’s tradition of ...

Tele was founded in Freiburg end of the 1990s playing typical indie-guitar-rock. ›Tausend und ein Verdacht‹, the band’s self-distributed debut album, was released in ...

A guy, a girl, two guitars with lots of reverb, and punchy beats. Fangirls’ sound is an electrifying symbiosis of grunge, garage, and California ...

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 2019, the musical game show Battle of Random Bands brought together musicians from all cultures and backgrounds. Whether they’re newcomers or more experienced ...

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

Luisa Kutza aka A Girl Called Frank learned one lesson early on: life can be hard, but it is always beautiful. With a colonel’s ...

Istanbul Ghetto Club conceal themselves with masks and veils, but they have nothing to hide. Under the name Istanbul Ghetto Club, they combine the ...

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 ...

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 FreakOuternational Vinyl Market is a pop-up radio station, record sale, and live music event. The goal of the monthly series is to support ...

Kesiena Wanogho didn’t really get much out of the electronic dance music scene in her hometown. The Detroit native wanted to hear music that ...

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

Tereza is a DJ, radio host and curator who, through countless gigs, has established her name in Germany and throughout Europe in hip-hop. This ...

The objective of the #PANDAwomen Festival is to present women from the Eastern European music scene and to support alternative music projects by women, ...

With International Drone Day on 25th May in mind, the artists sn(50), Inter Lineas, Auguste Vickunaite + Nina Guo, Diane Barbé, DuChamp, Vida Vojić, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Around a thousand musicians almost lost their rehearsal space when the owner of the former office building on Buchberger Straße in Berlin-Lichtenberg gave notice ...

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

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

Moro is an Argentinian musician and composer based in Berlin. Trained as a professional guitarist at the Manuel de Falla Conservatory in Buenos Aires, ...

Ultraflex is an interdisciplinary collaboration between Farao and Special-K. Inspired by disco, italo and funk of the 80’s, the Norwegian-Icelandic duco is blending new-age ...

In cooperation with Pink Life KuirFest and bi’bak, Gazino Neukölln was presenting the opening party of KuirFest Berlin. Gazino Neukölln is a troupe of ...

In 2019, glanz&krawall started a radical alternative to the classical-music festival industry with Berlin is Not Bayreuth, attracting over 1,000 visitors. In 2020, the ...

Dream and reality, desire, compulsion and knowledge form the basis of human passion. We move in the spaces in between, constantly changing perspectives. LIE ...

Before launching a solo career, Jonathan Jarzyna roamed the pop cosmos as co-founder of experimental band Fenster. Four collaborative albums and a feature film ...

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 ...

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

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

Clear History are a scorching post-punk trio from Berlin who make a big deal out of little things, sometimes vice versa. Their influences include ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The works of Moscoman (or Mosco for short), the producer of numerous underground hits on ESP Institute, Correspondant, I’m a Cliche and Eskimo Rec, ...

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 ...

Empower is an Afro-futuristic and queer-feminist festival and presented some of the most important current work by queer people and/or BPoC active in music, ...

Five actors of the RambaZamba theatre group, amongst them two with Down syndrome, form a band called 21 Downbeat. Their songs evolve from own ...

Curated by Tobias Lichtmann, Traurig und Untanzbar (»Sad and Undanceable«) is an event dedicated to presenting melancholic music. Featuring the artists Subheim, Blakk Harbour, ...

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 ...

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

WESTHAFEN! These are four young Berliners who have made it their mission to deliver an alternative to the monotonous hits of mainstream radio. The ...

Music Pool Berlin is conceived as a central contact point for music-makers in Berlin. It provides consulting services, networking and qualification opportunities in the ...

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

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

Blue Desert is a form of Berlin Desert Blues: A musical encounter of five people from Agadez, Agadir, Hamburg and Berlin that has been ...

CHILDREN are Steffi Parker and Laura Loop. Influenced by 90s pop music and the indie music of the early 2000s, they’ve been making music ...

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 ...

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

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

canelonely is an interdisciplinary music and video project by Jannik Morton Schneider. With the band Der Ringer, for which he also produced music videos, ...

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 ...

Valeria Frattini is an Italian singer-songwriter living in Berlin. As half German and half Italian and with time spent abroad in the US, her ...

24/7 DIVA HEAVEN are three Berlin musicians pushing the limits – even if it hurts sometimes. Spanning punk, noise, grunge and a riot grrrl ...

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 ...

Paula Schopf is a Berlin-based Chilean artist. She has been active under the name Chica Paula as a musician and DJ since 1997. Since ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

Founded in autumn 2020, Jembaa Groove describes itself as an intercultural music formation. Based on Ghanaian and other West African rhythms and driven by ...

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 ...

BANTUNAGOJÊJE is when Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat meets jazz in downtown Salvador. In addition to influences like Afrobeat, fusion jazz and funk, the band’s sound ...

Nils Ostendorf works in Berlin as a trumpet player and composer. He studied jazz trumpet from 1997 to 2002 at the Folkwanghochschule Essen and ...

AZZURRA is a singer-songwriter who combines delicate electronic and dark pop elements with her intimate voice into a deep sound. Inspired by essences and ...

First a firefighter and then a carpenter whose first construction project was a drum kit, Rudolf Moser’s unique path took him to Berlin, where ...

Founded in 2019 by a small group of sound artists, Sonic Curiosities aim to strengthen, support and celebrate their community through experimental music events ...

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

Brussels-Born and Berlin-based, K.ZIA is an up-and-coming singer-songwriter fusing future R&B and soul by virtue of her Afro-European cultural and ethnical background. With the ...

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 ...

Yuriy Gurzhy is an Ukrainian and Berlin-based musician, DJ, producer and radio broadcaster. Together with the German writer Wladimir Kaminer he started the now ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Malakoff Kowalski is a German-American-Persian singer, musician, composer, and producer. After having been active with his band Jansen & Kowalski, his krautrock solo album ...

As Ale Hop, Peruvian-born Alejandra Cardenas composes electronic and electroacoustic music that adds influences from noise, pop, avant-garde and ambient to an unorthodox repertoire ...

TIES is a Berlin-based event series by Borshch magazine’s Mariana Berezovska and TYME. It celebrates the resilience of the city’s music communities and diasporas ...

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. ...