FUNDED PROJECTS

Peppi and Mela find each other on Instagram during the Covid-19 pandemic, start rehearsing and come to the quick realisation that it’s a fit. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Lichtenberg Sounds is an open-air event series that comprises six concerts taking place in summer 2023 at gART.n in Berlin Lichtenberg. Well-known and unknown ...

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

With Ghost Town, four (sub)cultural locations in Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg were to be revived for one day, illustrating the legacy of the districts. The ...

The Stadt Nach Acht conference discusses different perspectives and topics regarding the club and music scene of Berlin. Following 2016´s success a three-day programme ...

A Song For You is a vocal ensemble project of 30–40 people spotlighting BiPOC and diverse talent from the varying live music scenes of ...

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

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 ...

Enyang Ha is a Berlin-based Korean electronic music composer and performer. Her approach is based on experimenting with her voice, sampling her body and ...

The Dunckerstrassenfest began seven years ago as a concept and an initiative by musicians and music-lovers – joyful, unpaid, without commercial interests. In 2019, ...

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 ...

Heatsick is the project of musician and visual artist Steven Warwick, whose album ›Re-engineering‹ has been released on PAN. Heatsick’s entrancing live show is ...

La By’le’s sound is like a feverish, percussion-driven social statement. Humorous and provocative, the five-member collective infuses the dancefloor with German, French, Portuguese and ...

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 ...

In the works of Laura López Castro you can find the poetry of Comte de Lautréamont, the folklore of Atahualpa Yupanqui, ›la Nueva Canción‹ ...

Better Person is a project by Berlin-based Polish singer Adam Byczkowski. He moved to Berlin in 2013 to pursue a solo career after playing ...

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 ...

Neo-soul artist MiDi KwaKwa grew up in two contrasting cultures: with her Ghanaian parents in a small West German town. In her formative years, ...

Wooly Aziz is a solo, progressive R&B/soul/left-field project by Jannat Sohail from Pakistan, also listed in the Alternative Power 100 Music List (2020) for ...

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

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 ...

Newcomers with a special twist, that little something that makes them stand out from the crowd – that’s what the Berlintouch event series has ...

UNTRAINING THE EAR explores new ways of experiencing sound. With strategies of unlearning and processes of relearning, the listening sessions aim to decipher sound ...

Music for the Not-Yet is a residency project providing artists with the time and space needed to address the unknown. As community-building, care and ...

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 ...

A’th has been interested in the relationship between migration, belonging, resilience and music not only since her art school degree in interactive performance and ...

Aria’s music is a tribute to feelings. The musician, composer and songwriter created her debut album ›Fantasy Is My Religion‹ in this in-between state. ...

With a professional career spanning 15 years, Dan Bodan has pursued a multitude of different avenues in music- and art-making. After releasing song-oriented pop ...

This is the 4th convention of “Live Music and Inclusion”. It takes place every 2 years in Berlin. This year, the focus is on ...

The Berlin collective DECOLONOIZE has set itself the task of strengthening BIPOC artists from the fields of punk, rock, indie, alternative and traditional music. ...

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

The YO! SISSY Music Festival focuses on bridging the gap between local talents and established international acts, with an emphasis on the presentation of ...

The self-taught dj, vocalist and producer jpeg.love, also known as co-founder of RAIDERS Records, only started their music career three years ago. A footwork ...

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 ...

It’s not easy to define who or what Perilymph is: lonely DIY bedroom recordings, four-member live band, communal project – the dynamic and concept ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maura moves with playful ease in her universe between soul-laden head voices and hardcore rap flows, relegating everything to its place that previously thought ...

PANDAyiddish aims to present lively and progressive culture of the Jewish diaspora. With this series, the PANDA Theater in Prenzlauer Berg strives to strengthen ...

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

MOLM Museum of Live Music understands live-music culture as part of a worldwide cultural identity. Within a two-day exhibition in August 2020 in Berlin’s ...

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 ...

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

The SoundSysters are a feminist sound crew that was founded in 2013 by women working as self-employed audio engineers. The collective is united by ...

Since 2013, much of Claire Tolan’s work has found its foundation in the sounds of ASMR, Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. Tolan has hosted ›You’re ...

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

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 ...

As the child of Turkish parents, İpek İpekçioğlu grew up mainly in Berlin – surrounded by classical music both Western and Turkish as well ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Since starting in 2010, Sound & Vision has become one of the biggest events at the interfilm International Short Film Festival Berlin. Usually, up ...

Having previously lent her voice to the London based cosmic jazz collective Nostalgia 77 and renowned German beatmaker Dexter, Yosa Peit settled into the ...

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 ...

THF Radio is a radio station in Tempelhof, based at Torhaus, the independently organised community space in the gatehouse of the subdistrict‘s former airport. ...

The singer, songwriter, composer and performer Barbara Panther has lived in Berlin for over 10 years. Her debut album was produced by Matthew Herbert ...

The Grand Jeté concert series brings together newcomers with established acts of the electronic pop and club scene. The aim is to develop an ...

As ANOTHER NGUYEN, singer and songwriter Ngoc Anh Nguyen makes electronic-tinged, contemplative pop. Influences like Julia Michaels and Adele meet ARY, Tsar B and ...

Over the past few years, the Musikschiff (»Music Ship«) has become a permanent programme element within the event 48 Stunden Neukölln with its young, ...

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

The genre of science fiction is more successful than ever, and it has become indispensable to pop culture. But while its images and visuals ...

Under the title Studio C two concerts are going to take place in autumn 2017. Each edition will be curated by a different artist ...

Mary Ocher is a singer-songwriter, poet, director and visual artist. Born in Moscow in 1986, she immigrated with her family first to Israel and ...

Lady Maru started producing music in 1994 with an electric guitar, some toy percussion and a Tascam four-track recorder. She quickly became active as ...

With DJing as an artistic tool, Banu’s work can be located somewhere between sound, music, research and activism. Originally from south-eastern Turkey, Banu now ...

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

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 ...

Ditty is an Indian independent artist and urban ecologist whose music is inspired by the natural world. She started by playing music on the ...

Launched in 2020, Femme Bass Mafia is a mentorship programme dedicated to women, transgender and non-binary people for the learning and practising of DJing ...

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

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

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

Berlin’s hip-hop scene hasn’t been the same since SWAG JAM, a weekly live hip-hop jam session by the Berlin crew The SWAG, was launched ...

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 ...

Brand identity and online marketing are essential for newcomers when it comes to effective self-promotion. Social media and marketing experts Susanna Pavlidis and Maryam ...

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

The Soldier Of Electro, Shawescape Renegade, or simply Shaw, hails from an area within the depths of Detroit, known as the »Red Zone« or ...

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 ...

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 ...

Balbina was born in Warsaw in 1983, but since she’s a 3-year-old girl, she’s living in Berlin. The singer and songwriter is observing her ...

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

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

It’s common knowledge that female musicians often receive too little attention and that festivals book far fewer female acts than male acts. The concert ...

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 ...

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

Ghanaian Stallion is a German-Ghanaian DJ/producer. In his productions, an array of different sounds merge with each other, including elements of hip-hop, Afrobeat, drill, ...

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

SOOPERtalk is a round table discussion moderated by Jens Uthoff during the trade fair for electronic music instruments SUPERBOOTH17. Alec Empire, Alissa Derubeis, Holly ...

Bang On is a Berlin-based festival devoted to diversity and to the local music scene. Since 2016, Bang On’s inclusive events have hosted over ...

Schrunzel & Der blaue Schmetterling is the collaboration between the artist Schrunzel and his girlfriend Sabrina Böckl, aka Der blaue Schmetterling, with the aim ...