FUNDED PROJECTS

Snøffeltøffs are two boys from Berlin who serve unpretentious Grarage Rock with a real Popstar attitude (»Shit-Fi Pizza Wave« is what they call it). ...

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

HellD stands for Hellersdorf, an area that has always been classified as a peripheral district of Berlin. Under the motto »Periphery,« the one-day HellD ...

Queen Quail is the dream-pop/alt-country project of Kirstin Edwards. Reverberant guitar riffs and chilling vocals fill the open spaces of her songs with a ...

Founded in 2017 by the musicians, writers and activists Sandra and Kerstin Grether, Ich brauche eine Genie – Popkultur, Feminismus, Spaß und so (»I ...

MIKEY. is a songwriter and performer born in Newcastle Australia, now living in Berlin by way of New York and London. They have won ...

With the rising costs of rent and property, urban displacement has become omnipresent in Berlin. As part of Alles Muss Raus! – Für Schaffung ...

For memory formation and emotional connection, 333 Boyz come to electronic music with a refined sense for the unexpected, vital and funny as two ...

Multimedia artist Hannah Schiefelbein (aka Hannah S. Floss) composes and performs under the moniker Omen. Utilising pop-music elements combined with audio-degradation techniques, she interprets ...

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

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

FHAT is a new duo made-up by American singer-songwriters Aaron Pfeiffer and Sedric Perry. Their journey began with a joint writing session in London, ...

To the moon and back: this is how the musical career of Achan Malonda could be described. Born in 1983 to a Congolese mother ...

Red Mess concerts are known to be a deep crooked experience with high volumes that somehow express and represent some sort of anger within. ...

At 26, Ethiopian-Israeli rapper and hip-hopper Teddy Neguse has already released three albums and numerous singles. He has also appeared as a featured guest ...

The band ROSEMARINE is an experience in itself: trashy, grungy vibes meet electronic sounds, all framed by experienced songwriting. It is an artistic statement, ...

Trille has been producing a mix of urban pop and storytelling since 2018, creating his own world somewhere between indie and trap. Hard 808 ...

Music In The Church is a Concert series in the all-enveloping setting of two churches in the heart of Berlin, Elisabethkirche and Sophienkirche, reinventing ...

Half Girl is Berlin’s scariest all-girl-super-group: Julie Miess (Mutter, Britta), Vera Kropf (Luise Pop) Anna-Leena Lutz (formerly Die Heiterkeit) and Gwendolin Tägert (Mondo Fumatore). ...

RENU is a British-Bengali, Berlin-based composer, producer, tabla player, percussionist and curator who started her musical journey around 2000. Her quest for musical experiences ...

OKAN FREI, born as son of a Turkish guest worker family in Berlin, is a child from Orient and Occident. In his self-written songs, ...

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

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 ...

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

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, ...

With her eerily beautiful original compositions, characterised by atmospheric vocals and dense piano sounds, the musician and producer Ava Bonam opens the world to ...

Hailing from Crete, interdisciplinary artist and performer Abyss X became a virtuosa in experimental cross-genre composition by crafting a unique melange of her homeland’s ...

In ›Stadt unter Einfluss‹ (›City Under the Influence‹), Christiane Rösinger deals with one of the most pressing political and social issues of the present: ...

With Ambient im Garten, the STAUB collective, along with labels Unrush and Intergalactic Research Institute for Sound, is carefully bringing electronic-music culture back into ...

Poetra Asantewa is a sensational balance of poetry, music, intellect and wit. Poetra is a multifaceted Ghanaian performer who combines smooth-like-butter neo-soul beats, lyricism ...

Kerim Melik Becker aka Kechou is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, rapper, producer, and instrument maker based in Berlin. He works with live loops and (North) ...

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

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

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

Inspired by the desire to experiment and collaborate with jazz and classical music, the singer Donata, educated at the Amsterdam University of the Arts, ...

Marco Barotti is a modern performing artist in the broadest sense of the word. After leaving his studies at the Siena Jazz Academy far ...

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 ...

Set in the garden of ://about blank, the Amplified Kitchen is a series of events on the conditions of production and reception within electronic ...

The Creative Footpring is a non-profit initiative that measures and indexes urban creative space. It advocates for the protection of creative space globally through ...

Cult’Sup’ is an event series designed to create space for the exploration of diverse African cultures. In a safer space, people of all ages, ...

The Whoriental project is a deliberate provocation, a safer space, and at the same time, a meeting place. Queer and trans people often find ...

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

Solo artist KOKA actually moved from her native Albania to Germany for study purposes. But after discovering her passion for songwriting on a journey ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Milwalkie is an indie rock band formed by the brothers Matt and Steve Morris from Aberdeen, Scotland. Milwalkie began in 2011 when the brothers ...

The Dragonale 2019, founded by the neighbourhood initiative Dragopolis and organised in cooperation with Initiative Kreativ Haus Kreuzberg and Gretchen club, took place on ...

Having previously released two records of oneiric ambient music on Martin Hossbach as 1k Flowers and having worked with artists such as Jungstötter, P.A. ...

houaïda is a musician, composer, performer and graduate physicist. She is involved with inter- and transdisciplinary spaces and contributes to the deconstruction of Western ...

Raz Ohara’s style is like a kaleidoscope in which elements of dub, soul and jazz merge in a dynamic stream. Loops and sounds come ...

Enda Gallery has been active in the Berlin music scene with his soulful music since 2012. After four years of producing, writing and collaborating ...

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

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

Oihane Roach is a Berlin-based singer-songwriter and composer telling transgenerational stories of love and solidarity. With a warm, clear voice and poetic lyrics, she ...

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

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 ...

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

A place where society comes together, a place of both accidental and informal meetings, a public place: the pub. The future doesn’t look particularly ...

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

DJ and producer Happy New Tears plays machine-processed music for the melancholy self. Her sets are always brimming with atmospheric, emotional, genre-defying music, inviting ...

On his debut album ›Monologue‹, released in 2019, Syrian singer-songwriter Yousef Kekhia questions the material and idealistic appropriation of reality. »Hal Ard Lamin?« (»Whom ...

Zoë Mc Pherson is a producer, sound designer, live performer and DJ based in Berlin, whose 2020 album ›States of Fugue‹ »fiercely twists experimental ...

DJ and producer KABLAM (aka Kajsa Blom) was born by the Swedish coast, and has lived in Berlin since 2012. She started her career ...

The workshop series SWITCH has taken on the mission of strengthening women, PoC and the queer scene through accessible music education. The aim of ...

For over a decade now – first in Paris, then Montreal and now in Berlin – La Fraicheur has been brewing her own blend ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Berlin based three-piece experimental folk band have been biding their time. Each member has already lived a lifetime, learned life’s hard lessons, written ...

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 ...

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 ...

DENA is the project of Denitza Todorova, a singer-songwriter and producer born in Bulgaria who dove into Berlin’s multi-faceted music scene last decade. Since ...

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

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

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

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

Christian Naujoks is a Lübeck born and raised visual artist, composer, DJ and singer. Since completing his studies in Electroacoustic Composition and Media Theory ...

People Club are a five-piece indie soul band formed in Berlin in late 2017. Their distinctive aesthetic blends social-commentary lyrics with classic soul-ensemble sounds, ...

Pink Lint lives in the space between two colliding images. A city like Berlin provides its residents rather with too many impressions than too ...

A project by DISK Agency, Streaming – Tools for an Unknown Future uses qualitative interviews with artists, project makers and app developers to see ...

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 ...

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

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

babelfis is an indie/pop duo formed by musicians Sevda Hamzacebi and Cem Dinler. Hailing from Istanbul – now based in Berlin, the band pursues ...

Last year Irmin Schmidt turned 80. In honour of this and of the fifty-year anniversary of the band CAN, a tribute concert at the ...

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« ...

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 ...

J.A.W is a concert series producing a classical spectrum ranging from jazz over hip-hop to house music. The always musically adventurous concert settings deal ...

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 ...

Reaching the limits of language despite her multilingualism, anaïs found a way to express her thoughts and feelings in music. anaïs’ warm voice combines ...

Something changed when the then 20 year-old Brian Mitchell heard King Tubby and Lee Perry for the first time. Those dub-wise sounds reverberated through ...

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

Beginning in the manageable Bassy Club in 2015 and meanwhile set at the sprawling Kulturbrauerei, this audiovisual happening has made itself known beyond local ...

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

Güner Künier’s music is shaped by the sound of her voice and a minimalism that combines industrial beats, lo-fi guitars and experimental synthesiser sounds. ...

The concert series Kometenmelodien, which takes place in the Kantine am Berghain, directs listeners’ ears to exciting new artists making music in the genres ...

Schorsch Kamerun and PC Nackt offer the discreet charm of reduction, joined by actress Annemaaike Bakker, performers from the Komische Oper Berlin, the Richardchor ...

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