FUNDED PROJECTS

Collo Awata’s art – whether music, sound design, DJing or video – is deeply interwoven with experiences of the African diaspora. By weaving in ...

She Knows define themselves as more than a mere music act. Always inspired by the creative power of their peers, singer and lyricist Teresa ...

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 ...

Inaugurated in 2017, the monthly event Basement Bash has become one of Berlin’s most popular concert series. Its goal is to provide a stage ...

Territory Disrupt was launched in 2022 as a musical and discursive event to take a critical look at the role of music, sound and ...

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 ...

Yippie Yeah is a trio consisting of front singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Marlène Colle, drummer Peter Bartz and cellist Kristina Koropecki. The Neukölln-based band ...

18+ has been operating anonymously since 2011. Evolving throughout several media, 18+ creates music and visuals made from their own productions and appropriated material. ...

Sanni Est is a music producer, filmmaker, performer, composer, DJ, film actress, curator, project manager and an intersectional trans*feminist, mainly working in Brazil and ...

Two singers play guitar and bass and a guy plays drums with varying success. They all play with fire until the house burns down! ...

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

Noir moodscapes you can dance to was one critic’s response to Evvol’s 2015 debut ›Eternalism‹. The band – aka Irish singer Julie Chance and ...

Since 2021, the conceptual artists Samuel Casata and Valentin Wagner have taken over the pavilion of the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, creating a space for ...

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

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

In her many artistic approaches, spanning experimental installations and photography to video and audio works, Natalia Escobar follows an ongoing interest in investigating streams ...

Techno has always been about imagining the future and feeling the excitement of change and discovery. This aspiration has been guiding Stefan Goldmann in ...

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 ...

Heroines of Sound was created in 2014 as a platform to present musicians of advanced pop and the contemporary avant-garde. After five successful festivals ...

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

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

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 ...

Cherilyn MacNeil is the South African singer and songwriter most widely known under the pseudonym Dear Reader. Her singular style of alternative pop is ...

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 ...

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

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

»It’s normal to be different« – Graf Fidi has built a career out of this message. As a rapper, social worker, and speaker, he ...

As a musician and installation artist, Jessica Ekomane was one of Berlin Community Radio’s 2017 Incubator residents. Her compositions seek a cathartic effect, interspersing ...

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

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

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

There’s a raw urgency to Soft as Snow’s debut album ›Deep Wave‹, which was released on UK label Houndstooth in 2018. Starheim’s background as ...

Over the last decade, Maike Rosa Vogel has grown into an important German-speaking indie pop singer-songwriter. She’s one to listen to her own heart, ...

Lukas Oppenheimer is an interdisciplinary musician and artist, combining his influences in pop and experimental music, computer science and visual art to explore a ...

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

For five days, the Reclaim the Beats Festival presents a variety of music genres such as house, techno, rock and hip-hop in different locations ...

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 ...

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

Post Neo: That’s the experimental electronic pop music duo of Nicole Luján and Pauline Weh, based in Mexico City and Berlin. Post Neo’s tracks ...

Bonaventure uses music as an identity research tool to connect her African and European influences and to question human relationships. Bonaventure’s compositions are expressive ...

Since the beginning of the first lockdown, the city’s clubs and music venues have been threatened with closure. Even non-commercial, community-oriented venues like the ...

Unprofessional is a state of mind. The producer Unprofessional comes from a small town on the east coast of Italy. Coming from a visual ...

Launched as a joint initiative of the synth-punk band Mexican Radio and the citizens’ association Zukunftswerkstatt Heinersdorf, the one-day Heinersdorfer Punk Fest in Pankow ...

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

A Berlin via New York transplant, Dis Fig’s music earnestly reflects her past and present. A member of NYC label PTP, whose mold-melting output ...

Referring to his output as »cyberpunk R&B,« London-born singer-songwriter and producer Gozi pushes the boundaries of what can be considered pop music. Fusing bright, ...

Ich bin ein Berliner is a recurrent music show at the legendary Club SO36 in Berlin Kreuzberg. Actually, it is more like a fantastic ...

Fascinated by Berlin and its possibilities, Anaïs Tuerlinck found the perfect playground for her freely improvised music, noise and performances of all genres. She ...

Meron is a Berlin-based singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist with a sound strongly rooted in R&B. He started making music at an early age, writing ...

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

HYENAZ are Berlin-based sound and movement artists Kathryn Fischer (aka Mad Kate) and Adrienne Teicher (aka Bad Conscience). The dance tracks, soundscapes, performances, installations ...

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 ...

The independent music label Alvozay, founded by rapper Ebow and DJ Tmnit Ghide, celebrated its festival debut in 2020. With the Alvozay Festival, the ...

Otto is a village of shipping containers at the Haus der Statistik situated directly on the corner of Karl-Marx-Allee and Otto-Braun-Straße, where the collective ...

Neukölln Country Club is a vaudeville show with live music hosted by the house band The Hole Boys. Regularly, musicians are invited to perform ...

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). ...

The open-air series Sonic In(ter)ventions aims to rethink public space as an interactive venue for independent artistic expression through energetic, musical improvisational practices. The ...

Chrisman is one of the rising stars of the new electronic scene in Congo, his tracks tearing down the boundaries between gqom, tarraxinha, soukous ...

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, ...

rRoxymore’s music is an intriguing, one-off blend of contrasting textures – organic and synthetic, icy and warm – a fresh step in dance music. ...

Maggot Heart is the brainchild of the guitarist, singer and songwriter Linnéa Olsson. Taking cues from the rhythmic gloom of Killing Joke, the aggressive ...

A major aim of the CTM Festival since its inception has been to make space for radical forms of musical expression and dissonant emotions. ...

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 ...

Starting as angry Thuringian provincial teenagers, the band – which has since moved to Berlin – has developed into an important political mouthpiece for ...

It’s not easy to explain exactly what Kabeaushé does. Let’s just say, Kabeaushé makes the pop of the future. And so much more. For ...

Sleepover Drone is a platform for artists working with drone, ambient, and experimental music. The focus is on female and non-binary artists. The concert ...

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

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. ...

For over ten years, Down by the River Festival has been focussing on unknown and up-and-coming artists from Berlin. Striding through a span of ...

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 ...

Gender-fluid Iranian-American artist Dornika is a Berlin based musician, visual artist, drag performer and vocal coach. Born in Tehran, she migrated with her mom ...

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, ...

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 ...

Under the moniker TEll A ViSiON, Berlin-based singer, songwriter and music producer Fee Kürten is rediscovering herself: evolution not revolution! While she still served ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Hendrik Weber aka Pantha Du Prince is one of the popstars of the electronic music scene, and he definitely earned his fame. Born 1975 ...

Sarah Farina is an international DJ, music producer, curator and activist. She hosts and curates the interdisciplinary Berlin event series Emergent Bass with her ...

Jackson Dyer is an Australian singer-songwriter and producer. At the start of 2013, Dyer first arrived in Berlin, where he progressed from playing on ...

LAMIA is a 24-year-old, Berlin-based producer and vocalist from London. Reviewed by CLASH Magazine as having a »clear DIY attitude« and BBC Introducing her ...

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

›Political Journalist‹ isn’t a credential we usually have in musician’s bios, but this is exactly what Anika was doing while living between Berlin and ...

Monika Werkstatt highlights the image of female producers and artists and their work, thereby enhancing their value, rendering them visible and tangible. In electronic ...

Sam Vance-Law is pop music through a queer lens. From pick up lines to raising a child, marriage and divorce to crises of faith, ...

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

Wanja Janeva grew up in Berlin as the daughter of Bulgarian parents. Since then, she has travelled the world with her voice. She is ...

The Berlin-based solo artist Strip Down has been passionately producing punchy electro synth-pop and bringing it to clubs throughout Europe since 2012. Having taken ...

Hans Unstern is a multitude who writes songs, builds musical instruments, releases albums and radio plays, and gives dazzling performances. On ›DIVEN‹, their latest ...

Batila calls his combination of Congolese rhythms, a touch of reggae, soft jazzy vibes and some electronic sounds Bantu Soul: a fusion of all ...

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

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 ...

Born in Cape Verde, Creole singer Vera Tavares captivates audiences with her powerful stage presence and poppy, jazzy, soulful voice. When Vera Tavares sings, ...

  From Lichtenberg over the ether: Cashmere Radio is an experimental, not-for-profit community radio station being on the point of preserving while furthering radio ...

Istanbul-born Başak Günak, also known as Ah! Kosmos, operates in an artistic field spanning production, live performance, sound installation works and composition for dance, ...

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 ...

The ensemble and artist residency Grounded Outer Space People explores the relationship between transmigration and music, curating open listening sessions, workshops and presentation meetings. ...

In 2016, B O K E H, the artistic alter-ego of New Zealand-raised and Berlin-based artist, Chloë Lewer, was born. Alternating in performance between ...