FUNDED PROJECTS

Initiated in 2019 as an event by YAAM and its inclusive DJ collective Supa Star Soundsystem, the Supa Star Showcase celebrated its third anniversary ...

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

The virtuoso Zac Bru aka Detroit Bureau of Sound masters and preaches the craft of live performance. His influences are futuristic and avant-garde, spanning ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Berlin based Bernadette La Hengst is an electro-pop musician and singer-songwriter with a passion for political and social issues and utopian ideas. In the ...

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 ...

Berlin Brass Festival is annually blasting its way into the streets, plazas and parks of the city – brassy, colorful, loud, accessible, for everyone, ...

Konstantin (born 1992 in Cairo) studied jazz drums at the Musikhochschule in Basel until 2014 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. He also ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Kutzkelina aka Doreen Kutzke is a German actress, performance artist, composer, singer, and vocal teacher specialising in the art of yodelling. She grew up ...

While guitarist Manuel and drummer Johannes were already working on a joint project, singer Maria initially joined the band as a feature guest. That ...

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

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 ...

There’s an undeniable warmth to Wayne Snow’s music, one that combines a contemporary take on his homeland Nigeria with neo-soul, alternative pop, soultronica, and ...

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 ...

Producer and songwriter Emika has a background in classical piano and composition and was a sound designer for Native Instruments, one of the leading ...

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

The mission of Pathwaves is to dismantle patriarchal and misogynistic structures within the field of music production and to counteract the fact that around ...

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 ...

Born and raised in Istanbul, Berlin-based artist R.A.N. explores the possibilities of how sonic textures and rhythm can be used to evoke a sense ...

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 ...

Goodbye or hello? The art festival You Say Goodbye, We Say Hello invited to the Atelierhaus Australische Botschaft (Ost) with music, workshops, art installations ...

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 ...

After a musical upbringing, Sam Barker moved to Brighton to study Digital Music in 2002, and became a key part of the city’s emerging ...

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

WaqWaq Kingdom is a Japanese tribal bass duo consisting of dubstep-noise savvy Kiki Hitomi and Shigeru Ishihara, the latter of whom has been orbiting ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

»I am not necessarily interested in saying something that has never been said before,« says Max Prosa. »Rather, I want to articulate what has ...

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 ...

Johanna Borchert is a singer, pianist and composer whose roots lie in jazz. In October 2014, the charismatic artist released her first record ›FM ...

Michael Mühlhaus became a keyboarder for Blumfeld in 1998. He studied popular music in Hamburg, he has initiated the project Nautic United together with ...

Founded in 2013, the band Black Heino considers itself in the musical tradition of garage rock of the sixties and in the spirit of ...

With their neo-R&B, Soft Drug release a world of feelings that otherwise lies dormant in the band members, rarely getting the chance to surface. ...

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

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 ...

Since 2014, Alexandra Grübler has been dedicated to the musical exploration of resistance, autonomy and identity with her project Baal & Mortimer, which originated ...

mobilegirl grew up in Munich, where she studied Media Computer Science and has been a fairly new addition to the Berlin electronic music scene. ...

Musician and performer Kupalua creates complex multidimensional works of art that – oscillating between sound installation and body performance – are both enchanting and ...

VEE is a Berlin-based singer and songwriter who creates dark, futuristic, avant-garde RnB with subtle trap influences. Inspired by artists like Banks and FKA ...

Kendy Gable is Berlin-based, American singer-songwriter that weaves poetry and stories into haunting melodies. She has performed throughout the United States, Canada and Europe ...

Israeli DJ and producer DASCO has a background every bit as colourful as her music. Born and raised in Tel Aviv and now based ...

The Bassquake Weekender is an inclusive and intergenerational festival for bass music. The aim of the event is not only to network, but also ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Jinka is a writer/singer/producer of Transylvanian origin who dropped the first single of her artist project in mid-2017. She set up her laboratory in ...

After spending the last few years based in Berlin working as producers, arrangers and players for artists such as David Byrne, Jaakko Eino Kalevi, ...

With the neologisms »sun-drunk sound« and »solar-based hip hop«, Kaleo Sansaa tries to capture the essence of her music: a sound that seems to ...

Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Lotic has dominated Berlin’s electronic music scene for almost a decade now. She released her debut EP ›More ...

For about ten years, diveRcity has been enabling young people to enjoy themselves and their cultures. Whether with a concert, jam session, graffiti battle, ...

There’s a lot to celebrate. Handiclapped turns 15. And the Special Olympics World Games come to Berlin. Dance with us in the open air ...

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 ...

Twice a year, the event series Tanzhalle brings together musicians from the genres of reggae, dancehall, cloud rap, and trap. The goal is to ...

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

Temple Haze’s music is an ever-evolving and ever-changing tapestry. From his roots in blues and alt-country music to modern downbeat, ambient and lo-fi, Temple ...