FUNDED PROJECTS

Takseer started as a series of events and in 2022 launched the first edition of its festival. Its aim is at providing a stage ...

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

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 ...

Berlin-based Rosa Landers is a singer-songwriter as well as a trained actress working across disciplines. So far, she has created a visual EP in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Those tender moments of cathartic house euphoria are what Sara Miller strives for, as the Irish-born DJ and producer conducts blissful trajectories through the ...

Lion Sphere blend thumping electronic fragments with heavy hip hop grooves, spacious guitar licks and raw vocals. The Berlin four-piece creates a mesmerizing fusion ...

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 ...

Mona Yim is a Chinese-German artist, producer, DJ and vocalist currently based in Berlin. Her music can be described as emotive electronica with elements ...

The Femme*Hain concert series counteracts the marginalisation of FLINTA+, meaning women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans, agender, and everyone facing discrimination from patriarchal structures due ...

Nichtseattle stands for a bunch of sore songs about self-care in a precarious world. Nichtseattle comes along solo or with a band, melancholic but ...

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 ...

Erregung Öffentlicher Erregung play post-punk. They combine the energy of early punk with Krautrock’s driving beat and love for monotony, as well as the ...

Ari is an artist and electronic music producer based in Berlin. They write, produce and perform genre-bending music that thinks outside the box. Their ...

Boundaries Congress was created as a networking event with the vision of promoting diverse cultural opportunities in Berlin. The aim is providing a space ...

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 ...

powli is an up-and-coming singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer based in Berlin. Her instruments of choice are piano and guitar, and she infuses her pop ...

Laura Clock crafts music that is alive with contrasts and contradictions. Shimmery in tone yet shot through with powerful sub-bass and percussive trickery, her ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Ziúr is a Berlin-based DJ and producer, dedicated to combining different sonic textures and brainy beats into a functional dancefloor framework – clearly intended ...

Shybits is a Berlin based trio made up of friends Liam (UK), Piero (Italy), and Megan (South Africa). The band have been playing their ...

Dancing is MINCO’s passion and the core of her artistic expression. The music she spins is characterised by percussive energy and dynamic grooves. MINCO’s ...

gölgede-güneşte (Eng.: in sun and shadow), borrowing its name from Eduardo Galeano’s famous book, is a collective musical project of four Berlin-based musicians from ...

FERHAT’s EP ›Turkish Delights‹ was planned to be centred on the tensions between eroticism and Islam. However, recent political developments and Istanbul’s current transformation ...

The Down by the River Festival is a live music festival for »freaks, fans and family«. It celebrates the city’s non-commercial concert culture and ...

Raised in France, DJ, radio presenter and music producer Monibi has arrived in her current home of Berlin after a phase in Scotland. Weaving ...

The three-day DICE Conference + Festival puts a spotlight on the work of female, trans and non-binary artists. Their goal is to support a ...

As the voice of Berlin’s club scene, the Clubcommission works to ensure that the interests of Berlin’s club culture are taken into account by ...

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

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

The RambaZamba Theater is the home for the experimental, musical-lyrical late-night show HI FREAKS. Along with friends from the music and literature scene, the ...

Golden Diskó Ship is the alias of composer, sound and video artist Theresa Stroetges. As a member of bands such as Soft Grid and ...

Glossy and angular,spacious and atmospheric. Ben Jackson’s music sweeps over a broad landscape of sonic textures. The Canadian producer takes rhythmic structures from the ...

›Everything sucks‹ is one of the first singles by the non-binary hyperpop artist IXXF. But that’s not entirely true, as it certainly doesn’t apply ...

Panic attacks at the laundromat, the fake smile of a receptionist, queer dates –
 Juno Lee draws the inspiration for her lyrics mainly from ...

Jenseits von Nelken und Pralinen is a small, nicely curated festival on the International Women’s Day, March 8th. Besides discussions and award ceremonies, Berlin ...

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

After two successful editions, the Berlin Ukelele Festival will be entering its third round on October 27th and 28th 2018. The festival edition invites ...

Khalil Chahine is a Berlin-based engineer and producer who combines musical and scientific knowledge (in physics with a focus on psychoacoustics) in his unique ...

Unexpected calls emerge under, over and between layers of basslines, some thick and some thin. Here a voice answers, there an instrumental sample swings ...

Presented by Dancing Shoes Promotion, NIRANIUM is a one-day rock festival at the Berghain Kantine  bringing Berlin’s rock scene together while celebrating the diversity ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Portrait XO is an artist who creates musical and visual works through traditional and non-traditional methods. In collaboration with Dadabots, Portrait XO won the ...

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

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. ...

Since the revival of Berlin Atonal in 2013, the long-standing festival has been held annually in the disused Heizkraftwerk Mitte – an industrial complex ...

Mushiva is a Berlin-based Namibian street poet, rapper, and technologist. One-third of the award-winning hip hop poetry group Black Vulcanite and professionally trained as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

Costantino Toth aka Onirologia works as a composer and sound engineer, conceiving sound as an »achronological archive«, tying in themes of transformation and home. ...

Tim Koh is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer and visual artist, most notably known as a long-time member of the band Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti. ...

Launched in 2020 with the Corona pandemic in mind, Picnic FM seeks to satisfy the hunger for a shared, live music experience in a ...

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

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, ...

On the cover of their second album, ›Walrus‹, two sisters size up their observers with challenging glances a la Lennon. Tanno Pippi, one of ...

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

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

The Bedroom Sessions presented young musicians in Berlin and around the world. Artists had the opportunity to reach and interact with a global audience ...

As Minimal Schlager, Olga Karatzioti B and siblings Alicia Macanás and Francisco Parisi create synth-pop that deals with and dissects identities, sexual experiences and ...

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

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 ...

EVÎN is a singer, songwriter, producer and one of the most exciting new voices in R&B. Her music blends elements from different genres with ...

The Kiezsalon is a forum for innovative music beyond the borders of genre as well as a meeting point for friends, loners, lovers and ...

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

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 ...

Andreas Spechtl has been the singer, guitarist and songwriter of Ja, Panik since 2006, which has released five albums to date. In summer 2016 ...

With an affinity for decentralised discourse and experimental practices, the workshop series Nuts And Bolts aims to open up spaces of learning and experimentation ...

Juno Francis is the supposed »lovechild of a 60s gentleman and an 80s lady,« and as plausible as that sounds, it also means that ...

Madam Data is a musician, composer, and sound scientist who explores machine and spirit interfaces. Their fantasies are about truly knowing what sacredness is, ...

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 ...

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

Johnny Kulo combines old-school soul and R&B. Laid-back grooves, thicc harmonies and catchy melodies – in his music, the Indian artist and producer, now ...

#EinfachSein – That’s Fargo. In the tender age of six years, Falk-Arne Goßler was already on stage: He has been the child of choice ...

Molly Nilsson is a Swedish born artist, producer and songwriter residing in Berlin since 2005. She first started composing in 2007 and made her ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Danielle Arielli has always been surrounded by music. Her mother, a music teacher, taught her to sing and to play guitar and piano, and ...

Zeyo is a songwriter, rapper and producer who mixes and masters his songs alone. His work is at the intersection of art and activism, ...

FAYIM is a singer-songwriter who creates a perfect balance between profundity and ease – with his lyrics, his distinctive voice and his empowering and ...

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 ...

»Sisterhood, das sind wir!« (»Sisterhood, that‘s us!«) is a line from one of the many new rap songs on the label Sisterqueens, which focusses ...

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 ...

No Shade is a club night series and DJ training programme for female and non-binary DJs based in Berlin. The idea is to help ...

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 ...