FUNDED PROJECTS

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 ...

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 ...

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

Born and raised in Naples, Berlin-based sound artist, vocalist and DJ Sara Persico started experimenting in early age on the fringes of Naples’ fiery ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fall in Berlin is an event organised by the collective Shambala Temple with the aim of bringing together artists from West Asia, especially women ...

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 ...

Five actors of the RambaZamba theatre group, amongst them two with Down syndrome, form a band called 21 Downbeat. Their songs evolve from own ...

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

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 ...

For the very first time punk’d took place in Berlin in October 2017. As the name already reveals, the festival is settled far beyond ...

AŸA is an all-rounder. In her music, however, she tells stories that reflect her Moroccan-Yemeni roots. Her electro-pop sound is characterised by a world ...

10 years ago, Johanna Knutsson left her native Sweden for Berlin to dive deeper into the music scene and find her sound in electronic ...

Masha The Rich Man is the project of Berlin-based Jewish artist Maria »Mascha« Raykhman. The sound, shaped by Raykhman’s Eastern European socialisation, embraces Yiddish ...

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

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 ...

Erin Renfro’s solo project, Blue Babe, is an authentic and atmospheric introspection into a darkness not easily shared with others. The indie pop-rock singer-songwriter-composer ...

Gregor Heinze is a pianist, composer and producer. In the 1990s he was active as a musician in the Berlin hip-hop scene together with ...

Shaking up the scene since 2014, the Poetry Meets Series is an international, multilingual community event showcasing visual art and film, spoken words, DJs ...

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

Amnesia Scanner’s beats sound so familiar, something you’ve definitely heard before but can’t quite place. Energetic kicks and deep bass drums jolt your body ...

The Berlin Swamp Fest is dedicated to showcasing the musical genres of psychedelic-, stoner-, and hard rock as well as black-, death-, and doom ...

Founded in 2021, [Endlich] put together a diverse line-up for a free open-air event followed by a club night at OXI in 2022. The ...

As a homosexual BPOC rapper, venturathagay subverts hip-hop culture with cheeky, humorous and explicit lyrics, offering the genre’s largely cis-male, often toxically normative followers ...

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 ...

DICE RISING is a new experimental programme for emerging Berlin-based musicians, organisers and other people working in music: three days of online workshops, mentoring, ...

Martin Claudius Maischein, born in Frankfurt am Main, is a musician and music producer living in Berlin. Influenced by the electronic club music that ...

The international network female:pressure, a network founded by Electric Indigo that brings together female, transgender, and non-binary musicians from the field of electronic music ...

Influenced by German oldschool hip hop as well as influences spanning from Peaches to Die Goldenen Zitronen, Hole, Kurt Weill, John Frusciante, Suzi Quatro ...

Grinder is a small community of 200 people in Norway. Veslemøy Rustad Holseter not only grew up here – the town seal adorned with ...

SUBVERTED’s Electronic Music Production Mentoring Program consists of an Ableton Live and Modular Synth course – primarily for Queers, BIPOC, trans, agender and non-binary people and ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

For the second time, noiseLab was taking over Teufelsberg in 2019. Artists had been invited to react and respond to the specifics of the ...

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

TIES is a Berlin-based event series by Borshch magazine’s Mariana Berezovska and TYME. It celebrates the resilience of the city’s music communities and diasporas ...

Having been described as »honest pop,« Magic Island’s soundscape is permeated by haunting and unforgettable flavours. With her Berlin-based solo project, the artist weaves ...

Moro is an Argentinian musician and composer based in Berlin. Trained as a professional guitarist at the Manuel de Falla Conservatory in Buenos Aires, ...

Tehran Contemporary Sounds is a Berlin-based hub, for musicians, artists and collectives living abroad as well as in Iran, with the aim to bring ...

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 ...

MADANII is a genre-rebel, a barrier-breaking recording artist and creative instigator from Berlin. With an artistic vision rooted in Persian culture and informed by ...

Martina Stock’s musical repertoire cannot be clearly assigned to any genre. It includes key influences of neo-classical, ambient and electronic music and combines acoustic ...

World Wild Web (WWW) is the project of French producer Manuel Jesus. His sound is colourful and crowded, an organic conglomerate of distinct influences ...

With Come Together!, both established and young Sinti and Roma artists have a platform to present themselves to the city and its visitors. The ...

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

The American techno producer has only recently moved to Berlin. The passionate musician has released two albums as well as numerous EPs and singles ...

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

The Krake Festival for bold electronic dance music has been taking place since 2010 in Berlin. It promotes outstanding young artists and showcases the ...

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

Anneli Bentler grew up in Freiburg, Germany, with a classical music education and a passion for composers like Bach, Debussy, Ravel and Steve Reich. ...

Choka is a new collaboration between multidisciplinary artist Maque Pereyra and experimental musician Ricardo Eizirik. They started creating music together in 2022 with the ...

Favouring emotional expressionism and intense beats, Catnapp is pushing the boundaries of electronic music with a unique and bold take on songwriting and production. ...

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, ...

Since their arrival in Berlin as a refugee in 2015, escaping war and violence as a queer and trans person in Syria, Enana found ...

The internationally know brother duo of Ali and Basti Schwarz discovered its passion for electronic music and techno in the early 90s as club ...

Klangteppich (»Sound Carpet«) is a festival presenting contemporary musicians from the Iranian diaspora. The focus of the second issue in 2019 was on artists ...

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 ...

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

After studying veterinary medicine and music education in Berlin, Isabel (Izzy) Ment began writing and producing her debut EP ›As The Words Come Through‹ ...

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

Blending Live is an event combining concerts with dance, performance and art, putting an emphasis on local, up-and-coming artists outside of the mainstream. Artists ...

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 ...

tuftyhead is a dark-disco duo based in Berlin. In early 2018, Max Hirtz-Wolf, composer and originator, moved from his home of Berkeley, California, to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

15 Minutes of Femme is not only a stage but also a platform created by and for women, trans and non-binary artists, musicians and ...

With funky bass and minimalist ballads, with 2000s R&B and hip-hop vibes, with a multi-faceted voice and multi-layered harmonies, RIIVA is uncompromisingly captivating. Her ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Jemek Jemowit is a one-man-band, DJ and concept artist who insists on the creative input of the antihipped neighbourhoods of West Berlin. Live, the ...

PeroPero is a progressive-metal duo from Austria, based in Berlin. PeroPero’s complex and explosive grooves confront drums and guitar with wafting analogue synthesizers, while ...

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

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

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

Founded in 2012 by singer Tobias Bamborschke and guitarist Max Bauer, Isolation Berlin is a German-language indie band. Their lineup since 2013 includes Simeon ...

The concert series Kidz Klang is an open-air event for kids, young people, and families – for people from 0 to 99 years old. ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

We Make Waves aims to connect women by creating a forum for discourse, idea-sharing, mentoring and goal-setting, showcasing the strengths of women in 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 ...

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

Gina D’Orio is a Berlin musician, producer and singer. She is the main former vocalist from Ec80r and member of Cobra Killer. She started ...

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 ...

In her native country, Switzerland, Berlin-based Mia Aegerter has released four highly acclaimed and awarded full-length albums– all written in Swiss dialect. With her ...

SEDA has been singing and performing since she was 8 years old. She was discovered by Sigmund Bothmann, a church musician and director of ...

What the Future Holds is dedicated to queer and feminist club and performance culture. Its mission is promoting the work of FLINTA* artists and ...

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 ...

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

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. ...

Eilis Frawley is a classically trained percussionist from the Elder Conservatorium of Music in Adelaide. She spent a number of years in Seoul, where ...