Sound In The Garden: Dopplereffekt & Space Afrika

13th Aug 2026 13th Aug 2026 18:30 open end

Dopplereffekt

00:00

Space Afrika (DJ Set)

00:00

Neue Nationalgalerie26 €

An open-air concert series by Neue Nationalgalerie in collaboration with CTM Festival, powered by d&b Soundscape. Sound In The Garden continues with an exhibition of futuristic sonic geometry where mathematical architecture meets industrial soundscapes.

Photo courtesy of the artists

From 12 – 16 August 2026, Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie once again teams up with CTM Festival to present the open-air concert series Sound In The Garden. After four nights of live concerts, Sunday will be dedicated to special sound installations created in honor of Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya, who is presenting a site-specific fog sculpture in the sculpture garden of the Neue Nationalgalerie. 

Sound in the Garden follows in the tradition of innovative concert formats that have repeatedly taken place in the museum's sculpture garden since the Neue Nationalgalerie opened—from the Jazz in the Garden events of the 1970s and 1980s, where artists such as Alice Coltrane and Keith Jarrett performed, to the Sound in the Garden series, which has been established since the building reopened in 2022. The clarity and precision of Mies van der Rohe’s architecture, together with the ephemeral poetry of Fujiko Nakaya’s fog sculpture, serve as parallel inspirations for understanding to conceive of music as a spatial art form. This is enabled by an immersive d&b Soundscape audio system that allows participants to experience the music intensively as they wander wandering among the garden’s plants and sculptures. 

Drawing from Afrofuturism as well as the cellular grooves of biology and physics, Dopplereffekt’s icy dystopian synth lines spin out a hypnotic high-concept universe of Blade Runneresque ennui and energy. The blueprints of Detroit electro mutate into a calculated alien funk, sterile drum machine patterns and uneasy synthesizer melodies mapping out computerized futures.

  • Metasymmetry, by Dopplereffekt

  • Metasymmetry, by Dopplereffekt

Photo courtesy of the artist.

It’s a universe perfectly in key with the rain-slick industrial textures and slow-shifting atmospheric collages of Manchester duo Space Afrika. Unspooling a special DJ set, their soot-stained melodies are built from muffled urban field recordings; operating like audio documentarians, deep dub basslines trap the ghosts of the city within dense layers of reverb and industrial static: soundtracks for walking alone through decaying concrete necropoli.

  • MLN ft. Tony Njoku, by Space Afrika

  • MLN ft. Tony Njoku, by Space Afrika

Sound in the Garden is curated by Gregor Quack, Volkswagen Group curator, in collaboration with Tessa Nijdam and CTM – Festival for Adventurous Music & Art, Berlin. The project is made possible by FREUNDE der Nationalgalerie and has received crucial support by audibene GmbH and d&b audiotechnik.

Venue Address

Neue Nationalgalerie
Potsdamer Str. 50
10785 Berlin

The Neue Nationalgalerie is fully wheelchair accessible. 

Persons taking public transit may check the current status of elevators at the subway stops nearest each venue, via the BVG (both in German and English).

If you have further questions about event and venue accessibility, or to help plan your visit, please write to us at accessibility(at)ctm-festival.de.