CTM 2027 will take place at Radialsystem, Berghain, RSO.Berlin, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Morphine Raum, and Haus der Visionäre, among other venues. More than ever, the festival programming will be a momentary manifestation of sustained conversations, collaborations, and exchanges, driven by a multiplicity of voices in dialogue.
First acts, the festival's visual CI, and early-bird festival passes will be announced mid-September.
Theme: Process…ing
We live in a present shaped by predefined scripts, hungry algorithms, and extractivist protocols that erode our capacity to process, act, and think. But nobody lives in outcomes alone. We live inside the doing, and what we repeatedly do shapes what we become. Therefore, the process is the message: how we do what we do – and how we design infrastructures and protocols – matters.
As an attitude and method experimental and undetermined processes driven by continuous feedbacks are a fundamental constituent of artistic work and of CTM’s own history. Within CTM 2027, process…ing means resisting closure and elevating the collective acts of making and sharing above the polished artifact. In a world that demands finished results, we choose to remain unfinished, in relation, and present.
Open Calls
Three open calls are currently running, with more to come in autumn.
After more than a decade, we've shifted the CTM Radio Lab into a new format titled »In Listening« that zeroes in on sound-focused experiences.
The Research Networking Day seeks proposals for short presentations responding to the CTM 2027 theme, Process…ing.
The CTM 2027 edition of the Resynthesising the Traditional artistic lab seeks artists and practice-based researchers whose work critically examines the relationships, tensions, and intersections between the traditional and the extreme.
An open call for a new artistic lab experimenting with spatial audio will follow in September.
Key Dates
| Fri 22 January | Opening concert, opening club night |
| Sat 23 – Sun 24 January | Concerts, club night, discourse, labs, film screenings |
| Sat 24 January | In Listening presentations |
| Sun 24 January | Research Networking Day |
| Mon 25 – Sun 31 January | Concerts, club nights, workshops, discourse, labs |
| Sat 30 January | RA x CTM conference |
| Sun 31 January | Resynthesising the Traditional Finale, closing concert |
transmediale
Our sister festival transmediale will be celebrating their 40th anniversary from 28 – 31 January 2027. Under the title »groundstates«, the festival unfolds as a decentralised system, foregrounding a multiplicity of internets and resisting the expectation of a single technological future. The festival is curated by Barbara Cueto, and will be accompanied by the exhibition »Fragile Currents« curated by Antonina Stebur, which takes working with ruins as a method to treat infrastructural breakdown as a condition from which other forms of organisation can emerge.