Fresh additions to the CTM 2026 flush out a constellation of performances, club nights, exhibitions, and research formats that coalesce across experimental electronics and intimate songwriting, trance-inducing rituals, and razor-edged bass mutations.

Newly confirmed artists and projects are:

• Aunty Rayzor
• Blawan
• Clementaum
• Container
• CRRDR
• Daniel Brandt – »Without Us«
• Dengue Dengue Dengue
• DJ Chad
• Ellen Arkbro with The London Crumhorn Consort
• Emma Ruth Rundle
• JADA
• Jay Mitta x Anti Vairas
• Jensen Interceptor
• Khalil Epi – »Aïchoucha«
• Microhm
• Milkweed
• Net Gala
• ophélie
• Sam Slater – »Lunng« with video by Lukas Feigelfeld, lights by Theresa Baumgartner, and guest appearance by Maria W Horn, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Hilary Jeffrey and Cavid Dheng
• Tony Njoku
• tripes
• UTILITY

Plus a co-production with HAU Hebbel am Ufer: Kat Válastur & Aho Ssan – »MoonJar«

And Research Networking Day presentations hosted by Anita Jóri (Leuphana University Lüneburg), Darsha Hewitt (Kunst Universität Linz), and Sarah Indriyati-Hardjowirogo (Universität Oldenburg) with: Aleksei Borisionok, Ana Rita Costa, Angus Tarnawsky, Eleanor Griffiths, Federica Notari, Gabriele Murano, Kika Echeverría, Lefteris Krysalis, Morten Poulsen.

The 2026 festival schedule is now online.

CTM 2026 Programme Schedule

More acts, workshops, the festival exhibition, and a collaboration with Refuge Worldwide will be announced mid-December. The Discourse programme will be announced in January.

Read the full announcement

A variety of passes remain on sale in limited quantities. The CTM Festival pass grants access to most festival events accross 10 days, while Weekend Passes bookend the festival. The Connect Pass grants access to CTM and transmediale 2026 programmes. Tickets to most events are on sale.

More tickets will be released with our mid-December announcement. 

CTM 2026 passes and tickets

Our yearly Research Networking Day will assemble nine scholars and artists/researchers from a variety of fields who will present research addressing the CTM 2026 dissonate < > resonate theme. Speakers were selected via open call, this year numbering over 100 applications. They will give short presentations within different thematic modules, moderated by Anita Jóri, Darsha Hewitt, and Sarah Indriyati-Hardjowirogo, with discussions after each presentation and at the end of each session.

Congratulations to this year’s speakers:

• Aleksei Borisionok (freelance curator)
• Ana Rita Costa (independent artist and PhD student, Universidade de Aveiro)
• Angus Tarnawsky (PhD candidate, Concordia University)
• Eleanor Griffiths (independent artist / practice-based researcher)
• Federica Notari (Research Department at Nieuwe Instituut)
• Gabriele Murano (independent artist)
• Kika Echeverría (independent artist)
• Lefteris Krysalis (PhD Candidate, Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar)
• Morten Poulsen (independent artist/researcher)

Presentations will be in English, and entrance to the event is free. Read more about the presentations on our website.

More information

CTM Festival is a co-production partner for »MoonJar,« a new performance by Kat Válastur and musician Aho Ssan, which will run parallel to CTM Festival 2026 over four consecutive nights at HAU2.

In »MoonJar,« choreographer and performer Kat Válastur and musician Aho Ssan sculpt a poetic interplay of sound, movement, and clay that gathers into an intense, near-ceremonial performance. Expanded by contributions from Sam Slater and Jakob Vasak, Aho Ssan’s immersive aurals entwine the archaic and the contemporary. »MoonJar« emerges as a charged site of transformation and radical potential.

Please note: This event is not included in festival passes.

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Funded by
Senate Department of Culture and Social Cohesion | Goethe-Institut | German Federal Foreign Office | Creative Europe Programme of the European Union | Musikfonds

In Cooperation with
Berghain | DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program | HAU Hebbel am Ufer | Haus der Visionäre | iii – instrument inventors initiative | Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien | Morphine Raum | Radialsystem | RSO.Berlin | transmediale 2026 | Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

Institutional Partners
Checkpoint Charlie Foundation | Culture Ireland | Embassy of Canada | Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands | KOFICE Korean Foundation for Intercultural Exchange | Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism | Kore A Round Culture | Quebec Government Office in Berlin

Programme Partners
∄ | Archipel Festival | Deutschlandfunk Kultur Hörspiel / Klangkunst | Forecast | Freie Universität Berlin | Kunst Universität Linz | Leuphana Universität Lüneburg | NERDS | ORF Kunstradio | ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst | ORF Ö1 | Sommerset House Studios | Sonic Acts Biennale | tekhnē | u2203 studio | Ultima Festival | Universität Oldenburg | WeSA

Supported by
Ableton | AiAiAi Audio | Berliner Pilsener | d&b audiotechnik | d&b Soundscape | SAE | Stager

Media Partners
Deutschlandfunk Kultur | Taz – Die Tageszeitung | RBB Radioeins | Refuge Worldwide | Resident Advisor