Runs: 23.1.–22.3.2026 | Kunstraum Kreuzberg & daadgalerie | Free entry

The CTM 2026 »Exhibition Echoes of Tumult« features works by Cathy van Eck, Dror Feiler, Essa Grayeb, Fragmentin, Hoda Afshar, Interspecifics, Ioana Vreme Moser, Isuru Kumarasinghe, Jaeha Ban & Soyun Park, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Nikita Kadan, Sissel Marie Tonn & Jonathan Reus, Zhanna Kadyrova

Exhibition Opening

23.1.2026 | 17:00

The exhibition will open simultanously at neighouring venues Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien and daadgalerie. A short welcome word will be given at daadgalerie at 18:30.

Public Tours

29. & 31.1.2026 | 16–17:30
29.1. Start: Kunstraum Kreuzberg
31.1. Start: daadgalerie

The teams of CTM, the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, and iii are offering joint public tours. No registration needed.

Discourse Programme

24 & 25.1.2026 | daadgalerie | Free entry

Two days dedicated to themes of eco-violence and sonic tumult will offer additional context to some of the topics weaving through the exhibition. Artist talks, presentations, and screenings with alen hast, Center for Spatial Technologies, Ioana Vreme Moser, Nikita Kadan, Nursalim Yadi Anugerah, and Signe Lidén are supported by inputs from researchers Gascia Ouzounian and Svitlana Matviyenko.

CTM 2026 Exhibition

23.1.2026 | Haus der Visionäre | With Earth, Nataša Grujović and Steve Moore, Growlers Choir

The CTM 2026 Opening Concert features legends Earth performing their album Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method in full, plus the duo performance of Nataša Grujović and Steve Moore wielding accordion, analogue synthetics and trombone to shape resonant fields that breathe within the rooms they inhabit. The night opens with Growlers Choir »Inside the Roar,« an immersive sound piece and live performance for eight heavy metal vocalists projected through the d&b soundscape spatial audio system.

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24.1.2026 | Haus der Visionäre

CTM 2026's opening weekend features a unique Saturday night rager headlining Blawan with a live performance of his 2025 LP SickElixier; Boredoms founder EYE with C.O.L.O's stunning visuals; and gnawed-open club freakage by KAVARI. On top you get fractured percussion systems by Seoul's Netgala, high-voltage electro in a first-time live set by Jensen Interceptor; and av and spatial audio sets by Shapednoise & Sevi Iko Dømochevsky, ophélie, and DJ MELL G.

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25.1.2026 | Radialsystem

Founded by composer Pierre-Luc Senécal in 2016, the Growlers Choir is composed solely of metal vocalists, called »growlers,« coming from different metal subcultures. The compositions of the ten-piece ensemble split across low, mid, and high registers, combining wails, hog grunts, howls and shrieks with layered choral singing, whispered breaths, ASMR textures, throat singing, and effects. Be sure not to miss this unique performance.

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25.1. | Haus der Visionäre | With Stygian Bough – Bell Witch & Aerial Ruin, Hilary Woods

Stygian Bough unites Dylan Desmond and Jesse Shreibman of Bell Witch with Erik Moggridge of Aerial Ruin in a project where heaviness is stretched to a near-static state. The concert also features Hilary Woods presenting her new album Night CRIÚ in a three piece live band, unfolding with quiet intensity, allowing voice, strings and space to drift slowly toward moments of transformation and rebirth.

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26.1.2026 | Radialsystem | As part of Fugue Friction concert with Lukas de Clerck

Dror Feiler channels his uncompromising engagement with politics and resistance into his new project »No IS«. Joined by his NO Orchestra – this time composed of fellow experimental musicians Boris Baltschun, Laure Boer, Greta Christensen, Mazen Kerbaj, Mats Lindström, Magda Mayas, Gustavo Obligado, and Camilla Sörensen, – high-pressure sonic fields collide with the poetry of Ghayath Almadhoun, speaking from the wound of exile, war, and ongoing destruction that the world prefers to describe as »the way things are.« Together, noise and poetry say: The world cannot remain as it is.

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Dissonance Drift concert night with Pink Siifu, Milkweed and Tony Njoku

An uncompromising voice with a constantly mutating grammar, Pink Siifu moves within the fracture zones of Southern hip-hop, punk, jazz, noise and soul sweating atop experimental textures, raw yet tender and deeply intentional. Nocturnal, restless and impossible to pin down—exactly how we like it. Pink Siifu will be replacing John Glacier, who is unable to perform due to health reasons. We wish her the best and hope to feature her in another edition.

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»Oto Aulos« by Marcin Pietruszewski and aulos performer Lukas de Clerck is a new work that centres on composing for the ancient aulos instrument and computer. Ahead of the work's premiere at CTM 2026, Pietruszewski shares more insights into his work with de Clerck and the fascinating world of the aulos – an instrument already contested in ancient times and for which we have no sonic record. In his article »Ear Elisions: Subtraction, Slippage, Refraction« Pietruszewski also raises questions on the limits of human listening and what it might mean when machine systems hear what their designers cannot predict.

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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 | FABiK – Fonds Ausstellungsvergütungen Bildende Künstler*innen Berlin

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 | Embassy of Sweden | KOFICE Korean Foundation for Intercultural Exchange | Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism | Kore A Round Culture | Québec Government Office in Berlin

Programme Partners
∄ | Archipel Festival | Deutschlandfunk Kultur Hörspiel / Klangkunst | Forecast | Freie Universität Berlin | Kunst Universität Linz | Leuphana Universität Lüneburg | NERDS | No_Stone | NyMusikk | ORF Kunstradio | ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst | ORF Ö1 | Oroko Radio | Somerset House Studios | Sonic Acts Biennale | spæs | tekhnē | Terminal | u2203 studio | Ultima Festival | Universität Oldenburg | Urbiks Music | WeSA

Supported by
Ableton | AIAIAI Audio | Ambrio Sound | Berliner Pilsener | d&b audiotechnik | d&b Soundscape | SAE | Stager | Michelberger Hotel | Johnnie Walker | Tanqueray | Kein Problem Studio

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