19 April 2026 | Huxleys Neue Welt

The legendary Kim Gordon returns to Berlin with her third solo album PLAY ME. Sharp, distilled, and strikingly direct, the record filters the present moment through Gordon's singular lens, dissecting the fallout of the billionaire class, the erosion of democratic ideals, the creep of technocratic end-times fascism, and the A.I.-polished chill-vibes smoothing culture into something eerily inert. With her caustic wit and dark humor, Gordon captures the strange absurdities of contemporary life.

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Thank you to all artists, speakers, and partners for their incredible performances and trust, days of emotion and imagination upon the stage and nights of peerless club power. And to those who came, thank you most of all, for sharing space with us, for the energy and information exchanges and the beautiful friends new and old. For basking with us in raging noise and transcendent beauty – often at the same time – and for that so-essential coming together. Thank you for one more year, in dissonance and in resonance. 

We will be back soon with festival documentation including a selection of recordings of performances and talks, photo and press highlights. Until then, revisit the festival through the lens of our photographers via CTM's Flickr pages. And please don't forget to check out the Echoes of Tumult exhibition still on until 22 March.

Echoes of Tumult brings together works of witnessing and processing violence, systemic failure, and vulnerability, by artists who are in varying proximity to the realities they are examining. With 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.

The exhibition runs until 22 March at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien and daadgalerie, with free entry. Several more talks and happenings with exhibition artists are in the works and will be announced soon.

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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 | NyMusikk | ORF Kunstradio | ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst | ORF Ö1 | Oroko Radio | Somerset House Studios | Sonic Acts Biennale | spæs | tekhnē | 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 | Johnnie Walker | Tanqueray | Kein Problem Studio

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