Berlin

Initiatives

Venues

• 8mm, underground music bar, Prenzlauer Berg, *2002
• ACUD, cultural centre, Mitte, *1991/2014
• after the butcher, exhibition space for contemporary art & social issues, Lichtenberg, *2006/2015
• AgvA-CIAT, Kreuzberg, *2012
• All The Problems In This World, role-playing games, comics and synth music store, Kreuzberg, *2021
• Anagram Books, project space, Kreuzberg, since 2016
• Another Country, English language second hand bookshop, Kreuzberg
• Apartment Project Berlin, non-profit art space, Neukölln, *2012
• Aperto, public laboratory, library and archive, Mitte, *2017
• Archive Books, Wedding/Gesundbrunnen, *2009, [1]
• Archivio Conz, *2016
• arkaoda Berlin, bar, Neukölln
• Arsenal, cinema, Tiergarten
• Art Laboratory Berlin, gallery, Gesundbrunnen, *2006
• Ausland, art, music and theory, Prenzlauer Berg
• Babylon, cinema, Kreuzberg
• Bärenzwinger, cultural site, Mitte, *2017
• Ballhaus Naunyn, Kreuzberg, *2006
• b_books, bookshop and publishing house, Kreuzberg, *1996
• Berghain, night club, Kreuzberg/Friedrichshain, *2004
• bi'bak, project space with a focus on transnational narratives, migration, global mobility and their aesthetic dimensions, Wedding, *2014
• Books People Places, architecture & urbanism bookstore, Schöneberg
• Bootlab, *2000
• Buchladen zur schwankenden Weltkugel, bookstore, Prenzlauer Berg
• c-base, lab, Mitte, *1995
• Changing Room / Wedding, project space for sound art and performance, Wedding, *2019
• DAM, digital art gallery, Mitte, *2003
• designtransfer, UdK Berlin gallery, Charlottenburg, *1984
• diffrakt, centre for theoretical periphery, Schöneberg, *2017
• District * School without Center, queer feminist art space and cultural center, Schöneberg, *2009
• Errant Sound, sound art venue, formerly Errant Bodies, Mitte, *2010
• Eschschloraque, bar, Mitte, *1995
• Flutgraben, studio house, Treptow, *1997
• Freehome
• GlogauAIR, project space, Kreuzberg, *2006
• Haus der Statistik, Mitte, *2015
• .HBC, club, Mitte
• Heart of Code, feminist hack- and makespace, Kreuzberg, *2015
• Hibiki, cultural space for contemporary art and music, Gesundbrunnen, *2018
• Hopscotch Reading Room, bookstore, reading room and event space, Tiergarten, *2018
• Individual Network, hackerspace, Moabit, *1995
• K77, experimental music venue, Mitte
• Kino International, cinema, Mitte, *1963
• km28, volunteer-run venue for new and experimental concert music, Neukölln, *2018
• Künstlerhaus Bethanien, cultural centre, Kreuzberg, *1973
• KVOST, dedicated to promoting artists who come from Eastern Europe, Mitte, *2018
• Labor Neunzehn, artist-run space, Alt-Treptow, *2014
• Labor Sonor / KuLe, experimental music venue, Mitte, *1990
• Lacuna Lab, collaborative creative space, Kreuzberg, *2015
• Lichtblick-Kino, independent art house cinema, Prenzlauer Berg, *1995
• Liebig12, art laboratory, Friedrichshain, *2011
• Loop Raum, space for contemporary art, *1997
• Loophole, underground event space, Neukölln
• Madame Claude, club, Kreuzberg, *2008
• MaHalla, event venue, Oberschöneweide, *2022
• Mastul, Wedding, *2004
• Monom, experimental performance venue, *2017
• Meinblau, project space, Prenzlauer Berg, *1997
• The Museum of American Art, Friedrichshain, *2004
• NGBK, bookstore & gallery, Kreuzberg, *1969
• offline, Neukölln, *2023
• O Tannenbaum, film & music venue, Neukölln
• Otherland, sci-fi & fantasy bookstore, *1998
• Panke, bar club bistro, Wedding, *2009
• panke.gallery, Wedding, *2016
• Peninsula, Moabit, *2014
• Pro qm, bookstore, Mitte, *1999
• Radialsystem, art space, Friedrichshain, *2006
• Rosa, project space for net art and net culture, Mitte, *2022
• Saint George's, 2nd hand bookstore, Prenzlauer Berg, *2003
• Sameheads, nightclub, Neukölln, *2013
• SAVVY Contemporary, Wedding, *2009
• Schering Stiftung, gallery, Mitte
• Schokoladen, live music bar, Mitte
• Scriptings, project space, Mitte, *2009
• Silent Green, cultural quarter, Wedding, *2013
• Sinema Transtopia, Mitte, *2015
• SomoS, art space, Kreuzkölln, *2012
• Sowieso, bar, Neukölln
• Sparwasser HQ, contemporary art gallery, Friedrichshain
• Supermarkt, project space, Kreuzberg, *2011
• Tennis Bar, kiezkneipe, vinyl and cassettes only, Neukölln, *2016
• Texture, Kreuzberg, *2018
• top, project space, Neukölln, *2002
• Trauma Bar und Kino, Mitte, *2018
• Trust, space for design and utopian conspiracy, Tiergarten, *2018
• uqbar, project space, Gesundbrunnen, *2007
• Valentin Stüberl, bar, Neukölln
• Vierte Welt, Kreuzberg, *2010
• Walden-Kunstaustellungen, gallery, Neukölln
• Willow's Nest, private home art space, Friedrichshain, *c2016
• Wendel, clubcafe, Kreuzberg
• Zentrum für Netzkunst, Mitte, *2019
• Zabriskie, bookshop for culture & nature, Kreuzberg, *2013
• ZK/U, center for art and urbanistics, Moabit
• Zönotéka, project space, Neukölln, *2014

Art museums and centres

• Berlinische Galerie, Kreuzberg, *1975
• Martin-Gropius-Bau, Kreuzberg, *1981
• Hamburger Bahnhof, contemporary art museum, Mitte, *1996
• Kindl, centre for contemporary art, formerly Alte Kindl Brauerei, Neukölln
• KW Institute for Contemporary Art, art centre, formerly Kunst-Werke, Mitte, *1991, [2], [3]

Past venues

-able (gallery, -2014), Altes Finanzamt (Neukölln, -2015), Antje Øklesund (audiovisual laboratory, -2017), A Public Library (Kreuzberg, 2015), Automaten (club, 2001-2004), Echo Bücher (space for contemporary music, sound and club culture, Gesundbrunnen, 2013-2018), Enblanco Projektraum (project space, Kreuzberg, 2009-2013), Fischbüro (cultural club, 1986-1989), Galerie René Block (1964-1979), gelbe MUSIK (1981-2014), General Public (sound art gallery, 2005-2015), Intersoup (music venue, Prenzlauer Berg), Kunstfabrik (culture space, 2002-2008), LEAP (Mitte, 2011-2015), M12, Maria am Ostbahnhof (club), Media Arts Lab Künstlerhaus Bethanien, NK (2009-2015), Or Gallery Berlin (2010-2015), Pflüger68 (exhibition space, 2007-2015), pickledfeet (Mitte, -2008), Pirate Cinema Berlin, Podewil centre (1992-2004), Quiet Cue (2009-2016), Raum (Wedding, 2006-2007) Raum18 (Neukölln, 2009-2010), Ruine der Künste Berlin (1985-2005), Singuhr Hoergalerie (sound art gallery, 1996-2014), Spektrum (art & science community space with makerlab, 2014-2019) [4], Stattbad (culture centre, Wedding, 2001-2015), Stralau 68, Tesla (media art lab, 2005-2007), tmp (artistic project spaces, 2007-2011), Underground Zero (club, *2007), White Rabbit (gallery & music venue, -2012), Zentrale-Randlage (2005-2007).

Initiatives with no permanent event venue

• 0x2620
• Archipel, community radio
• Artkillart, label, *2007
• Arts of the Working Class, street journal, *2018
• Backyard Radio, *2007
• Bausteln
• BLATT 3000, magazine for exchange and critical discussion, *2014
• Broken Dimanche Press, art and literature press, *2009
• Cashmere Radio, 2018
• Chaosradio
• De:Bug music magazine, *1997
• Digitale Gesellschaft, *2010
• DISK, *2005
• Disruption Network Lab, *2014
• DOCK
• Ecobytes, server, *2006
• eeclectic, visual culture publisher, *2018
• Ernst Schering Foundation, *2002
• Fehras Publishing Practices, artist collective, *2015
• FormatLabor
• Freifunk.net
• GenComp Collective
• ICI, *2006
• Iconclub, *2001
• ID Verlag, publishing house, *1988
• Initiative Neue Musik, *1991
• Institute for Algorhythmics, *2008
• Kammerensemble Neue Musik, *1980s
• kunst und technik, *1996
• La-condition-japonaise, *2007
• LaborBerlin, *2010
• Lebensformen, research group, *2011
• metroZones, *2007
• Not Applicable Artists, *2002
• The Public School Berlin, *2010
• Public Software Group, *2009
• r0g-media, *2012
• Radical Theory Berlin, reading group, *2009
• Reboot.fm, radio, *2004
• Replica, physical theatre platform
• Rohrpost, mailing list, *2000
• Singuhr, *1996
• So Far Channel
• School of Ma, *2014
• Telekommunisten
• textz.com, *2001
• top e.V., *2002
• Weise7, *2011
• xxxxx, 2006

• Past initiatives: Displaced Dilemma (c.2003-c.2007) [5], Codelab (2001-2002), Modukit (1998-2009), Mikro e.V. (1998-2001), Orang / Radio Internationale Stadt (1996-2002), Convex tv (1996-), Internationale Stadt Berlin (1995-1998), Handshake (1993-), Botschaft e.V. (1990-1996), A.N.Y.P. (periodical, 1989-1999), minimal club (artist group, *1983/1990).

Events

• Chaos Communication Congress, *1984
• club transmediale, festival, *1999
• Directors Lounge, video art and experimental film festival, *2005
• Kontakte, biennial for electroacoustic music and sound art, *2015
• Performing Encounters salon, *2014
• Radical Networks, conference, 2018
• Radical Sounds Latin America, festival, *2019
• Re:publica conference, *2007
• Sound Watch, music film festival, *2017
• State, festival for open science, art and society, *2014
• Transmediale, festival, *1988
• Vintage Computing Festival Berlin, *2014, [6]
• Vorspiel, city-wide program of events, *2010

• Event listings: Echtzeitmusik live music calendar, mobilize.berlin event platform, field notes contemporary music and jazz events.

Past events

• Magical Hackerism, research, exhibition, netting, performances, 2022-2023
• Noisyleaks: The Art of Exposing Secrets, exhibition, 2022
• Hacking in Parallel (///HiP-Berlin///), conference, 2022
• Spatial, festival for spatial sound, music, art and technology, 2022
• Cinema of Commoning, symposium, screenings, talks, 2022
• Avtonomi Akadimia, 2020
• Technologies, *2020, [7] [8] [9]
• Open Scores, exhibition, 2019
• Statista, urban renewal project, 2019
• Infiltration: Challenging Supremacism, 2018
• Underground and Improvisation: Alternative Music and Art after 1968 exhibitions, concerts & discourse, 2018
• Vibrant Matter, text/object and sound event series, 2017-2021, [10]
• HOFFNUNG 3000, festival for music, art and theory, *2017
• Netzkunst im Berlin der 90er Jahre, exhibition, 2017
• Uncommons, conference, 2015
• Einbruch der Dunkelhei, conference, 2014
• Looking Through the Occult, conference, 2013
• Lichtklangphonogramm, exhibition, 2013
• International Teletext Art Festival, 2012-2015
• The Global Square - Berlin Biennale, 2012
• Think:Film, congress, 2012
• Kreatives Schaffen in der digitalen Welt, meeting, 2012
• Weise7 in/compatible Laboratorium, exhibition, 2012
• NetPoliticsBeerX, net politics and digital rights meetup, 2011-2016
• Federated Social Web, workshop, 2011
• A user's guide, 2011
• Open Knowledge Conference, 2011
• Re-Touching McLuhan, 2011
• 0x00WE15E7, exhibition, 2011
• SuperCollider User Meetings, *2011
• Pure Data Convention, 2011
• Cognitive Cities, conference, 2011
• Berlin Documentary Forum, festival, 2010-2014
• Free Culture Research Conference, 2010
• Screendancing, exhibition, 2010
• SuperCollider Symposium, 2010
• TaktFrei, festival for free music, 2010
• Visual Berlin, festival, 2010
• Verwertung, sound festival, 2010
• Process Festival, 2010
• Sounds. Radio – Art – New Music, exhibition, 2010
• Hacks4Democracy, *2010
• Pd-berlin meetings, 2009-2016
• János von Neumann Salon, 2009
• Transitland Destination Berlin, 2009
• International Turntable Orchestra, 2009
• All2gethernow, *2009
• Breakthrough, 2009
• Audio Poverty, conference, 2009
• atoms&bits, 2009
• Second International Pirate Conference, 2008
• Tuned City, 2008
• Koloniale 319, 2008
• Polytechnic, 2007-2008
• Dis-play, festival, *2007
• Worldtronics, 2007
• Re:place, 2007
• From Spark to Pixel. Art and New Media, exhibition, 2007
• 9 Evenings Reconsidered: Art, Theatre, and Engineering, 1966, exhibition, 2007
• Symposium for Readers, 2007
• Imagine Radio 2.0, 2007
• The Oil of the 21st Century, 2007
• Fluxus East, exhibition, 2007
• Summit, 2007
• Upgrade! Berlin, *2006
• Das Kleine Field Recordings, festival, 2006-c.2008
• DRM und Alternativen, 2004
• Dorkbot Berlin, *2004
• Joint-Venture, 2004-2006
• Klangkustfest, sound art festival, 2004-2018
• Arts of Knowledge, 2003-2004
• Migrating Images, 2003
• Software Art, conference, 2003
• Oekonux Conference, 2002
• FormatLabor series, *2002
• Salon Bruit, live music series, 2002-2016
• NetSplit, symposium, 2001
• Emergeandsee, media arts festival, 2000-2011
• Wizards of OS, conference, 1999-2006
• Net.Radio Days, 1998
• Garage, festival, 1997-2005
• inmedia, 1997-1999
• sonambiente, sound art festival, 1996, 2006
• Interflugs, *1989
• Inventionen, festival for contemporary music, 1982-2010
• Tuwat Congress, 1981
• Tunix Congress, 1978

Art workers

• A.A. Bronson (1946)
• Akitoshi Honda (1977)
• Alan Toner (1973)
• Alberto de Campo (1964)
• Aleksandra Domanović (1981)
• Andre Bartetzki (1962)
• André Carvalho Hostalácio
• Andreas Broeckmann (1964)
• Anna Chistoserdova (Ганна Чыстасердава)
• Anna Schäffler
• Antye Greie
• Aram Bartholl
• Axel Roch (1971)
• Baruch Gottlieb
• Ben de Biel (1963)
• Bengt Sjölén
• Bernhard Gál (1971)
• Brandon LaBelle
• Brendan Howell (1976)
• Brian Reffin Smith (1946)
• Cade Diehm
• Caleb Waldorf
• Carsten Seiffarth (1963)
• Carsten Stabenow
• Chris Salter (1967)
• Cornelia Sollfrank (1960)
• Daisuke Ishida (1980)
• Daniela Swarowsky
• Danja Vasiliev (1978)
• Daphne Dragona (1975)
• Derek Holzer
• Detlev Schneider (1948)
• Diana McCarty
• Diani Barreto
• Dmytri Kleiner
• Doireann O'Malley
• Doreen Mende
• Fabienne Serrière
• Fiona Geuss
• Flora Könemann
• Fredrik Olofsson
• Georg Weckwerth (1965)
• George Bagdasarov (1978)
• Geraldine Juárez
• Gilles Aubry
• Gisela Herzog
• Golo Föllmer (1964)
• Hanna Kuts
• Hannes Hoelzl
• Heather Frasch
• Heimo Lattner
• Helena Gough
• Holger Schulze
• Ina Wudtke
• Inke Arns (1968)
• Ioana Vreme Moser
• Isabel de Sena
• Jacob Kirkegaard (1975)
• Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag (1965)
• Jan Thoben
• Jay Rope
• JD Zazie
• Jeff Mann
• Jens-Uwe Dyffort (1967)
• Jessica Ekomane
• Jo Grys
• Joachim Blank (1963)
• Joanne Richardson (1968)
• Jochen Arbeit
• Jonas Hummel
• Jonas Lund
• Joulia Strauss (1974)
• Julian Oliver
• Julien Maire (1969)
• Julius von Bismarck
• Kristoffer Gansing
• Kyd Campbell
• Linda Hilfling
• Lozana Rossenova
• Magdaléna Kobzová
• Mara Goldwyn (1976)
• Margarita Tsomou
• Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri
• Mario de Vega
• Martin Conrads (1969)
• Martin Howse
• Martin Kuentz (1975)
• Masayoshi Fujita (aka El Fog)
• Maxfield Gassmann (1980)
• Meike Jansen
• Michael Chinen (1982)
• Michelle Teran (1966)
• Micz Flor
• Morten J Olsen
• Natalia Borissova
• Nicolas Siepen
• Niklas Roy
• Niklas Treutner
• Noam Braslavsky
• Norbert Bolz (1953)
• Oliver Baurhenn
• Oliver Grau (1965)
• Oliver Laric
• Oliver Walker
• Paolo Podrescu (Podinski)
• Paul Feigelfeld
• Peter Machajdík (1961)
• Pit Schultz (1965)
• Ralf Baecker
• Rinus van Alebeek
• Robert Sakrowski
• Rosa Barba (1972)
• Sam Auinger (1956)
• Sarah Grant
• Sebastian Lütgert
• Sebastian Schmieg
• Servando Barreiro
• Shintaro Miyazaki (1980)
• Slavko Kacunko (1964)
• Stephan Geene
• Stephan Urbach
• Susan Philipsz
• Susanne Lang
• Sylvia Schedelbauer
• Tanja Ostojić
• Tatiana Bazzichelli (1974)
• Thomas Ankersmit (1979)
• Thomas Gerwin (1955)
• Tim Pritlove
• Udo Noll (1966)
• Valie Djordjevic
• Viktor Dovhalyuk
• Volker Grassmuck (1961)
• Volo Bevza (Володимир Бевза)
• Warren Neidich
• Wolfgang Ernst (1959)
• Wolfgang Hagen (1950)
• Wolfgang Schäffner
• Wolfgang Spahn (1970)
• Wouter Jaspers
• Yair Elazar Glotman (1987)
• Yukio King (1980)
• Formerly: Constant Dullaart (1979), Dušan Barok, František Zachoval (1979), Robert M Ochshorn, Signe Lidén.
• RIP: Alanna Lockward (1961-2019), Diann Bauer (1972-2022), Frank Wagner (1958-2016), Mika Vainio (1963-2017), Sven Guckes (1967-2022).

Publications

• Diedrich Diederichsen, Der lange Weg nach Mitte. Der Sound und die Stadt, Cologne: Kiepenheuer und Witsch, 1999; repr., Kiwi, 2018, 312 pp. Publisher. (German)

• Children of Berlin. Cultural Developments 1989-1999, Berlin: Kunst-Werke, 1999, 96 pp. Catalogue. Exhibition held at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, 7 Nov 1999-2 Jan 2000. Curated by Alanna Heiss and Klaus Biesenbach. Exh. reviews: Holland Cotter (NYT), Daryl Chin (PAJ).

• Constructing New Berlin: Contemporary Art Made in Berlin, ed. Brady M. Roberts, Phoenix Art Museum, Bass Museum Of Art, and Munich: Prestel, 2006, 150 pp. Catalogue. [11]

• Théo Lessour, Berlin sampler, Paris: Ollendorff & Desseins, 2009, 354+[11] pp. (French)
  • Berlin Sampler: From Cabaret to Techno: 1904-2012, A Century Of Berlin Music, trans. Sean Kearney, Berlin: Ollendorff, 2012, 365 pp.

• Burkhard Beins, Christian Kesten, Gisela Nauck, Andrea Neumann (eds.), Echtzeitmusik Berlin: Selbstbestimmung einer Szene / Self-Defining a Scene, Hofheim am Taunus: Wolke, 2011, 416 pp. Excerpt. Publisher. Review: Williams (Crit Stud Impro). (German)/(English)

• Marta Blažanović, Echtzeitmusik. The social and discursive contexts of a contemporary music scene, Berlin: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2012, 200 pp. PhD dissertation. (English)

• Felix Denk, Sven von Thülen, Der Klang der Familie, Suhrkamp, 2012, 423 pp. Online companion. (German)
  • The Sound of Family: Berlin, Techno and the Reunification, Books on Demand, 2014. [12]

• Ulrich Gutmair, Die ersten Tage von Berlin. Der Sound der Wende, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2013, 256 pp. Publisher. (German)
  • The First Days of Berlin: The Sound of Change, trans. Simon Pare, Polity, 2022, 200 pp. Publisher. Review: Shull (LA Review of Books).

• Stefanie Seidl, Wolfgang Farkas, Heiko Zwirner (eds.), Nachtleben in Berlin: 1974 bis Heute, Metrolit, 2013. (German)

• Formate des WIR. Aktuelle Perspektiven auf künstlerische Formationen, kollektive Aktivitäten und Arbeitsansätze seit den 1960er Jahren in Berlin, research project, nGbK Berlin, 2013. Project website (archived).

• Robert Defcon, "Berlin Experiment", series of articles, electronic beats, May 2014-Nov 2015.

• Kati Krause, Ole Schulz, "Our Own Private Germany", Matter, 8 Nov 2014. On squatting in 1990s Berlin.

• Sven Marquardt, Die Nacht ist Leben: Autobiographie, Ullstein, 2014, 224 pp. [13] (German)

• Berliner Hefte zu Geschichte und Gegenwart der Stadt [Berlin Journals—On the History and Present State of the City], 11 vols., 2016-2022 ff. Project. Publisher. (German)

• Peter Cusack, Berlin Sonic Places: A Brief Guide, ed. DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Hofheim am Taunus: Wolke, 2017, 96 pp. Audio recordings. [14]

• Briana Jennifer Smith, Creative Alternatives: Experimental Art and Cultural Politics in Berlin, 1971-1999, Graduate College of The University of Iowa, 2017. PhD dissertation.

• Annette Maechtel, Das Temporäre politisch denken. Raumproduktion im Berlin der frühen 1990er Jahre, Berlin: b_books, 2020, 450 pp. Publisher. Review: Conrads (TAZ). (German)

• Birgit Eusterschulte, et al., Neuverhandlungen von Kunst. Diskurse und Praktiken seit 1990 am Beispiel Berlin, Bielefeld: transcript, 2020, 148 pp. TOC, Introduction. Publisher. (German)

• Knut Ebeling, Annette Maechtel, Heimo Lattner (eds.), Never Mind the Nineties. Eine Medienarchäologie des Kunststandorts Berlin, Hamburg: adocs, and Berlin: Eeclectic, 2021, 146 pp. Excerpt. Publisher. Publisher. Research project. (German)

• Briana J. Smith, Free Berlin: Art, Urban Politics, and Everyday Life, MIT Press, 2022, 328 pp. Publisher.

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