Performance for voice, reed instruments, electronics, and musical ensemble: German industrial rock legend Blixa Bargeld performs epigrams to music by his longtime friend, Swedish composer, musician and political activist Dror Feiler.

The renowned Berlin-based Zafraan Ensemble presents a multicultural concert programme, featuring premieres of works by Leonid Desyatnikov, Michaela Catranis, Mansoor Hosseini, and Samir Odeh-Tamimi.

World premiere of a site-specific performance at the Akademie der Künste, featuring the Youth Dance Company of Sasha Waltz & Guests. Commissioned and produced by Voices Berlin Festival.

An interdisciplinary two-part project exploring nostalgia, ghost futures, and collective memory through the lens of creepy post-Soviet rituals.

A performance by a Kazakh artist collective that uniquely combines theater, ritual practices, traditional magic, music and singing, along with invented technological gadgets, into a playful yet impactful séance.

A poetic performance by renowned Hungarian director Árpád Schilling, exploring the story of the Lithuanian Youth Theatre across generations, created through improvisations based on singing.

Seven performative works for voices and electronics: the vocal ensemble and seven composers from the states of former Yugoslavia explore the effects of the Balkan wars, offering their individual, empathetic artistic perspectives on this turbulent period.

A deeply personal work by a Syrian playwright, based on the true story of a fugitive Nazi criminal, raising searing questions about justice, exile, accountability, and political memory.

A theatrical installation based on the documentary book by journalist Elena Kostyuchenko, exploring the reality of contemporary Russia and the struggle to maintain a relationship with a homeland slipping into darkness.

Piano Recital by Dmitry Batalov. Works by Helmut Lachenmann / Leonid Hrabovsky / Giya Kancheli / Franz Schubert

Milo Rau explores the events that alter the course of a life, and creates a performance that doubles as a manifesto on what popular theater can be today. Festival d'Avignon 2025 premiere.