Berlin Atonal 2025
27–31 August, Kraftwerk Berlin
+ Tresor/Globus and OHM

First Artist Release

Berlin Atonal returns to Kraftwerk Berlin this August presenting a five-day programme of new commissions, premieres, artworks, and club nights. Across Kraftwerk’s vast concrete spaces, the festival continues its mission to mobilise artistic risk and generate new modes of listening, gathering, and sense-making.

This year also marks Berlin Atonal’s official debut as a member of the International Biennial Association – an affirmation of its standing as one of the world’s most significant platforms for experimental, interdisciplinary, non-commercial art and sound. As the only member with a grounding in music, Berlin Atonal reimagines the biennial not simply as a cultural format but also as a staging ground for a particular type of artistic imagination and collective attention.

Alongside large-scale presentations on the main stage, the festival introduces Third Surface, a newly conceived audience environment inspired by the informal spaces and counter-institutions of nightlife before the rise of dance music. Here, music and artworks create the framework for a new form of social and psychic assembly.

Festival passes and day tickets are now available here until sold out. The next artist announcement and more program information will follow on 09 July.