The Next Day #141: Berlin Weekend Guide
Must-see events in Berlin: February 26 to March 1, 2026
“What a lark! What a plunge!” — Virginia Woolf
17°C on Friday. Winter is finally leaving Berlin.
This weekend, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker returns to the stage herself — not as choreographer, as dancer — at HAU1. If you can only make one thing, it’s this.
Callie’s sound studio returns to the public with Hyunhye Angela Seo across three nights. Deva Schubert brings a 360° choral lament to Schinkel Pavillon. Giulia Andreani opens the HBF’s 30th anniversary programme on Thursday evening. Katatonic Silentio live in the Säule. Mari Boine at the Kammermusiksaal.
On the art side, Katalin Ladik performs on opening night at LEVY Galerie — one of the most important voices in the feminist avant-garde, rarely seen in Berlin. And Dissident Paths: Traces closes three years of artistic walks across the city with performances, collective meals, and a film-essay on Palestine protest footage at nGbK. Free, all weekend.
A lot to choose from. Good luck.
Lalai & Mateus
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🎸 LIVE
Maison Sot x Arkaoda
Thursday, 26.02, 6 pm – midnight. Arkaoda, Neukölln. €7
A night that arrives from Cairo with low lights and slow intentions. Live concert by Cavid Dhen on saxophone, flutes and handmade clay instruments; DJ sets by Slimgirl Fat and Acidfinky moving through soul, R&B and experimental pop.
Mari Boine presents “Alva”
Friday, 27.02, 8 pm. Kammermusiksaal, Tiergarten. €30
Sámi singer and activist performs Alva — joik, the traditional vocal form of her people, woven with jazz, folk, and rock. One of Norway's most singular voices, at the Philharmonie's invitation.
The Underground Youth + Den Der Hale
Friday, 27.02, 7:30 pm. Silent Green, Kuppelhalle, Wedding. €28
The Underground Youth, a Manchester post-punk band now based in Berlin, with 12 albums deep, Fuzz Club-signed, with Olya Dyer on drums and Samira Zahidi on bass. Den Der Hale opens. If you’re looking for folk, we recommend the Duo Ruut on Saturday.
🔊 FREQUENCY
St. Odes (Thu) | Soria Reilly & Gregory Pearce (Sat)
Thursday, 26.02, 6 - 11 pm; Sat 28.02. Ikii, Neukölln. €8–15
Two nights worth clearing the calendar for. Thursday brings the release of Ben Kaczor’s Sirene — live performances by μ ensemble and a light show by Amelia Moczkowska built as part of the work. Saturday, Irish musician Soria Reilly and Aotearoa-born Gregory Pearce make a rare joint appearance, trading in found sound, voice, and intimate improvisation.
Sonance
Friday, 27.02, 7 pm – 6 am. Sonnenraum, Treptow. €14
An event series treating sound as spatial experience. dainshi, Kat.lysa, and Josiane anchor the night with deep techno, ambient, and textural composition alongside GEISTFREI and others.
The Third Room – Hyunhye Angela Seo
Thu–Sat, 26–28.02, 8 pm – 10 pm. Callie's sound studio, Wedding. €15
Callie's opens its sound studio to the public for the first time. Hyunhye Angela Seo — ecstatic piano improvisation, live percussion, cavernous acoustic treatments. Music that feels more like a physical event than a performance.
IDRA Live
Friday, 27.02, 8:30 pm – 10:30 pm. Pastiche, Neukölln. €12–17
Milan-based IDRA performs live, modular synthesizers, ambient soundscapes, and organic textures. Classical background, work shown at Triennale and Casa degli Artisti.
🎧 TUNE
Tea & Vinyl at Another June
Friday, 27.02, 6 - 9 pm. Another June, Anklamer Str. 39–40, Mitte. €15
Vinyl-only set — jazz, soul, disco, jazzy house — inside a curated vintage store in Mitte. Gongfu-style tea bar running all evening: aged pu-erh, Taiwanese GABA, teas from Georgia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
💦 SWEAT
REVERSE
Thursday, 26.02, 10 pm – 6 am. Berghain / Säule, Friedrichshain. €14-15
Katatonic Silentio live in the Säule — dub techno with releases on Delsin and Ilian Tape, attuned to the physical and emotional body in equal measure. Chloe Lula and Pooja B on DJ sets. FLINTA artists throughout.
Supertonic
Friday, 27.02, 10 pm - 6 am. arkaoda, Karl-Marx-Platz 16, Neukölln. €10–12
Arlanoa and Sanaz alongside Vio PRG and Dimë. Progressive house and house.
Lecken – Temperament
Friday, 27.02, 11:59 pm – 10 am. KREUZWERK, Lobeckstraße 30-35, 10969, Kreuzberg. €22.
Ten years in and Lecken knows exactly what it's doing. Two floors: Berenice, Maryisonacid, DJSOULSEEK, and ābnamā across the night — rave room and a slower, more somatic space running parallel.
Kontinuum: Matrixxman, Astrid Gnosis, Soraya
Friday, 27.02, midnight – 8 am. OHM, Mitte. €15
Astrid Gnosis pulls from early gabber and punk, lands somewhere between Valencia rave culture and maximalist club music. Soraya brings the UK sound system weight to the floor.
Heideglühen #4
Sat-Sun 28.02-01.03, 2 pm - 6 am. Heideglühen, Berlin.
Jus-Ed opens the afternoon - Underground Quality, deep Chicago house at its most devotional. Kléo (Call 4 Rhythm, Amsterdam) takes the floor into the night, Sweely live after midnight, and Rasho closing from New York.
INHERIT – Daytime Event
Saturday, 28.02, 4 pm – 2 am. C115, Messedamm 23, Charlottenburg. €20-22
A new club space built directly on the AVUS highway. Nina Farrina, HAMY, ENNIO, and Disguised from warm afternoon house into hypnotic techno as the light fades.
أرض Ard — Fundraiser Release Party
Saturday, 28.02, 11 pm – 8 am. Secret Location, Berlin. €15
Artists from Germany, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Palestine for the vinyl release of a VA compilation — every euro goes directly to Gaza via PCRF and Oxfam. Gannein and J.A.S on the decks.
👁️ WATCH
The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker & Alain Franco / Rosas
Fri–Sun, 27.02, 7 pm; 28.02, 8 pm; and 01.03, 5 pm. HAU1. €19–42.
De Keersmaeker returns to the stage herself, translating Bach's Goldberg Variations into solo movement in direct dialogue with pianist Alain Franco. Two hours of rigorous choreographic logic — the score as blueprint, nothing decorative.
Deva Schubert – Glitch Choir – Vocal Variations
Thursday, 26.02, 7 pm; Fri-Sat, 27–28.02, 7 pm and 8:30 pm. Schinkel Pavillon, Mitte. €13–14
Digital glitch translated into analogue space through live voice and body. A 360° choral lament reworking historical female mourning practices. Three nights, three versions.
Böses Glück (Cult of the Daughter) – Premiere
Thu-Fri, 26-27.02, 7:30 pm, Sun 01.03 6:00. Directed by Benny Claessens. Surtitles in DE & EN. Volksbühne. €16-49.
A darkly comic theatre piece about a “monstrous” crime and society’s urge to explain it. Blending psychiatry, rural myths, and vaudeville excess, the show questions normality, deviance, and our obsession with understanding the incomprehensible.
Spirit and the Dust – Premiere
Fri 27.02, 7:30 pm. Directed by Anna Bergmann. In DE with EN surtitles. Deutsches Theater, €8-59.
A moving ensemble drama about loss and connection: after a tragic accident, a real estate agent forms fragile bonds with strangers equally marked by grief. A play about friendship, late love, survival—and whether healing is still possible after life breaks apart.
🖼️ LOOK
Giulia Andreani. Sabotage
Opening: Thursday, 26.02, 7 pm. Hamburger Bahnhof, Invalidenstraße 50. Free admission.
French-Italian painter Andreani opens the HBF 30th anniversary programme. Monochromatic paintings sourced from family albums and archives — forgotten women, authoritarian erasure, Payne's gray. Shown alongside works from the Antikensammlung and Kupferstichkabinett.
Gazing as the Void Begins — KIYOMI+TETSUHIRO UOZUMI
Opening: Thursday, 26.02, 6 - 9 pm. Nadan Gallery, Wilhelmsaue 1, Wilmersdorf.
Japanese Berlin-based duo KIYOMI+TETSUHIRO UOZUMI installs sound works built from BSR orange trash bins — field recordings, mechanical movements, urban sculptures.
Lecture Performance: Monira Al Qadiri
Thursday, 26.02, 7 pm. Berlinische Galerie, Alte Jakobstraße 124–128, Kreuzberg. Free (registration required). Lecture performance in English.
Kuwaiti artist Al Qadiri in conversation with her current show "Hero" - sculpture, video and painting around the oil tanker as emblem of extraction, colonial power and planetary decay. In English.
Labour of Love
Opening: Friday, 27.02, 6 - 9 pm; and Saturday, 28.02, 12–6 pm: Soft opening with artists and curator in attendance. roam, Lindenstraße 91, Kreuzberg.
13 women artists address invisible labour, gender power, and care. Curated by Bettina Semmer, the show dissolves the line between the domestic and the public, the visible and the overlooked - sculptures, drawings, prints, and installation.
Phase — Marieta Chirulescu & Fred Sandback
Opening: Friday, 27.02. Galerie Thomas Schulte, Charlottenstraße 24, 10117.
Two-person show pairing Chirulescu’s muted, processual canvases with Sandback’s spatial string installations. Quiet work that rewards patience — light, geometry, and the threshold between them.
Katalin Ladik: Poemim
Opening: Friday, 27.02, 6 - 9 pm (performance 7 pm). LEVY Galerie, Alt-Moabit 110, Moabit. Free
Pioneer of feminist avant-garde in Central and Eastern Europe since the 1960s, Ladik uses voice and body as score. LennonOno Peace Grant laureate, documenta 14 veteran. Opening night performance with the artist present.
Mariana García Mejía — Consuelo y Marea
Opening: Sunday, 01.03, 4 - 7 pm. Hošek Contemporary (Motor Ship HEIMATLAND), Märkisches, 1z, Mitte.
Sound installations built from an open archive of lullabies collected since 2024. Arrullos as living sonic archive — memory, oppression, resistance. Opening followed by Berlin Improvisers Orchestra live set on board at 7 pm.
✨ MISC
Dissident Paths: Traces
Thu–Sat, 26–28.02, 6 - 10 pm. nGbK, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 11, Mitte. Free
Three-day closing program of a year-long series of 23 artistic walks across Berlin. Collective meals, live screen printing, sound performances, a film-essay on Palestine protest footage and police surveillance, and Liz Rosenfeld reading from Crossings on cruising as world-making. Ends Saturday with a DJ set.
Screenwriting360
Saturday, 28.02, 10 am-6 pm. Babylon Theater, Mitte. €160
A full-day masterclass on craft, business, and career for screenwriters. Industry pros from Netflix, Disney+, and European film on storytelling, financing, pitching, and marketing.
Studio Night: Rawmantique x Drift Kyiv
Saturday 28.02, 8 pm - 6 am. Studio 1111, Potsdamer Str. 96, 10785, Berlin. €15
Opens with (SOFT)CORE, a visual essay on touch by Daniela Torres, followed by a panel on Berlin's DJ scene with Rakans and Elynka, live sets by King Rose Dance Collective — Germany's first BIPOC and queer dance company — then floor takeover by Drift Kyiv and Rawmantique.
🫧 FEEL
Sensual By Nature
Sat–Sun, 28.02–01.03, 10 am - 5 pm. We Are Village, Kurfürstenstraße 31/32, Tiergarten. €280
Two-day workshop on sensuality, connection and embodiment for all genders. Movement, breathwork, elemental touch and consent practices, facilitated by Ria Hope and Cleo King. Underwear stays on.
🫶 COMMUNITY
Görlitzer Gauntlet Relay Race
Sunday, 01.03, 11 am - 2 pm. CIC Berlin / Görlitzer Park, Lohmühlenstraße 65, Treptow. Free Run-N-Rave’s first-ever relay race: 15 teams, 440m ring around Görli, separate FLINTA heats and prizes. Three years running in the park, now with a race. Music and food after at the RUN-N-RAVE Lab. Spectators are welcome.
📌 SAVE THE DATE
🎤 Elias Rønnenfelt, Iceage frontman’s solo project: post-punk Copenhagen cult meets silent green’s curated intimacy. silent green, Friday, 06.03. ✨✨
🎷 Thundercat, Jazz-fusion bass virtuoso, Flying Lotus/Kendrick collaborator. Huxley’s Neue Welt, Monday, 09.03
🩰ྀི For the Time Being: Sasha Waltz dives into deep listening, altered states and collective ritual in a hypnotic new piece where dancers drift between memory, voice and movement. radialsystem, Tue, 10-15.03. €20-25
🩰ྀི Kreatur: A dark, high-fashion dance fever dream where bodies clash, merge and mutate, set to raw, animal energy and sculptural costumes by Iris van Herpen. Radialsystem, Thu–Sun, 12–15.03. €19-51
🎹 Austra, Canadian synth-pop meets experimental electronica, LGBTQ+ icon. Kesselhaus, Thursday, 12.03
🎸 Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Ruban Nielson’s psych-rock project: lo-fi funk meets Brazilian tropicália and warped guitar pop. Metropol, Friday, 13.03
🎸 Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Canadian post-rock experimental legends for deep listening purists. Festsaal Kreuzberg, Monday, 16.03. ✨✨
🎷 Jimi Tenor, Finnish experimental electronic jazz legend, playing at the perfect intimate venue. arkaoda, Thursday, 19.03.
MaerzMusik 2026: Berlin’s experimental music festival with Georg Friedrich Haas, Ellen Fullman, and Okkyung Lee. Concerts, performances, and installations as living organisms. 20-29.03. Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Radialsystem, silent green, MaHalla & more
This guide is essential! The Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker performance at HAU1 is definitely on my list. Berlin's cultural scene continues to impress with its mix of experimental sound, underground techno spaces, and avant-garde performance. Katatonic Silentio at Säule and the REVERSE night at Berghain are calling my name. Thanks for curating these gems every week!
Berlin remains the gravitational center of underground techno culture globally—not because it invented it, but because it created scalable infrastructure (clubs, labels, distribution networks) that made the scene sustainable while maintaining underground authenticity codes. Weekend guides like this perform crucial cultural function: directing attention toward genuine underground venues rather than mainstream EDM tourism traps. Berlin's club culture (Berghain's institutional role, Tresor's historical significance, contemporary venues maintaining lineage) represents the model other cities attempt to replicate. The continuous documentation of this scene in real-time (weekly guides) keeps the knowledge transfer alive across generations of practitioners.