The Next Day #107: Berlin Weekend Guide
Must-see events in Berlin: July, 03-06, 2025
The weekend is packed, but not rushed.
In the concert world, we have Neil Young and St. Vincent on opposite ends of the spectrum, both still holding their ground with sets that promise to linger.
For the curious ear, the weekend moves between sleep concerts, sonic rituals, and immersive performances — from Heroines of Sound to AUDĪR and Flora.
On the dancefloor, Berlin Beats brings Courtesy to Hamburger Bahnhof’s garden, and Refuge Worldwide leaves Neukölln for a lakeside all-dayer. Add Folamour at Else and the 18-hour HyperrTerra session and you’ve got options for all rhythms and moods.
Our pick on stage is MONGA, a haunting and defiant solo by Jéssica Teixeira at Sophiensæle.
A reminder: we’re going IRL. On July 17, we join forces with 20% Berlin for a summer gathering at Berliner Berg. Come hang, we’d really love to meet you.
Have a nice weekend!
Lalai & Mateus
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🎸 CONCERTS
Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts – Love Earth Tour
Thursday, 03.07, 7 pm. Waldbühne Berlin, Glockenturmstrasse 1, 14053 Berlin. Ticket: €90.50–€282.50
Neil Young is touring after years away from Europe. Wait for new songs, old ones, and a set that’s been getting long-standing ovations. I wouldn’t miss it.
SHEENA IS – Punk Drag Night
Friday, 04.07, doors 6 pm, show 7 pm. Schokoladen, Ackerstraße 169, 10115 Berlin. Ticket: €11.50–€15.70
Queer punk takes over the Hof at Schokoladen with Eat Lipstick, Punx’n’Kweenz and Lemongrab. Glitter, noise, and no rules, it’s part concert, part riot. This one’s for the punks and the queens.
St. Vincent – All Born Screaming Tour
Saturday, 05.07, doors 6:30 pm, show 8 pm. Uber Arena, Große Arena, Berlin. Ticket: €53.25–€59
Back on the road with her album “All Born Screaming” and fresh Grammys in hand, St. Vincent plays Berlin for the first time in a while. I’ve been waiting for this one.
🎹 EXPERIMENTAL & AMBIENT MUSIC
Heroines of Sound Festival 2025
Fri-Sat, 04–05.07 at ZK/U, Siemensstrasse 27, 10551 Berlin; and Thu-Sat, 10-12.07 at Radialsystem, Holzmarktstr. 33, 10243 Berlin. Ticket: €8-€55
Back with a rich program of concerts, performances, sound art and talks, Heroines of Sound brings together feminist and genre-defying voices. Highlights include Rojin Sharafi, Yara Mekawei, Camilla M. Fehér, OBLIVIA and Anahita Abbasi, artists working across ritual, critique and sonic experimentation. Don’t miss the Lullabyte Sleep Concert, a late-night experience mixing sound, sleep and science (04.05.07, 10 pm - 8 am).
AUDĪR: The Art of Listening
Thursday, 03.07, 6 pm – 3 am. OSD, Mainzer Str. 16, 10247 Berlin. Ticket: €29.40
Live sets, outdoor bar, and deep sonic trips in an intimate space with only 180 people. Azu Tiwaline & Cinna Peyghamy, Function, Sarah Wreath & Carlos Garcia take over both rooms and the garden. This one’s a musical highlight of the week.
Sanctum of Sound @ MaHalla
Sunday, 06.07, 12 pm – 10 pm. MaHalla, Wilhelminenhofstr. 76, 12459 Berlin. Ticket: €16 + tax.
Ten hours of soft immersion in MaHalla’s sonic cathedral. With sets by Max Binski & Rubi, Nonagon Forest, Skywater, The Four, and Tanra — slow shifts, long echoes, and time to listen.
Flora #6 – curated by Motsion
Sunday, 06.07, 2 - 9 pm. Karpfenteich, Treptower Park, 12435 Berlin.
Flora returns with its sixth session, this time curated by Ukrainian collective Motsion. Born in Kyiv as a space for calm during the war, it now unfolds by the lake with gentle sounds and slow rhythms.
🪩 PARTIES
Berlin Beats: Courtesy
Thursday, 03.07, 7 pm – 10 pm. Hamburger Bahnhof, Invalidenstraße 50–51, 10557 Berlin. Free admission
Danish DJ Courtesy plays a garden set bringing her selections always bring light, and it’s hard not to move: House music, electro, and a good breeze.
DVS1 & Traxx – HUSH 30 Years
Thursday, 03.07, 10 pm – 8 am. Berghain, Am Wriezener Bahnhof 70, 10243 Berlin. Tickets are available at the door.
DVS1 celebrates 30 years of HUSH with a special night at Berghain, inviting Traxx, a longtime inspiration and force of his own.
5 Jahre Tempelhof
Fri-sun, 04–06.07. Every day, 1:30 – 10 pm. Plattenvereinigung, Tempelhofer Feld (near Oderstrasse entrance). Free
If you’re passing by Tempelhofer this weekend, don’t skip the birthday — three days of music, art, and dancing in the sun.
KOOKOO feat. Hüma Utku & Tuce Alba
Friday, 04.07, 10 pm – 6 am. OHM, Köpenicker Str. 70, 10179 Berlin. Ticket: €13–15
Hüma Utku dives deep with a textured DJ set; Tuce Alba brings noise and presence in a raw, modular live show. Not a party, a ritual. For those looking for something darker and more visceral. Hosted by Mieko Suzuki and ARA.
OFF THE GRID x KIMCHI Records
Friday, 04.07, 10 pm – 10 am. OXI, Wiesenweg 1–4, 10365 Berlin. Ticket: €15–30
Electro, techno, house and oddball grooves from two of Berlin’s sharpest vinyl outposts. Radioactive Man (live), Lola Haro, S.O.N.S, and more play all night, celebrating 10 years of OFF THE GRID with a proper marathon.
Vaginastan @ Heide
Friday, 04.07, 10 pm – 6 am. Heideglühen, Seestrasse 1, 13353 Berlin. Ticket: €18–20
House and minimal all night with Anja Schneider, Sibil, Elli.on and Katy De Jesus. Bring your friends, dance under the trees, and come early if you’re up for the full ride. Optional dinner with 6 courses by Rauschen from 6–10 pm.
OMOLOKO b2b Kabulom + Dracaena
Friday, 04.07, 11 pm – 6 am. Arkaoda, Karl-Marx-Platz 16, 12043 Berlin. Ticket: €8–12
Omoloko and Kabulom, two Brazilian selectors, go B2B all night in the basement. House, disco, and enough rhythm to shake your hips all night. Upstairs: Dracaena on the decks.
Refuge Worldwide Open Air
Saturday, 05.07, 2 pm – 2 am. Sunshine Bar (Plötzensee), 13351 Berlin. Ticket: €9–15 (sliding scale)
From Neukölln’s basements to the beach: Refuge throws a lakeside day-to-night session with Gavsborg, Gabi Monteiro, Gramrcy, kimbwazo and Burkey.
HyperrTerra Openair + Indoors
Saturday, 05.07, 2 pm – 8 am. Backsteinboot, Eiswerderstr. 18, 13585 Berlin. Ticket: €26.50
It all starts in the urban garden with ambient, experimental and downtempo sets until 10 pm. Then it moves indoors for a night of deep techno and bass-driven sounds with Livwutang, Priori, D.K., Konsudd and more.
KOFFÄIN with Folamour, Session Victim a.m.
Sunday, 06.07, 2 pm-4 am. Else, An den Treptowers 10, 12435 Berlin. Ticket: €25.
Sunday with a long set from Folamour, plus Session Victim, ChewChew and more. Sun, house, disco, and a dancefloor that doesn’t ask the time.
🎭 PERFORMING ARTS
Jéssica Teixeira – MONGA
Friday, 04.07, 8 pm. Sophiensæle, Sophienstrasse 18, 10178 Berlin. Ticket: €10–25. Performance in PT with DE and EN surtitles + German Sign Language.
Part freak show, part reclaiming ritual — Jéssica Teixeira’s solo piece draws on the story of Julia Pastrana and 80s Brazilian circus acts to explore how we look at bodies. Singing, dancing, resisting. Artist talk after the show.
Gier (Crave)
Friday, 02.07, 8 pm. In DE with EN surtitles. Directed by Christopher Rüping. Deutsches Theater, Schumannstrasse 13 A, 10117. Ticket: €8-€59.
Sarah Kane’s poetic text explores romantic longing, vulnerability, and the insatiable human need for connection. The play delves into the minds of desperate lovers yearning for closeness in a world of emotional detachment.
In My Room by Falk Richter
Saturday, 05.07, 7:30 pm. Maxim Gorki Theater, Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin. Tickets: €12-€40.
Falk Richter’s In My Room is a research project that explores a complex web of memories, images, and voices from the personal space of a son and author, blending his biographical experiences with social stories into a view of a present that has become the past.
Fierce Foundations: International Ballroom Festival by House of Saint Laurent
Wednesday–Saturday, 3.7–6.7, multiple times. HAU 2, Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 Berlin. Tickets: €8 with some activities free.
Workshops, panels, a conference and a grand ball celebrate the power, pride and diversity of international ballroom culture committed to social justice and the visibility of BIPoC and queer communities and celebrates the diversity of ballroom culture with unrivalled energy.
🎨 VISUAL ARTS
Myanmar – State of Uncertainty
Opening: Thursday, 03.07, 7 pm. Until 21.09. Willy-Brandt-Haus, Stresemannstrasse 28, 10963 Berlin. Free admission (ID required)
Photos from Myanmar’s cities, streets and resistance movements. With works by Wolfgang Bellwinkel, Nora Bibel and Vincent Haiges. The opening includes a talk with the artists and human rights advocates.
María José Arjona: SEDIMENTS: Sono-Choreo-Geo-Graphic Attunements
Opening Reception: Friday, 04.07, 6 – 9 pm. Until 02.08. Wed–Sat, 12 pm to 6 pm. Galerie Barbara Thumm, Markgrafenstrasse 68, 10969 Berlin.
A multidisciplinary solo show by Colombian artist María José Arjona exploring memory, movement, and ecology through sound, video, drawing, and a debut manuscript. The works form a living archive shaped by rivers, bodies, and choreographic attention.
Navot Miller: Paradise
Opening Reception: Friday, 04.07, 6–8 pm. Until 30.08. Wed–Sat, 11 am to 6 pm. Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Linienstrasse 23, 10178 Berlin. Free Admission.
Navot Miller’s debut solo show “Paradise” features vibrant new paintings and an architectural intervention, exploring love, loss, and urban life through intimate, Hopper-esque scenes. A theatrical unveiling takes place at the opening.
🧠 FOOD FOR THOUGHTS
I Come from the Ruins – Berlin Review Reader 4 Launch
Thursday, 03.07, 7 pm – 9:30 pm. Klosterruine, Klosterstr. 73a, 10179 Berlin. Free admission. Come early, the seats are limited.
Open-air evening of readings and talks on ruins, memory, and resistance. The new Berlin Review Reader brings together voices from Gaza to the Congo.
Historic Losers: How to Survive and Thrive in Germany in the 21st Century
Thursday, 03.07, 7 pm – 12 am. bUm, Paul-Lincke-Ufer 21, 10999 Berlin. Ticket: (€11.83)
The Diasporist celebrates its launch with a late-night talk show on surviving Germany’s “negative hospitality,” hosted by Emily Dische-Becker. With guests Achan Malonda, Basma Al-Sharif, Ben Miller & more.
✨ MISCELLANEOUS
Spätschicht x Volksbühne
Thursday, 03.07, 6 pm – 10 pm. Gropius Bau, Niederkirchnerstraße 7, 10963 Berlin. Free admission
Opening night of this new monthly series at the Gropius Bau. Concerts, film, DJ set and a book launch with Vaginal Davis, CHEAP, Dylan Kerr, Bobby Beethoven and Cortisa Star. It’s a good one to drift through.
We Are the River – Night of Ideas
Fri-Sat, 04.07, 6 pm – 11 pm; 05.07, 2 pm - 12 am. Floating University, Lilienthalstrasse 32, 10965 Berlin. Free admission
Two days by the water with talks, performances, and reflections on rivers as living beings. Co-curated with Camille de Toledo, it’s an invitation to tune in differently.
📌 SAVE THE DATE
🌈 WHOLE Festival three days of music and celebration for queer people from around the globe. 18 – 21.07 in Ferropolis, Gräfenhainichen. Tickets: Weekend Ticket: €265 / Sunday Ticket: €150.
🪈 Psicotrópicos brings a landmark lineup of Brazilian sounds featuring Hermeto Pascoal and Letrux, to one of the most beautiful locations in Berlin. Sunday, 27.07, Neue Nationalgalerie. Ticket: €35.
🎤 Zaho de Sagazan at Philharmonie! Chanson. Synth. Drama. Grit. 04.11, 8 pm. Tickets from €39.90. Twenty minutes of electronic music with her here.
🎸 Wolf Alice at Columbia Halle presenting their upcoming album “The Clearing”. 19.11, 8 pm. Tickets: €45.75.