Road to Spatial Festival 2025

Listening as a Radical Act. Funkhaus Berlin, September 12-14th.

SPATIAL Festival by Monom Studios returns to Funkhaus Berlin from September 12 to 14, 2025, with its most expansive edition yet. Spanning the venue’s iconic halls, the program brings together more than 60 pioneering artists for three days of deep listening sessions, live performances, and immersive installations. Grab your tickets here.

In a time when attention is fractured and speed governs nearly everything, SPATIAL 2025 invites audiences to slow down enough to feel sound as something tangible in the body. Here, listening is not a passive state but a way of inhabiting space a practice that connects presence, vibration, and perception.

For Alessandra Denegri and William Russell of Monom Studios, the starting point for this year’s festival was not a lineup but a spatial composition: a sequence of listening encounters that could shift how people relate to sound, to one another, and to themselves. They describe space as “an instrument that only works when you step inside it,” and see the audience as an active element of the piece: “Your presence is part of the sound.”

Many of the works emerge from deep relationships with place, including indigenous songlines, environmental field recordings, and psychoacoustic instruments, creating sessions that are at once site-specific and timeless. “Sound can reconnect us to systems beyond the human,” they reflect, “reminding us that we are part of a much larger resonance.”

The body is both medium and archive here, receiving vibration, mapping shifting sonic architectures, and carrying traces of the experience long after the room has fallen silent. For Alessandra and William, this kind of listening holds ethical force. It slows the erosion of the senses, counters the acceleration of thought, and opens a space for care, individual and collective. “To listen fully,” they say, “is already a political act. It’s a way of reclaiming time, attention, and the possibility of truly meeting one another.”

Berlin’s experimental sound culture provides fertile ground for this vision, while the vast, resonant halls of Funkhaus push it into another register, one where performance becomes encounter, where the usual roles of audience and artist blur, and where listening itself might point toward resistance, change, and renewal.

Road to Spatial Festival 2025

Credits:

Spatial Festival | by @monomstudios
Dates: September 12 – 14, 2025
Location: Berlin, Germany
Tickets: Spatial Festival Tickets
Photographer: Zachary Hertzman / @zacharyhertzman
Words: Jessy Frascarelli / @j3ssyestremy
Editor: Anca Macavei / @ancamacavei

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