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Digging Wounds / Shirin Neshat

Art&Culture | Spotlight
If there is an image that can capture Shirin Neshat’s work, it is a wound first touched, the finger sliding over old cuts once stitched together. In this three-voice interview we confront both her major works and her newest pieces, tracing the tangled threads between her art and the geopolitical violence unfolding around us.

Teething / Bande A Part

Music | Interview
Bande à Part is an ecosystem of raw sound, of strings stretched to the point of breaking, vocals bent and twisted into cries carved from an aching body. Teething, their latest release, is a punk rock-inflected coming-of-age ballad and the first glimpse of the upcoming EP Grit. The song will premiere on the occasion of a the single release show at The Old Blue Last on October 2nd. In this interview, we trace the genealogy of the track and music video together with writer, poet and musician Sabina Hellstrom.

Words that Matter / Damon Zucconi

Art&Culture | Interview
“Online, I want the work to live forever” he affirms when asked about how his work interacts differently within the digital and physical realm. Having a foundation as a sculpture, it was through programming that artist Damon Zucconi first started to evaluate words as the raw material from which to shape his coded-based art: a shift of paradigm that brought him to view text as a matter with its own agency.

DANCÆ Ballet Sur_real / Modalities of Me

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Berlin hums with unfinished echoes, a city built on fractures and in-betweens. At Monopol, Ballet Sur_real fuses dance and installation in Modalities of Me. Five figures embody power, chaos, fragility, and ferality, exploring desire, intimacy, and identity through club culture, digital life, and hyper-capitalist pressures. A body becomes a question, a space becomes alive, and identity splinters into light, sound, and shadow.

Atonal 2025 / The place is the space

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Berlin Atonal closed its latest edition just weeks ago, leaving behind more than a festival of electronic music and experimental art. Returning from the city, clarity emerged: this year was a meditation on Berlin itself—its history, its architecture, its ghosts. More than performances or installations, Atonal revealed how a space becomes alive, how risk defines art, and how presence transforms encounter.

The Smoky Essence Of Roots / Vlada Coxx & The Brvtalist

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Art, food, and music collide with activism. From preserving Ukrainian identity and traditions to curating cultural happenings in Kyiv that merge community and creativity, Vlada Coxx’s work emerges as an act of resilience in motion.

Pyramid Ibiza / Clubbing Returns To Instinct

Private | Spotlight
As Ibiza spins into spectacle, filters, and pre-choreographed chaos, Amnesia remains defiantly raw, primal and soulfully intact. In a season where other clubs chase content, Amnesia offers something infinitely rarer: communion. The freedom to move, feel, disappear. And at the heart of this rebellion beats Pyramid, Amnesia’s flagship underground Sunday, a weekly ritual for those who know. It doesn’t shout for attention. It calls to your instincts.

Embrace / Klára Hosnedlová & Anna-Catharina Gebbers

Art&Culture | Interview
A dynamic and multilayered dialogue with the artist and curator unfolds around the new site-specific installation commissioned by Chanel, on view until October 26. The work reshapes the cold, industrial immensity of the Hamburger Bahnhof’s historic hall into a terrain at once tactile and intimate.

The Form that Listens / Road to SPATIAL Festival

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Design becomes presence—beyond objects, it lives and breathes with us. In Saal 1 with MONOM and 4DSOUND, Benjamin Paulin extends Pierre Paulin’s vision: furniture vibrates, space resonates, and the body discovers new ways of inhabiting. Design here is a living tool for memory, sensation, and transformation.

Into a Blind Emptiness / She Past Away

Music | Interview
Buried in shadows and driven by the tension of East and West, She Past Away crafts a world where repetition and restraint conjure both trance and unease. In this conversation, the Turkish darkwave duo traces their journey from the underground pulse of Istanbul to the danceable melancholy of Disko Anksiyete, revealing how language, ritual, and cultural fracture shape their music.

To Inhabit the Invisible / Ahead of Spatial Festival

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At SPATIAL Festival in Berlin, September 12–14, 2025, sound becomes a space we inhabit. With 4DSOUND, co-founded by Poul Holleman, listening transforms into architecture, a collective presence, a body, a home — reshaping how we perceive, feel, and connect. It is an invitation to dwell within the invisible.

Road to Spatial Festival 2025

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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.