Tag Archive for: berlin

DANCÆ Ballet Sur_real / Modalities of Me
Art&Culture | Spotlight
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
Music | Spotlight
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.

CPHFW SS26 / What To Remember
Private | Spotlight
This season in Copenhagen carried a sense of fragility and unfinished edges. Shows unfolded in raw spaces where clothes felt inherited, altered, and marked by time. Softness appeared, but it was heavy and unsettled, closer to rupture than romance. What emerged was a language of memory, intimacy, and quiet unease.

Road to Wall 2 Wall Festival 2025
Music | Spotlight
Four days non-stop where RSO Bberlin is swallowed whole: every floor, every wall, every shadow claimed by the crews that keep this city alive.

When the City You Love Stops Loving You Back
Art&Culture | Words
After nearly a decade in Berlin, the city that once felt like home now feels distant. This is about the quiet moment you realise you no longer belong to a place in the same way and the search for what comes next.

Ahead of WHOLE / A chat with Miss Bashful
Music | Interview
The Whole Festival is about to get Bashful’d — raw, loud, and fully alive. Miss Bashful is set to hit the stage like a summer storm, turning sweat, sound, and lingerie into her own kind of gospel. We caught up with her ahead of the chaos.

Berlin Fashion Week Is Not Dead
Fashion | Spotlight
SS26 reportage by Amelie Stanescu.

Movement Is the Message / A chat with Sam Quealy
Music | Interview
Her world is built on distortion—of genre, gender, glamour. Raised in Australia, based in Paris, shaped by club nights, theatre stages, and a deep obsession with movement, Quealy merges hyperpop, techno, and raw performance into something that’s part spectacle, part exorcism.

Rewire the Chaos / A chat with FJAAK
Music | Interview
Broken glass. Strobe scars. Bass shaking the bones of an abandoned forest. FJAAK came up on raw instinct—hacked gear, illegal raves, no sleep, no plan B. Before the bookings, before the Boiler Rooms, it was just a basement in Spandau and the thrill of noise with nowhere to go but louder. Now they’re closing Berghain for 11 hours, running a label that’s more like a syndicate, and still building everything by hand. This isn’t a nostalgia act. It’s muscle memory. It’s resistance through rhythm. Spandau20, the Berlin-based collective label rooted in underground rave culture, celebrates its 10th VA with 10 tracks from its co-founders—each one a reflection of the label’s raw, percussive, hardware-driven ethos. To mark the occasion, we sat down with FJAAK for a a deep dive.

Crafting Dark Soundscapes / A chat with Lokier
Music | Interview
Hailing from Mexico City, DJ and producer Lokier has built a name for herself in the global electronic music scene with her raw, atmospheric sound and eerie, cinematic influences. Drawn to Berlin a decade ago in search of creative freedom, she found a thriving underground culture that allowed her to fully explore her sonic identity.

Against the Current / Wellen.Brecher
Music | Interview
Wellen.Brecher is here to disrupt. Born from Berlin’s underground, this collective thrives on chaos, distortion, and pure, unfiltered energy. Their music is a riot, their live sets unpredictable, and their message clear: everyone belongs on the dancefloor. With their debut album LIEBESERKLÄRUNG, Wellen.Brecher challenges industry norms, defies expectations, and keeps the spirit of true rave culture alive.

Words, Style, Impact / Amelie Stanescu
Fashion | Spotlight
Amelie Stanescu, known as @chez.amelie, is a multifaceted force in the fashion industry—an insightful writer for Nasty Magazine (and not only), the voice behind 'the fashion archives' podcast, and an upcoming author with her debut book slated for release in 2025. Her podcast serves as a sanctuary for in-depth discussions on the business, art, and craft of fashion, offering show reviews and sharing personal industry experiences. With a significant presence across platforms like Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Amelie engages a diverse audience, fostering a community of fashion enthusiasts and professionals.