March 2026

MUSIC: silent green presents Ex-Easter Island + Sun Kit, Berlin, 29 April

Two bands bring the contemporary experimental music scene of the UK and Germany into focus at silent green. The Brits Ex-Easter Island Head join with Berlin’s Sun Kit to create hypnotic performances with electronics, distortion, and autotune. The boldest experiments in both British and German music, the bands play with techniques towards new melodic inventions.

MUSIC: UK acts at Rudolstadt Festival, 2 to 5 July

Rudolstadt Festival is Germany’s leading celebration of roots, folk, and global music. Held in the heart of Thuringia, it’s also considered one of Europe’s top world‑music events. This year’s lineup includes British acts such as Blowzabella, Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening, and Kitty, Daisy & Lewis. More info here.

MUSIC: Zinc & Copper and Jasmine Guffond at Kantine am Berghain, 30 April

British contemporary brass chamber music meets Berlin at Kantine am Berghain. Zinc & Copper and Jasmine Guffond perform the warmth of low brass together; The ensemble’s trademark is a fusion of mood, frequency, and microtonality where Jasmine Guffond is a study in embodied listening and sound as physical force. More info here.

VISUAL ARTS: Jim Lambie: High Voltage at Konrad Fischer Galerie Berlin, until 18 April

Konrad Fischer Galerie presents Jim Lambie: High Voltage, the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery since 2004. Spanning two floors, the exhibition highlights Lambie’s responsiveness to the architectural spaces in which his work is shown. More info here.

VISUAL ARTS: Mark Leckey at Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin, until 3 May 2026

The Julia Stoschek Foundation presents one of the most extensive solo exhibitions by British artist Mark Leckey to date. “Enter Thru Medieval Wounds” traces the intersections between pop and youth culture, social class, and the evolution of technology from the 1970s to the present. More info here.

EXHIBITION: PURPLE PATH art and sculpture trail, Chemnitz 2025

Chemnitz is European Capital of Culture in 2025. Part of its cultural programme is PURPLE PATH, an art and sculpture trail that will showcase works by renowned international, national and Saxon artists. The result is an exhibition in public space which includes pieces from Tony Cragg, Richard Long and Sean Scully.

FILM: Berlinale Talents 2025

16 exceptional emerging filmmakers came to Berlin to take part in this year’s Berlinale Talents in February. Berlinale Talents is the talent development programme run by the Berlinale, Berlin’s international film festival, with 200 filmmakers selected from all over the world. This year’s theme was Listen Courageously: Cinematic Narratives in Times of Dissonance. We have conducted interviews with Berlinale Talents from the UK. Explore them here.

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