CTM Festival – Festival for Adventurous Music & Art

Berlin's Festival for "Adventurous Music"

The CTM Festival sees itself as the festival where Berlin annually reviews its own position as the world capital of electronic and experimental music. Founded in 1999 as "Club Transmediale" – originally as a sister festival to the media art event Transmediale – it is now an independent entity that shapes the capital's calendar for ten days.

Multi-Venue: from Berghain to Volksbühne

Instead of concentrating on one location, CTM uses a network of venues between Mitte, Friedrichshain, Kreuzberg, and Wedding: Berghain for late-night club programs, Radialsystem for concerts in concert hall format, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz for intermedial stage works, plus RSO.Berlin, Morphine Raum, and Haus der Visionäre. Daytime conferences take place, among other places, at the DAADGALERIE in Kreuzberg.

Discourse, Conference, and Workshops

CTM is more than a concert festival. The multi-day discourse program illuminates aesthetic, social, and political issues surrounding sound and music. In addition, there are the A2A Transmission Workshops "from artists for artists" and a one-day conference "Rethinking Music Ecosystems" together with Resident Advisor. A broadcast program with Refuge Worldwide carries the festival to the radio.

Motto 2026: dissonate <> resonate

The 27th edition runs under the double motto "dissonate <> resonate," addressing a central question of our time: how dissonance, friction, and noise as artistic practice can lead to resonance, community, and change. The organizer is DISK – Initiative Bild & Ton e.V., located at Veteranenstraße 21, Berlin-Mitte.