Name: Project Space Festival Berlin 2026 2026
Start: 2026-05-30T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-06-28T00:00:00+00:00
Location: 30 selbstorganisierte Berliner Projekträume (stadtweit)

Project Space Festival

About Project Space Festival

Berlin's self-organised project spaces are the backbone of the independent art scene: small, artist-run spaces in backyards, shopfronts, and apartments, showcasing exhibitions, performances, and discourse programmes beyond galleries and institutions. The Project Space Festival brings them together for 30 days in a city-wide festival — from May 30 to June 28, 2026. 30 spaces, 30 events, all free admission. Funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.

Dates 30 May — 28 Jun 2026

Venue Berlin (11000)

Prices Free

Status Confirmed

Edition 2026

Project Space Festival — edition 2026

From May 30 to June 28, 2026, the Project Space Festival Berlin takes place: 30 self-organised Berlin project spaces each present a different programme daily — exhibitions, performances, workshops, concerts. The festival is free and spread across the entire city. Funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.

Project Space Festival 2026 — 30 Days of Art City-Wide

The 2026 edition runs for 30 days straight: From May 30 to June 28, a different Berlin project space opens each day with a specially curated programme. The festival is spread across the entire city — from a backyard in Neukölln to a shopfront in Wedding, from Friedrichshain to Spandau. The 30 selected spaces will be announced on the festival website and Instagram. Free admission. Those who want to visit multiple spaces should plan routes along two or three districts per day.

Highlights Project Space Festival 2026

30 project spaces in 30 days • all districts represented • free admission • funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds • parallel to Sellery Weekend

Programme Project Space Festival 2026

Programme 2026 (as of May 2026)

The complete day-by-day programme will be released shortly before the festival begins (end of May 2026) on projectspacefestival.berlin and on the Instagram account @projectspacefestival.

Festival Structure

Period: May 30 – June 28, 2026 (30 days)
Participating Spaces: 30 self-organised project spaces, selected by jury
Format: Each day, a different space with its own event — exhibition opening, performance, workshop, concert, reading, or discourse
Admission: All events free
Geographical Distribution: All 12 Berlin districts (focus areas: Mitte, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Neukölln, Pankow, Wedding)

Expected Programme Types (based on previous years)

Solo and group exhibitions with works produced specifically for the festival
Performances, sound art, video screenings
Workshops and artist talks
Discourse rounds and readings
Two festival closing events connecting all spaces

Accompanying Programme

In parallel, the events of the Sellery Weekend (independent art weekend) will take place in some Berlin spaces — making the May-June window Berlin's most concentrated project space season.

Funding

Funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Berlin Senate Department for Culture).

Prices Project Space Festival 2026

All events are free. Donations to individual spaces are welcome.

Practical information

Practical information — Project Space Festival

Getting There

The spaces are spread across the entire city — primarily in the districts of Mitte, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Neukölln, Pankow, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Wedding/Mitte. Public transport and bicycles are the best options.

Admission

All events are free. Donations to individual spaces are welcome.

Festival Map

A map with all 30 participating spaces, dates, and programmes will be available shortly before the festival begins at projectspacefestival.berlin.

What are Project Spaces?

Project spaces are the most differentiated phenomenon of the Berlin art scene: small, often only a few square metres in size, run by artists, curators, or collectives themselves — without gallery profit motive, often voluntary, with micro-funding. They are located in backyards in Wedding, Kreuzberg, Neukölln, Moabit, Prenzlauer Berg, Friedrichshain, Mitte, and Tempelhof. They show exhibitions of young or marginal positions, performances, readings, films — and are often milestones for careers that later lead to the Hamburger Bahnhof or the KW Institute for Contemporary Art.

The Festival Concept

The Project Space Festival Berlin was founded in 2014 to make the diversity of this scene visible for 30 days each year. Every day during the festival period, a different project space opens with a specially curated programme: exhibition openings, performances, workshops, concerts, discourse rounds. The festival is free — all events are freely accessible. Anyone wandering through the Berlin calendar gets to know 30 spaces they would otherwise never have entered.

2026 — 13th Edition, May-June

The 2026 edition runs from May 30 to June 28, 2026. The complete programme with the 30 selected spaces will be published on the festival website. The selection is made annually by a jury of curators — all Berlin project spaces can apply. The spaces are spread across the entire city, making the festival also a city exploration tour.

Hauptstadtkulturfonds and the Berlin Art Ecosystem

The festival is funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Berlin Senate Department for Culture) — an acknowledgement that while project spaces are individually small, they are collectively a central chapter of Berlin's art scene. The festival collaborates with the Network of Independent Project Spaces Berlin, an advocacy group that has been fighting for more stable rents and structures since the mid-2010s. In parallel, the Sellery Weekend exhibitions take place in the same weeks — also in self-organised spaces, with a different focus.