Project Space Festival Berlin 2026
30 self-organised project spaces, 30 days, a festival across Berlin
About Project Space Festival
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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.
Project Space Festival — edition 2026
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.
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).
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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.
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Where it takes place Project Space Festival
30 selbstorganisierte Berliner Projekträume (stadtweit)