Global Dystopia – Sound Art Biennial 2026
Global Dystopia – Sound Art Biennial 2026
frontviews e.V. and Errant Sound e.V. present
at HAUNT, 4 more Venues, and the Public Space
Global Dystopia – Sound Art Biennial 2026
HAUNT Artists
Lisa W Carlson, Organisms Democracy, Txulunh Gakran/João Voia, Impulsive Habitat, Gary Hill, Molasses Industries, Brandon LaBelle, Tintin Patrone, David Stalling, Staffan Westerlund
Artistic Director
Mario Asef
Curatorial Advisory Board
Janine Eisenächer, Laura Mello, Brandon LaBelle, Julia Gerlach
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Duration
Sat 26 Sep – Sun 11 Oct
Vernissage
Sat 26 Sep 6 – 9 pm
Opening Times
Sat 27 Sep – Sun 11 Oct
Wed – Sun 2 – 7 pm
and by personal appointment
closed on public holidays
Last Day
Sun 11 Oct 2 – 7 pm
Scroll down for the full programme
LOCATION
frontviews at HAUNT
Kluckstraße 23 A Yard
D – 10785 Berlin
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PROGRAMME
Vernissage
Sat 26 Sep 6 – 9 pm
with
Performances
at 6pm
“MUSIKONG BUMBONG expanded”
by Tintin Patrone
at 7pm
“Trivialities and War”
by Staffan Westerlund
at 8pm
“Imagine Human!”
by Lisa W Carlson
HAUNT Workshops
Thu 1 Oct 2 – 5 pm
“Cosmic Orbiting: Embodied Listening through Taichi, Touch and Sound”
by ( ether o ) Chia-Liang Lai
Thu 8 Oct 2 – 5 pm
“SOMA OF THE TREE – Rituals of Repair”
by Patricia Hegglin
Last Day
Sun 11 Oct 2 – 7 pm
full festival programme
www.dystopia.berlin
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LOCATION
frontviews at HAUNT
Kluckstraße 23 A Yard
D – 10785 Berlin
ORGANISER
Errant Sound e.V.
Rungestr. 20
10179 Berlin
www.errantsound.net
SOCIAL MEDIA
@frontviews_
@haunt_berlin
@dystopiabiennial
@errant.sound
Berlin Museum of Medical History @bmmcharite
Flutgraben e.V.@flutgrabenberlin
Floating Berlin @floatinguniversity
Deep See @ Café Babette Public Space @deep_see_berlin
WEB
HAUNT Berlin
PUBLIC TRANSPORT
Bus Linie M48 or M85 from Potsdamer Platz/Bus Stop
Lützowstr./Potsdamer Str. and a 4 minute walk // U-Bahn
Kurfürstenstraße Line U1 and U3 and a 6-minute walk // M29 Bus Stop Gedenkstätte Dt. Widerstand and a 2-minute walk.
The Global Dystopia Sound Art Biennial and HAUNT are generously supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. The HAUNT part was also made possible with the initiative of the whole frontviews collective.
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Global Dystopia – under this title, the fourth Dystopia Sound Art Biennial, taking place from 26 September to 17 October 2026, brings together more than 40 international artists with sound installations, performances, talks, and workshops at five venues across Berlin, in public space, and on Instagram. The biennial opens on 26 September at HAUNT/frontviews.
This year’s edition gathers sound art perspectives from different regions of the world: Global Dystopia invites audiences to experience dystopias as spaces of encounter between memory and the future, between loss and resistance, and between ecological crises, political conflicts, and speculative visions of
the future.
Field recording archives enter into dialogue with research into oral traditions; sounding fungi encounter contemporary sound system practices; the fatigue of a city drifting along the Spree meets Berlin’s hidden Underground.
Global Dystopia understands listening as a political, ecological, and social practice. The works on display attend to the entanglements of global power relations – past, present, and future – and open up perspectives on more-than-human relationships, the environment as an acoustic space of experience, and the material conditions of listening.
What forms of knowledge become accessible through sound? How can suppressed histories, marginalized perspectives, or ecological processes be made audible? What role can listening play in confronting climate change, extractivism, colonial continuities, or collective trauma?
Programme and Information
www.dystopia.berlin
