After four days of festival flows the 2026 edition of transmediale has come to a close. Our heartfelt thanks go to all festival visitors, participants and contributors, the curators, the volunteers, and the entire team, who made this edition very special.

Across High Tide and Low Tide moments, the programme unfolded through lecture-performances, talks, listening sessions, screenings, and hydraulic sound performances, alongside edible and other sensory explorations of tropical intertwinements. This year, for the first time, CANK in Neukölln was one of the festival venues, hosting installations, concerts, and workshops alongside our main site at silent green. Temporary architectures readjusted movement and perspective throughout the spaces, while hanging•structures (already very missed!) invited moments of net•resting to balance each other.

Intimate and relational conversations balanced the focused attention of lecture-performances, as well as unforgettable concerts by wordsofAzia, Nursalim Yadi Anugerah, Vica Pacheco, Animistic Beliefs & Jeisson Drenth, and Afrotronix.

Throughout the festival days, curatorial wordplay guided this year’s edition: an invitation to tune into hungry imaginations, to measure time beyond scrolls, to net•rest and net•render in relation with one another, and to reconsider the infra•structures that hold us.

Thank you for sharing this time with us!