transmediale is an annual festival bringing together artists, researchers, thinkers, and activists, working on art, digital culture, and socio-political transformation.
Marking its 40th anniversary, transmediale RFC 40 presents a festival and an exhibition. Curated by Barbara Cueto and under the title groundstates, the festival’s programme will take place during the last week of January 2027 in silent green Kulturquartier. The exhibition fragile currents is curated by Antonina Stebur and will be on show at the Akademie der Künste (Hanseatenweg) until March.
| Tue, 26 Jan | Marshall McLuhan Lecture, Embassy of Canada in Berlin |
| Wed, 27 Jan | Exhibition Opening at Akademie der Künste |
| 28 Jan – 7 Mar | Exhibition at Akademie der Künste |
| Thu, 28 Jan | Festival Opening at silent green Kulturquartier |
| 29 Jan – 31 Jan | Festival days at silent green |
festival: groundstates
exhibition:
fragile currents
fragile currents
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October 2026 – March 2027The School of Algorithmic SolidarityFor the exhibition fragile currents, eeefff creates a series of performative sessions of the School of Algorithmic Solidarity at the transmediale studio, followed by a durational installation in which the School continues to unfold.Installation and performative sessions
with eeefff - July 2026 – January 2027Lattice LabsThe Labs function as infrastructures for collective inquiry in preparation of the festival: running in the months before the festival, they bring artists and researchers together for sustained cycles of critical discussion and collaborative making. The labs are already running across different online and offline locations. Prototypes are being produced, and tools and projects test and articulate shared languages to organise, resist, and live otherwise.
Our sister festival CTM will be celebrating their 28th edition from 22 to 31 January, 2027. Under the title process...ing, the upcoming edition shifts its attention to what process means in its different iterations, resisting closure and elevating the collective acts of making and sharing above the polished artifact. In a world that demands finished results, they choose to remain unfinished, in relation, and present. More than ever, the festival programming will be a momentary manifestation of sustained conversations, collaborations, and exchanges, driven by a multiplicity of voices in dialogue.
In Death by Sun, multidisciplinary artist Tianzhuo Chen places the sun at the centre of a journey through mythology, technology, and the contested futures of solar energy.
Recent Editions
transmediale 2026By the Mango Belt & Tamarind RoadThe 39th edition of transmediale looked at the re·figuration of systems, cosmologies, and technologies through the metaphorical coordinates By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road. The festival was reimagined as a living recursive carrier net – a hammock of relational technologies in practice that stretch across latitudes, rhythms, and systems.28.01.–01.02.2026 silent green CANK
transmediale 2025(near) near but — farFor transmediale’s 38th edition, (near) near but — far formed an understanding of how algorithms place us in weird proximities and new intimacies with one another and the qualities of closeness we lose by way of their machine-driven actions.29.01.–02.02.2025 silent green HKW
transmediale 2024you're doing amazing sweetieExploring the horror of content, the festival questioned how logics of content production determine and frustrate our relations to technology. The 37th edition of transmediale challenged the allure of unusable politics that spawn from cycles of consumption and distraction.31.01.–02.04.2024 silent green KKB HKW
transmediale 2023a model, a map, a fictionMerging theoretical discourse with social conversations and artistic interventions, transmediale 2023 explored how technological scale creates relations and fractures in the world, questioning how the instrumentalisation and affect of scale can be challenged.02.01.–02.05.2023 AdK
