Global Dystopia Sound Art Biennial - Bmm Charité

Global Dystopia sound art biennial 2026
Exhibitions | Performances | Workshops | Discourse
25.09. - 17.10.26
HAUNT/frontviews: Sep 26th to Oct 11 - Opening Performances, Exhibition
Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité:  Sep 29th to Oct 11th - Installation, Performance on Oct 10th
Flutgraben e.V.: 02. to 17. Oktober - Eröffnung und Finissage mit Performances, Exhibition, Symposium
Deep See @CafeBabette: 08. Oktober - Performance
Floating Berlin: 25. September bis 04. Oktober - Studentische Ausstellung (in Kooperation mit der Universität der Künste Berlin - Sound Studies)

Since 2018, Errant Sound e.V. has initiated and organized the DYSTOPIA Sound Art Biennial—an international platform dedicated to sound art and its engagement with the tensions between dystopia and utopia. Across its editions to date, the biennial has brought together more than 120 artists and approximately 60 projects, each exploring, in distinct and layered ways, the experiential terrains of both dystopian and utopian imaginaries. Conceived as an artist-driven initiative, the biennial emerges directly from practice: curated, organized, and realized by artists themselves.

The current edition of the biennial is dedicated to the theme “Global Dystopias.” Artists, collectives, and initiatives from the so-called Global South enter into dialogue with positions from the Global North. Their works trace the entanglements of ecological, social, and technological dynamics, while simultaneously opening speculative spaces for alternative, even utopian, imaginaries.

The biennial thus positions itself not merely as an exhibition format, but as an ongoing process: a platform for polyphonic exchange where diverse experiential realities, forms of knowledge, and aesthetic practices intersect. Within this context, sound operates as a particularly sensitive medium—it traverses space, connects distances, and enables modes of perception that exceed the visual. In doing so, it offers new ways of engaging with questions of coexistence, resilience, and political imagination.

These inquiries begin within the framework of residency programs, where artistic research, production, and exchange are closely intertwined. During the biennial, they culminate in exhibitions and a discursive symposium that brings together artists and theorists, further advancing the interplay between artistic practice and critical reflection.

Artist: Kirstin Burckhardt