Durchlüften 2026 Lines Up Free Global Music Across Four Summer Weekends in Berlin

Berlin’s Durchlüften festival has confirmed its 2026 program, settling back into the Schlüter Courtyard of the Humboldt Forum for four weekends from July 9 to August 1. The free open-air series presents two concerts per evening followed by a DJ set—24 live acts and 12 DJs in total, with no ticket required.

Curator Melissa Perales built the lineup in collaboration with Buenos Aires label ZZK Records and Karachi-based honiunhoni. The result reads less like a typical European festival poster and more like a deliberate map of musical paths that rarely share a stage. Mauritanian vocalist Noura Mint Seymali brings the griot-rooted desert blues that sits at the center of her country’s tradition, while South Africa’s BCUC arrives with its dense, communal punk-funk chants. A label night curated by honiunhoni pairs the celebrated Benju player Ustad Noor Bakhsh with classical vocalist Muslim Shaggan.

The wider bill moves through Japanese punk by Seppuku Pistols, pop and Andean traditions refracted by Peru’s Renata Flores, Kurdish club sonics from Denmark’s AySay, Ecuadorian collective Humazapas, and Togolese vocal and electronic synthesis from Nana Benz du Togo. Each night is built as a flow from two live performances into a DJ set, keeping the courtyard a space of listening and movement rather than a showcase of isolated sets.

Details on the full program are available directly from the festival.