With works by Dror Feiler, Essa Grayeb, Hoda Afshar, Interspecifics, Isuru Kumarasinghe

Echoes of Tumult brings together works that witness and process violence, systemic failure, and vulnerability by artists who are in varying proximity to the realities they are examining. Through approaches ranging from speculative and documentary, to sensorial, theatrical, and personal, their works resonate with and against current realities at the nexus of ecological crisis, geopolitics, and war. They deliberately bring us into contact with painful situations, oscillating between confrontation and resistance, and at times unexpectedly echoing with solidarity and hope.

Refracting into an affective field of resonances and disturbances, the works situate visitors within the complex connections and entanglements with the more-than-human world, address violence and unrest through sound, or grapple with memory and the construction of narratives through visual representation and the mediation of images. Some dive firmly into speculative actions or fictions pointing to futures that, while remaining conflicted, engage in new forms of relationality, agency, and hope. Together the works within Echoes of Tumult reflect on the possibilities and difficulties of repair, and insist on the possibility of listening, communication, and connection as fundamental to calling for and driving change. Things cannot and must not stay as they are.

The exhibition presents artists from the networks of CTM Festival, DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, and iii – instrument inventors initiative, three organisations active in exploring the intersection of sound and art with socio-political contexts, technologies, and histories. The works span neighbouring venues Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien and daadgalerie, both important artistic focal points in Berlin.

Presented within CTM 2026 dissonate < > resonate
CTM Festival 2026 runs 23 January – 1 February across different Berlin venues.

Opening
23.01.2026
17 – 22:00 daadgalerie
17 – 00:00 Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien

Opening Hours
24.01. – 01.02.2026
Mon – Sun / Mo – So: 10 – 20:00 Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
Mon – Sun / Mo – So: 12 – 19:00 daadgalerie

02.02. – 22.03.2026
Mon – Sun / Mo – So: 10 – 20:00 Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
Tue – Sun / Mo – So: 12 – 19:00 daadgalerie

Discourse program: 24.01. – 01.02.2026, daadgalerie upstairs
Free admission, talks in English
Sat 24.1.2026
Talks and discussions with alen hast, Ioana Vreme Moser, Mariana Berezovska, Nursalim Yadi Anugerah, Signe Lidén, Svitlana Matviyenko

Sun 25.1.2026
Talks and discussions with Essa Grayeb, Gascia Ouzounian, Nikita Kadan & more

Mon 26.1.2026
Listening session with Isuru Kumarasinghe

Fri 30.1.2026
Talk with Hoda Afshar and Pınar Öğrenci

Artists

Cathy van Eck, Dror Feiler, Essa Grayeb, Fragmentin, Hoda Afshar, Interspecifics, Ioana Vreme Moser, Isuru Kumarasinghe, Jaeha Ban & Soyun Park, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Nikita Kadan, Sissel Marie Tonn & Jonathan Reus, Zhanna Kadyrova

Curated by

CTM Festival, DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, iii – instrument inventors initiative

About the partners

CTM Festival connects multi-perspective experiences, critical reflection, hedonism, and collaborative learning via a yearly festival and continuous collaborative projects, publications, commissions, concerts, club nights, and more.

The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program is one of the most renowned residency programs for international artists and cultural practitioners in the fields of visual arts, film, literature, and music & sound. Each year, it awards residencies in Berlin to around twenty outstanding cultural producers.

Arising from the ArtScience tradition of The Hague, iii instrument inventors initiative is an artist run community platform supporting new interdisciplinary practices linking performance, technology, and the human senses.

Supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, iii – instrument inventors initiative, DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Program, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Pro Helvetia, and Goethe-Institut Ukraine.

The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program is institutionally funded by the German Federal Foreign Office and the Senate of Berlin.