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

Saturday, January 24, 2026 1:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Talks and discussions with Ioana Vreme Moser, Mariana Berezovska, Nursalim Yadi Anugerah, Signe Lidén, Svitlana Matviyenko

Sunday, January 25, 2026, 2:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Conversations, screenings, and discussions with: Gascia Ouzounian, Nikita Kadan, and Alona Karavai, Center for Spatial Technologies

Tuesday, January 27, 2026, 2:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Hosted by Yara Mekawei & Stas Shärifullá
Roundtables with Saba Alizadeh – “Nafir (Clamour),” Dorothy Carlos, Miłosz Kędra, and Maarja NuutBint, MbarehMarina, Tantanozi

Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 2:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Conversations and discussions with: Vita Zelenska, Mattin, Dror Feiler, Eiliyas, and Leslie García (Microhm), moderated by Lottie Sebes

Thursday, January 29, 2026, 6:00 p.m.
Resonance as Practice: What Does “Experimental” Mean in South Asia?
Listening session with Isuru Kumarasinghe and Salome Voeglin

Saturday, January 31, 2026, 12:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Research Networking Day
Lefteris Krysalis, Federica Notari, Kika Echeverría, Angus Tarnawsky, Ana Rita Costa, Gabriele Murano, Aleksei Borisionok, Morten Poulsen, Eleanor Griffiths

Sunday, February 1, 2026 Resynthesising the Traditional Finale
Anuar Duisenbino and a roundtable with the Resynthesising the Traditional artistic lab

Friday, February 13, 2026 Artist Talk – 7pm
with Hoda Afshar and Pınar Öğrenci

All events of the CTM-Festival discourse program can be found on their website.

Extending beyond CTM 2026, exhibiting artists including Interspecifics, Hoda Afshar with Pınar Öğrenci, and Dror Feiler with Michael Barenboim will host listening sessions and artist talks at daadgalerie. Exact dates will follow.

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.