Listening Biennial: Third Listening

03.09.2025 - 07.09.2025
With Agustín Genoud, Isuru Kumarasinghe, Yara Mekawei

Since 2021, The Listening Biennial has sought to foster research and discussion on listening, recognizing its transformative power as key to enriching personal lives and social initiatives, and which supports ethical and political practices. The third edition of The Listening Biennial is offered as a listening journey, inviting intimacy and the critical joy of collective worldings. 

For its third edition, The Listening Biennial in Berlin brings together sonic, visual and performative works by an international cohort of artists for a week-long program of creative and reparative listening. Challenging current attention economies with their crisis capitalism, the Biennial offers a restorative space for deep breaths and slow talk, and for listening-with the vibrant matters of our planetary world. Comprised of artistic installations throughout the building of Ballhaus Ost, an informal talk series taking place under the trees, and an evening program of live performances and experimental sounds, we invite audiences into a listening journey full of poetic voices, stories, noises and songs. In particular, The Listening Biennial works at building greater listening cultures, nurturing radical openness and compassionate action. 

Isuru Kumarasinghe (Fellow Music & Sound 2025) is curatorial partner of the Biennial and will perform on Sep 4. The edition also features performances by Agustin Genoud (Fellow 2024) and Yara Mekawei (Fellow 2021). The Biennial will be followed up by an edition of the Listening Academy at daadgalerie in early October.

Ballhaus Ost, Pappelallee 15, 10437 Berlin
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photo credit: Irazema H Vera, Recording the Amazon river, 2023, photo: Leslie Searles