singuhr XXX – 30 years sound art in Berlin
29.5. – 7.6.2026

The »singuhr XXX« festival celebrates singuhr’s 30th anniversary. The program features sound installations by Bernhard Leitner (Parochialkirche) and Akio Suzuki (public space), two days of concerts and performances at Villa Elisabeth and the Kuppelhalle at silent green, as well as a matinee on the topic of sound spaces in Berlin with lectures and discussions at the daadgalerie. 30 years of singuhr—this marks a unique project that, since May 30, 1996, has independently produced and presented more than 120 exhibitions, along with concerts, festivals, and symposia in Berlin. The festival connects venues in the city that have been central to singuhr (singuhr — hoergalerie in parochial 1996–2006 / singuhr — hoergalerie 2007–2014 / singuhr — projekte, since 2014). Participating are sound artists with whom singuhr has collaborated in the past.

Sound Installations:

Friday, 29.5.2026, Parochialkirche and Klosterviertel
6:00 p.m. Opening of the sound installation »Tonkuppel« by Bernhard Leitner
8:00 p.m. Opening of the installation »oto-date berlin 2026« by Akio Suzuki

Parochialkirche
Bernhard Leitner »Tonkuppel« (Re-Installation, 2005/2026)
May 30 — June 7, 2026
Daily 2:00 p.m. — 8:00 p.m.

Klosterviertel and Wasserspeicher neighborhood
Akio Suzuki »oto-date berlin 2026« (Installation in public space)
May 30 — June 7, 2026
Permanent

Double Concert: Sound Performances I

Saturday, May 30, 2026, Villa Elisabeth
6:00 PM
with Erwin Stache (DE), Vinyl-terror & -horror (DK), Jens Brand & Sukandar Kartadinata (DE), Max Eastley (GB)
8:00 p.m.
with Michael Moser (AT), Paul DeMarinis (US), Akio Suzuki & Hiromi Miyakita (JP)

Matinee:

Sunday, May 31, 2026, daadgalerie, 1st floor
11:00 a.m. — 2:00 p.m.
“30 Years of Sound Spaces in Berlin”
Lecture and discussions
with Helga de la Motte-Haber, Janina Klassen, Susanne Binas-Preisendörfer, Volker Straebel, Jan Thoben, Nika Schmitt, Carsten Seiffarth

Double Concert: Sound Performances II

Sunday, May 31, 2026, Kuppelhalle (Cupola) silent green
6:00 PM
with Sam Auinger (AT), Edwin van der Heide (NL), Hans Peter Kuhn (DE), Hugo Esquinca (MX)
8:00 p.m.
with Ricardo Carioba (BR), Raul Keller (EE), Ioana Vreme Moser (RO), Robert Lippok (DE)

Organized by singuhr e.V.
Funded by Musikfonds e.V. by means of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.