Airing Out – Open Air in the Schlüter Courtyard

Live concerts and DJ sets, family program and cold drinks. You are cordially invited to the open-air music festival AIRING OUT – free of charge and open air.

The transcultural and cross-genre live program presents international guests and musicians from the Berlin scene. Let yourself be carried away by the musical parcours that leads from Accra to Bogotá, from Belgrade to Bangkok, from Harare to Vilnius and from Rio de Janeiro to Istanbul and back to the dancefloor sounds of Berlin’s nightlife. On twelve summer evenings AIRING OUT invites you to experience bands that span wide musical arcs and tell diverse stories – impressive, multi-perspective and extremely danceable.

Framed by the baroque facades of the Schlüterhof, the AIRING OUT festival invites music lovers of all ages, tourists and night owls to experience extraordinary music. Curated by Melissa Perales, the program aims to surprise with the unknown and the familiar, with sounds and stories that move across borders and continents.

Join us for twelve very special evenings under the Berlin night sky.

AIRING OUT presents live concerts & DJ acts by:

ABENEKO & The Positive Mind | Dar es Salaam | Alogte Oho & the Sounds of Joy | Northern Ghana | Ahmed AG Kaedy | Kidal, Mali | AWA Khiwe (African Women Arise) | Makokoba, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe | BANTUNAGOJÊJE | Berlin | Salvador de Bahia | Ben Olayinka | Berlin | DJ Booty Carrell | Munich | Brushy One String | Kingston, Jamaica | Combo Chimbita NYC | Bogotá | DJ Chris Menist | London | Bangkok | Chrisa Lazariotou & Band  | Münich | Greece | Disco Vumbi a.k.a DJ Alai K | Mombasa | Berlin | duendita | NYC | Puerto Rico | DJ Dauwd | Berlin | North Wales | Dhanesh Jayaselan | Malaysia| Australia | Berlin | EsRap | Wien | Istanbul | Emeka Okereke | Berlin | Lagos | Gordan | Berlin | Belgrade | Gotopo | Bogotá | Caracas | In Living Color Collective | Berlin | DJ İpek | Berlin | Istanbul | Kofi | Benin | Paris | DJ Maft Sai | Bangkok | DJ Maryisonacid | Berlin | Maque Pereyra DJ Set | Berlin | Bogotá | Mehmet Aslan DJ Set | Berlin | Basel | Merope | Brussels | Vilnius | Merve Salgar & Anil Eraslan | Istanbul | Strasbourg | Berlin | MLDVA with Petra Nachtmanova | Krakow | Vienna | Berlin | Onom Agemo & the Disco Jumpers | Berlin | TootArd | Bern | Golan Heights | The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band | Bangkok | Tropical Timewarp DJ Collective | Berlin | Selassie | Berlin | Accra | Tribute to Stella Rambisai Chiweshe with her daughter Virginia Mukwesha-Hetze & former students: Stefan Franke | Berlin | Camille Bokhobza | Paris | Berlin | & Fabiano Lima | Pernambuco, Brazil | Berlin | Pantopia Label Evening | Berlin

Residency-program

In addition, five Berlin based musicians and cultural practitioners will engage with the Humboldt Forum and ithe exhibited collections as part of a research residency. The artistic results will be presented on the last festival weekend (August 5, 2023) as a a joint, performative concert evening. This also closes a programmatic circle that has emerged from the curatorial process of the past two years, enabling an encounter between the artists and the Humboldt Forum. The focus is on a practice of mutual exchange, transparency, and the creation of a sustained dialogue between the institution and the artists. By listening to each other and highlighting the common but yet different stories, honoring truths, and creating space for personal connections to histories and ancestors.