silent green Open Lab #3: megouem + Dara Shikoh + Kkoki

Supporting young talent and revealing artistic processes is very important to us at silent green — and that’s exactly what Open Lab is about. It is intentionally not a pure showcase but a space of possibility: for stepping into the public, for encounters, for resonance, and further development.



Both solo acts and ensembles/bands from Berlin were invited to apply, especially those whose approaches not only show individual artistic expression but also a desire to explore and transcend genre boundaries — between electronic music, improvisation, pop, spoken word, or performance.


megouem

megouem sings, reads, writes, and performs.The poems, pieces, and songs manifesting and given form in melodies and chants are impulses, observations, and reflections. Occasionally, illuminating insights also find their way into the musical manifestations.Inspired by her Grandmother's spiritual legacy, the preservation, transmission and mediation of knowledge are central to megouem's artistic practice.

At the silent green Open Lab, megouem will present various fragments located somewhere between vocal performance and musical theater, bringing them together in a harmonious concert piece.



Dara Shikoh
Dara Shikoh is a Berlin-based Sindhi interdisciplinary artist whose music inhabits the threshold between language and emotion. For him, sound is a vessel for feelings not yet shaped into words — raw, intuitive, and sacred. His creative journey is an attempt to dwell in this in-between and render it audible.Blending field recordings from places he has called home with electro-acoustic textures and intimate vocals, Dara Shikoh crafts immersic sonic worlds that reflect memory, migration, and inner states.



Kkoki
Kkoki is a Korean musician based in Berlin. Her songwriting is shaped by a long-standing interest in pop and pop culture, with influences drawn from
movies and TV shows.

Most of her time is spent writing and recording music with collaborators such as Emil Gabriel, COBEE, Kev Koko, Mathis Ruffing, Valentin Hansen, and others.

In August 2025, she released her debut single, with more planned for release in the coming months. 



Monday, September 29
sielnt green Kuppelhalle
8 pm
Admission free




The project is funded by the State of Berlin's program for the preservation and development of cultural infrastructure in the districts (Bezirkskulturfonds Mitte).