UCHE YARA. DURCHLÜFTEN – 2026 Live Concerts & DJ Acts

For the sixth time now, DURCHLÜFTEN transforms the Schlüterhof courtyard of Berlin’s Humboldt Forum into a vibrant open-air stage for global music, cultural dialogue, and shared experience. From 9 July to 1 August 2026, across four summer weekends, the festival presents 24 live acts and 12 DJs from around the world.

Each evening features two concerts followed by a DJ set, creating twelve nights of musical discovery, movement, and encounter in the heart of Berlin — once again with free entry for all.

From electrified Mauritanian desert blues to Andean Indigenous futurism, Kurdish acid ritual to Afro-Colombian bass cosmologies, Tanzanian polyphony to Anatolian-Nordic electronica—the courtyard becomes a meeting point of living cultures. Artists carry traditions such as living archives, weaving ancestral instruments, languages, and storytelling into contemporary forms, diasporic exchange, and global club culture. Collaborations with independent labels like Argentina’s ZZK Records and Karachi-based honiunhoni further expand these cross-continental sonic dialogues.

Since its inception, DURCHLÜFTEN has stood for cultural dialogue beyond museum walls. What begins inside the galleries — in exhibitions, collections, and interdisciplinary exchange — flows outward into lived experience. The courtyard becomes a commons: a space of participation, hospitality, and collective presence.

DURCHLÜFTEN welcomes everyone: the music and art lover, the crate digger, the museum visitor who lingers after sunset, the raver, the neighbor passing by, and the grandmother visiting with her family. Here, we gather not only to listen, but to experience cultures in motion. DURCHLÜFTEN remains free and open to all. Please be prepared for queuing moderately.

UCHE YARA embodies, at just 23, the fearless creativity of a new generation. As a singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer, she fuses alternative pop, R&B and club sounds into a raw, genre-blending universe that feels both intimate and electrifying. Switching effortlessly between instruments and styles, she delivers songs that hit hard and feel close. Her unmistakable voice, bold energy and magnetic stage presence pull the crowd in, turning every performance into a shared experience. Following a celebrated EU tour, the acclaimed EPs GOLDEM DAYS and honey, and the prestigious MME Award in 2025, Uche Yara has established herself as one of the most exciting voices out there.

• free admission
• Duration: 90 min
• Ground Floor, Schlüter Courtyard
• Belongs to: Durchlüften 2026