2026/02

Amsterdam

The Sonic Acts Biennial, taking place 5 February – 29 March 2026 in Amsterdam, unfolds across more than 20 locations, with 80 events. At its centre is the Biennial’s main exhibition Melted for Love, spanning W139, Arti et Amicitiae, and Rozenstraat, accompanied by a satellite exhibition at Het Documentaire Paviljoen / IDFA Institute and a special collaboration with Framer Framed. Alongside the exhibition programme, the Biennial will host an extensive programme of film screenings, artist talks and exhibition tours. The Biennial Symposium on 28 Feb - 1 Mar is organised in four thematic blocks at the Stedelijk Museum with 20 speakers and performers. Full programme.

Berlin

EastUnBloc presents subversive, experimental and innovative media art works and practices from socialist and transition-era Central and Eastern Europe and their contexts. Exhibition, performances, talks, workshops. nGbK, Berlin, 29.11.25 – 15.2.26.

Strom – Festival for Electronic Music showcases the range of synthetic sound and enables it to interact with the timeless, visionary architecture of the Philharmonie Berlin, the home of the Berliner Philharmoniker. 6-7.2.2026.

The Berlinale sections Forum and Forum Expanded—organized by the Arsenal—stand for reflection on the medium of film, socio-artistic discourse and aesthetic idiosyncrasy. They aim to expand the understanding of what film is and open up fresh perspectives to help grasp cinema and how it relates to the world. The next edition of Berlinale Forum will take place from February 12 to 22, 2026.

Leuven

In 2026, Artefact focuses on the question: How can an exhibition function as a massage? The artists in Grind Grind Grind, Release. An Exhibition as a Massage bring you back into your body, where both pleasure and tension resides. What does it mean to long for, what does it mean to belong? 12.02→01.03.26.

Ljubljana

MENT, music festival and conference, 18-21 Feb.

Oslo

Bridging the fields of documentary and experimental film and video, No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image offers an expansive, intersectional account of underappreciated encounters between feminism and the moving image. Across a polycentric, global geography, it maps how artists and filmmakers have explored the nexus of gender and power and charts sites at which feminism connects to other struggles for justice. By revisiting the period of the 1970s to 1990s, it aims both to pay homage to the important work that has come before and to respond to the urgencies of the present. Kunstnernes Hus, 13.02.26 – 03.05.26.

Paris

The 21st edition of the Présences électronique festival presents the figures of experimental music, whose sonic explorations continue to push the boundaries of music. An international programme and original performances over three evenings of immersion in the heart of the sound space thanks to the 80-speaker Acousmonium. Maison de la Radio et de la Musique – Studio 104, 13+14+15 FÉVRIER 2026. [1]

Utrecht

We’re living in dystopian times. The fascist far-right is emboldened and taking to the streets. Queer and migrant lives are increasingly marginalized and under threat. Liberal political parties disingenuously engage in anti-fascist rhetoric merely as lip service to narrowly win an election. We know this will not result in a durable alternative; it is up to us to build it, and we want to build it with you. You are invited as our co-conspirators, as our comrades, to the upcoming edition of 2.Dh5, themed “Building the Collective(s) – Tools for an Antifascist Future.” ... So come round, show up, bring a friend, bring two, to this year’s festival on the 28th of February and the 1st of March in three different locations in Utrecht: ACU, BAK, Moira.

Zürich

The next SONIC MATTER Festival, themed «drift», will take place from 26 February to 1 March 2026.