Forecast Festival 2026

Where Ideas Find Their Future

Marking its 10th anniversary, the Forecast Festival returns to Radialsystem from July 16–19.

Explore the Festival's interdisciplinary program of performances, music, screenings, visual art, design, and stand-up comedy. Join the workshops, and exploratory walks led by fellows of the LINA network and alumni of the Forecast Mentorships program. 

 

Festival pass €30/25  |  Day pass €15/12  |  Workshops €5 each

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Thursday 


July 16  |  Doors 6pm  

7:15pm
Introspective Futurism

Mentor Lucy McRae engages in research-led body futurism, exploring what it means to thrive in a post-natural world. Her works explore new and interdisciplinary avenues for design through a process of narrative prototyping: provoking impossible questions and exploring ways in which science fiction can inspire real-world discourse. 
 
She will discuss incubating a mind state that trusts the unknown to develop methods for pioneering new aesthetics, new stories, and new ways of being together in the world. 
Showcases and installations* by artists and designers Lena Becerra, Amy Chiao, and Jiaqing Mo.

 

9:30pm
Authentic Deception

Mentor and performance maker Tom Cassani presents a psychic reading which engages the audience and gradually falls apart, exposing inherent deceptions.
Performances by Emilie Largier, Hsiang-Sheng Teng, and Chris Yarnell.
 

*Installations remain accessible throughout the Festival

 

All evening:
Bijan Moosavi’s quiz invites visitors to test their knowledge of contemporary art for the chance to get their hands on a piece of his “Art World Treasure.”

Friday

July 17  |  Doors 6pm  

6:30pm
Set by Nicholas Morrish

The Berlin-based British composer and electronic musician creates entirely synthetic sound worlds, exploring synthesis as a means of dissolving the thresholds between what is perceived as an organic or artificial-sounding body.


7pm

Unruly Images
Mentor and multimedia artist Almagul Menlibayeva discusses the multimedia installation Water Older Than the Sun (Caspian), (2025)​, created in collaboration with Suad Gara, which was recently shown at a collateral exhibition of the 61st Art Biennial, and is now on view at the Festival.
Showcases and installations* by Camila Flores-Fernández, Poyuan Juan, and Ana Mikadze.
 

9pm
Set by Nicholas Morrish

 

9:30pm
The Distant Mirror
Mentor and composer Heinali and Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko present Гільдеґарда (Hildegard), a unique reimagining of Hildegard von Bingen’s music. The 20-minute performance combines the vocal sound-production approaches of Ukrainian folk singing with modular synthesis techniques drawn from high medieval polyphony and monophony. 
Performances by musicians and sound artists Pablo V Cazares, Mariana Carrilho, and Anna Ivchenko.

 

*Installations remain accessible throughout the Festival

 


All evening:

Artist Yelta Köm takes visitors on a guided walkthrough of the installations on view.

Bijan Moosavi’s quiz invites visitors to test their knowledge of contemporary art for the chance to get their hands on a piece of his “Art World Treasure.”

Saturday

July 18  |  Doors 5pm

7pm
Constructing Delusions

Mentor, artist, and filmmaker Keren Cytter presents her film trilogy Meltdown (Hot Lava Night, Queens in Queens, Meltdown). The titular “meltdown” serves as a manifestation of the internal states of Cytter’s characters as well as the fragmented, chaotic world they inhabit. While the world around them draws ever closer to destruction, the characters seek a way out in their relationships, making the Meltdown trilogy a kind of love story.
Screenings and installations by artists and filmmakers Helen Anna Flanagan, Nadir Sönmez, and Mahesh Subramaniam

 


9:30pm
Playing With Risk

Mentor, writer, and comedian Vidura Bandara Rajapaksa shares a new work in progress.
Stand-up comedy sets by Brandon Aguirre, Siming Lu, Xabiso Vili.  

 

All evening:


Artist Arne Vogelgesang offers a guided walkthrough of the installations on view.

 

Bijan Moosavi’s quiz invites visitors to test their knowledge of contemporary art for the chance to get their hands on a piece of his “Art World Treasure.”

 

 

 

Sunday 

July 19  |  11am

Throughout the day: activations by LINA fellows Fite Futae
Workshop ticket holders can visit all installations
Workshops €5 each

 

11am–2pm
Ute Lindenbeck und Lena Düspohl: Children’s workshop  / Kinderworkshop (German only)—Zwischen den Zeiten hören

für Tandems aus jungen und älteren Erzähler*innen (ab 8 Jahren)
Meine Oma ist in einer anderen Welt aufgewachsen. Sie sagt, die Zwiebeln haben damals anders geschmeckt. Über solche Unterschiede wollen wir sprechen. Ihr seid eingeladen, gemeinsam mit einer Person aus einer anderen Generation teilzunehmen: Enkel, Großeltern, Tante oder Eltern – Hauptsache, ihr habt Lust, euch Geschichten zu erzählen. Auch Einzelpersonen sind willkommen. Inspiriert von den Forecast-Künstler*innen entwickeln wir Fragen und tauschen Geschichten aus: Welche Lieder singst du gern? Wie war es, aufzuwachsen? Wovor hattest du Angst? Wir nehmen die Geschichten auf und experimentieren mit passenden Geräuschen. So entsteht ein kleines Hörspiel, das wir gemeinsam anhören.

Workshop von 11–13:30 Uhr, Gemeinsames Hörspiele Hören um 13:30 Uhr.

*Ute Lindenbeck und Lena Düspohl leiten gemeinsam das Programm Kidsuni an der Floating University Berlin.

2–4pm
Gustavo Gomes: Movement Workshop

Performing memory and telling stories with the body is a workshop-lecture by choreographer and performer Gustavo Gomes, whose research explores the intersections of memory and perception. Rooted in an embodied practice, the session begins with the direct experience of perception and gradually unfolds into a deeper exploration of bodily sensations and the awakening of memory. Through guided improvisation with movement and voice, somatic techniques, performative exercises, and the sharing of stories, participants are invited to tell stories with and through the body—engaging memory as a living, physical process that is constantly shifting and reshaped over time. Drawing on themes of embodiment, transformation, and sensory awareness, the workshop creates a space in which the body becomes both archive and medium, bridging personal experience with collective and perceptual inquiry.

 

3–6pm
LINA Fellow Oscar van Leest – Cracklebox Workshop

The Cracklebox Workshop is a hands-on, one-day session where participants (beginners and experienced alike) build a small electronic device that produces chaotic sounds when touched. The workshop combines soldering, exploration, and creative sound-making, encouraging experimentation with electronics and unconventional musical expression, ending with a collective sharing of the instruments.

 

4–5:30pm
LINA Fellow Joaquín MoraArtistic walk exploring the sonic identity of a place

The sound that remains is an artistic exploration that invites participants to discover the sonic identity of a place through collective listening. Rather than analyzing sound from a technical or scientific perspective, the experience offers a shared experience of attention, where listening becomes a way to connect with the place and its people. During the walk, stories are shared and different sonic experiences are explored. Parts of the walk will take place in silence in order to deepen observation and perception. After the walk, a short ten-minute reflection circle invites participants to share their experiences collectively. 

 

4:30–6pm
Flora Détraz, Screaming Workshop

Together with dancer and choreographer Flora Détraz, participants will explore screaming as a collective cathartic force—a tool for release, connection, and empowerment. Through vocal and physical experimentation, participants will be invited to free their voices and experience the intensity of a shared expressive energy.

Workshop: 1 hour
Followed by a vocal performance: 20 min

 

6:30–8pm
Nurah Farahat—Workshop und Closing Set: Building Audio-visual Instruments

Nurah Farahat will demonstrate how to build real-time audiovisual instruments from scratch. She will also take apart different instruments, walk us through their layers, and reassemble them differently along the way. This is more about method than it is about tools. How do you find your way through the complexity and the sheer number of options, softwares and topics? How do you stay oriented when you’re still figuring out what the instrument wants to become? Nurah Farahat will share the process behind her AV project KINDASA as it happens. Open to everyone, no prior experience needed.