What is Pop-Kultur?

Pop-Kultur is a six-day festival for pop culture in all its forms – with live concerts, DJ sets, experimental music formats, talks, workshops, and networking – in Berlin.

Pop-Kultur Festival | 25–30 August 2025 | silent green Kulturquartier, nearby clubs & Kulturbrauerei

Monday, 25.08. Pop-Kultur Talks, Sonic Crossings
Tuesday, 26.08. Pop-Kultur Talks, Pop-Kultur Lokal, Sonic Crossings
Wednesday, 27.08. Pop-Kultur Live with ÄTNA & ensemble reflektor, Anika and more
Thursday, 28.08. Pop Up_Berlin 2025 – Label market and live concerts
Friday, 29.08. Pop-Kultur Live with Apsilon, Boondawg, Eli Preiss and more
Saturday, 30.08. Pop-Kultur Live with Die Nerven, Efterklang, Los Bitchos and more

Pop-Kultur is evolving

With new formats, more Berlin locations, and even more space for pop culture and exchange.
Pop-Kultur sees itself as a platform for creative ideas, artistic experimentation and international exchange – open to everyone who loves and wants to shape pop culture.

Pop-Kultur is more than concerts

Pop-Kultur brings key topics, trends and talents from Berlin’s music scene to the stage – showing how pop culture shapes society today and tomorrow. Fans discover new favourite acts, artists find space for experiments, professionals discuss relevant issues – and new talents get real opportunities.

What to expect

From 25–30 August 2025, we’ll transform the silent green Kulturquartier, the Kulturbrauerei, and numerous clubs into a buzzing space for music, encounters, and new perspectives.

Artists present commissioned works created especially for the festival – bold, experimental, and performed live for the first time. Residency-artists from the Musicboard showcase collaborative music formats developed in Berlin. Çaystube is a free, open safer space for queer, post-migrant and decolonial community. This year’s edition, »Spill The Tea«, connects sport and pop in an interactive installation in the Kulturbrauerei courtyard. Forward thinkers and creatives bring current debates, future topics and social developments to the stage at Pop-Kultur Talks – sparking inspiration, dialogue and new ideas. Our talent programme, Pop-Kultur Nachwuchs, offers young creatives knowledge, networks and the confidence to build a sustainable music career. Berlin-based organisers actively shape the programme with their own events, highlighting the diversity of the city’s cultural scene at Pop-Kultur Lokal. As part of Sonic Crossings and in partnership with the Goethe-Institut and the »Goethe-Institut im Exil« project, we are hosting musicians from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia for a short residency in Berlin during the festival.

Equity, Accessibility, Awareness, Inclusion

Pop-Kultur stands for diversity, inclusion, awareness and accessibility – not as buzzwords, but as lived practice. That’s our commitment. We see the festival as a shared process shaped equally by audiences, artists and organisers: collective approaches, post-migrant identities, intersectional discourse, inclusive projects, diasporic narratives, queer perspectives and a breaking of musical conventions all contribute to a space for shared dialogue. Who is Pop-Kultur for? Whether you’re a music fan, a curious explorer, an artist, a professional – or hoping to become one – Pop-Kultur offers inspiration, connection and fresh perspectives. Together, we strengthen Berlin as a music capital, support the arts and creative industries, and shape the future of pop culture.

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Our Values

Pop-Kultur is a space for diversity – where people with different experiences, identities and backgrounds come together. We strive to create an environment where everyone feels welcome.
We see Pop-Kultur as a cultural space for shared exchange and open dialogue grounded in democratic values.
These values include mutual respect and recognition of social diversity – along with a firm commitment to combating all forms of discrimination.
We ask all participants – including guests, partners, artists and team members – to uphold these values and recognise our shared responsibility to create a safe, inclusive experience for everyone.
We do not tolerate any form of discrimination – including ableism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, racism, sexism, trans- and queerphobia, or any form of violence, such as harassment, insults, bullying, threats or hate speech. Our policy is based on the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG) and Berlin’s State Anti-Discrimination Act (LADG).
We reserve the right to take appropriate action, including denying access to events, in the case of violations.
We are committed to learning from feedback, incidents or mistakes. You can reach us any time at: awareness@pop-kultur.berlin
In our Code of Conduct, you’ll find a detailed outline of our values and the behavioural guidelines we expect all participants at Pop-Kultur to follow.

Self-conception

Pop-Kultur is a space for diversity, where people with different experiences, identities, and backgrounds come together. We remain committed to creating an environment where everyone feels welcome.

We see Pop-Kultur as a cultural space for mutual exchange and open dialogue based on democratic values.

These values include mutual respect and the recognition of social diversity, as well as a firm commitment to combating discrimination in all its forms.

We ask all participants – visitors, partners, artists, guests, and workers – to adhere to these values and to recognise that we are jointly responsible for ensuring that everyone can feel accepted and safe at our festival.

We have a strict zero-tolerance policy towards all forms of discrimination – including ableism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism, sexism, trans- and homophobia – as well as all forms of violence – including insults, harassment, threats, bullying, hate speech, and agitation. This is based on the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG) and the Berlin State Anti-Discrimination Act (LADG).

Depending on the incident or repeated incidents, we reserve the right to determine who shall be allowed or denied access to the event.

We strive to learn from feedback, experiences, and mistakes. You can contact us at any time: awareness@pop-kultur.berlin

In our Code of Conduct, based on our principles and values, you will find various behavioural guidelines to which we are committed and that we expect all participants at Pop-Kultur to follow. Here is the link to the Code of Conduct.

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Sonic Crossings

Pop-Up Berlin

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