Jan 26-Feb 01: Transmediale, Berlin Fashion Week, Best of Hans Zimmer, and more!
Things to do in Berlin - Jan 26!
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What’s in store for you this week:
🎵 Transmediale 2026
🎤 Callie’s presents The Third Room
🎼 The Best of Hans Zimmer In Concert
👗 Berlin Fashion Week 2026
🎶 CORIN »Resonance«, Sote »Sound Design In Far Sea«
👅 Time to Shine 10: DIRTY TALK
✂️ Berlin Selectors – The Aftershow
🎸 Q1 ALL HANDS - CORP. + Jess Brett
1. Transmediale 2026
Transmediale is a festival and year-round project that examines connections between art, culture, and technology. The 39th edition explores the theme "By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road" through exhibitions, workshops, films, and discussion panels. The festival questions digital structures and explores how systems, technologies, and worldviews can be reimagined. The schedule.
💵 €25+
📅 28 Jan (Wed) - 01 Feb (Sun)
📍 Various locations
2. Callie’s presents The Third Room: Agnese Menguzzato
Callie’s presents The Third Room, a new performance series that opens the institution’s sound studio to the public for the first time, turning a production space into one shaped by shared listening. The series features new and in-process works by four female artists developed during studio residencies focused on collaboration and hands-on use of the studio’s flexible setup. Their work draws on instruments first studied early on, including lute, piano, santoor, and turntables, reworked through combinations of analogue and electronic sound. Each of the three sessions unfolds differently, shaped by changing collaborators, techniques, and the studio’s spatial and acoustic tools. More info.
💵 €15
📅 29 Jan (Thu) - 31 Jan (Sat)
📍 Callie’s
3. The Best of Hans Zimmer In Concert
The Cinema Festival Symphonics presents a tribute concert featuring the music of two-time Oscar winner Hans Zimmer. A large orchestra, soloists, and choir perform iconic compositions from films including Gladiator, The Lion King, Inception, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Dark Knight, and Mission: Impossible. The concert combines synchronized screen animations and lighting effects to create a visual and musical experience. More info.
💵 €76+
📅 30 Jan (Fri), 20:00
4. Berlin Fashion Week 2026
The international fashion scene gathers in Berlin for the winter edition of Berlin Fashion Week. The event presents new trends and collections from established and emerging designers through fashion fairs, shows, and events. The focus is on young talent and innovations from Berlin's subcultures, with themes of sustainability and inclusion playing central roles. The program includes various venues and events throughout the city. The program.
💵 Cost varies
📅 30 Jan (Fri) - 02 Feb (Sun)
📍 Various locations
5. CORIN »Resonance«, Sote »Sound Design In Far Sea«
A spatial concert with two electronic music performances in collaboration with Berlin's Forecast platform. Sote premieres Sound Design In Far Sea, a live work that transforms Persian instruments and field recordings from Iran into layers of synthesis and sonic detail. CORIN performs Resonance, developed through Forecast's mentorship program under Sote's guidance. The piece uses the kulintang, a Filipino precolonial gong chime instrument, to create harmonic and rhythmic systems that connect ancestral memory with digital production. More info.
💵 €25
📅 30 Jan (Fri)
6. Time to Shine 10: DIRTY TALK
The tenth Berlin edition of Time to Shine focuses on the theme of dirty talk through live storytelling and comedy. The show is created by and for the kink, fetish, and sex-work communities, exploring the topic through humor and personal stories. The event welcomes attendees to dress in latex, leather, or whatever makes them feel comfortable in a judgment-free space. More info.
💵 €30
📅 30 Jan (Fri) - 31 Jan (Sat)
7. Berlin Selectors – The Aftershow
Following the HADERLUMP ATELIER BERLIN runway show, as part of Berlin Fashion Week, this event combines fashion, music, and architecture in a night of sound, space, and light. The evening takes place across 3,000 square meters of industrial space, featuring curated music, minimal scenography, and movement. Khaila opens with a live piano performance, followed by Beste Hira with an ambient cello set. The lineup includes DJ sets by Byron Yeates, Danielle, FRÆNZ:, and others, plus a performance by Donna The Show. More info.
💵 €22
📅 31 Jan (Sat), 20:00 - 08:00
Submitted Events
8. Q1 ALL HANDS - CORP. + Jess Brett
CORP. celebrates their four-year anniversary with their biggest headline show at Badehaus. The Berlin-based indie rock and post-punk band has performed across Europe at venues including Whelans in Dublin, Paradiso in Amsterdam, and a sold-out album release show at Kantine am Berghain. Their sound blends influences from Beach Fossils, Surf Curse, Talking Heads, and The Strokes. Jess Brett provides support for the evening. More info.
💵 €17
📅 31 Jan (Sat)
📍 Badehaus
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