ausland, Lychener Strasse 60, Berlin (2026)

ausland is an independent venue for music, film, literature, performance and other artistic endeavours. We also offer our infrastructure for artists and projects for rehearsals, recordings, and workshops, as well as a number of residencies. Inaugurated in 2002, ausland is run by a collective of volunteers (= ausländers): Artists themselves and/or culture & DIY-enthusiasts from different background

s and countries. Our genre-spanning programme is curated through the individual initiative of ausländers or in cooperation with external partners in the independent arts scene or institutions in Berlin and from abroad. We have the freedom to host any formats and artists which we deem exciting and interesting without regard to commercial interests or hypes and trends. The program is partly structured by long running series focussing on specific artistic (sub-)genres. Located in the souterrain of a formerly squatted, currently collectively owned house and rooted in the 1990's squatters subculture of Berlin we do not bridge but are the gap between underground and mainstream, DIY-subculture and the art establishment. Events at ausland are often realized without a budget, in other words they are made possible through volunteer efforts with the artists receiving only the takings from the door. Some of the events hosted at ausland receive project related funding from various partners for whose support we are grateful.

04/06/2026

Notorische Ruhestörung / .pk. / schoco mune
Fr, 8 May 2026
door 8 pm, start 8:30 pm
from 10 euro
ausland (Lychener Str.60)

https://www.facebook.com/events/776623302172517

schoco mune (it/she) is a sound performance project that delivers explosive, noisy, chaotic soundscapes generated with a strong focus on physicality and intuitive action. A dismantled piano being hit with whatever is there, being stomped upon, or a minimalist mixer with a couple of pedals in a seriously loudspeaker threatening feedback assembly, or... schoco mune started to liberate from the conventional musical approaches and traditional gender norms in 2020. Using sounds as a tool to embody human perception, pain, emotion, feeling, thoughts, and imagination, it explores a cognitive process through its performance.
https://schocomune.nl
https://www.instagram.com/schocomune
https://schocomune.bandcamp.com

Notorische Ruhestörung is an artist, organizer and activist mainly focusing on sound and music, but also active in other fields such as video, performance, zines and painting, DIY noisy electronics and improvisation. As a long-term member of the Berlin DIY, collective- & self-organized scene, Notorische Ruhestörung is always interested in social struggles and real life experiences. Touching several music styles and art currents in one go, Notorische Ruhestörung consistently plays and combines the drum, the guitar, the self-made instruments and keys.
https://ruhestoerung.noblogs.org/

İpek Odabaşı is an Istanbul-born, Berlin-based noise maker, sound artist, experimental DJ, and curator. Her practice centers on experimental music, including noise and improvised performance, where samples and field recordings are combined with live sound. She is a co-founder of the artist-run project space Richten25, co-curator of the Neu Berlin Institute of Improvised Music series, one of the bookers at B.L.O. Ateliers – Kantine, and co-founder and coordinator of the A.I.D concert series. Odabaşı plays loud and beautiful noise music produced by non-input mixers and various digital sound sources.
www.instagram.com/ipekodabasi__
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004630621075
https://linktr.ee/ipekodabasi
Next dates: 12.09.2026 | 09.11.2026 | 05.12.2026

20/05/2026

Flow and motion, cycles and turns. Check out these scenes from this month’s !

Thanks again to photographer for the images, and for finding these moments. Thanks to Tadklimp for the sound, and to Helen, Dava and Salah for their work behind-the-scenes and through the evening. To the artists, to Church Andrews & Matt Davies, and to Dumama, Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoglu and Sofia Eftichidou, thank you so much for making it such an inspiring and awesome experience of deep listening.

And, as always, thanks to everyone in the audience for supporting creative musics and musicians.

The last before the summer break takes place on 05.06.2026—we look forward to seeing you then!

Photos © 2026 Florian Fritsch / .
Supported by .

19/05/2026

Excited to welcome our third 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 residency group, with all the writings, dances and embodied dialogues they invite us into:

𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬, 𝐚 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐨.

By 𝗛𝗮𝘇𝗲𝗺 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗵 | 𝗞𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮 𝗛𝗺𝗲𝗶𝗱𝗮𝗻 | 𝗔𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗢𝗺𝗿𝗮𝗻 | 𝗡𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿 𝗬𝘂𝘀𝘂𝗳 | 𝗠𝗼𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗱 𝗔𝗹 𝗥𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶

This residency engages with a corpus of articles written by women and LGBTQ+ individuals from the Arab world, with a particular focus on Syria between 2012 and 2024. Within these texts, the body is approached not simply as a theme, but as a central site of lived experience, political inscription, and knowledge production.

Rather than treating these writings as purely literary material, the project works with them as dramaturgical structures. Through collective reading, discussion, and embodied practice, the group traces the physical, affective, and rhythmic dimensions embedded within the texts, exploring how meaning can emerge through the body itself.

At the core of the process is the development of a “moving language”: a shared physical and vocal vocabulary explored through dance and physical theatre practices, focusing on movement, rhythm, presence, and voice as primary carriers of meaning.

The residency is conceived as a horizontal and collective research environment, prioritizing exchange, shared authorship, and mutual learning. The group works through iterative processes of reading, improvisation, and composition, allowing the material to shift between text and body.

The process culminates in a performative score in which the selected texts function as choreographic structures, guiding movement and voice. The outcome is not a fixed performance but an evolving articulation of research, inviting audiences to encounter these writings through presence, rhythm, and embodiment, opening a space for dialogue with the social and cultural context in which the work is situated.

With generous support from Fenster zum Osten – shibak sharqi gGmbH (Christine Schmidt)

✶ 𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲: a public sharing will follow in August 2026— 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝗧𝘂𝗻𝗲𝗱

Adresse

Lychener Strasse 60
Berlin
10437

Telefon

0049.30.4477008

Webseite

http://www.ausland.berlin/

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