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Berlin mit den Ohren: explo soundwalks
25/09/2026
The Walking Multilogue: 24 hours of local-global walk-learning
29/09/2026 - 30/09/2026
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03/10/2026 - 04/10/2026
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Sound walk SWS26 New 2026

Anton Wilhelm Amo Heritage Audio Archive

A bilingual translocal sound walk and digital audio archive tracing Anton Wilhelm Amo’s life and legacy across Germany, Ghana and the Netherlands through oral histories, archival sources and the voices of activists, scholars, artists and communities.

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS26 New 2025

Ascents and Descents

Reduce to the MAX! How much of an audio walk is possible when production time and technology are radically limited? The colaborative experiment took place on several audio art related festivals.

Free
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The Walking Multilogue: 24 hours of local-global walk-learning

29 - 30 Sep, 2026

Part 2 - The Walking Multilogue: 24 hours of local-global walk-learning After Learning to Walk, the incredibly enriching and inspiring first part of this Multilogue on walk-learning fashion!

Free
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Berlin mit den Ohren: explo soundwalks

exploratorium berlin; conceived and led by Thomas Gerwin
2026-09-25 16:00
Zossener Str. 24, 10961 Berlin, Germany

A guided listening excursion through Berlin that treats the everyday urban soundscape as collaboratively produced material, followed by collective reflection on the acoustic character of the encountered places.

Curated news New 30 Aug, 2026

Trisha Brown: Walking on the Wall (1971) | visitBerlin.de

“Walking on the Wall” is one of the best-known and most influential works by the American choreographer and conceptual artist Trisha Brown. The piece premiered in 1971 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and is regarded as a seminal work. Source: Trisha Brown: Walking on the Wall (1971) | visitBerlin.de

Curated news 13 Jun, 2026

Take a Random Walk Around the Berlin Wall Just Months Before Its Sudden Fall (Summer 1989) | Open Culture

Officially, the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989. Demolition would take more than four years, and a few sections remain for memorial purposes, but it was on that date that passage between East and West Berlin — and thus East and West Germany — opened to all citizens of both countries. Source: Take a

video 2021  

Happy tourists get lost

Soazic Guezennec is managing "Happy tourists", the first and unique travel agency inviting people to get lost.

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS26 2025

A WG on the Spree – Teepeeland

It's possible to live in another reality, right in the middle of Berlin. Hear and learn about one of the most unique places of the German capital: Teepeeland, a "WG" - a shared apartment - and cultural venue in the open air next to the city's river.

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS26 2025

ohm – the infinite dérive

A podcast about the sounds of, and against, gentrification in Berlin-Kreuzberg.Created in the out.cast podcast workshop "construction and control" by studio lärm at the FHXB district museum Berlin.

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS25 2024

and let no one be forgotten!

Three houses in Berlin stand as silent witnesses to the shifting tides of history. This audiowalk asks: what (and who) remains after empires fall?

Walking piece
Walking piece 2018

Lost in Jüdischer Friedhof Weißensee

Beginning with the daily choice of walking or not walking to and from the largest intact Jewish cemetery in postwar Europe, the project mediates separation between experience inside and outside the burial grounds’ walls over a sustained six months.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2010

The Monday Walks

The Monday Walks were inspired by the demonstrations that took place in Leipzig leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and beyond, the so-called Montagsdemonstrationen (Monday Demonstrations).

Walking pieces

Walking piece
Walking piece 2012

All Our Traces in Berlin 2011

To make this piece, we had all our collected GPS traces for the year 2011 engraved into sheets of clear acrylic with a laser.

Sound walk
Sound walk 2020

 It’s a Match

Lange Spaziergänge, tiefgründige Gespräche in Bars, ein Kuss im Regen, veganes Essen, Fummeln im Park. Lilli trifft viele ihrer Tinder-Dates im Wedding. Gerade erst ist sie hierher gezogen, hat ...

Walking piece
Walking piece SWS23 2023

Nico’s Grave

In the late summer of 2018, I temporarily relocated to Berlin, furthering my interest in intertwining environmental sounds and improvisation. I spent my early days getting a sense of place by following peaceful canal paths and navigating hidden hinterhauses, re-mapping my bearings away from the cars and traffic. Soon I was drawn into the calm

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS22 2021

Invitation to Walk – Hör-Spiel-Spaziergang ‘Mittelpunkt’ in Berlin/Kreuzberg

The four episodes lead and allure to body-perception experiments while walking. They are intended for individual or collective appropriation of the city - with and through somatics, choreography and artistic research.

Articles on WLC

post 12 Dec, 2023

Audiowalk-Award 2024

Guidemate, die Plattform für Audioguides, Audiowalks und Hörspaziergänge, lobt in Kooperation mit Soundmarker, dem Labor für ortsbezogene Audioarbeiten, den Audiowalk-Preis 2024 aus. Gesucht werden mutige, künstlerisch und inhaltlich anspruchsvolle Arbeiten aus den Feldern der Dokumentation, Fiktion, Klangkunst und Bildung/Vermittlung – auch Mischformen sind willkommen. Die prämierten Einreichungen werden im September 2024 in Berlin im Rahmen

Curated news 13 Jun, 2022

A walking tour of Berlin’s best museums | National Geographic

The German capital has no shortage of world-class wonders to discover in its museums, from contemporary art to awe-inspiring reconstructions of Ancient Greek monuments. Here’s how to discover the very best on a walking tour of the city. Source: A walking tour of Berlin’s best museums | National Geographic

Curated news 14 Feb, 2022

The best places to see street art in Berlin – Lonely Planet

Berlin has a long history as a vibrant hub for freedom of expression, from landmark art museums showcasing the German contribution to modern art to the… Source: The best places to see street art in Berlin – Lonely Planet

Curated news 09 Nov, 2021

Global Innovation Collaborative | A collaboration between Berlin, London, New York and Paris to leverage our collective innovation and speed recovery from Covid-19.

Our good friends at Gesso are one of the 15 finalists of a creative program run by the cities of New York, London, Paris and Berlin. Huzzah! Source: Global Innovation Collaborative | A collaboration between Berlin, London, New York and Paris to leverage our collective innovation and speed recovery from Covid-19.

Articles elsewhere

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Auf zum Audiowalk-Award 2026 beim Berliner Hörspielfestival in der Akademie der Künste

Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: Habemus Shortlist! Die Jury hat getagt und getagt und getagt, mal eingeschlossen im Studio, mal in den Kacheln der Videokonferenz. Nun präsentiert sie diese vier Produktionen für Shortlist des Audiowalk-Awards 2026. Wer hat nun gewonnen? Kommt und erfahrt’s auf dem Berliner Hörspielfestival der freien Szene. Vom 17. bis 20. September 2026 …

Ruben Kurschat
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Buchpremiere: Mont Klamott – Berliner Trümmerberge

Die Berliner Künstlerin Caroline Böttcher veröffentlicht am 14.09.25 ihr Buch Mont Klamott, Ergebnis einer zehnjährigen Recherche zu den Berliner Trümmerbergen mit Fotografien, Archivmaterial, Skizzen und Texten. Begleitend finden im September Führungen mit der Künstlerin statt.

Ruben Kurschat
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Memorabilia – Ein akustischer Rundgang über die Marienhöhe

Am 17.05.’25 um 15:00 Uhr findet die Premiere von Caroline Böttchers neuem Stück Memorabilia – Ein akustischer Rundgang über die Marienhöhe statt. Das Stück wird auf dem Trümmerberg Marienhöhe zum ersten Mal aufgeführt. Seit gut zehn Jahren beschäftigt die Künstlerin sich in ihrer Arbeit mit den Trümmerbergen und nun ist inZusammenarbeit mit der Klangkünstlerin Sonja …

Ruben Kurschat
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Treffen der Audiowalk-Community in Leipzig

Aus Bremen, Hannover, Augsburg, Frankfurt/Main, Weimar, Halle, Hamburg, Berlin sind sie angereist – Audiowalkpraktiker*innen tauschen sich, initiiert von storydive, in den den wunderbaren Räumen des Kulturkosmos Leipzig aus und schmieden gemeinsam Pläne. In mir hat ein Satz aus dem Audiowalk „Kein Schiff wird kommen“ von Katrin Bretschneider (Konzept und Text) und Ilona Marti (Sounddesign) seinen …

Ruben Kurschat

Events

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Parte de Nós

Humboldt Forum and Po:era
3 - 4 Oct, 2026
Schloßpl., 10178 Berlin, Germany

A site-responsive headphone performance combining documentary narratives, speculative fiction and live performance with memories and contradictions attached to the reconstructed Berliner Schloss.

Happened
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Rhizomatischer Spaziergang

Zitadelle Spandau
29 Apr - 26 Jul, 2026
Carl-Schurz-Straße 49, 13597 Berlin, Spandau, Germany

Opening: 29.04.2026 19:00 Exhibition: 30.04.–26.07.2026 Wednesdays to Sundays 12:00 – 18:00 Galerie Historischer Keller Carl-Schurz-Straße 49, 13597 Berlin Free entrance

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Walk Notations: A Book as a Trace

2026-04-15 17:00
Online

Walk Notations - that brings together traces emerging from Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method, a series of artistic walks across Berlin in 2025, meet the curatorial collaboration between initiatives ReRouting and Cruising Curators for nGbK, Berlin.

WALC
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Walking Writers Salon  

Where my feet fall – going for a walk in 20 stories – with Duncan Minshull

2022-04-05 18:00
Online

WHERE CAN A WALK TAKE YOU? Duncan Minshull has brought together 20 contemporary writers to write about a walk they remember or a walk they have undertaken during the pandemic - join this Walking Writers Salon to chat with Duncan Minshull.

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stadt im ohr | urban sounds to go

Urban sounds to go produces walk along radio plays in the city of Berlin. The walks play with facts and fiction they weave site specific music whith historical original sounds.
Ruben Kurschat
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One who enjoys vistas and views, see ‘tourist’.

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