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ARTE welcomes international artists to some of the best art collections in Europe. American group Gossip, led by the charismatic singer Beth Ditto, engages in a dialogue with works by Lucy Raven and Yoko Ono at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie.

At the Saarland Modern Galerie in Saarbrücken, Germany, songs from Unfurl, Asaf Avidan's new album, blend with masterpieces from a contemporary art collection that is as socially conscious as it is inspiring.

Golden Years begins with a farewell that is not a farewell. No goodbye is forever, is it? Tocotronic are concerned with the self-contradictions of our existence in an ever more refined way. For the 75th edition of the Berlinale, Tocotronic celebrates the start of its fourth decade as a band at the Columbia Theater.

An electrifying performance by German band Get Well Soon to celebrate the 74th Berlinale. Every year, the German capital hosts one of the world's biggest film festivals: the Berlinale. For the 74th edition, in February 2024, the band Get Well Soon—formed around singer-songwriter Konstantin Gropper—headlined the "ARTE Berlinale Party" music event, which took place at Schwuz, an iconic Berlin club. In addition to his studio albums, Konstantin Gropper has created the music for three episodes of the German series How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast). He also contributed to the soundtrack of Detlev Buck's film A Very Bad Plan (2020). His cinematic streak made his band the ideal candidate to rock the Berlinale.

Now based in Munich, the Mongolian-born singer combines the grace of vocal jazz with chamber folk and urtiin duu, the traditional music of her Central Asian homeland known for its endless steppes. Influenced by the great voices of American jazz, such as Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae, Enji's voice is at once warm and graceful, discreet and assured.

German producer and performer Ben Böhmer is one of the great architects of electronic music. He is known for his haunting sounds and deep, dreamlike beats. His new album Bloom comes out in September, and his world tour has brought him to the prestigious Sónar 2024 festival in Barcelona.

Piano/electric duo Grandbrothers perform at Cologne Cathedral to celebrate the 700th anniversary of its consecration, in a spectacular show featuring their ‘augmented’ piano and light show.

Trance pioneer Armin van Buuren and psytrance queen Indira Paganotto meet on the decks for the first time. Armin van Buuren's fame is inseparable from his influential radio show A State of Trance but is also known for his killer festival sets across the world. Bringing that huge energy together with the hypnotic modern psy sounds of Indira Paganotta proves to be a genius move- stratospheric BPMs meet saturated beats in this wild debut b2b. Filmed on 14 June 2025 at Sónar in Barcelona.

The direct sincerity of Tom Walker's poignant lyrics was front and centre for Leave A Light On, released in 2017. This phenomenally successful single took the Scottish artist on tour to every continent and won him the Best New Brit Award at the 2019 Brit Awards. Filmed on July 29, 2024 at the Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg.

Cult DJ and dance music producer Paul van Dyk has been a benchmark of trance music since the mid-1990s. In his remixes of productions from that decade, such as Humate's Love Simulation and his classic For an Angel, he blends melancholy melodies with ecstatic beats. In the space of ten years, he has helped to make progressive trance an essential genre. Paul van Dyk has been a mainstay of NatureOne's programming since the very beginning.

Since the release of her debut album I'm Feeling Hopeful in 2021, Milan Ring hasn't been doing things by halves! Exploring the fields of alternative electronic music in her compositions, she creates ethereal vocal arrangements with her inseparable guitar, which always takes centre stage.

Adrian Shala and Adrian Schweizer have been thrilling audiences for almost fifteen years. The Swiss DJ duo, elevated to the status of melodic techno superstars, are one of the highlights of Barcelona's renowned electronic festival.

Heart-stopping rhythms, otherworldly melodies and a childlike, carefree yet energetic voice: The winning formula behind tracks like Yebo Mama, a formula that has given this young singer, songwriter and dancer an international audience over the past few years.

What drives Chlär is an unquenchable thirst for learning and progress. So it's hardly surprising that his productions are like attempts to awaken the primal, tribal instinct that lies dormant in all of us. Dax J, British DJ and producer, has gone from pirate radio to headlining the world's biggest techno institutions. All the while cultivating a resolutely singular style and an unshakeable attachment to his underground DNA.