Sommerfestival Archive - asphalt Festival

Alle | 2024 | 2025 | 2026

Ki<em>r</em>a Hummen & Der T<em>ä</em>ubling

Kira Hummen & Der Täubling

Electro-Pop-Jazz / Neo-Soul

Double concert // Berlin & Cologne

29 July ²⁰²⁶

2026 | Music | Seebühne

Tickets

Erik Leu<em>t</em>häuser & Mola<em>s</em>s

Erik Leuthäuser & Molass

Electro-Pop-Jazz / Neo-Soul

Double concert // Berlin & Cologne

29 July ²⁰²⁶

2026 | Music | Seebühne

Tickets

Reuben James

Modern Jazz-Soul

London

23 July ²⁰²⁶

2026 | Music | Seebühne

Tickets

shy and wild is love

The Arditti Quartet, Christina Daletska & Consuelo Giulianelli

UK / Ukraine / Switzerland

17 July ²⁰²⁶

Music | KIT – Kunst im Tunnel

Tickets

Thr<em>e</em><em>e</em> Times L<em>e</em>ft is Ri<em>g</em>ht

Three Times Left is Right

Studio Julian Hetzel

Utrecht

17 + 18 Juli ²⁰²⁶

Theatre | D’haus, Großes Haus

Tickets

This is not a dance

Nastaran Razawi Khorasani & Theater Rotterdam

Rotterdam

15 Juli ²⁰²⁶

Dance | D’haus, Kleines Haus

Tickets

Sasha Marianna Salzmann

Festival speech

Berlin

15 Juli ²⁰²⁶

Theatre | D’haus, Großes Haus

Tickets

Perseverantia

Vadim Neselovskyi & Ysaÿe String Trio

Jazz / Contemporary Chamber Music // USA / Netherlands // asphalt co-production

24 July ²⁰²⁶

Music | KIT – Kunst im Tunnel

Tickets

Juliette Magnevasoa

Chanson / Folk

France

25 July ²⁰²⁶

Music | KIT – Kunst im Tunnel

Tickets

PULSE & Tilo Weber

Jazz | Contemporary Music

Berlin | Bremen | Frankfurt

31 July ²⁰²⁶

Music | KIT – Kunst im Tunnel

Tickets

Simple

Ayelen Parolin

Brussels

1 + 2 August ²⁰²⁶

2026 | Performance | Alte Farbwerke

Tickets

Making the Story

Documentary theatre by Futur3

Cologne

29 July ²⁰²⁶

2026 | Performance | Alte Farbwerke

Tickets

OZMA

Modern Jazz

France

28 July ²⁰²⁶

2026 | Music | Seebühne

Tickets

Tolstoys

Psychedelic Rock

Berlin

21 July ²⁰²⁶

2026 | Music | Seebühne

Tickets

Christiane Rösinger

Musical reading from »The Joy of Ageing«

Berlin

25 July ²⁰²⁶

2026 | Words | Seebühne

Tickets

ELSA

Jazz | Blues | Art-Pop

Austria

1 August ²⁰²⁶

2026 | Music | Seebühne

Tickets

anaiis

R&B | Neo-Soul

London

30 July ²⁰²⁶

2026 | Music | Seebühne

Tickets

Charlotte Colace

Neo-Soul

Berlin

22 July ²⁰²⁶

2026 | Music | Seebühne

Tickets

AUF<em>L</em>ÖSUNG. Ein virtueller Kontrollverlust

AUFLÖSUNG. Ein virtueller Kontrollverlust

DARUM

Vienna // asphalt co-production

23 + 24 + 25 + 26 ²⁰²⁶

2026 | Performance | Alte Farbwerke

Tage aus Glas

Theaterkollektiv Pièrre.Vers

A performative journey through Düsseldorf-Gerresheim based on the novel by Dorothee Krings // Düsseldorf // asphalt co-production // World premiere

20 + 21 + 22 + 24 + 25 + 26 + 27 + 28 July ²⁰²⁶

2026 | Theatre | Site-Specific

Tickets

Hausmane

Indie-Soul-Folk

Paris

20 July ²⁰²⁶

2026 | Music | Seebühne

Tickets

Dana von Suffrin

Reading from »Toxibaby« & discussion

Munich

24 Juli ²⁰²⁶

2026 | Words | Seebühne

Tickets

Almost Twins

Indie-folk

Leipzig

27 July ²⁰²⁶

2026 | Music | Seebühne

Tickets

Kaleb Erdmann

Reading from »Die Ausweichschule«

Düsseldorf

31 Juli ²⁰²⁶

2026 | Words | Seebühne

Tickets

Verschwinden (ARCHIV)

Photographs by Laurenz Berges

Düsseldorf // asphalt co-production

10 July—2 August ²⁰²⁶

Art | KIT – Kunst im Tunnel

TAXI DRIVERS

Fix+Foxy

Copenhagen // asphalt co-production // German premiere

23 + 26—31 July + 1—2 August ²⁰²⁶

2026 | Theatre | Site-Specific

<em>A</em> Year with<em>o</em>ut S<em>u</em>mmer

A Year without Summer

Florentina Holzinger

Berlin/Vienna // asphalt co-production

14 + 15 + 16 Juli ²⁰²⁶

Theatre | D’haus, Großes Haus

sold out

Tanzende Idioten

by Thorsten Lensing with texts by Denis Johnson and original quotes from NASA's Apollo missions to the moon

Berlin // asphalt co-production

18 + 19 Juli ²⁰²⁶

Theatre | D’haus, Großes Haus

Tickets

Tango del Sur

Tango Nuevo

NRW

24 July ²⁰²⁵

Music | Seebühne

Festival opening

Festival speech by Amir Reza Koohestani and music by Desmadre Orkesta

8 July ²⁰²⁵

Words | D’haus, Großes Haus

Artist Talk: Florentina Holzinger

The 'Artist of the Year 2024' in conversation

13 July ²⁰²⁵

Words | 34OST

Stadtklaviere

Music in public spaces

24 Juni — 27 July ²⁰²⁵

Performance | Site-Specific

Vox Sambou

Afrobeat / Caribbean Hip-Hop

Haiti

26 July ²⁰²⁵

Music | Seebühne

asphalt Festival x THE DORF x Friends

Festival party with DJ Daniel Wang and DJ Robin Mario

26 July ²⁰²⁵

| 34OST

War Diaries

Theatrical documentary by and with Uri Fahndrich & Nadia Migdal

Israel / Germany

24 + 25 July ²⁰²⁵

Performance | 34OST

Jesper Munk

Singer-Songwriter-Blues

Berlin

23 July ²⁰²⁵

Music | Seebühne

Vehicle/Passenger

Spoken Word & New Jazz

New York / Amsterdam / Cologne

25 July ²⁰²⁵

Music | Seebühne

A Doll’s House

Immersive play by Fix+Foxy

Copenhagen

25 + 26 + 27 July ²⁰²⁵

Theatre | Site-Specific

Maik Krahl

Jazz

Cologne

22 July ²⁰²⁵

Music | Seebühne

Sofia und Juri Andruchowytsch

Writing in times of war – an exchange of ideas

Ukraine

20 July ²⁰²⁵

Words | 34OST

Heimat, Fußball, Rockmusik

Cabaret solo by Frank Goosen

NRW

21 July ²⁰²⁵

Words | Seebühne

Selbstportrait zwischen Steppe und Wald

Solo by Alexej Lochmann

Guest performance from the Deutsches Theater Berlin

19 July ²⁰²⁵

Theatre | 34OST

Weeland

Retro-Soul

Berlin / Ulm

17 July ²⁰²⁵

Music | Seebühne

Decazeville – Der Berg, der brennt

Performance by Nina Gazaniol Vérité

France

17 + 18 + 19 + 20 July ²⁰²⁵

Performance | 34OST

Muito Kaballa

Afrobeat / Funk / Jazz

Cologne

18 July ²⁰²⁵

Music | Seebühne

Ich bin Bulgare?!

Solo by and with Vidina Popov

Vienna / Berlin

18 July ²⁰²⁵

Theatre | 34OST

Demokratie plus X – Die Show

A form of government review by Annette Frier and Peter Trabner

NRW

15 + 16 July ²⁰²⁵

Performance | Seebühne

Lehmanns Brothers

Nu-Soul / Funk

France

10 July ²⁰²⁵

Music | D’haus, Kleines Haus

One Song

Concert performance by Miet Warlop & NTGent

Belgium

12 + 13 July ²⁰²⁵

Performance | D’haus, Kleines Haus

Blind Runner

Chamber play by Amir Reza Koohestani / Mehr Theatre Group

Paris / Tehran

8 + 9 July ²⁰²⁵

Theatre | D’haus, Kleines Haus

Nico Brandenburg Quartett

Jazz

NRW

19 July ²⁰²⁵

Music | Seebühne

Sorvina

Neo-Soul / Hip-Hop

New York / Berlin

14 July ²⁰²⁵

Music | Seebühne

Omer Moskovich

Alternative Pop

Tel Aviv

20 July ²⁰²⁵

Music | Seebühne

Goldstück

Theaterkollektiv Pièrre.Vers

Text by Verena Güntner / asphalt co-production / Düsseldorf

14 + 15 + 16 + 21 + 22 + 23
July ²⁰²⁵

Theatre | Alte Farbwerke

Ophelia’s Got Talent

Florentina Holzinger

asphalt Coproduction

11 + 12 + 13 July ²⁰²⁵

Theatre | D’haus, Großes Haus

NNOA

R’n’B-Soul-Pop

Vienna / Mannheim

Music | Seebühne

Schaf sehen.

Theaterkollektiv Pièrre.Vers

A theatrical conspiracy story. Text by Juliane Hendes

Theatre | 34OST

Devid Striesow liest David Foster Wallace

Installation by Thorsten Lensing

Berlin

Words | D’haus Central

Eva Illouz

Festival speech

Paris / Jerusalem

Words | 34OST

Our Son

A chamber play by Patrik Lazić

Belgrad

Theatre | 34OST

Mouvman Alé

Electrifying Psych Rock

La Réunion

Music | 34OST

Sean Haefeli Trio

Soul-Jazz

USA / Berlin

Music | Seebühne

Florian Weber

Piano solo

Hamburg

Music | 34OST

Ray Lozano & Salomea

Soul-Pop & Jazz-Electronica

Cologne

Music | Seebühne

DELPHIN oder IM FREIBAD MEINER GEFÜHLE

undBorisundSteffi

A theatrical swimming course about L I F E and the fear of sinking

Theatre | 34OST

Dionysos hat Angst

Peter Trabner

NRW

Theatre | 34OST

The Offering

Spoken word concert by Omar Musa and Mariel Roberts

Australia / USA

Music | 34OST

Stefanie Sargnagel

Reading from "Iowa"

Vienna

Words | Seebühne

VESNA & guests

"To learn from the light"

Cologne / Ukraine

Music | Seebühne

Mina Richman

Folk-Pop

NRW

Music | Seebühne

Soulcrane Quartet

Jazz

Cologne

Music | Seebühne

Aurora Negra / Schwarze Morgenröte

Play by Aurora Negra

Portugal

Theatre | D’haus Central

Stina Holmquist

Indie-Pop

NRW

Music | Seebühne

Faira & Annie Blochs I DEPEND

Experimental Folk & Indie Folk

Cologne

Music | Seebühne

Mitzi’s Mensch

A Live Thought Experiment by and with Ariel Doron

Berlin

Theatre | 34OST

است (Ist)

A chamber play by Parnia Shams

Iran

| D’haus Central

Desmadre Orkesta

South American Power Brass

Argentina

Music | 34OST

Send me up!

Retzlaff / Berndt / Tremel

A live audio play with music

Theatre | Seebühne

Bia Ferreira

Brazilian Soul, Rap & Reggae

Brazil

Music | 34OST

DJ-Kollektiv Get Over It

Festival parties

NRW

| 34OST

Juri Andruchowytsch

Festival speech

Ukraine

Words | 34OST

Moscoviáda

Guest performance by Divadlo X10

based on the novel by Juri Andruchowytsch

Theatre | D’haus Central

Skatepark

Choreography by Mette Ingvartsen

Belgium / Denmark

Theatre | D’haus Central