TANZEN UND SÄEN
– Screening
Ballhaus Prinzenallee
Prinzenallee 33, 13359
Berlin, DE
Screening des Dokumentarfilms TANZEN UND SÄEN (2025, 20 min, Spanisch mit Deutschen UT)
Mit Storytelling und Tänze aus Malambo, Reque und Zaña
In TANZEN UND SÄEN werden Tanz, Gemeinschaft und von Migration geprägtes Land miteinander verbunden und untersucht, wie Tanz praktiziert und weitergegeben wird. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Gespräche mit Alejandra Ambukka Tafur, einer 75-jährigen Afroperuanischen Tänzerin, mündlichen Historikerin und Chronistin der Afro-peruanischen Gemeinschaft von Malambo/Rímac (Lima, Peru). Die im Juli 2024 geführten Gespräche waren aufgrund der über zehnjährigen Arbeit von Luz Y Color möglich, einem Community-Tanzprojekt in Berlin unter der Leitung der Tänzerin und Choreografin Luz Zenaida Hualpa García, einer Schülerin von Meisterin Ambukka. Das Video verwebt Interaktionen von Tänzer:innen, Wissenschaftler:innen und Gemeinschaften in Lima, Reque und Zaña (Peru), in denen es um afro-indigene Beiträge, koloniales Erbe, Rassismus und neoliberale Wirtschaftssysteme geht.
Regie: Luz Y Color (Luz Zenaida Hualpa García, Masaru Nishimoto) mit Karen Michelsen Castañón. Sound design & editing: Khaled Kurbeh.
Klausefest
– Concert and Exhibition
Concert (solo): 04 September, 2025 08:30 pm
Käferklause
Oschatzer Straße 20 - Dresden Pieschen
Dresden, DE
Klausefest returns in its 3rd edition at Käferklause, Dresden. The exhibition and accompanying program of screenings, workshops and concerts revolve around "WELLness (whatever that means?)".
Lawen Festival
– Concert
4:20 – 5:20 pm
Festsaal Kreuzberg
Am Flutgraben 2, 12435
Berlin, DE
Raman Khalaf – oud, bağlama, voice
Jonas Petry – tombak, daff, electronics
Khaled Kurbeh – keyboard, synthesizer
Ricochet
– Live on Radio
2:00 – 3:00 pm
AiR (88.4FM Berlin)
Artist Alex Head (he/him), reads his 2021 work from cover to cover, live for the last six months of non-private access to Berlin’s historic free-radio airwaves. Accompanied by resident musicians, the project will broadcast every first and third Wednesday, with each live recording forming this bandcamp released audiobook of Ricochet.
This independent, four-year research project is carefully explained and articulated for the audio-book in which the author draws upon eight years of experience as the founder of the itinerant radio platform SUB_ʇXƎʇ R∀DIO. He also co-hosts the monthly radio hour and podcast: Radio Against Repression that covers censorship and de-funding in Berlin Germany.
– Concert & exhibition
Saturday 6 September 2025
Doors 18:30. Concert starts 20:00.
Hotti Club
Freiestrasse 56, Hottingen
Zurich, CH
Ida Lawrence and Khaled Kurbeh. Curated by Donia Jornod and Jeremy Ratib.
Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh [To Each Space Its Own Rhythm]
– Album Reviews
The Quietus — by Jon Buckland (EN)
The Guardian — by Ammar Kalia (EN)
The New Noise – (IT)
NPR — The best new albums out July 18 by Stephen Thompson and Chelsea O (EN)
Scene Noise — Khaled Kurbeh Explores Rhythm & Place on ‘Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh’ (EN)
Nineteen Seventy Nineteen Seventy One | a film by Raphael Chipperfield
– Screening + Live Score
23 July, 2025
Screening: 8pm.
Tank Magazine
91-93 Great Portland St,
London, UK
An experimental, fictional re-enactment from a real found diary, this event will feature 2 consecutive screenings with live scores by Kirke Gross (cello) and Khaled Kurbeh (piano). Featuring Cora Kirk, Nabil Elouahabi, Cary Crankson | Costume by Lara McGrath | Cinematography Joseph Dunn | Edit by Chiara Bellesia.
Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh
– Album
18 July, 2025
Research Records, Naarm/Melbourne, AU
Likulli Fadāin Eqāéhis Khaled Kurbeh's debut album is out via Research Records, AU.
Mastered by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering.
Artwork by Ida Lawrence.
Graphic Design by Rik Watkinson.
Composed, recorded and mixed by Khaled Kurbeh.
Label: Research Records ©.
Distribition: Kudos Records.
Format: vinyl and digital.
Order vinyl / download: Bandcamp
– Concert
21 June, 2025
Concert: 8 pm
exploratorium berlin
Zossener Straße 24
10961 Berlin (Kreuzberg)
Graphic Notation – Edith Steyer: clarinet | Samantha Tiussi: piano
Musique concrète – Ulf Schöneberg
RaumKlangEnsemble – Beatrice Öttinger: chinese horsehead fiddle, inside piano | Khaled Kurbeh: piano, inside piano | Thomas Gerwin: facilitator
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16.11.2024 – Cairo International Film Festival, Cario, EG (world premiere)
08.11.2024 – Academy of Media Arts Cologne, DE
Written & Directed by Almourad Aldeeb. Cast: Mohammad Dibo, Fatina Laila, Mhd Wahid Albarzawi. Director of Photography: Yakob El Deeb. Sound Design: Judith Nordbrock. Original Music: Khaled Kurbeh.
Doors: 7:30 pm | Concert: 8 pm
Galiläakirche
Rigaer Str. 9, 10245,
Berlin, DE
Raman Khalaf – oud, bağlama, voice
Jonas Petry – tombak, daff, electronics
Khaled Kurbeh – piano, objects, synthesizer
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Doors: 7:00 pm | Concert: 7:30 pm
Schwartzsche Villa
Grunewaldstraße 55, 12165
Berlin, DE
Jonas Petry – tombak, daff, electronics
Khaled Kurbeh – piano, objects, synthesizer
Photo Credit: Raman Khalaf
23rd May – 22nd August 2025
Studio Bildende Kunst
Berlin DE
As part of Yaser Safi's solo exhibition Schichtungen at Studio Bildende Kunst, I was invited to create a sound installation in response to one of his etching works: Sound of a Place.
NoiseXp 3.0
– Concert
29 March, 2025
Concerts: 12 – 6 pm
Giri
Hermannstrasse 14, 12049
Berlin, DE
burgund t brandt
Al Hut الحوت
khaled kurbeh
Yun Kima
Claudia Redka
Emile Cerf
Nana.ios
Cristo.gxc
– Teaching
January 2025 – May, 2026
Music & Sound Design for Visual Media
Catalyst Berlin – Institute for Creative Arts and Technology
Berlin, DE
This seminar is designed to deepen a compositional practice and explore new ways of listening, seeing and sound making. Anchored in creating music for performance and movement, we will work our way through a sequence of études prompted by rhythm and pattern, texture and form, storytelling and improvisation. The workshop is a rehearsal space where we will think out loud and experiment new techniques together.
8 December, 2024
Sydney, AU
Research Records
– Concert
4 December, 2024
7 – 10 pm
Norla Dome
717, Flinders Street, Docklands, 3008
Naarm (Melbourne), AU
Genevieve Fry (Harp) & Abby Sundborn (Cello)
Rafet (DJ)
Khaled Kurbeh – Fender Rhodes Piano, synthesizer
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Klausefest
– Concert and exhibition
16 November, 2024
Concert at 6 pm
Käferklause
Oschatzer Str. 20. 01127
Dresden, DE
Khaled Kurbeh – prepared piano (solo)
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Exploratarium
– Workshop
9–10 November, 2024
Exploratarium
Zossener Str. 24, 10961 Berlin
Improvisation and composition workshop w/ Frédéric Blondy and Bertrand Denzler of ONCEIM (L’Orchestre de Nouvelles Créations, Expérimentations, et Improvisations Musicales).
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Wazn Teez?
– Workshop: Shadow Puppetry and Music with Herlambang Bayu Aji
21–25 October, 2024
Theater an der Parkaue
Parkaue 29, 10367
Berlin, DE
Inspired by Carson Ellis's illustration book ‘Wazn Teez?’, participants will learn how to stage a shadow puppetry play – from writing stories to making their own puppets, as well as composing and performing the music live! There will be public performance at the end of the one-week workshop. Expect playful experiments of light and shadow, storytelling and sound. We will visit the ensemble of "Wazn Teez?" while they rehearse for their premiere and chat with them and the director of the play Alexander Riemenschneider.
Klavierwerkstatt Kaulsdorf
– Concert
18 October, 2024
Doors: 7 pm | Concert: 8 pm
Klavierwerkstatt Kaulsdorf
Alt-Kaulsdorf 18, 12621
Berlin, DE
w/ Tom Blankenberg, Khaled Kurbeh and Simeon Walker.
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Die Fliegende Inge
– Composition for shadow puppetry play
13 September, 2024
Performance at 7 pm
Moving Poets Novilla
Hasselwerderstraße 22, 12439
Berlin, DE
Premiere of Die Fliegende Inge, shadow puppetry play by Herlambang Bayu Aji.
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CAMP
– Residency + Workshop
23 July – 3 August, 2024
Camp
Rue Principale, 09140
Aulus-les-Bains, FR
w/ ACTRESS (Darren J. Cunningham).
– Exhibition and concert
Berlin, DE
Schloss Britz
Alt-Britz 73, 12359
Berlin, DE
Schloss Britz presents an exhibition themed around carpets at the intersection of contemporary art and cultural history.
Six artistic positions conceptually explore the richly faceted medium’s cultural heritage, colonial history, and material technique. The exhibition unfurls throughout the historic building, including in the grounds and permanent exhibition.The explorative and subjective nature of cartography serves as a meta-phoric guide for the exhibition, likening carpets to maps: their formation of individual lines or threads coalesce to transpose, carry and communicate information. Carpets are mobile commodities that bear traces of use, damage and repair, traversing value, time and geography.
Fabrik der Postfossilen Objekte
– Installation
17 – 31 May, 2023
Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek
Blücherpl. 1, 10961
Berlin, DE
Concept and realization: Anneke Frank, Katri Saloniemi and Helene Scheithe.
Photo: Anneke Frank
– Concert
Kühlspot Social Club
Berlin, DE
Khaled Kurbeh – piano, synthesizer
Grounded Outer Space People
– Residency and Music Ensemble
14 October – 19 November, 2022
Galerie Wedding
Müllerstraße 146/147, 13353
Berlin, DE
A project by Anton Kats w/ Anja Jadryschnikova, Khaled Kurbeh, Jared Meier-Klodt, Hani Mojtahedy, Aiko Okamoto, and Ziggy Zeitgeist | Within the framework of Existing Otherwise | Anders Existieren 2021–22 at Galerie Wedding. Artistic Direction: Solvej Helweg Ovesen
»Grounded Outer Space People« is a nomadic artist residency/music ensemble investigating the relationship between transmigration and music. Operating in a temporary studio the group of artists inhabits the gallery space and expands the exhibition-like frame through ensemble rehearsals, concerts, presentations, performances, sound- and visual works, and workshops. Upscaled scores and drawings extend over the gallery walls setting forth the launch of »Vostok 7« vinyl, a radio play conceived as a reenactment of the spaceship that has yet to be built. Driven through the perceptual shift from the visual to the sonic, the project operates a mobile sound system, a radio station, and a listening space full of musical instruments and sonic devices.
Photo:Anton Kats
Project Dictator
– Theatre
03 – 27 August, 2022 – Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh, UK
13 May – 14 April. 2022 – New Diorama Theatre
London, UK
A clown show about totalitarianism by Award-winning Rhum + Clay – informed and inspired by conversations with international artists living under authoritarian regimes.
Co-Directors & Performers – Julian Spooner & Matt Wells. Musicina & Performer – Co-Director – Hamish Macdougall. Set & Costume Designer – Blythe Brett. Lighting Designer – Simeon Miller. Associate Director – Mine Cerci. Production Manager & Technical Stage Manager – Adam Jefferys. Sound Engineer – Ben Grant. Assistant Director – Sam Critchlow. Producer – Grace Dickson. Composer & Musician – Khaled Kurbeh
Photo: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian
Up There هناك في الأعلى
– Theatre
10 May, 2023 – Theaterhaus Jena, DE
03 December, 2022 – Theater an der Ruhr, Mülheim an der Ruhr, DE
Syria, early 1990s: In a women's prison, a group of political prisoners perform Henrik Ibsen's play "The Lady from the Sea" - an affront to the prison administration, which wants to stop the performance.
With: Hala Bdier, Wejdan Nassif, Hend Alkahwaji und Wael Kadour. Text: Wael Kadour, Director: Mohamad Al Rashi and Wael Kadour, Stage: Jean Christophe Lanquetin, Music Composition: Khaled Kurbeh, Light: Toni Mersch, Video: Guevara Namer. Translation: Sandra Hetzel. Producer: Wael Kh. Salem, Producer-International: Eckhard Thiemann, Audience Development: Omar Mohamad, Production Assistant: Wisam Atfeh.
A project by Collective Ma’louba.
The Return of Danton عودة دانتون
– Theatre
18 December, 2022 – Theater an der Ruhr, Mülheim an der Ruhr, DE
10 December, 2022 – Synergy Theater Fest, Novi Sad, RS
03 December, 2022 – Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich, DE
THE RETURN OF DANTON is a contemporary exploration of how the dynamics of political revolutions - from the French Revolution to the Arab Spring - can be reflected within the politics of the rehearsal room.
With: Amal Omran, Mohamed Alrashi, Mohammad Dibo, Kinan Hmeidan. Directed by Omar Elerian. Stage. Music composition and sound design: Khaled Kurbeh. Producer: Immanuel Bartz. PR: Omar Mohamad. Translation: Sandra Hetzel and Hassan Abdulrazzak.
A project by Collective Ma’louba.
– Concert
19 May, 2019
Emmauskirche
Lausitzer Pl. 8 A, 10997
Berlin, DE
Nora Thiele – percussion
Raman Khalaf – oud, voice
Khaled Kurbeh – piano, fender rhodes, synthesizer
Photo: sieben48
– Concert
12 November, 2017
12 pm
Funkhaus
NALEPASTR. 18, 12459,
Berlin, DE
Oriel Quartett – strings
Till Künkler – trambone
Tom Berkmann – double bass
Hogir Göregen – percussion
Sam Vine – electric guitar
Khaled Kurbeh – piano, synthesizer
– Concert
29 March, 2017
7:30 pm
Funkhaus
Nalepastr. 18 12459,
Berlin, DE
Nora Thiele – percussion
Raman Khalaf – oud, voice
Khaled Kurbeh – piano, fender rhodes, synthesizer
Photo credits: Mischa Kreiskott, NDR Kultur Neo
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– Concert
Dates:
24 March, 2017 – BBC Arabic Festival, London, UK
23 March, 2017 – SOAS, London, UK
Raman Khalaf – oud, voice
Khaled Kurbeh – piano, fender rhodes, synthesizer
Photo credits: Mischa Kreiskott, NDR Kultur Neo
– Audio-visual performance
HKW
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557
Berlin, DE
Photo credits: Mischa Kreiskott, NDR Kultur Neo
