FIBER Festival 2026 - Second Wave of Artists, DJs and Speakers Announced
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23 new names added
FIBER Festival is delighted to announce a second wave of 23 artists, performers, DJs and speakers for its 11th edition, taking place 28–31 May 2026 across 9 cultural venues in Amsterdam.
The festival continues to expand around its theme Fragile Forces, exploring fragility not as weakness, but as a site of collective strength and quiet resistance. The new additions feature live sets, audiovisual performances, club nights, exhibition programme, and more speakers two-day symposium.
Performance, Concert & Club Programme
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The second wave of the music programme unveils a further range of 10 acts, consisting of live performances, audiovisual works, and DJ sets, and special project presentations across five locations - TILLATEC, Garage Noord, Orgelpark, Goethe-Institut and de Brakke Grond.
Producer, composer and performer CORIN presents DIWA, a new audiovisual performance rooted in Filipino skyworld myths and ancestral cosmologies. Merging traditional forms with hyper-digital sounds, CORIN crafts an uncanny landscape where folklore and futurism collide.
The new live set by fast-rising producer Bapari blurs lines between electronic, ambient, and deconstructed club, channeling layered vulnerability and raw sonics.
Jokkoo Collective members B4MBA and MOOKI6 unite under their project Nexus, a blistering mix of industrial dancehall, trap, and extreme noise that collides primal rhythms with dark, transgressive energy.
The club programme is expanded by a crystalline and bassy b2b set by Piezo & upsammy, a DJ set by lauded veteran of the global club Bobby Beethoven, and a live set brimming with atmospheric, deep, and psychedelic techno by Souzo.
The music programme also makes space for more attentive, inward listening. London-based Loraine James performs as Whatever the Weather, the ambient alias under which she explores keyboard improvisation, vocal texture, and layered field recordings.
At Orgelpark, Georgian composer and producer Anushka Chkheidze presents Intricate Pipes, her organ project in which she uses Orgamats and digital tools to programme polyphonic counterpoints, complex arpeggios, and precisely timed delays through an acoustic pipe organ.
Furthermore, the Sound Art Sunday programme features several special presentations. Composer and sound artist Joris Strijbos presents Composition for Kinetic Sound, while interdisciplinary artist Amber Meulenijzer presents Holding Shadows.
Symposium & Discourse Programme
Spread across Friday 29 May and Saturday 30 May at de Brakke Grond, the two-day symposium acts as a lively meeting place for thinkers, artistic makers, and anyone seeking ways to approach urgent cultural and societal questions. The symposium programme features artist talks, critical reflections, and discussions rooted in artistic creation and research, connecting the various threads of Fragile Forces.
On Friday 29 May, the keynote will be delivered by Dean Spade - acclaimed writer, educator, and organiser whose work centres on queer and trans liberation grounded in racial and economic justice. His keynote will expand on the core questions of the festival theme, drawing on his explorations of mutual aid, collective care, and sustained resistance. Spade joins remotely.
On Saturday 30 May, Amsterdam-based researcher, curator, and creative facilitator Carolyn F. Strauss gives an artist talk. Her practice traverses architecture, design, contemporary art, emerging technology, and social and environmental activism, with a focus on creative practice as a catalyst for dialogue and expanded human potential. Also joining the symposium programme are Brahim Tall and AYO, both of whom give artist talks alongside their installations.
Exhibition
The exhibition at de Brakke Grond is now largely confirmed, with works by seven artists spanning interdisciplinary installations and sound art. The programme includes works by Anaïs Lossouarn, Brahim Tall, AYO, Franziska Windisch, Mariska de Groot, Mike Rijnierse & Rob Bothof, Robin Koek & Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet, and Sunjoo Lee. Further details about additional artists, exhibition programme and the individual works will be announced soon.
All names announced so far:
Abdullah Miniawy Trio (Live), Amber Meulenijzer presents Holding Shadows (Performance), Anaïs Lossouarn (Installation), Anushka Chkheidze presents Intricate Pipes (Live), AYO (Artist Talk | Installation), Bapari (Live), Batu (DJ), Bint Mbareh (Artist Talk), Bobby Beethoven (DJ), Brahim Tall (Installation | Artist Talk), Carolyn F. Strauss (Talk), CORIN presents DIWA (Live AV), Dean Spade (Keynote – remote), eoobe (Live), Flore (DJ), Formella (DJ), Franziska Windisch (Installation), Geert Lovink (Lecture), Joris Strijbos presents Composition for Kinetic Sound (Performance), Kara-Lis Coverdale (Live), KUNTARI (Live), LNR (DJ), Louis Braddock Clarke (Artist Talk), Mariana Berezovska (Lecture), Mariska de Groot (Installation), mesocosm presents Edge Effects (Live A/V), Mike Rijnierse & Rob Bothof (Installation), Mindy Seu (Artist Talk – remote), Nexus (B4MBA + MOOKI6) (Live), Piezo & upsammy (DJ), Remma (DJ), Robin Koek & Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet (Installation), Slowfoam (Live), Souzo (Live), Sunjoo Lee (Installation), Trois-Quarts Taxi System (Live), Whatever the Weather (Live), Xenia Reaper (Live).
The final programme additions will be announced in the coming weeks. The full day-by-day programme is now live on the FIBER Festival website.
Venues
FIBER Festival 2026 takes place across 9 cultural venues in Amsterdam: BIMHUIS, TILLATEC, de Brakke Grond, Orgelpark, Garage Noord, Goethe-Institut, Contact, murmur, San Francisco.
