Sassy 009 ・ Pop-Kultur Festival 2026

August 24–30, 2026 | silent green Kulturquartier, Festsaal Kreuzberg, Kulturbrauerei, Pierre Boulez Saal, and more 

Live concerts, experimental music formats, talks, and more. You can look forward to international and local artists, world premieres, and music in all its forms—from large stages to intimate club shows.

It’s hard to imagine the Pop-Kultur Festival without this style anymore: hyperpop—a genre that behaves like a dream, constantly in motion, never quite within reach. That’s exactly where Sassy 009 operates. Her music feels as if it’s being heard through a veil: familiar pop moments emerge, dissolve again, and blur into shimmering soundscapes. Everything seems slightly ethereal—voices lose their sharpness and come together anew. As the title of her album *Dreamer+* suggests, it’s less about clear contours and more about moods—that elusive feeling between wakefulness and drifting away. Sassy 009 creates sonic spaces where exaggeration feels gentle rather than loud. Their aesthetic draws on fragments of digital culture, on fleeting images and memories. The name, once simply a SoundCloud username, now seems almost programmatic: something random that stuck. It is precisely in this state of limbo that her strength lies: the tracks don’t impose themselves; they slowly draw you in. And live, when Sassy 009 performs as a trio, this feeling becomes even more intense—like a shared immersion into a fleeting dream.