For the closing events of the KNM CONTEMPORARIES 2025 series, Ensemble KNM Berlin and Kyiv Contemporary Music Days bring together a multifaceted program including a concert, an exhibition, and a get-together. Celebrating a three-year history of friendship and collaboration between KNM and KCMD, the series reflects on the meanings of “re.construction” for the cultural community across borders, asking what artists can do to strengthen networks of solidarity in an increasingly hostile world. 

Part III presents commissioned works by Ukrainian composers Albert Saprykin, Alexey Shmurak, Renata Sokachyk, and Alla Zagaykevych performed by Ensemble KNM Berlin and guests. Complementing the concert is an exhibition featuring recorded conversations with the composers and an informal get-together to hold these conversations live.  

The entry is free.

KNM CONTEMPORARIES — re.construction Part III is taking place in the framework of the consider listening series by FAHRBEREITSCHAFT.

KNM Berlin has earned an international reputation with repeated guest appearances at important music festivals such as the Donaueschinger Musiktage, MaerzMusik in Berlin, ars musica in Brussels, Festival d’Automne in Paris, and Wien Modern in Vienna, as well as with its own productions such as HouseMusik or KNM New Music Spa. Concert tours have taken the ensemble to the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Carnegie Hall in New York, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, and the National Concert Hall in Taipei. 

KNM’s discography comprises more than 18 CDs to date; the KNM was awarded the German Record Critics’ Award in 2021 as well as in March 2009 and 2010 for its collaboration with the composer Beat Furrer.