Kompost Festival 2026

2.–5. July · on and next to Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin

Join the Berlin Kompost Festival: across four summer days, we invite you to explore compost not simply as decomposition, but as a living practice of transformation, connection, and collective learning. Moving between ecology, science, art, philosophy, and grounded everyday practices, we will ask what it means to think from the perspective of soil, care, and decay.

Between raised garden beds, compost toilets, Bokashi buckets, community gardens, and hidden green spaces, temporary learning environments will emerge for observation, exchange, and experimentation with the living ground beneath us. Compost becomes both subject and method: a process that connects, dissolves, and recomposes.

Rather than offering fixed answers, the festival opens space for curiosity, attention, and new relationships between humans, soil, and the many more-than-human beings that inhabit it. What kinds of knowledge emerge through humification? What can compost teach us about living transformation? And what might it mean to reimagine Berlin through soil care and regeneration?

The festival also offers opportunities to connect with fellow local dirt-aficionados - gardeners, artists, scientists, neighbours, and curious wanderers alike.

Map of festival locations:

Program

The full programme is still being finalised. Here is a preliminary overview:

Donnerstag, 2. Juli

13:00–16:00 Bodenchromatographie Workshop I (mikroBIOMIK, Spore Garten) --> ANMELDEN
14:00–19:00 Edaphonistas Hörspiel Workshop I (Weltacker e.V., Weltacker in Treptow) --> ANMELDEN
16:00–18:00 Critical Ecosomatic (Alena Trapp, Spore Garten)
ab 19:00 Festival-Eröffnung: Essen & Kompost-Klo-Kneipenquiz (Bambi Guerilla & kollektiv orangotango, Stadtlandladen SOLID)

Freitag, 3. Juli

13:00–16:00 Bodenchromatographie Workshop II (mikroBIOMIK, Spore Garten)
14:00–19:00 Edaphonistas Hörspiel Workshop II (Weltacker e.V., Spore Garten)

Prinzessinnengarten

15:00–17:00 Workshop Kompost 1×1 (BodenSchätzen)
17:00–18:00 Garten(boden)-Führung (Prinzessinnengarten Kollektiv)
17:30–19:00 Open Soil Research (mikroBIOMIK & Open Agroecology Lab)

Kiezkapelle (im Prinzessinnengarten)

19:00–22:00 Wir sind Kompost – Kurzvorträge, Präsentationen, Kurzfilme & Bodensounds

Samstag, 4. Juli

Allmende-Kontor

ab 14:00 Kollektive Kompost-Aktion (Gemeinschaftsaktion mit dem Allmende-Kontor)
ab 15:00 Offenes Familienprogramm (Micha Alt / mikroBIOMIK)
15:00–18:00 Bodenfeuchte-Sensorik Workshop (Daniel Diehl / Wassermeisterei)
16:00–19:00 Miso, Microbes & Magic Soil – Terra Preta Workshop (Ayumi Matsuzaka / Dycle)
16:30–17:30 Rundgang zu Bodengesundheit (Nora Meyer)
17:00–18:30 Open Soil Research (mikroBIOMIK & Open Agroecology Lab)
17:30–18:30 Composting Credos – Poetry Workshop mit Bokashi (Cleo Wächter)
18:00–19:30 Malen mit Erdfarben (Die Schönfärberinnen)
19:00–20:00 Mikroben-Tattoo-Workshop (Ella v.d. Haide / quEErEcologiEscollEctivE)
ab 20:00 Soil Art Picknick mit künstlerischen Interventionen
ab 22:00 Musik

Sonntag, 5. Juli

Floating

13:00–16:00 Fermenting Feminism (Maya Minder / Universität der Künste)
14:00–16:00 Böden, denen die drauf ackern (Manuel Wagner / junge Arbeitsgemeinschaft bäuerliche Landwirtschaft)
16:00–17:00 Das poröse Selbst und die Welt der Träume (Wailea Zülch)
17:00–18:30 Compost as Superfood (Masharu & Naida)

Feld Food Forest

ab 18:30 Aufbau und Einweihung der Kompoststation (Friedrich & Niklas)
19:00–20:00 Garten(boden)-Führung (Team vom Feld Food Forest)
ab 20:00 Schnippeldisco & Abendessen (Torhaus Kochkollektiv)
20:30–21:30 Drecksversammlung / Kollektive Kartierung & Offene Reflexionsrunde (kollektiv orangotango, Soil Assembly, mikroBIOMIK)
ab 21:00 Gemütlicher Ausklang & Musik

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