FOG Festival 2025

FOG Festival Returns for Its Third Edition in 2025, Showcasing Sound as Contemporary ArtformFOG returns for its third edition from October 2–4, 2025, continuing its evolution as one of Switzerland’s most forward-thinking festivals for experimental and contemporary electronic music. Positioned at the intersection of performance, installation, and club culture, FOG challenges conventional genre boundaries and redefines how we experience sound and electronic music.This year’s program spans 19 performances, concerts, live sets, and sound-based works staged across multiple venues in Basel. Central to the 2025 edition is a focus on Swiss artists from across the country’s linguistic regions, an invitation to engage with Switzerland’s cultural plurality through the lens of sonic practice.The lineup features prominent voices from the Swiss experimental scene, including Feldermelder, Francesco Giudici, and the Geneva-based multimedia collective Echoes of Archs (Structurals & Owelle), alongside rising Basel talent Tim Shatnyy and established acts like KA-RABA & Cepheì. Their practices span improvisation, electronic composition, spatial sound, and performative installation.A highlight of this edition is a live performance by Mark Fell, whose rigorously conceptual approach to electronic music, merging algorithmic structure, rhythmic disruption, and aesthetic minimalism has positioned him as a singular figure within contemporary sound art discourse.International contributions from artists such as Maria W. Horn, Jan Jelinek, Myriam Bleau, and SHHE further expand the program, bringing global perspectives into the dialogue around contemporary sound.By night, FOG extends into Basel’s club spaces, where DJ sets and live electronic performances activate a more embodied mode of listening. These events transform the city into a playground of deep bass, bold rhythms, and late-night intensity.Complementing the live program is a curated sound art exhibition, open to the public throughout the festival. Set within a museum context, the exhibition engages with the legacy of Jean Tinguely, whose kinetic sculptures merged movement, mechanics, and sound into dynamic, performative objects. His influence provides a historical anchor for exploring how contemporary artists continue to work with sound as material, structure, and medium.Through installations and sonic interventions, the exhibition draws a conceptual line from Tinguely’s mid-20th-century innovations to current sound practices, situating Basel as a critical site for the evolving relationship between sound, technology, and contemporary art.FOG invites audiences not just to listen, but to inhabit and reflect on sound as an artistic and social force, that resonates across boundaries of genre, geography, and discipline.