With Sónar+D 2026 just over a month away, today we’re unveiling the full programme for our event like no other.
A call to rethink and reimagine our relationship with technology in an era of digital saturation, this year’s programme is organised under three main headings: AI & Music powered by S+T+ARTS focuses on the frictions we’re encountering as we move towards a post-AI era; Beyond the screen explores how we’re introducing human elements and physicality into an increasingly digital world; and Digital Gardens and Dark Forests looks at how different actors are plotting an escape from the commercial, corporate and increasingly invasive current model of the internet.
In addition to the exhibition programme launched last week, we can now unveil the Community programme, as well as a few final additions to the Talks & Panels programme.
This year Sónar+D takes place in the centre of Barcelona at Llotja de Mar on Thursday 18 and Friday 19 June. Each day is packed with thought-provoking talks and panels, engaging workshops, performances you won’t see anywhere else, interactive exhibitions and installations, and a host of opportunities for networking and debate. With standalone tickets starting at just €15 for a single day, it’s also the most accessible edition of Sónar+D to date.
Full Lineup
Talks & Panels
Arts Korea Lab | Barcelona Music Lab | Chia Amisola | Claire Brodka, designboom | desilence | Eneritz Tejada | Eugene Healey | The Glad Scientist | Hamill Industries | Joana Moll | Keiken | L-Acoustics | Mario Santamaría | Mindy Seu | Mónica Rikić | Myriam Achard, PHI | niceaunties | Roxanne Harris | Sandro Kereselidze, Artechouse | Volvox Labs | Wassim Z. Alsindi | Yancey Strickler
Workshops
0xSalon | Chia Amisola | desilence | The Glad Scientist | Keiken
Co-curated with TIMES: Internet2 | Luca Cingolani aka Outer
Performances
Evicshen | Fitnesss & Riusforza | Shoeg
AI & Music powered by S+T+ARTS: AI Performance Playground | dadabots | Ignasi Terraza & Philippe Salembier
Expo+D
Agoston Nagy | Barcelona Supercomputing Center | brainwave research center | Eliza Struthers-Jobin & Araya Wongwan | Exercitia Spiritualia Animae | Leon Eckard | Liz Melchor | Lola Liñán Fernández | Marta Minguell Colomé | Maxima Walthes, Felix Henke, Melissa Heim | Niklas Roy | ODD SPACES | Passepartout Duo | Richard Lewei Huang & Yufeng Zhao | SHIO | Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne presented by NewArtFoundation | Wei-Fang Chang | Yehwan Song
Arts Korea Lab present: 6DOFAMINE | Gyomyung Shin | Jihyo Eom | Joongmin Lee | Lee Hyunmin | Park Sunmi | Yaloo
AI & Music powered by S+T+ARTS: DataMind Audio | David Dalmazzo | Google DeepMind | IRCAM Forum | Keigo Yoshida
La Salle Campus Barcelona: Pol Olivares Ceniceros | Sara Gallego-Alarcón (ES)
Co-curated with TIMES: Internet2 | The Talk – Documentary
Installations
AUSGANG studio present Tentacles and Hestia | Qs Ventures present 2147: A Voice from the Future | Superbe present From0 | Volvox Labs present Astral Twin
Community
Barcelona XRLAB | Barcelona Music Tech Hub | Cotec | Digitalfems | DJESTHESIA, IE University | Future Music Forum | Load Gallery BCN | OFFF | Wabi Sabi Music | Restless Egg | Sound Diplomacy | VibeLab | Volvox Labs | Yehwan Song in conversation with designboom
AI & Music powered by S+T+ARTS: Creative Coding Barcelona | IRCAM Forum | Stability AI
Co-curated with TIMES: Antonus | Tesseract Modular
From Barcelona to the world: unveiling the Community programme
Mainly focused on the courtyard of Llotja de Mar, branded as Pati+D for the duration of Sónar+D, the Community programme is where we give the floor to some of Barcelona’s most innovative groups, as well as activities that add personality and a local flavour to the programme. You’ll find everything from intimate conversations and Q&As to elevator-pitch style presentations and live modular jams by local manufacturers.
Amongst the (many) highlights are a conversation between new media artist Yehwan Song - one of the highlights of this year’s exhibition programme - and designboom’s Claire Brodka, a special presentation on generative AI tools by our friends at IRCAM Forum, a conversation on the secret life of projects featuring OFFF’s Pep Salazar and Volvox Labs, and an exploration of the night-time economy with former Amsterdam night-mayor Mirik Milan and Azucena Micó of Sound Diplomacy.
Also returning for the second consecutive year are our popular Community takeovers. Jordi Pons of Stability AI and BRNRT Collective will lead a session in Catalan on the generative music scene in Barcelona, and Creative Coding Barcelona return with one of their interactive, accessible sessions, entitled Performance as code, featuring artists Anne Carreras and Sól Ey.
Final additions to the discourse programme
We’ve also made five final additions to our programme of Talks & Panels.
Digital art has come on in leaps and bounds in recent years. ARTIST AT THE CORE, hosted by designboom Managing Editor Claire Brodka, brings together artists (Hamill Industries’ Anna Díaz and Kamil Nawratil of Volvox Labs) and curators (Myriam Achard from Montreal art space PHI and Sandro Kereselidze from US platform Artechouse) to discuss how this expansion has played out, with a particular focus on the evolving relationships and dynamics in the sector.
We’d already confirmed 0xSalon’s interactive card game FAU0X SALON as part of the Workshops programme; we’ve now added an individual appearance by 0xSalon co-founder Wassim Z. Alsindi., who asks how we strayed from the radical promise of the internet in the 90s. Directly after his lecture, Wassim will be joined by Catalan artist Joana Moll for a conversation entitled Privacy, power and the future of the internet.
For those interested in music tech, on Thursday Barcelona Music Lab curate an extended session in Àgora+D featuring a panel discussion, report presentation and pitches that map out the music tech landscape in Barcelona. French company L-Acoustics are the industry leader in spatial audio technology: freshly confirmed as a partner for Sónar 2026, on Friday morning they host a panel that explores how immersive sound is bringing music-lovers together, IRL.
Tickets - more ways than ever before to access Sónar+D
This year, with the move to Llotja de Mar we’ve introduced standalone tickets at affordable prices.
A Sónar+D 2-Day Ticket will cost you just €25, while a Sónar+D Day Ticket is available for only €15. And if you want to combine Sónar+D 2026 with Sónar 2026 at Fira Gran Via, you can still grab a SonarPass+D.