For the Thursday–Sunday run of October 22–25, Berlin’s standout concert is Maria Arnal at Gretchen on Saturday, October 24. The Barcelona singer, composer, and experimental artist arrives with AMA, her 2026 solo full-length, for a show that gives the weekend a focused listening-room destination amid a dense club calendar. Gretchen places Arnal within its 15 Years GRETCHEN anniversary programme and bills the night across singer-songwriter, experimental, and electro-pop territory: a useful shorthand for an artist whose work pulls several musical languages into one voice-led frame.[1][2][4]

Arnal has long treated song as a site for contact between inherited forms and present-day tools. Her own biography describes a practice joining avant-pop, electronics, and traditional polyphonic music, alongside work in sound, technology, and art. CCCB similarly identifies her as a singer and composer whose projects extend beyond the conventional album cycle, including sound works and collaborations across performance and visual culture. That breadth makes this a compelling weekly focal point: the concert carries the scale of an interdisciplinary practice while retaining the direct physical charge of a singer in a room.[2][3]

AMA is the key context. Released on February 20, 2026, the 13-track album is Arnal’s first solo full-length, following earlier long-form work with Marcel Bagés. Gretchen’s programme explicitly presents the Berlin date as an AMA show, framing its sound around avant-pop, electronics, and traditional polyphony. Those ingredients suggest a concert built around timbre, layered vocal presence, and songs able to move between intimate phrasing and electronic detail. The appeal lies in hearing those elements share the same air, with Arnal’s voice serving as the line that keeps the material lucid.[1][2][3][4]

A birthday-month setting with room for detail

Gretchen is an apt scale for this visit. The club’s October programme marks 15 years of the Kreuzberg venue through a broad sequence of concerts and nights, and Arnal’s slot lands early on Saturday evening before the later dance-floor programme begins. Its listed categories make the contrast clear: this is a seated-in-attitude listening proposition within a venue equally fluent in bass music, jazz, global club sounds, and late-night electronics. For listeners drawn to contemporary Spanish music, adventurous pop, or vocal composition that reaches beyond familiar songwriting shapes, it is the week’s most specific invitation.[1][3]

Practical details: Maria Arnal plays Gretchen, Obentrautstraße 19–21 in Kreuzberg, on Saturday, October 24. Doors are scheduled for 7:30 PM and the show for 8:30 PM; the venue lists a minimum age of 16. Gretchen lists advance tickets in several price tiers, including reduced options via its ticket link. Recheck Gretchen’s official event page before travel for any changes to times, entry, ticket availability, or accessibility arrangements.[1]

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Maria Arnal’s use of polyphonic tradition alongside electronics gives this Saturday concert a rare point of focus in Berlin’s October weekend.[1][2][3]

These concerts happened on 24 October 2026

The next dates at these venues: Gretchen

Sources

  1. 15 Years Gretchen: Maria Arnal — Gretchen
  2. Maria Arnal — Bio: Avant-pop, Electronics & Tradition — Maria Arnal
  3. Maria Arnal — Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
  4. AMA — Apple Music