Ultimate Fighting in the White House. Fascists in the Bundestag. Atrocities on our phones. The indifferent image works its magic, numbing our gaze to the hard edges of reality. Gestures and pictures, actions and words that once would have provoked outrage now go by unremarked. The Age of the Unthinkable is upon us. Creamcake’s 3hd 2026 is a counterpoint to the unraveling fabric of what’s true. The Berlin festival’s “Beyond Imagining” edition confronts a world where the real and the invented bleed into each other, distorting what we see and inciting violence so extreme it defies belief, yet rarely earns more than a passing glance.

Running October 23 to November 1 across two weekends at CANK, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlinische Galerie, and online via 3hdTV, invited artists challenge the systems and habits that hold our attention and sell our fear. Through performances, DJ sets, and concerts, 3hd pulls apart how meaning gets made and circulates. Old certainties resurface in new disguises. Purity, strength, order, the body as battleground, faith repurposed as ideology, all feed the same nationalist and patriarchal currents that determine who belongs and who is cast out. Participants walk the line between banality and spectacle, where digital and physical realities collide and truth, authenticity, and community no longer hold their shape.

Program
Fri, Oct 23 & Sat, Oct 24

Charlie Osborne is a Cardiff-born, London-based artist working across video, performance, music, and writing whose practice employs a fictive logic to theatricality and the hyperreal. Drawing on horror aesthetics in both style and strategy, the work takes hybrid form—shock-rock essay-concert, noise performance, magical-realist story—shaped by screamo, synth-punk, hypnagogic pop, screaming harmonica, and a never-ending love-story rendered polyphonically. Osborne’s characters, video, sculpture and live shows are conceived as a spiritual dimension, where existential excess and the folly of modernity drive conspiracy and phenomena—replying through a new mythicism.

Earning a BA in Fine Art from Camberwell College of Arts in 2021, Osborne has shown and/or performed at Turner Contemporary, Margate; the ICA and Saatchi Yates in London; and BFI Film Festival, among others. Osborne was a resident of the Conditions / ICA Studio Programme and presented a solo show at Piccalilli Gallery (2024), with a book and EP alongside Ayvan and Odyxxey. Recent live shows include Cafe OTO and Les Urbaines.

Eunju Hong is a Munich- and Seoul-based artist whose work examines the emotional and structural transmission between humans and nonhumans, technology and memory, using puppetry, performance, and video to trace where personal and social wounds overlap. She studied at the Korean National University of Arts, Beaux-Arts Paris, and HfG Karlsruhe, graduating from the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München as a Meisterschülerin in 2023. The following year, she received the Media Art Prize from Kunststiftung Ingvild und Stephan Goetz and Bavarian Arts and Literary Prize.

Hong’s work has been presented in exhibitions across Europe and Asia, including the Ilmin Museum of Art, Pinakothek der Moderne, and Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin. Most recently, she presented a performance at the opening of the Taiwan Collateral Event at the 61st Venice Biennale. Her work is held in the collection of Sammlung Goetz, Munich.

Harald Beharie is an Oslo-based, Norwegian-Jamaican performer and choreographer whose practice and choreographies often emerge in the tension between the everyday and the extreme, the mundane and the sacred, treating transformation as a continuous principle for both the body and the spaces it moves through. Their works explore how queerness can act through it as a medium and a site for revolt, ecstasy, and dissolution, with a special interest in the DIY and the vulnerability of being in the unknown. Beharie is interested in how the body can function as a motor for dramaturgy, a force in itself that transforms through practice. In “Batty Bwoy” and “Undersang,” pleasure, excess, and monstrosity become forces for empowerment and transformation while centering it as a site of ambivalence.

Beharie’s work has received nominations for the Norwegian Critics Prize for 2020’s “Shine Utopians” performance with Louis Schou and solo work “Batty Bwoy” in 2022, which also won the Hedda Prize for Best Dance Production in 2023. “Undersang” won the Norwegian Critics Prize in 2024.

Nadia Granados is a Colombian interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, performer, and researcher whose work explores the politics of images, media ecologies, and technological imaginaries. Moving across performance, expanded cinema, installation, artificial intelligence, and archival practices, she examines how visual technologies construct memory, violence, desire, and political subjectivity. For Granados, media is not a tool of representation but a contested territory where ideology is produced, embodied, and performed. Her ongoing artistic persona, “La Fulminante,” has been appropriating mass entertainment and digital spectacle since 2010 to challenge dominant narratives around nationalism, gender, militarization, and extractivism in Latin America.

Her recent projects—including Colombianización, American Spectral History, and Tell Me When You Die—combine AI-generated video and live performance into immersive environments where spectators navigate historical memory, synthetic media, and governance. Granados was awarded the XI Luis Caballero Award, Colombia’s highest recognition for mid-career visual artists, the Ken Burns Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the Franklin Furnace Fund, New York. She has shown at museums, biennials, and festivals internationally, including Athens International Film + Video Festival and the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.

Thur, 29 Oct

Raised in Hamburg and based in Berlin, Nas Tea is a DJ, performer, and sound artist with a taste for tension, release, and rhythm that hits hard. Their sets balance precision and chaos — energetic, emotional, and unpredictable — shaped by a background in performance art and a fearless approach to sound. Constantly shifting and evolving, Nas Tea stands at the edge of Berlin’s underground, turning the dancefloor into a space of pure, collective charge.

Sara Sadik is a Marseille-based artist who creates immersive narrative environments blending video, installation, performance, and interactive practices. Drawing on contemporary popular culture, from video games and science fiction to anime, reality TV, and French rap, her work explores identity, vulnerability, and modes of belonging. Positioned between fiction and documentary, Sadik’s works follow initiatory journeys often centered on teenagers and young men shaped by social marginalization, revealing their emotional landscapes, aspirations, and inner conflicts. Frequently using collaborative methods, she transforms testimonies and cultural codes into poetic material, crafting worlds where collective memories and contemporary identities can be reimagined.

Sadik earned her MFA in Fine Arts with highest honours from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux in 2018. Her work has been shown at Oslo’s Munch Museum, Villa Medici in Rome, MoMA Warsaw, Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, FACT Liverpool, M+ Hong Kong, Luma Arles, and Centre Pompidou-Metz, among others.

Vika Kirchenbauer is an artist, writer and music producer based in Berlin. In her practice, she examines the fundamental political and social conflicts inherent in the artistic field. Two monographs combining the artistic and theoretical strands of her practice have been published by Mousse Publishing. Comprehensive solo exhibitions of Kirchenbauer’s work have been presented, for instance, at the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen in Düsseldorf, and at the Kunstverein Kevin Space in Vienna. Her videos and installations were part of exhibitions and screenings at, among others, d/p, Seoul; the Tainan Art Museum, Taiwan; the Whitechapel Gallery, London; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; the Berlin International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. From 2022, she was a Professor of Fine Art at the Braunschweig University of Art. In 2026, she was appointed Professor of Fine Art in the Contemporary Context at the Kunsthochschule Kassel.

Sat, 31 Oct

exmantera is a dual-alias producer, dj and event organizer from helsinki, living in tbilisi. operating at the fringes of club music and sonic deconstruction. their sets drift between nostalgia, distorted emotions and broken rhythms. no fixed genre, no clear path, just a focus on feeling and emotion. expect nothing + everything.

Göksu Kunak is an Ankara-born, Berlin-based artist, performance director, writer, and researcher working across performance, installation, text, and theory, whose practice examines the codes and conventions of spaces such as the white cube, black box, and public realm through action-based performances, evening-length theater works, and site-responsive interventions. Kunak’s hybrid dramaturgies draw on chrono-politics, non-Western methodologies, and the performative structures of everyday life. Influenced by Arabesk culture and science fiction, their texts and performances create speculative scenarios that criticize heteropatriarchal norms, Orientalism, and self-censorship, treating the body within urban environments as an object alongside cars or construction sites, and theatricality and language as sculptural material.

Kunak was awarded the Akademie der Künste Kunstpreis (Berlin Prize for Art) in Performing Arts in 2025, and was a finalist for the Dieter-Ruckhaberle Förderpreis in 2021. Their work has been presented internationally at Performa Biennial, Neue Nationalgalerie, Sophiensaele, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, MAPS Museum, Migros Museum, deSingel Arts Center,  Kunsthalle Krems-Donau Festival, and Kaaitheater, among others.

Lowra is a Polish duo formed by Poznań-based vocalist and lyricist Rosalie and Gdynia-based producer-composer 2K88, bridging songwriting and forward-thinking production into a sound that is both emotionally resonant and sonically refined. Blending deep bass, immersive ambient textures, and addictive melodic structures, the collaboration creates a distinctive interplay between atmosphere and rhythm, drawing from contemporary electronic music and alternative RnB while remaining open to influences from across genres.

At the core of Lowra’s work lies a focus on mood and narrative: Rosalie’s intimate vocal delivery and lyrical sensitivity intertwine with 2K88’s detailed, spacious production to form compositions that feel both personal and expansive, moving effortlessly between minimalism and richness. Their output is marked by a cinematic quality, where layered sound design and carefully sculpted arrangements create immersive listening experiences, emphasizing contrast—softness and weight, clarity and abstraction—to resonate both emotionally and physically.

Safety Trance, aka Luis Garban, is a Venezuelan, Barcelona-based producer operating at the intersection of two distinct sonic worlds. Appearing in the scene in the 2000s, he has dominated the warehouse circuit with the industrial, techno-forward aggression of Cardopusher for years, while developing another sound that rewires the DNA of Latin club music with an experimental take on reggaeton that has captivated audiences worldwide. 

Garban has earned acclaim as the architect of soundscapes for visionary acts that include longtime colleague and Grammy-nominated artist Arca, while positioning himself at the forefront of a new wave of Latin experimental electronica. He is set to further define himself with Sacrificio, his latest full-length album, which brings together old and new collaborators to explore absolution and transmutation at the club.

SUUTOO is a London-based interdisciplinary artist, composer, DJ, and performance artist whose practice moves fluidly between music, performance, art, and club culture. Rooted in world-building, her work spans sound, movement, installation, video, and visual material, guided by an ongoing inquiry into transformation, emancipation, transience, and sonic potentialities. Her sound sits in the in-between, weaving noise, intimacy, and myth into sonic environments and embodied performances that resist fixed meaning.

Her new EP STARFIRE, released on DEMO, is a crystallisation of sonic experiments, performance works, and improvisational processes developed between 2020 and 2025. Emerging through a series of performances that gradually expanded into a wider live, visual, sonic, and poetic language, STARFIRE gathers this material into a concentrated display of force, with its world-building continuing to unfold through haze-filled performances that bind body, space, spirit, and sound. SUUTOO is joined by her band, Damien Kabran and Oxhy.