Borderline Festival 2024

Dates

Prices

Free admission & Events with tickets

Location

Athens, Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Friday 26 April
Time
17:30 - 23:30
Venue
Kypseli Municipal Market
Day
Saturday 27 April
Time
17:30 - 23:30
Venue
Kypseli Municipal Market
Day
Saturday 27 April
Time
23:59 - 05:00
Venue
Gagarin 205
Day
Sunday 28 April
Time
18:30 - 00:30
Venue
Carhartt WIP Stage at Onassis Stegi -1

Information

Presale Information

Onassis Stegi Friends & General presale: from Friday 5 April 2024, 17:00

Latest Update

Unfortunately, due to unforeseen reasons, aya will not be able to perform as scheduled for the 3rd day of the Borderline Festival 2024. We appreciate your understanding.

Information

Strobe lights are used at the Gagarin 205 venue.

In its 13th edition, Borderline Festival is unfolding at Onassis Stegi and across different spots in Athens; a three-day event on the future of contemporary music, with the participation of young Greek and emerging international artists who transcend boundaries.

From the Municipal Market of Kypseli in the heart of the city to Gagarin 205 and the Carhartt WIP Stage at Onassis Stegi -1, 18 Greek and international artists come together in a lineup that defies genres, where Detroit techno meets reggaeton and deconstructed dub. Adventurous producers and DJs, such as aya, Sangre Nueva, AUX 88, and Rosa Pistola, get together with artists from Athens, such as ANFS (Hybrid Set), AMKA, Frenzee, and Agent Mo, conjuring a sublime experience made simultaneously for the ears, minds, and feet.

13 years of the Borderline Festival

Borderline Festival has mobilized the elements of fantasy, magic, and surprise for more than a decade through a series of DJ sets and live performances. Fixing its gaze far and beyond dystopian worldviews, it explores how music, like a spell, can transform everyday reality and distort the sense of time and space, bringing hidden narratives to light and offering outlandish and vivacious visions of the past, present, and future. In this direction, from April 26 to 28, Borderline Festival 2024 attends to the transformative power of magical realism, returning to the heart of Athens with a festival that aims to widen the act of listening.

Borderline Festival 2024

On Friday, April 26, Borderline Festival 2024 kicks off at the Municipal Market of Kypseli, combining the intricate flow of Nigerian rapper Aunty Rayzor, the historic Detroit electro of AUX 88, a DJ set by BAMBII beyond the boundaries of genres and BPM, and fresh rap, trap, and reggaeton selections by ZonetoZone.

The next day, April 27, the open-air stage of the Municipal Market of Kypseli kicks off with the eclectic selections of Agent Mo, producer of STEGI.RADIO. Then, deconstructed club pioneer Rabit meets Sangre Nueva—the fiery B2B2B2B project of Kelman Duran, DJ Python, and Florentino—and Mexican reggaeton queen Rosa Pistola. After midnight, the lineup moves to Gagarin 205: from the punk energy of Greek band Frenzee to the wild dancefloor experimentation of Bill Kouligas and Crystalmess to the apocalyptic techno of ANFS (Hybrid Set).

On Sunday, April 28, Borderline Festival 2024 closes at the Carhartt WIP Stage at Onassis Stegi -1 with distorted electronic sounds and live sets by aya, AMKA, Lamin Fofana, Trevor Mathison, JJJJJJJerome Ellis, and Costis Kontos.

The Borderline Festival 2024 program is curated by STEGI.RADIO, the online radio of Onassis Stegi.

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Day 1 | Program

Friday 26 April

17:30 | Kypseli Municipal Market (Free Admission)

  • 17:30 - 20:30 | ZoneToZone
  • 20:30 - 21:15 | Aunty Rayzor
  • 21:15 - 22:15 | AUX 88
  • 22:15 | BAMBII

Parallel event (Application of interest)*

  • 15:00 - 17:00 | "Fugitive Voices" workshop by Eleni Ikoniadou at Kypseli Municipal Market

*Submit your application through the online registration form until the 21st of April. All applicants will be notified regarding their participation via email. Due to limited number of seats, the final selection will be based on application.

Day 2 | Program

Saturday 27 April

17:30 | Kypseli Municipal Market (Free Admission)

  • 17:30 - 19:00 | Agent Mo
  • 19:00 - 20:15 | Rabit
  • 21:15 - 22:15 | Sangre Nueva
  • 22:15 | Rosa Pistola

23:59 | Gagarin 205

  • 23:59 - 1:15 | Frenzee
  • 1:15 - 2:30 | Bill Kouligas
  • 2:30 - 3:45 | Crystallmess
  • 3:45 | ANFS (Hybrid Set)

Parallel event (Application of interest)*

  • 15:00 - 17:00 | "Fugitive Voices" workshop by Eleni Ikoniadou at Kypseli Municipal Market

*Submit your application through the online registration form until the 21st of April. All applicants will be notified regarding their participation via email. Due to limited number of seats, the final selection will be based on application.

Day 3 | Program

Sunday 28 April

18:30 | Carhartt WIP Stage at Onassis Stegi -1

  • 18:30 - 19:15 | Costis Kontos
  • 19:15 - 20:45 | JJJJJerome Ellis
  • 20:45 - 21:30 | Trevor Mathison
  • 21:30 - 22:15 | Lamin Fofana
  • 22:15 - 22:30 | Break
  • 22:30 | AMKA

Latest Update: Unfortunately, due to unforeseen reasons, aya will not be able to perform as scheduled for the 3rd day of the Borderline Festival 2024. We appreciate your understanding.

*The workshop “Fugitive Voices” by Eleni Ikoniadou, and Trevor Mathison’s concert are supported by the European Network “Sounds Now”, co-funded by the “Creative Europe” program of the European Union.

What are the sounds, faces, and positions that lie in-between genres, geographies, and boundaries?

Curatorial note

“What is music if not a spell? What is the act of listening, if not a collective ritual? Music distorts time, flattening and widening it by the will of its creator. Each musician is a wizard who reminds the listener of the continuous flow and wonder of things. Hidden worlds are revealed, and the sense of past, present, and future is restored. Music re-mythologizes reality, rendering it enchanting and accentuating both its uncanny facets and the capacities that remain latent within it and await to be thrown into action. The listener listens, moves, and dances. A collective mind and body participates in this primordial ritual and, through this act, recalls what it has always known subconsciously: there are conditions and forces at work within this world that cannot be fully grasped, perhaps, but can be tinkered with and subverted.

Borderline Festival 2024 is here, carrying a vision of magical realism. It aims to penetrate the fabric of our era’s reality not through escape but through fantasy, thinking, and an understanding beyond categorization. From Athens to the Mediterranean, in a time marred by war, inequalities, extreme impoverishment, and insufferable alienation, Borderline Festival calls for a collective deep listening of the sound of ever-emerging change.”

–STEGI.RADIO

Credits

  • Artistic Direction

    Voltnoi & Quetempo (STEGI.RADIO), Akis Chontasis

  • Head of Production

    Vasilis Panagiotakopoulos

  • Production Management

    Akis Chontasis

  • Campaign Manager

    Haris Giakoumakis

  • STEGI.RADIO Manager

    Niki Georgiou

  • STEGI.RADIO Content Editor

    Giannis Galiatsos

  • Line Production

    Danai Giannakopoulou, Dimitra Bouzani, Ioulia Stamouli, Mariana Antzoulatou

  • Set Design

    Alexandros Tzanis

  • Lighting Design

    Vangelis Moundrichas, Pavlos Pappas

  • Technical Manager

    Antonis Kokoris

  • Deputy Technical Manager

    Giannis Ntovas

  • Technical Services Administrative Assistant

    Revekka Stamou

  • Chief Lighting Engineer

    Vangelis Moundrichas

  • Senior Lighting Technician

    Pavlos Pappas

  • Lighting Technicians-Operators

    Sotiris Muhammed Ali Sompchy, Antonios Tsevas

  • Assistant Lighting Technicians-Operators

    Giannis Psarros, Alexandros Kanellopoulos, Eleftherios Daskalantonakis, Ioannis Vollelis, Georgia Tselepi, Polychronis Stamatakis, Veaceslav Rusu, Ioannis Christodoulakis

  • Chief Theater Engineer

    Iakovos Darzentas

  • Stage Engineers

    Stelios Bourdis, Nardi Cela, Thanassis Ntako

  • Assistant Stage Engineers

    Konstantinos Petronanos, Platonas Tsamados, Nikos Nizamis, Michail Faitakis, Giorgos Koulianidis, Ioannis Kontorouchas, Nikos Papanikolopoulos, Spyros Pitsos

  • Chief Sound Engineer

    Alexios Politis

  • Sound Technicians-Operators

    Dimitris Samaras, Alexandros Tzovaras, Stefanos Papoutsakis

  • Senior Electrician

    Fotis Andrianopoulos

  • Electrician

    Kyriakos Xanthopoulos

  • Assistant Electrician

    Filippos Kokkinakis

  • Chief Video Engineer

    Panagiotis Hajisavas

  • Senior Video Engineer

    Efstratios Toganidis

  • Video Engineer

    Efstathios Darzanos

  • Assistant Video Engineer

    Iasonas Pierrakos

  • Hospitality Department

    Areti Antonatou, Maria Beraha

  • Stage Managers

    Natalia Vorria, Melina Lorkidi, Eirini Loukatou

  • Front of House

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  • Visitor Experience Coordinator

    Zenia Agkistrioti

  • Visitor Experience Facilitators

    Konstantinos Iacovou, Konstantinos Psychopaidis

  • Visitor Experience Assistant

    Emmanouil Chatzakis

  • Facility Maintenance Department

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  • Facility Maintenance Manager

    Giorgos Raptis

  • Administrative Assistant

    Hara Sidirokastriti

  • Mechanical Engineers

    Antreas Branis, Panagiotis Generalis, Ioannis Karropoulos

  • Electricians

    Dimitris Bougioukos, Vasileios Chatzieleutheriou, Marios Chatzis

  • Plumber

    Vaios Mammos

  • Technicians

    Petrit Mula, Iraklis Zervas

  • Safety and Security

    Ioannis Giannakos, Spyros Triantafyllakis, Eleftherios Saganis, Anastasia Sampani, Christina Prentzia, Dimitrios Stamatopoulos, Margarita Kousouri, Ioannis Kafesakis, Afendra Mparola, Evgenia Krania, Anna Balassinou, Nikos Fotopoulos, Nikos Kampanis, Aristea Sagani, Efi Vasilakou, Konstantinos Milis, Alexandra Azariadou, Georgia Oustabasiadou, Maria Stavroula Gobran, Spyros Stratis, Anastasios Korobilis, Dimitris Karykis, Dimitris Delikaris, Anna Priona, Matthaios Zervakis

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