HAPPENING KLUB7 is a collective working at the interface of fine and applied arts. Their works ranges from large scale murals to public site-specific performances.
CREATIVE DIRECTION (AUT) Dian Warsosumarto is a Creative Director with 20+ years of experience building brands through strategy, storytelling, and culture.
DESIGN (GER) Hugo Hoppmann is a distinguished designer and creative director celebrated for his work with elite clients.
ADVERTISING (NED) W+K Amsterdam is a leading agency, creating impactful campaigns.
ADVERTISING & ART (NED) Erik Kessels is a Dutch graphic designer, advertising manager, editor, collector, exhibition curator and artist.
HAPPENING Tufting Berlin / CL Studio is a creative studio independently led by artists Sungeun Claire Choi and Wonek Lee who became captivated by the tactile immediacy and expansive creative possibilities of tufting.
OPEN CALL Share your favourite unrealized project at Forward Festival 2025.
DESIGN & ADVERTISING (SWE) A creative agency of misfit geniuses conquering the world through fine lookin’ design and real emotions.
DESIGN (US) New York-based PORTO ROCHA unites strategy and design to create impactful branding systems, products, and experiences.
COLLAGE ART (UK) Alice Isaac is a multimedia artist who fuses hand-collaged imagery with digital effects, blending surrealism, fashion, and vintage aesthetics into her distinctive style.
DESIGN (ALB) Baugasm, the alias of Vasjen Katro, turned a passion for music into a bold daily design journey.
GRAPHIC ART (UK) Graphic artist Anthony Burrill masterfully blends simplicity with impactful analogue craftsmanship, delivering powerful and uplifting messages.
FASHION & DESIGN (US) Nicole McLaughlin is a New-York based designer with a focus on sustainability.
MOTION DESIGN (UK) Found crafts innovative, research-driven 3D visual content that captivates audiences through refined aesthetics and a fresh perspective.
DESIGN (NED) Random Studio is an experience design studio based in Amsterdam and Paris, bridging the physical and digital in unexpected ways.
WORKSHOP In this session, you'll learn the fundamentals of crafting expressive camera movements, surreal transitions, and visually rich AI-generated sequences using LTX Studio.
BRAND & VISUAL STORYTELLING (GER) Studio Yukiko is a Berlin-based creative agency specialising in creative direction, art direction, brand strategy, concept generation and graphic design.
HAPPENING Connected Archives is opening the archive to you: dive into hundreds of carefully curated photographs and create your own visual moodboard, live on site.
SIDE EVENT Join Erik Kessels for a deep dive into the business side of creativity on a boat tour along the Spree river.
BRAND DESIGN & MUSIC (AUT) Studio Herrström is a design studio dedicated to transforming the music industry through innovative branding.
SIDE EVENT The winners from our Shortest AI Film Festival are hitting the big screen!
PANEL TALK Delfina Carmona and Marina Mónaco share their experiences capturing the city for Berlin Views in a live Q&A in cooperation with C/O Berlin.
DIGITAL (UKR) Chris Kore is a digital dreamer and multidisciplinary Ukrainian artist.
SIDE EVENT Join Snask for conversations on creativity, business, and everything in between!
VIDEO & DESIGN (LBN) Chehad Abdallah is a Lebanese-German artist working across graphic design, video, illustration and different forms of intervention.
3D & MOTION DESIGN (UK) London based Digital Artist Rose Pilkington specialises in experimental 3D illustration and motion.
ART & DESIGN (NED) Luna Maurer is a mixed media designer and artist, lecturer, and author with a focus on digital technologies’ impact on daily life.
MOTION DESIGN (MEX) Mario Carrillo is an artist with a profound interest in creating moving images to explore creativity, technology, and visual perception.
GRAPHIC DESIGN (GER) David Benski is a Berlin-based graphic designer known for his energetic and exploratory approach to design.
ART & DESIGN (GER) Sarah Illenberger captures the poetry of everyday life in her objects and installations, blending art and design.
DESIGN (US) Natasha Jen is an award-winning designer, educator, and partner at Pentagram.
PHOTOGRAPHY (BEL) Stig De Block is a (fine-art) photographer who’s cultural referenced practice is inspired by heritage values.
AI ART (FRA) Fan Shi calls herself the “accidental artist” who stumbled upon her true calling through a chance encounter with AI.
CREATIVE STUDIO (GER) Fred North is the Creative Director at Koto, leading the Berlin studio and shaping global brands with creativity and clarity..
ART & DESIGN (UK) Sarah Boris' practice encompasses sculpture, drawing, printmaking and design.
GRAPHIC DESIGN (UKR) Freelance designer Vlad Boyko explores his emotional landscape and the world around him through design.
CITY GUIDE Explore our curated guide through the city of Berlin, tailored for the creatively curious!
DESIGN (GER) HELLOME is an international creative studio defining contemporary culture.
WORKSHOP We will dive into the fascinating world of handmade and tactile models and digital tools that will help us developing our process.
DIGITAL ART (TWN) Ariel Lu (呂亭葳) is a Berlin based Taiwanese artist and CG image maker.
MODERATION The Main Stage will be hosted by Davide Bortot from A Color Bright
OPEN CALL Make your most creative shortest film with LTX Studio and compete for $10.000 in prizes!
Branding & Design (GER) Peter Schmidt Group is one of Germany’s most renowned brand and design agencies, known for shaping iconic identities across industries.
WORKSHOP In this workshop, we’ll explore workflows for creative direction with different levels of control on generative AI. To get the images you want.
DIGITAL ART (UK) Lucy Hardcastle stands for sensual storytelling for a digital age.
GRAPHIC DESIGN (UK) Kladi is an award winning designer, visual strategist, author, and Senior Design Evangelist & Community Advocate at Adobe.
SIDE EVENT We’re bringing the community together at Studio IIII for a night full of creative energy and visuals that’ll take over the whole club.
DIGITAL ART & MOTION DESIGN (PRT) Lisbon-born, Dublin-based Mario Domingos blends technical experimentation with artistic expression.
3D ART (UK) Emily Bisset is a digital artist specializing in Substance 3D.
AI & PUBLISHING (GER) A compendium of the most powerful image prompts, launching its second volume at Forward Festival.
DIGITAL DESIGN (GER & UK) International Magic is a futurist design studio creating unseen digital experiences.
AI (SWE) Martin LeBlanc is CXO at Freepik and founder of Iconfinder.
SIDE EVENT Connect with other creatives while lunching!
GRAPHIC DESIGN (GER) Marcus Rentsch is a graphic and logo designer who inspires the creative community through his video content and talks.
DESIGN (MEX) Pablo Stanley is a Mexican designer, entrepreneur and co-founder of Lummi.
OPEN CALL Become a Speaker at Forward Festival 2025!
APPLY NOW! Join the Forward Festival team and help us make the event an unforgettable experience for everyone
HAPPENING Meet like-minded creatives and build new connections & friends for a lifetime!
HAPPENING The Moon Exhibition is a virtual gallery for any creative discipline you can imagine.
STAY TUNED New program highlights are dropping regularly!
