bela
also plays New York City — 1 night
Originally from Paju South Korea, bela (they/them) is a musician and a performance artist based in Berlin. They are known for electronic music performance merging pungmul - a Korean folk act rooted in agricultural traditions and linked to past social movements - and vocals inspired by extreme metal. bela shapes pungmul into the ritual for queer rage and grief with sub-heavy distortions and cries.
Since moving to Berlin in the autumn of 2022, bela has been announced as a participant of SHAPE+ Platform 23'-24'. They have presented their work across different stages in Europe including Berghain, Trauma Bar und Kino, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Cafe OTO, A4 Bratislava among many others. They have performed in experimental music festivals CTM Festival(DE), Ephemera(PL), Unsound Kraków(PL), and Rewire Festival(NL). They also participated in European art festivals transmediale(DE) and EVA International(IE).
Their Resident Advisor profile, in full and unedited.
Records out on Subtext, Éditions Appærent and Unsound. — their own list on Resident Advisor
The nights
- tonightSilent Greentheir 2nd night18 going
2026
- Sat 8 AugPankefirst time · EEE
- Fri 16 JanSilent Greenfirst time
2025 — 6 nights
- Fri 19 Dec 2025Golden Gatefirst time
- Fri 10 Oct 2025Spindler & Klattfirst time · Swiftie Dance Night
- Sun 14 Sep 202520nine30their 2nd night · THE THREESOUND OF REVOLUTION
- Fri 12 Sep 202520nine30first time · THE THREESOUND OF REVOLUTION
- Fri 29 Aug 2025Kraftwerk, Tresor/Globus and OHMfirst time · Berlin Atonal
- Wed 27 Aug 2025Kraftwerk Berlinfirst time · Berlin Atonal
Their rooms
One tick a night, on the one axis this page has — Aug 2025, where the listings start, to Jan 2027, the last night anybody has announced. The shaded end has not happened yet.
- 20nine30Sep 20252 nights
Once each: Panke, Silent Green, Golden Gate, Spindler & Klatt, Kraftwerk, Tresor/Globus and OHM and Kraftwerk Berlin.
Who they play with
Counted from the bills themselves, over bills of twelve names or fewer. A pair's count includes a night that is announced and not yet played; where there is one, the row says when.
- ALEX WANGPanke ×1, Silent Green ×1 · Jan 2026 – Aug 20262 nights
The nights, the rooms and the bills are the listings themselves. The biography, the labels and the photograph are Resident Advisor's. Nothing on this page was written for it.