Sónar 2026 reveals final details of its 33rd edition taking place this June

Sónar has revealed final details of the festival’s 33rd edition, taking place on 18, 19 and 20 June 2026, via a press conference at the Antiga Fabrica Estrella Damm in Barcelona. Featuring François Jozic, Director of Sónar; Miquel Trullols, Head of Communications at Sónar; Christian Soares, Head of Programming at Sónar; and Andrea Faroppa, Director of Sónar+D.

Taking place in just over a month, the revamped design, musical programme, Sónar+D and the Sónar Week expansion were discussed in detail, bringing this year's project to life and showing how Sónar's new formats are aimed at improving accessibility and cementing Sónar's place at the center of Barcelona's electronic music offering .

This year, for the first time, the entire musical programme of Sónar 2026 takes place at Fira Gran Via, with four stages open on Thursday 18th June and six - three open air and three indoor - running on Friday 19th and Saturday 20th of June. The entire festival has been reimagined and redesigned to enhance the experience for both audience and artists, maintaining the high standards that have defined Sónar over its 30+ year history.

"The main novelty is that Sónar 2026 will be concentrated in a single venue. We will have four stages, two of which are outdoor and two indoor. We wanted to maintain the dynamic of day and night that's part of our identity. The first hours of Sónar will feel like Sónar by Day, and there’ll be a transition the night programming." - explains Miquel Trullols.

Moving to the music programme, this year's lineup include jungle revivalist Nia Archives; Australian DJ Dom Dolla; Dutch producer Reinier Zonneveld’s new show R2 (b2b AI, Holographic AV) which features him performing alongside an AI trained on his own music (part of AI & Music powered by S+T+ARTS); drum’n’bass originators Goldie b2b Doc Scott together with Medic MC; a live show by enigmatic UK duo Two Shell; and future - and present - superstars of dance music KETTAMA, DJ Gigola, Sara Landry, Sammy Virji, Funk Tribu, Daria Kolosova, Ciara Cuvé, and PETERBLUE.

Joining them are ever-evolving German artist Boys Noize; an intergenerational improvised live set by FJAAK x Kittin; versatile UK DJ Joy Orbison; back-to-back sets by Gerd Janson b2b Marcel Dettmann and Clementaum b2b LAZA; live performances from Namasenda, Metrika, Miss Bashful and Barcelona collective Cutemobb (featuring founder LEÏTI); and new live sets from Daito Manabe (working with Google DeepMind’s AI technology), Daniel Avery, and Wata Igarashi; a hybrid show from mysterious online duo ⌭ IceMorph ⌬; a wide range of DJs including Kilopatrah Jones, LOVEFOXY, The Hacker, SALOME, Arthi, Addison Groove, GOTH-TRAD, and Takuya Nakamura; and takeovers by legendary hedonistic Ibiza house and disco party Glitterbox and Colombian queer kinky collective BULTO. And on top of all this, Sónar+D comes to Fira Gran Via for the very first time with LedPulse’s reactive architectural sculpture ORGANYSMO, and fritz-kolab: Dins, an interactive visual piece created by Desilence in collaboration with fritz-kola.

Booking director, Christian Soares explains; "Diversity continues to be the fundamental pillar for building the line-up. The names on the poster are a mix of emerging and established talent that makes up the present of electronic music."

Sónar+D - now managed entirely by non-profit organisation Fundación Sónar - takes place on Thursday 18th and Friday 19th June at its new home Llotja de Mar. From 10am to 9pm each day, the ‘event like no other’ will breathe new life into this majestic neoclassical building in the centre of Barcelona. In a world where instant digital communication is the norm, AI is part of our daily lives and we are all mere ‘users’, this year’s programme invites the audience to reimagine our relationship with technology, advocating for a shift from passive consumption to active participation.

Offering a critical, constructive, and optimistic reflection on how to reinject humanity into an increasingly automated world, the multidisciplinary programme features talks, panel discussions, workshops, installations, performances and interactive exhibits. It’s all organised under three themes: ‘AI & Music powered S+T+ARTS’ this year focuses on our steps towards a post-AI world; ‘Beyond the Screen’, explores how creators are reaffirming humanity and physicality in the digital realm; and ‘Digital Gardens and Dark Forests’ examines alternative futures for the internet in an era where it’s become dominated by commercial interests. Highlights include talks by Eugene Healey, Yancey Strickler, niceaunties, Mónica Rikić, Daito Manabe with Google DeepMind, Mindy Seu and Joana Moll; workshops by desilence, Keiken, 0xSalon, and Chia Amisola; exhibitions and installations courtesy of Arts Korea Lab, Superbe and Volvox Labs; and a Community programme featuring Yehwan Song (in conversation with designboom’s Claire Brodka), IRCAM Forum, Pep Salazar & Volvox Labs, Mirik Milan of VibeLab and Sound Diplomacy’s Azucena Micó, amongst others.

"The central message of this year is that technology is not a luxury, it's not something that's [only] in Silicon Valley and in the offices of large tech companies. Technology is culture and what better than to bring this story of to the historic surroundings of our new inner city venue" - Andrea Farropa, Director of Sónar+D

Festival Director Francois Jozic, further explains Sónar's expansion through the city: "While this is my first year in charge of Sonar, I'm heir to a vision, an ambition, to make Barcelona the global capital of digital culture. We already have a very solid legacy with Sónar+D, but this positioning also requires more initiatives and above all under the same umbrella, Sónar Week."

At the center of Sónar Week is Sónar Kids, a parallel event created by Sónar to let families to enjoy music and creativity together, which returns after a prolonged absence on Saturday 20th June at Parc del Fòrum. Activities are aimed at sparking creativity and stimulating the imaginations of the youngest members of the family. Sónar Kids is part of the new Sónar District offering, which also hosts parties by Solid Grooves on Friday 19th June, plus Joseph Capriati’s Metamorfosi and You&Me by Josh Baker on Saturday 20th June. OFFSónar once again takes over Poble Espanyol from Thursday to Sunday with a series of parties, including Rampa & Adam Port, X by Adriatique, and elrow, plus more. And new for 2026, Sónar is joining forces with Moog to celebrate 30 years of the legendary club located in the Raval. There’ll be four different nights from Thursday through to Sunday, all programmed in collaboration with Barcelona artist Angel Molina. It all completes the musical lineup at Sónar Week 2026, which this year takes over Barcelona from one end to another, converting the city into the global capital of music, innovation, creativity and technology this June.

The festival timetable featuring all performances at Sónar and all Sónar+D activities are now available at sonar.es