Avantgarde Festival
19.–21. Juni 2026
Three Decades of Uncompromising Creativity
The founder, Jean-Hervé Péron, wrote about the first editions of
the festival, once known as Sommersonnenwenden Fete:
It all started in 1996. Carina and myself wanted to organize an
event where EVERYONE could come and have fun.from the
village-grandma to the city-punk … a bunch of setbuilders
colleagues agreed to help me build an unusual stage and create
interesting decorations. We spent a fantastic week in a beautiful
location nearby my village and the result was real good: between
arabian nights and industrial wasteland ,illuminated trees and
ponds …
... not just music... our aim is to create a place… and an
atmosphere where…like musicians who meet on stage to jam... well ,
other artists like… painters, poets, shortfilm-makers… visuals...
find a space to "jam", to collaborate... on a screen , on a
canvass…
Now, three decades later, we keep building, improvising, inventing
— not to repeat the past, but to keep the spirit alive!
So please join us this year — to once again
reincarnate this beautiful, strange, incomprehensible spirit
called the Avantgarde Festival.