News: C2C Festival Turin Announces 2026 Lineup

Founded back in 2000 as Club To Club Festival, the Turin-based C2C Festival has grown from a pioneering European dance music festival into an international platform for experimental and cross-disciplinary sound, bridging the worlds of music, art and technology, helping to cement its reputation as one of the world’s most forward-tinking avant pop events.

Following the sold-out second edition of C2C NYC earlier this year, C2C will make its London debut at the sold-out Barbican Centre on Thursday, October 15, 2026. The festival’s growing international reach is reflected in record-breaking sales for C2C Turin’s 25th edition will take place October 29, 2026-November 1, 2026. The 25th edition of the Turin event is currently on course to sell out for the fifth-consecutive year — and for the first time in its history, international audiences will outnumber Italian audiences, accounting for over 53% of ticket sales to date.

Once again set against the citywide energy of Torino Art Week, the 25th edition of C2C Festival Turin will combine an artistic program featuring exclusive shows for Italy and Europe with a series of special initiatives celebrating the event’s anniversary. After 11 years, the festival returns to Teatro Carignano for a special Saturday matinee showcase on October 31, 2026. And on Sunday, November 1, a citywide event revives the festival’s original format over 20 years ago with a single ticket giving access to two local venues: Le Roi, a ballroom designed by architect Carlo Mollino, and Club Notorious, one of the venues that hosted the inaugural Club To Club Festival back in 2002.

OGR Torino will once again host the event’s programming on Thursday October 29, 20226 and Saturday, October 31, 2026. The festival’s main venue Lingotto Fiere will host the event’s programming on Friday, October 30, 2026 and Sunday, November 1, 2026, as well as the debut of the festival’s DAZED Stage. Teatro Regio will host C2C Talks for the fourth consecutive year, with daytime programming on Friday, October 30, 2026. As always, Combo Torino will the be festival’s headquarters — but for the first time, it’ll also be the home of C2C KIDS!, a preview of the festival for youngsters on Sunday, October 25, 2026.

To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the event’s organizers have programmed one of most ambitious lineup in its history to date. Its trademark multi-genre approach reflects 25 years of musical exploration and the its vision of “avant-pop.” 2026’s lineup will feature Robyn, Arca, Oklou, underscores, Kelela, Yung Lean & Bladee, Chanel Beads, Joanne Robertson, The Avalanches, Shygirl, Smerz, Fine, HEADACHE, Grouper, Crystallmess, gyrofield, Marina Herlop, ML Buch, Wendy Eisenberg, DJ Python, Chuquimamani-Condori, Theo Parrish, Elias Rønnenfelt, Kode9 & RP Boo, KMRU, LIIM, Lorenzo Senni, Picture, Visible Cloaks, Carl Stone, Clara3000, Hundebiss with Bladeblanc & Giesse, Other People with Eli Wewentxu, Fake Samo, Fronte Violeta, NEXUS [Jokkoo Collective], and Talpah.

Adding to the ambitious nature of this year’s edition, the festival extends its presence across Turin with a record eight venues hosting performances. This reflects the event’s longstanding ability to read and respond to Turin’s spaces and identify — from baroque to the post-industrial — and its contemporary culture.

But let’s get into the particulars here:

Headlining C2C Turin’s 2026 edition is Robyn, who returns to the event to perform material off her this year’s Sextisential, her first solo album in seven years.

Swedish artists Yung Lean and Bladee, who is perhaps best known for being a co-founder and leader of the Drain Gang Collective, will be performing together in Italy for the first time ever. Both are key figures in the cloud rap scene, and fittingly they share an artistic and stylistic vision that blurs the boundaries between rap, electronic music and digital culture.

Oklou will be making her C2C Festival and Italian debut. Her C2C Festival set will feature material from last year’s Choke Enough, an album with a unique blend of ethereal pop, Y2K references and baroque-tinged atmospherics.

Arca, an act that helped define a musical era through a radically free yet distinct approach to sound, body and indignity will be returning to Turin to play the festival. Kelela, one of the most refined and forward-thinking voices in contemporary R&B will also be returning to Turin, marking her first time back in over a decade.

Chuquimamani-Condori, a recent Silver Lion winner at the Venice Biennale Musica returns to Turin after a memorable set alongside her brother Joshua Chuquimia Crampton as Los Thuthanaka with her latest project DJ E. This new project approaches DJing through sonic cacophony, emotional vulnerability and a raw abundance of texture.

Led by Shane Lavers, NY-based Chanel Beads will play a set that brings together a range of influences in intimate, psychotropic art pop.

Copenhagen-based producer and singer/songwriter Fine, whose dream-like sound features samples blended with acoustic and electronic instruments will be in Turin to play a set featuring material from her debut Rocky Top Ballads and her latest effort, Jazz Dreams. Jazz Dreams explores new dimensions and storytelling.

Manchester-born musician, painter and poet Joanne Robertson, who’s a frequent collaborator of Dean Blunt, will be playing a set of material off last year’s Blurr.

KMRU, a Nairobi-born, Berlin-based artist and leading figure in the new ambient wave, will be playing a set of material off Kini, an effort that draws from field recording, noise and sound art.

April Harper Grey, best known as underscores has released a run of attention-grabbing singles over the past year that have built up buzz for her forthcoming third album. With underscores, Gray has cemented reputation as one of the most distinct voices in hyper pop while being multifaceted and constantly unpredictable.

Chriselle Oyiri, best known as Crystallmess is a Paris-based Guadeloupean-Ivorian artist and DJ whose cross-disciplinary practice explores the hidden histories of contemporary culture, media and identity. This approach extends into her recent audio/visual work In A Perpetual Remix Where Is My Song, which was presented at the Tate Modern.

Theo Parrish has left an inedible mark on the Detroit house sound and reminds a key voice in Black music in its many forms. At this year’s edition, Parrish will play an extended set showcasing the breadth of his range and his ability to build fully realized sonic narratives.

Hong Kong-born artist gryofield will be playing a set of material from their debut Great Jobs, which has been described as an “inner world soundclash,” and features a blend of breakbeat, drum & bass and experimental electronics into high-velocity, bass-driven productions.

Natal Zaks, a Danish producer best known as Picture will be playing a set featuring material from this year’s critically applauded Uuuuuuuu, an effort that brings fresh energy and ideas into the dub techno universe.

Two of the sets scheduled at OGR Torino manage to bring together artists who, in very different ways, have left a profound mark on contemporary music and how it sounds. The festival’s opening day, Thursday October 29, 2026 will feature The Avalanches, the Aussie pioneers of sonic college, who have been teasing the details of their highly-anticipated fourth album, We Will Always Love You, their first album in over six years. The festival’s closing day, November 1, 2026 will feature Liz Harris’ experimental ambient folk project Grouper.  

Rising London-based artist Shygirl, who has developed a fearless and multifaceted approach to electronic pop has quickly made her one of the genre’s defining voices. Having collaborated with Arca and the late SOPHIE, she has crafted a sound that blends hip-hop, grime, hyper pop, experimental R&B and club music.

HEADACHE, the collaborative project of Vegyn and poet-performer Francis Hornsby Clark specialize in a blend of spoken word, existential writing and atmospheric electronics.

New York-based DJ and musician DJ Python, who has built a reputation for a sound that blends reggaeton’s low pulse, ambient music’s painterly patience and deep house’s forward propulsion will debut his new audiovisual live show.

OGR Torino programming will be rounded out by American composer and musician Wendy Eisenburg, whose self-titled album released earlier this year has emerged as one of the year’s standout songwriter albums; electronic music pioneer Carl Stone, who was among the first to introduce computers into live concert performances. And Italian producer and musician Lorenzo Senni will play a set featuring material from his latest album All Ages, which sees him remaining his signature experimental trance and rave sounds through the lens of hardcore punk.

The lineup will also include:

Catalan singer and producer Marina Herlop, whose work merges operatic vocals with avant-garde electronics

Eclectic Parisian DJ Clara 3000

ML Buch, one of the rising artist of the contemporary Nordic scene, who has received attention for a sound that spams dream pop, art rock and psychedelia.

Norwegian duo Smerz returns to C2C Festival to play material from Big City Life for the Teatro Carignano matinée on Saturday, October 31, 2026.

C2C Festival mainstay Kode9, Hyperdub Records founder will return to Turin on Saturday, October 31, 2026 for a back-to-back set with RP Boo, one of the founding fathers of footwork.

That same evening, Lingottto programming will feature Danish musician, poet and Icegae frontman Elias Rømmenfelt, whose C2C Turin set follows a busy 2025 that saw the release of his sophomore solo album Speak Daggers and LUCRE, a collaborative effort with Vegyn and Dean Blunt; and Portland-based ambient duo Visible Cloaks — Spencer Doran and Ryan Carlile — who specialize in sound that blends 1980s Japanese New Age and minimalism, and will be playing a set featuring material off their third album Paradesence.

Two showcases will join Lingottto programming: The first on Friday, October 30, 2026 will be curated by Other People, the label founded by Nicolas Jaar and will feature Gulumapu-based Mapuche artist Eli Wewentxu. who explores ancestral memory and political tension through violin, an instrument he has played since childhood and transformed into a highly personal form of expression. He’ll be joined by Santiago-baseed Fake Samo, a project that moves between experimental electronics, exploratory jazz and live composition.

Italian indie label Hundlebiss will host the second showcase on Saturday, October 31, 2026. Their showcase will see Bladeblanc & Giese, a collaborative project featuring Bergano-born artist Tamara Stasiuk, who navigates bass culture and sludge-infused vibrations. and Umbrian producer Stefano Galli, a.k.a. Siege, his groovier and hypnotic alter-ego; and NEXUS, a collaborative project featuring B4mba and Mooki6 of the multidisciplinary pan-African collective Jokkoo; and Talaph, a Caserta-born producer, who crafts abrasive, dissonant soundscapes that sit between post-club and trap.

Before I forget, I should note that Marina Herlop and ML Buch at OGR Torino sets as well as Smearz’s matinée sett Teatro Carignano are co-produced with MiTO SettembreMusica. Carl Stone’s performance is presented in collaboration with To Listen To, an experimental listening festival promoted by Turin Conservatory’s Electronic Music Department.

And lastly, the festival’s focus on the next generation will continue with C2C Curators, the festival’s newly launched free training and professional development program for young music curators. 12 curators from over 200 applications have been selected to draw on the knowledge and experience C2C Festival Turin has built over 25 years through workshops and mentoring.

SUNDAY 25TH OCTOBER C2C KIDS!C2C HQ COMBO TORINO14:30 – 18:00 / 2:30 – 6:00 PM Virginia WTrampa & Giulia QuerinSunny Levy THURSDAY29TH OCTOBERC2C HQ COMBO TORINO12:00 – 20:00 / 12:00 – 8:00 PM C2C FESTIVAL GRAND OPENING PRESENTED BY ALFA ROMEO OGR TORINO dalle 19:30 / 7:30 PM The Avalanches [AU] Clara 3000 [FR] DJ Python a/v Live [EC/US] – world debut ML Buch [DK] Shygirl [UK] – exclusive Italian show Wendy Eisenberg [US] – exclusive Italian show & debut FRIDAY 30TH OCTOBERC2C HQ COMBO TORINO12:00 – 20:00 / 12:00 – 8:00 PM C2C TALKS TEATRO REGIO13:00 – 16:30 / 1:00 – 4:30 PMC2C Podcast with Arca Kode9 ML Buch

FRIDAY30TH OCTOBER C2C FESTIVAL FRIDAY LINGOTTO FIERE dalle 17:30 / from 5:30 PM MAIN STAGE LINGOTTO FIERE Arca [VE/US] – exclusive Italian show Chanel Beads [US] – exclusive Italian show & debut Gyrofield Live [HK/NL] – exclusive Italian show & debut Oklou [FR] – exclusive Italian showRobyn [SE] – exclusive Italian show DAZED STAGE Theo Parrish 7-hours Set [US]underscores [US] – exclusive Italian show & debut Other People with Anelena Toku & Carla Boregas presents Fronte Violeta [BR; BR], Eli Wewentxu [CL], Fake Samo [CL] SATURDAY 31ST OCTOBER TEATRO CARIGNANO – MATINÉE Smerz [NO] – exclusive Italian show C2C HQ COMBO TORINO12:00 – 18:00 / 12:00 – 6:00 PMC2C FESTIVAL SATURDAY LINGOTTO FIERE dalle 17:30 / from 5:30 PM MAIN STAGE LINGOTTO FIERE Chuquimamani-Condori Presents DJ E [BO/US] – exclusive Italian show Crystallmess [FR] – exclusive Italian show Joanne Robertson [UK] – exclusive Italian show Fine [DK] Kelela [US] – exclusive Italian show Visible Cloaks [US] – exclusive Italian show Yung Lean & Bladee [SE] – exclusive Italian show & debu tDAZED STAGE Elias Rønnenfelt [DK] – exclusive Italian show KMRU [KE/DE] Kode9 & RP Boo [UK; US] – exclusive Italian show & debut LIIM [US] – exclusive Italian show Picture [DK] – exclusive Italian show & debut Hundebiss with Bladeblanc & Giesse [IT; IT] NEXUS [SN/ES; GP/FR] Talpah [IT]

SUNDAY1ST NOVEMBER C2C HQ COMBO TORINO12:00 – 6:00 / 12:00 – 6:00 PM LE ROI & NOTORIUS dalle 17:00 / from 5:00 PM Programme TBA C2C FESTIVAL FINISSAGE X OGR TORINO dalle 20:30 / from 8:30 PM Carl Stone [US] Grouper [US] – exclusive Italian show HEADACHE [UK] – exclusive Italian show & debut Lorenzo Senni [IT] Marina Herlop [ES]

For tickets and more information, please check out the festival’s website: https://clubtoclub.it

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