… sex is political : a collective research of body, relating & culture

The Call: Undress the Structures.

The NAKED festival 2026 is more than just a series of possibilities to consume experiences. It is a collective research space, a temporary civil society dedicated to the complex, often invisible interplay between sexuality, power, and culture. We challenge you: Come as you are, think radically, and discover just how political the personal truly is.

🔭 The Research Hypothesis: Sex is Political

At the heart of the NAKED Festival is the conviction that sex is never private. Our bodies, our desires, and our relationship models are shaped by laws, social norms, historical trauma, and economic constraints.

Instead of focusing on the superficial representation of sexuality, we dive deep into the mechanisms that determine who is allowed to love, desire, or touch whom—who is not. We research and question our scripts, the how, the why.

We will explore four core fields of research:

Body: Who owns the body? An examination of autonomy, disability, race, and gender in the context of desire.
Relating: Beyond Mononormativity: Collective intimacy, care work, relationship anarchy, and the economy of love.
Culture: Pornography, censorship, algorithms, and the representation of sex in media—who is writing the script of our desire?
Action: From thought to practice: How can we transform political and social structures to create a more equitable sex culture?

💡 The Space: Perform, Discuss, Feel.

The NAKED Festival is a place of interaction. We leave behind classic auditoriums and invite active participation. The 2026 program includes:

Performative Lectures: Embodied thinking that dissolves the boundaries between theory and art.
Workshops & Labs: Practical, experience-based spaces for exploring consent, bodywork, and new forms of relating.
Panel Discussions: Critical conversations with activists, academics, and artists from around the world.
Collective Rituals: Guided experiences for healing and the collective re-examination of intimacy and shame.

This is not a passive consumption festival, but a co-created space. We need your voice, your body, and your perspective.

🤝 The Consensus: A Space of Safety and Radicality.

The NAKED Festival is committed to a strictly consent-based and discrimination-sensitive environment.

Zero Tolerance: We do not tolerate any form of racism, sexism, ableism, transphobia, or homophobia.
Consent Culture: The physical and emotional autonomy of every person is paramount. All contact—whether conversation or touch—requires clear, enthusiastic affirmation.
Own Your Voice, Shape Our Space: We commit to a non-violent communication framework. To address complex dynamics constructively, we encourage moving beyond blame and generalizations by learning to articulate your specific experiences and observations clearly, naming your feelings, and needs, followed by clear requests. Use your personal experience as data to co-create our collective research.

For us, radicality means getting to the root of the problem, not crossing the boundaries of others.