The venue is well-known as a hub for experimental and improvised music, alongside many other styles, genres, and artistic approaches.

[6] Ausland is renowned as a centre for free improvisation and related forms of music, and has come to be associated with the Echtzeitmusik scene of Berlin.

[7] The concert series biegungen im ausland has been one of the predominant frames for music and sound of this kind at the venue.

[11] In 2020, in an interview as part of transmediale’s reSource series, Gregor Hotz, one of the founding members of the ausland collective, described the venue as “very eclectic and hybrid; it is very difficult to define it in a specific way, even if we come from that scene that was usually named Echtzeit[musik].

[14] For many years, the ausland mailing list was also renowned for droll jokes regarding German and world news and politics.