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Roundtable & Exhibition: As We Used to Spell
As words extend faster and further into public and personal spaces than ever before, they reclaim their agency in real time, as spells. The operative power of phrases, prompts, and protests over our lives is at the center of this exhibition and research project, which explores how emergent and resid…
Current residents
Birsen Kahraman
Birsen Kahraman is in residence at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from November 2025 to January 2026. A short biography of Birsen Kahraman will be published here soon.
Hêlîn Alas
Hêlîn Alas is in residence at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from October 2025 to January 2026. A short biography of Hêlîn Alas will be published here soon.
Jasmin Ihraç
Jasmin İhraç, choreographer and dancer, born in Cologne, lives and works in Berlin. Parallel to her sociology studies at the Free University of Berlin, she studied contemporary dance, context, and choreography at the Inter-University Center for Dance in Berlin (HZT). Her work has been performed at…
Kameron Locke
Kameron Locke is in residence at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from October 2025 to January 2026. A short biography of Kameron Locke will be published here soon.
Maïssa Lihedheb
Maïssa Lihedheb is in residence at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from October 2025 to January 2026. A short biography of Maïssa Lihedheb will be published here soon.
Stellan Veloce
Stellan Veloce is in residence at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from October 2025 to January 2026. A short biography of Stellan Veloce will be published here soon.
Tunay Önder
Tunay Önder is in residence at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from October 2025 to January 2026. A short biography of Tunay Önder will be published here soon.
Residencies
The Open Call for the 2026-2027 season is online!
From now until 29 December 2025, artists working in various disciplines who live and work in Germany may apply for a four- to eight-month Tarabya Residency at the Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbul. In addition, in cooperation with the Allianz Foundation, Turkish-German Co-Production Residencies will again be awarded. Tandems of cultural professionals from Germany and Türkiye may apply for this program jointly.
Festival
Sommer Festival 2025
The Tarabya Cultural Academy celebrated its annual Summer Festival for the sixth time on June 14, 2025. Alumni of the Academy and local artists transformed the German Ambassador’s summer residence into a stage for creative expression — through performance, music, and visual art. This year’s…
