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Creative Talks
40 invited guests, 8 resident artists, and 130 conversations: At the traditional Creative Talks event held on 4 March, the current resident artists of the Tarabya Cultural Academy met with key representatives of Istanbul’s art and cultural scene. The seven-minute conversations in a speed-dating fo…
A Place of Welcome: Kameron Locke’s Performance in Tarabya
On January 24 and 25, fellow Kameron Locke transformed the garden of the historic summer residence of the German Ambassador into a site of artistic creation. With Welcome, he presented a performance and installation work developed during his residency at the Tarabya Cultural Academy. Shaped by hi…
Current residents
Anna Korsun
Ukrainian-born composer Anna Korsun, studied composition in Kyiv and Munich. She composes for various ensembles, including voice, electronics and sound objects. Her works are featured internationally at concerts and festivals, including the ECLAT New Music festival, the Darmstädter Ferienkur…
Annika Kahrs
Annika Kahrs lives and works in Berlin. Her performances, film and sound installations show in various ways the importance of acoustic information in the form of music and sound in different social, cultural and political structures of coexistence. Kahrs has received in recent years numero…
Eva Trobisch
Eva Trobisch was born in East-Berlin. She writes and directs theatre plays and films, is part of the Munich-based production company TRIMAFILM, and lives in Berlin. In 2009, she started at Munich’s Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film to study film direction. Trobisch attended NYU Ti…
Fulya Uçanok & Ulrike Ruf
Fulya Uçanok is an electroacoustic musician, artist-researcher, and pianist working in electroacoustic and mixed composition, as well as contemporary free improvisation. Born in Turkey, she studied classical piano at Hacettepe University State Conservatory and completed her master’s and doctoral…
Johannes Vogl
He constructs rather idiosyncratic sculptures and machines from everyday objects. The artist, describes himself as a poetic inventor rather than a traditional sculptor, and finds inspiration for his sculptures, installations and videos mostly in everyday situations. The objects and device…
Masha Qrella
Masha Qrella is a musician, songwriter, composer and producer. She released her first solo album, Luck, in 2002. Six more solo albums followed, including Speak Low (2009), which featured reinterpretations of Broadway classics by Löwe and Weill, and Woanders (2021), a cross-genre production that exp…
Sarah Szczesny
Sarah Szczesny lives and Works in Cologne. She completed her art studies in 2009 as a master student of Prof. Rosemarie Trockel. She holds an interdisciplinary teaching position for visual methods at the Robert Schumann University of Music in Düsseldorf since 2021. Since 2024 she has been tea…
Residencies
The Open Call for the 2026-2027 season ended!
Until 29 December 2025, artists working in various disciplines who live and work in Germany could apply for a four- to eight-month Tarabya Residency at the Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbul. In addition, tandems of cultural professionals from Germany and Türkiye had the opportunity to apply for the Turkish-German Co-Production Residencies that are awarded in cooperation with the Allianz Foundation.
Projects
Liefern – Tomer Gardis’ latest novel
They are everywhere, we see them each and every day. Whether in Delhi, Tel Aviv, Buenos Aires, Istanbul or Berlin, they speed across the cities everywhere: food delivery riders. In his latest novel Liefern (Delivery), Tomer Gardi connects their stories into a global present-day-epic. Gardis’ trav…
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…
