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Mehtap Baydu: Loving You Is So Hard!
Mehtap Baydu’s first institutional solo exhibition in Türkiye, Loving You Is So Hard!, brings together new works conceived for this context alongside a selection of the artist’s recent pieces. The exhibition highlights the interconnections and transitions Baydu forges across diverse media suc…
Listening Inside-Out – Listening workshop with Fulya Uçanok & Ulrike Ruf
As part of their coproduction residency at the Tarabya Cultural Academy, musicians and sound artists Fulya Uçanok & Ulrike Ruf are in cooperation with Performistanbul presenting the listening workshop Listening Inside-Out on May 2nd from 14.00 – 16.00h. This workshop explores themes of listenin…
Panel: Artist & Collector Talks – On making and collecting video art
On the morning of April 4th the Elgiz Museum is in collaboration with the Tarabya Cultural Academy presenting a panel discussion that addresses the production of video art, video collecting, and the contemporary transformation of the video medium from different perspectives. It aims to open a space …
Current residents
Cem Kaya
Cem Kaya was born in Schweinfurt in 1976. After studying communication design at the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, he initially worked as a producer, editor and director for commercials and music videos. His first two feature-length documentaries were Arabeks and Remake, Remix, Rip-Off. While Arabeks …
Gözde Gazioğlu & Füsun Türetken
Gözde Gazioğlu is a cultural manager and editor working across contemporary art, editorial practice, and transnational cultural production. Her work centres on artistic projects, publishing, and transnational institutional exchange. Since 2024, she has been a founding member and co-chair of STR…
Nele Stuhler
Nele Stuhler was born in Osterburg (Altmark) and grew up in Berlin. She studied at the Volksbühne in Berlin and applied theatre studies in Gießen, and visited the FORUM TEXT course at uniT Graz. She works as writer and director für radio plays and theatre. Her recent work includes but not only li…
Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç
Dr. Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç is a political scientist, freelance writer and poet. In addition to poetry and academic works, he writes plays, radio plays, prose, essays and columns. His debut in 2022 with the poetry book Prinzenbad, published by Elif Verlag was followed in 2023 by Muslimaniac. Di…
Pelin Tan & Özge Çelikaslan
Pelin Tan is the 6th recipient of the Keith Haring Award for Art and Activism (2019), based in Mardin. She is a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts and the head of the Cultural Studies Master’s program at the University of Batman, Turkiye. Tan was a Roemer Fellow at the Orient Institute of Beirut …
Sven Johne
Sven Johne works primarily with photography, film, text and artistic research. He was born in 1976 in East Germany’s Bergen auf Rügen, and now lives in Berlin. His work often explores the social consequences of German reunification and social upheavals across the political West. For that Johne fr…
Volkan T error
Volkan T error is not only considered one of the pioneers of Turkish hip hop. Over the decades, he has also made a name for himself as a producer, performer and musician. He has worked with many international rappers and musicians, composing and developing pieces for theater, films, radio plays, ins…
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…
