Istanbul: Tarabya Cultural Academy
Who: artists of various sections
Section: Architecture, visual art, performing art, design, literature, music, film, journalism and cultural theory
Duration: Four or eight months, with an option for extension by request for another two months at a later date.
Tarabya Cultural Academy is a residency program in Istanbul for artists of all disciplines. It was founded in 2011 on the initiative of the German Bundestag to promote artistic exchange between Turkey and Germany. Every year Tarabya Cultural Academy enables around 20 artists who live and work in Germany and German-Turkish artist tandems to network with the Turkish cultural scene under the auspices of coproduction grants, grants, which are awarded in cooperation with the Allianz Kulturstiftung. The Cultural Academy is domiciled at the site of the historic summer residence of the German ambassador in Tarabya (Istanbul). It is run by the German embassy in Ankara, and its curatorial projects are supervised by the Goethe-Institut.
Since the first residents arrived in 2012 over a hundred outstanding artists have worked on their projects on the grounds of the German ambassador's historic summer residence, including the choreographer and dancer Olivia Hyunsin Kim, the filmmaker Özlem Sarıyıldız, the musician Hans Lüdemann and the visual artist Anahita Razmi.
Since the first residents arrived in 2012 over a hundred outstanding artists have worked on their projects on the grounds of the German ambassador's historic summer residence, including the choreographer and dancer Olivia Hyunsin Kim, the filmmaker Özlem Sarıyıldız, the musician Hans Lüdemann and the visual artist Anahita Razmi.