At DAA, the residency becomes a space for research, reflection, and connection; where artists explore new ideas in conversation with nature, community, and time.

  • Pinprick

    AUTUMN 2026 | October-November

    Pinprick is an interdisciplinary duo formed by artist and interior architect Hayrettin Taşkaya and art historian and embroidery artist İsmail Dönmez, exploring traditional crafts, punch needle embroidery and cultural narratives.

  • Noor Unnahar

    AUTUMN 2026 | September

    Noor Unnahar is a Pakistani poet and visual artist whose practice moves between poetry, visual storytelling, memory, and the intimate textures of everyday life.

  • Kuş Kolektifi

    Kuş KolektİFİ

    SPRING 2026 | May-June

    Kuş Kolektifi is an interdisciplinary collective that seeks to reconnect the relationship between humans and nature through sound, music, storytelling, performance, and moving image.

  • Meriç Tuncer

    Merİç Tuncer

    SPRING 2026 | April

    Meriç Tuncer is an Amsterdam-based dancer and movement director whose collaborative practice focuses on the relationships bodies form with space and with one another.

  • Jack Bannerman

    Jack Bannerman

    SPRING 2026 | April

    Jack Bannerman is a Dresden-based dancer and choreographer whose international choreographic practice moves between contemporary dance, theatrical approaches, and collaborative forms of performance.

  • Denisas Kolomyckis

    AUTUMN 2025 | October

    Denisas is a multidisciplinary artist working across performance, theatre/dance, sculpture, and installation.

  • Markus Hiesleitner

    AUTUMN 2025 | October

    Markus is an artist, curator, and researcher whose work explores the relationships between nature, place, and community.

  • Melisa Kurtuluş

    AUTUMN 2025 | September

    Melisa Kurtuluş  is a site-specific performance artist and researcher whose work unfolds at the intersection of memory, movement, sound, space, and bodily resistance.

  • Dr. Nela Milic

    SPRING 2025 | May

    Dr. Nela Milic is an artist and academic working across the fields of media and art.

  • Erin İlkcan Aslan

    SPRING 2025 | April-May

    His multidisciplinary practice spans painting, collage, video and sound installations, digital art, performance, writing, and photography.