At DAA, the residency becomes a space for research, reflection, and connection; where artists explore new ideas in conversation with nature, community, and time.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Denisas Kolomyckis
AUTUMN 2025 | October
Denisas is a multidisciplinary artist working across performance, theatre/dance, sculpture, and installation.
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Markus Hiesleitner
AUTUMN 2025 | October
Markus is an artist, curator, and researcher whose work explores the relationships between nature, place, and community.
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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.
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Dr. Nela Milic
SPRING 2025 | May
Dr. Nela Milic is an artist and academic working across the fields of media and art.
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Erin İlkcan Aslan
SPRING 2025 | April-May
His multidisciplinary practice spans painting, collage, video and sound installations, digital art, performance, writing, and photography.