Prizes
2021 Dieter-Ruckhaberle-Förderpreis Prize Nomination (Finalist)
2020-2021 CENTRALE FIES Live Works Prize Research and New Work
Grant/Residency Grants
2024 Fonds Darstellende Künste aus Mitteln der Beauftragen der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien und der Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt for INNOCENCE co-produced by Sophiensaele and De Singel Arts Center Antwerp
2023-2024 Berlin Program for Artists Participant
2022 Haupstadtkulturfonds 2023 for Acayip Mahlukat Sophiensaele Berlin
2022 Prozessförderung Fonds Darstellende Künste 2022-2023 for the project Untitled (Zikir) Solo Exhibition curated by Léon Kruijswisk 2022-2024 Freischwimmen Performance Grant 04-12.2022 Visual Arts - Work Stipend 2022 Berlin Senate for Culture and Europe
04.-05.2022 HAU- Hebbel am Ufer and Fonds Daku #TakeHeart Research Grant 2021 Visual Arts - Research Stipend Berlin Senate for Culture and Europe
2021 Akademie der Künste Young Academy Stipend
2021 #TakeCare Fonds Darstellende Künste Grant
2021 Einzelprojektförderung Berlin Senate für Kultur und Europa For the Project AN(A)KARA at Sophiensaele Theater
2020 Visual Arts - Research Stipend Berlin Senate for Culture and Europe
06-08.2019 BERGEN: The Woman of Agonies Performance co-created with composer Laure M. Hiendl
Kindly supported by Ausufern Festival, Uferstudios, and Iniative Neue Musik e.V.
08.2014 Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts / workshop by Jennifer Allen : The Art of Writing – Workshop Grant
Residencies
2024 IASPIS Stockholm Research Residency
2023 Theater Rampe Freischwimmen Platform Residency 2023 Gessnerallee Zurich Freischwimmen Platform Residency 2022 PACT Zollverein Residency
27.10.2017 Writing residency Viereinhalbsaetze at PACT Zollverein
18.07-26.08.2016 Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts - Writer in Residence
Performances, Exhibitions and Readings
2024
11-12-13-14.09.2024 INNOCENCE at Sophiensaele Berlin / Berlin Art Week
18.07.2024 SOLITUDE live exhibition Offsite Wehrmuehle
21.07.2024 AN(A)KARA performative installation at Time Crystals 2 at PAKT Amsterdam
curated by Suzanne Walinga
06.03-06.04.2024 Bygone Innocence exhibition and performative installation curated by Leon Kruijswisk at Pilevneli Gallery Istanbul
2023
07. 12.2023 AN(A)KARA at Migros Museum Zurich
19.11.2023 Ajaib Mahluqat (Acayip Mahlukat) at Performa Biennial NYC
12.09 and 16.09.2023 VENUS performative installation Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin Art Week
08.09.2023 HUNGRY live-exhibition WilhelmHallen Art Fair King Kong Magazine opening performance. July 2023 Artists’ Survival Kit (book)
editors Andrea Bellini and Göksu Kunak Produced by Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève
Texts by: Alexandra Bachzetsis, Andrea Bellini, Frances Chiaverini ╾ Robyn Doty, Luce deLire, Dr Lucy Fair, Will Fredo, Mona Gamil, Oélia Gouret, Adham Hafez, Sofia Kouloukouri, Adam Kucharski, Göksu Kunak, Isabel Lewis, Soraya Lutangu Bonaventure, Reba Maybury, Michelangelo Miccolis, Ahmet Öğüt, Perel, Domenico Quaranta, Tino Sehgal, Lise Soskolne, Annie Sprinkle and Tirdad Zolghadr.
14.06-09.07.2023 Dhikr Solo exhibition curated by Léon Kruijswijk at Number 1 Main Road Berlin
06.06.2023 Ajaib Mahluqat Reading Performance Poesie Festival Berlin Poets’ Corner Bärenzwinger Berlin 11-14.05.2023 Ajaib Mahluqat (Acayip Mahlukat) Sophiensaele Berlin
18.02.2023 CLICHE performance as a part of the exhibition CARPARK curated by Savannah Thümler, Marina Krasomil, Vicky Kouvaraki
09.02.2023 WOOF performance at Trauma Bar und Kino curated by The Fairest 2022
21.10.2022 AN(A)KARA Kaaitheater Brussels
07.10.2022 niche I: Landscape performance as a part of the exhibition UFFICIO DELLA NOTTE RoteFabrik Zurich
07-11.07.2022 PETROL performative installation Neues Museum Nürnberg Musik Installationen Festival Nürnberg
01.02.2022 AN(A)KARA Radiant Nights #8 De Singel International Arts Centre Antwerp
2021
14.11.2021 Far Away From the World performative installation at ArtDate The Blank Contemporary Art Bergamo
27.10.2021 AN(A)KARA and its ruins performative talk at Goethe Institut Bucharest 18.10.2021 AN(A)KARA and its ruins performative installation
at Montag Modus Berlin
04.09.2021 O by IASA (Norbert Pape, Yuri Shimaoka, Pêdra Costa, Göksu Kunak, Elena Polzer) with participating artists
at Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin
AN(A)KARA performative installation Sophiensaele Theater Berlin
Untitled for Queer Grief performance Pugs in Love Festival Maxim Gorki Theater
Cabaret Portrait: Döner Blackout III performative installation Live Works Summit 2021 Centrale Fies
Saadet. Better YOU. video, 28’ 49’’ Next Waves Theater Volksbühne
2021 SONGS FOR CAPTURED VOICES Libretto by Göksu Kunak
Opera by Laure M. Hiendl in collaboration with Elaine Mitchener, Thea Reifler and Philipp Bergman Supported by Berlin Senate for Culture and Europe
2020
Cabaret Portrait: Döner Blackout III Open Studio Performance, Centrale Fies
Awake!, video, 16’29’’
Akademie der Künste John Heartfield exhibition curated by Junge Akademie
2019
Cabaret Portrait: Döner Blackout II performance KW Institute for Contemporary Art Pogo Bar
BERGEN: The Woman of Agonies
Performance co-created with composer Laure M. Hiendl
Kindly supported by Ausufern Festival, Uferstudios, and Iniative Neue Musik e.V.
Performed at: Ausufern Festival, Uferstudios; Bergen Assembly The Parliament of Bodies, curated by Paul B. Preciado and Viktor Neumann; 3hd Festival curated by Creamcake, HAU 2 Berlin