Artistic Exchange Residencies
The Artistic Exchange Residencies have a focus on artistic creation and can include, but are not limited, to both studios as well as technical residencies, peer to peer communication, networking, showings, meeting cultural actors and diving into local scenes. The partners provide residency opportunities to the network with the aim to facilitate European and international exchange, networking and capacity building.
June 4th, 2025
Artistic Exchange Residency 2025
Uferstudios are sending David Kummer to the Nomad Dance Academy in Slovenia
Uferstudios is sending Berlin-based artist David Kummer with LLB to the Nomad Dance Academy in Ljubljana as part of "Choreographic Turn #10". With "Choreographic Turn #10", the Nomad Dance Academy explores the ecology of (not only human) relationships with choreographic means: what is eco-choreography, where can we already come into contact with it and what are its potentials?
During his residency, David Kummer will work with the Krater, a temporary production space created from an abandoned, crater-like construction site near the city center of Ljubljana. It functions as a prototype for a mechanism for regenerating the earth's surface, creating new worlds on the ruins of urban ecosystems. David will hold a public presentation of his research in the crater on June 10.
Further information about the residency and the program of “Choreographic Turn #10” can be found here.
October 12th, 2024
Artistic Exchange Residency 2024
James Batchelor with Bek Berger at the Workshop Foundation Budapest
James Batchelor was invited by the Workshop Foundation Budapest with Bek Berger to spend a two-week Artistic Exchange Residency in Budapest in October 2024.
During this time, James Batchelor gave a workshop for choreographers and dancers on site, in which he gave participants insights into his choreographic practice and spoke about contemporary dance networks in Europe.
James Batchelor is a choreographer and performer from Ngunnawal Country (Canberra, Australia) who works internationally. His artistic practice includes movement research and performance creation, international touring and teaching.
Bek Berger is an artist, curator and dramaturg originally from Australia and currently based in Berlin and Riga, where she was curator of the International Festival of Contemporary Theater Homo Novus from 2020 to 2024. Bek combines curiosity with innovation in her practice to develop new models of connection, collaboration and reciprocity between artists and communities across borders and art forms. Her expertise lies between festival design, dance dramaturgy and karaoke.
September 30th, 2024
Artistic Exchange Residency 2024
Anna Chwialkowska, Maria Elena Mela Seidenari and Joost Koster as guests at ICI-CCN in Montpellier
Berlin-based anthropologist, dancer and dramaturge Anna Chwialkowska, dancer and social researcher Maria Elena Seidenari and video artist Joost Koster spent two weeks with our network partner ICI-CCN in Montpellier at the end of September 2024, where they explored current scenarios for overcoming the ecological crisis in the near future.
Anna Chwialkowska is a Berlin-based anthropologist, dancer and dramaturge. Her creative research focuses on the strategies and means by which people make sense of the world (e.g. through science or language). In her work she explores these different ways of making sense by applying clear spatial forms and structures within which meaning is distorted, reflecting or questioning our human condition.
Maria Elena Mela Seidenari is a dancer and social researcher who seamlessly combines feminist discourses with movement and somatic practices. Her dance journey takes her through Italy, Germany and India, focusing on dance theater.
Joost Koster works with video, audio, drawing and performance, applying the principles of collage in each project. Regardless of the medium, Joost takes found or manufactured material out of its original context and introduces it into a new one to create new meanings that were previously latent, hidden or non-existent.
June 22nd, 2024
Artistic Exchange Residency 2024
Julcsi Vavra as a guest at the Uferstudios
Julcsi Vavra was a guest at Uferstudios from June 10 to 21, 2024 as part of the Life Long Burning module Artistic Exchange Residencies. Julcsi Vavra was sent to Berlin by the Műhely Alapítvány / Workshop Foundation Budapest. During her residency with us, she researched the mechanisms and financing strategies of Berlin solo artists, got to know communal (underground) art venues and worked on her own creations of “fake artists”.
Blog article about the residence of Julcsi Vavra
Julcsi Vavra
How to sell yourself?
As a freelance artist in 2024, the wind of capitalism is washing through almost all actions and the pressure to sell one’s own work is dominant. With her work, Hungarian artist Julcsi Vavra wants to draw attention to the problems of self-marketing strategies in the performing arts - and slips into the role of fictional characters who sound too perfect to be true.
November 13th, 2023
Artistic Exchange Residency 2023
Dominique Tegho as a guest at Moving in November festival
Dominique Tegho was selected by the Moving in November festival for an Artistic Exchange Residency in summer 2023. During her time abroad, she worked in the studio of choreographer Liisa Pentti + Co and experienced the entire festival. Dominique had the opportunity to see all performances of this year's Moving in November festival in Helsinki, participate in the informal Soup Talks series and meet with local artists.
Dominique Tegho is a Berlin-based choreographer and dancer from Lebanon. Based on her personal experience of leaving the Middle East, she often explores how borders are at play and questions the notion of home and habitability. She is interested in the body as a site of representation and reference, as a physical intervention, as an instrument of social change and in dance as a tool of transformation.
August 12th, 2023
Artistic Exchange Residency 2023
Lin Da as a guest at Uferstudios
Lin Da, a non-binary choreographer and dancer from Finland, has a strong background in movement research, improvisation and body-mind-awareness practice. Lin Da's works invite the audience to reflect on the human body. Lin creates exhibitions and performances independently and in collaboration with artists from various fields.
Lin Da spent a two-week residency at Uferstudios in July and August 2023, during which Lin offered a multi-day workshop for LGBTQA+ people interested in exploring the openings of the body.