We are pleased to introduce caner teker, the eighth recipient of the Between Bridges Residency. From July to December 2026, teker is based at Between Bridges' residency space on Keithstraße. teker's choreographic practice approaches the body as a site where violence, discipline, desire, and projection converge, working across live performance, music, and film. Their work has been presented internationally in theatres, museums, and exhibition contexts.

During the residency, caner teker develops a new choreographic study shaped by years of martial arts training and performed as a serial solo. The body carries out movements rooted in acts of defense and self-protection, holding its ground at moments when identity feels unstable.

The work will be presented for the first time at Between Bridges Residency Space in September 2026. Further information will follow.

caner teker is a survivor, artist and choreographer, born in 1994 in Duisburg-Marxloh. After studying at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, teker continued a post-graduate studies at SNDO – School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. teker’s work deals with the body as a site where violence, discipline, desire, and projection meet, often drawing on live performance, music, and film.

Over the past years, teker has developed performances and films presented in theatres, museums, and exhibition contexts across Europe and beyond, including HAU – Hebbel am Ufer, Gessnerallee Zürich, Tanzquartier Wien, Maxim Gorki Theater, CAPC Bordeaux, Mudam Luxembourg, Neue Nationalgalerie, Museum Ostwall Dortmund, and Fogo Island Arts. Recent works include trans–, KIRKPINAR, grounds for refusal, untitled (live) and the film remedy.

teker’s performance has been acquired for the collection of Museum Ostwall in Dortmund in 2023. Further awards, residencies, and stipends include ars viva-Prize 2024, tanzhaus Zürich, Kulturakademie Tarabya in Istanbul, Fogo Island Arts in Canada and the Live Studio at Kunsthalle Bergen. In 2026, teker continues this work through residencies with Between Bridges and Künstlerische Forschung via Kunststiftung NRW.