caner teker

Biography

caner teker is a survivor, choreographer and artist. teker’s performances embrace parasitic, transformative and autobiographical world-making. Through the manipulation of space, time and body, images are created that span personal experiences beyond queerness and post-migrant identity. They graduated from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and subsequently at the SNDO – School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam. teker’s performances have so far been shown at HAU as well as Gessnerallee Zurich, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, and tanzhaus nrw, Düsseldorf. In 2022, teker was a danceWEB fellow and performed at the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Maxim Gorki Theater, Tanzquartier Wien and Radikal Jung at the Munich Volkstheater. Their work “KIRKPINAR” has been acquired for the Collection of Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, and they have been awarded the ars viva price 2024.