residency for international circus artists 2025

The call for our next Chamäleon Residency is now open!

Following our first residency focussed on Berlin based artists (Ana Jordão and Vincent Kollar with ‘A Body and Other Objects’) we widened the scope to artists from all around Germany and welcomed Leela Tinelli, Laura Stokes and their collaborators for ‘On the Edge’.

Our final Chamäleon Residency for this cycle is now focussed on worldwide international artists. The selected artists will be invited to work for 3 weeks in our rehearsal space in Berlin and will receive financial and structural support to develop their own artistic project.

Thanks to the funding provided by the Theaterpreis des Bundes we will be able to offer the chosen artists not only fees, rehearsal space, dramaturgical and production support but also travel and accommodation support.

We want to support courageous circus projects that follow open creative processes and find compelling points of intersection with other strands of the performing arts. We encourage applications from artists and groups that aim to shed light on social, political and ecological issues. In this way, we hope to strengthen the thematic diversity of new circus projects. As a cultural organization, the Chamäleon aims to enable fairer access to the art form and we therefore particularly encourage artists who have experienced discrimination to apply. We see ourselves as a learning institution that continues to educate itself and critically examines its own role and the limitations of our perspectives.