The SAVVY Contemporary Residency program will host national and international curators, artists and writers for a period of at least 3 months. The challenge will be for the residents to relate or pave a new trajectory in their own works to Berlin’s socio-political, economic and cultural status quo and history. Questions regarding how arts/ culture can be positioned or thought of beyond geographical constraints, how concepts and contexts of artistic/ cultural expression can be conceived and realised in public spaces, how accustomed discourses, perception frames, reception modes regarding the canon of art/ culture can be questioned or challenged will, questions on trans-disciplinarity e.g. between arts and sciences, amongst other issues, form the vertebral column of this residency program. Residents will be accommodated 500m away from the premises (a former power plant, the so-called “Cathedral of electricity” built by the renowned architect Hans Heinrich Müller from 1926-1928), where they will work and offer seminars, workshops or lectures in the course of the residency.