AMAN AMAN
About the project
Resisting a linear historical narration, the project embraces a polycentric, long-durational, and relational approach: stories, sounds, and images move across locations and formats, reappearing in altered forms and contexts.
From the haunting tunes of amanades and türküs to the solidarities forged between Greek and Turkish workers in Germany; from the post-Ottoman laments of the Café Amans in New York to contemporary voices from the Aegean coast and Anatolia, AMAN AMAN moves between past and present and traces connections across time and space.
The project opens up cultural imaginaries that challenge ethnocentric narratives and celebrate shared histories across the Eastern Mediterranean and its diasporas.
AMAN AMAN Athens. Kick–Off Event
3 June 2026, 18:00
Goethe-Institut Athen
Kick–Off Event: filía – dostluk – Freundschaft
Garden Party with musical lecture performances, readings, listening sessions, concerts, discussions, DJ Sets
For one summer evening, the Goethe Institute in Athens becomes the setting for a garden party dedicated to friendship. Curated by Habibi Kiosk of the Münchner Kammerspiele, the program includes listening sessions, performances, concerts, discussions, DJ sets, and more. Bringing together artists, musicians, storytellers, and performers, the gathering evolves into a vibrant constellation of encounters, sounds, and shared histories across Greek–Turkish–German realms. All habib(t)is of the city are invited to celebrate friendship through a diverse artistic kaleidoscope shaped by exchange, memory, and cross-cultural connection.
AMAN AMAN BERLIN
12–14 June 2026
SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA, Lindower str. 20/22, Haus C, 13347, Berlin
Film screenings, listening sessions, concerts, lectures, and culinary interventions
AMAN AMAN comes to life in Berlin with a three-day festival at SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA. Through concerts, listening sessions, film screenings, talks, and culinary interventions, the intertwined echoes of the Eastern Mediterranean and the multilayered histories embedded within them become audible, visible, and experientially accessible.
More information here.
AMAN AMAN MUNICH
23 July 2026, 19:00
Habibi Kiosk, Münchner Kammerspiele, Maximilianstraße 26–28, 80539 Munich
AMAN AMAN lands in Munich
Concerts in collaboration with the İÇ İÇE Music Festival
Emerging from histories of displacement, migration, and urban transformation, Rebetiko carries traces of intertwined Greek and Turkish narratives, resonating across borders and generations. Musicians from Thessaloniki and Izmir come together to explore this repertoire in a contemporary, collaborative setting. Rather than presenting a fixed repertoire, the concerts emphasize exchange, listening, and co-creation. They open a space in which sound becomes a medium of connection—linking places, histories, and artistic practices across the region.
More information here.
AMAN AMAN Piraeus
20 September 2026
Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, 32 Iroon Polytechniou Avenue, 18535 Piraeus
Artist Unknown* *Ivi Was Here (Elif Sözer, Zeynep Özden)
Theatrical performance
Goethe-Institut Athen and the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus present the world premiere of the stage production Artist Unknown**Ivi Was Here. Conceived and directed by Elif Sözer and Zeynep Özden, with a text by Çiğdem Erdöl, Artist Unknown* traces on stage the life of Ivi Stangali. Through the performances of Tilbe Saran, Fulya Peker, and Çağdaş Ekin Şişman, audiences encounter different facets of her life, the many versions of herself, and the memories she carried within her.
More information here.
AMAN AMAN Athens
8 October 2026 – 30 January 2027
TAVROS, 33 Anaxagora Street, 17778 Athens
Exhibition and public program
At TAVROS, the project takes the form of an exhibition and public programme that brings together contemporary artistic positions and archival practices, opening up a space of resonance between Greece, Turkey, Germany and beyond.
More information soon here.
AMAN AMAN Athens
9 October 2026 – 30 January 2027
Pneumatiki Estia Nikaias, Dim. Karakoulouxi 45, Nikea 184 50, Athens
Angela Melitopoulos and Kerstin Schroedinger
Videoinstallation
The TAVROS programme features a video installation by artists Angela Melitopoulos and Kerstin Schroedinger at Pneumatiki Estia Nikaias.
More information soon.
AMAN AMAN Thessaloniki
12 November 2026
Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki
Concerts
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AMAN AMAN Izmir
15 November 2026
Concerts
More information soon.
A collaboration between
AMAN AMAN is a project by Goethe-Institut Athen, SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA, and TAVROS. Further announcements will follow on a series of events in cooperation with Münchner Kammerspiele, Goethe-Institut Izmir, Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki, İç İçe – Festival für neue anatolische Musik, Kulturakademie Tarabya, the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, and DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum Frankfurt.
