AMAN AMAN Berlin

AMAN AMAN is a transnational cultural project exploring interconnected histories of migration, exile, labor, solidarity, and friendship between Greece, Turkey, and Germany through exhibitions, performances, concerts, film screenings, and conversations. Launching on June 3, 2026, the project travels across Athens, Thessaloniki, Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Istanbul, and Izmir, evolving through multiple iterations until January 2027.

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. AMAN AMAN draws on a range of sonic and archival practices: 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.

Moving between past and present, it brings into proximity dispersed geographies and temporalities. Across its iterations, AMAN AMAN creates spaces for listening and gathering, where stories and songs become vessels – revoiced and set into motion again. In doing so, the project opens up cultural imaginaries that challenge ethnocentric narratives, focusing instead on the multiple ways histories are transmitted and lived across the Eastern Mediterranean and its diasporas.

Partners: Goethe-Institut Athen & SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA & TAVROS in cooperation with Münchner Kammerspiele, Goethe-Institut Izmir, Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki & Kulturakademie Tarabya

Day	Time
Wed + Thu	19:00 – 00:00
Fri + Sat	17:00 – 00:00
Sunday	18:00 – 00:00

AMAN AMAN Berlin

AMAN AMAN Festival