AMAN AMAN

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

Instead of a linear historical narrative, the project embraces a polycentric, long-durational and relational approach: stories, sounds, and images circulate, intersect, and are reactivated across locations and formats. 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 is a project by Goethe-Institut Athen, SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA and TAVROS, in cooperation with Goethe-Institut Izmir, Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki, Münchner Kammerspiele, Kulturakademie Tarabya and DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum Frankfurt.