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T a v r o s A non-profit art space with a strong community commitment in the area of Tavros.

ΣΗΜΕΡΑ ΤΟ AMAN AMAN ΠΑΕΙ ΝΙΚΑΙΑ | 9 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥΣας περιμένουμε σήμερα στη Νίκαια για τα εγκαίνια της έκθεσης, μια διάλεξη-...
09/10/2026

ΣΗΜΕΡΑ ΤΟ AMAN AMAN ΠΑΕΙ ΝΙΚΑΙΑ | 9 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥ

Σας περιμένουμε σήμερα στη Νίκαια για τα εγκαίνια της έκθεσης, μια διάλεξη-περφόρμανς και προβολές ταινιών στο πλαίσιο του δημόσιου προγράμματος του AMAN AMAN.

16:00–19:00 | Εγκαίνια έκθεσης & παρουσίαση έργου
Βιομηχανίες της Άρνησης, Στάδιο 10: Από το Μουσά Νταγ στο Πορτ Σαΐντ
Angela Melitopoulos & Kerstin Schroedinger

📍 Πνευματική Εστία Νίκαιας, Καρακουλουξή Δ. 45, Νίκαια, 18450

20:00–20:40 | Διάλεξη-περφόρμανς
Waswas του Vartan Avakian

📍 Αρμενική Ευαγγελική Εκκλησία της Ελλάδος, Λαμίας 30, Πειραιάς, 18542

21:00–22:30 | Προβολές ταινιών
Menq (Artavazd Peleshian, Αρμενία, 1969, 30΄) και Geographies (Chaghig Arzoumanian, Λίβανος, 2015, 72΄).

📍 Αρμενική Ευαγγελική Εκκλησία της Ελλάδος, Λαμίας 30, Πειραιάς, 18542

Πρόσβαση: Η Νίκαια απέχει περίπου 20 λεπτά από το Μοναστηράκι με τη μπλε γραμμή του μετρό (Γραμμή 3).

‼️Σημειώνεται ότι ο εκθεσιακός χώρος του TAVROS θα παραμείνει κλειστός σήμερα.

Σε συνεργασία με την Αρμενική Ευαγγελική Εκκλησία της Ελλάδος (Θ.Ν.Π.) και το Μορφωτικό Πολιτιστικό Σωματείο «Αζαταμάρντ – Αρμενικά».

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TODAY AMAN AMAN GOES TO NIKAIA| 9 OCTOBER

Join us today in Nikaia for an exhibition opening, an artist lecture-performance and film screenings as part of the AMAN AMAN public programme.

16:00–19:00 | Exhibition opening & work presentation
Industries of Denial, Stage 10: From Musa Dagh to Port Said
Angela Melitopoulos & Kerstin Schroedinger

📍 Nikaia Cultural Centre, 45 Karakoulouxi D., Nikaia, 18450

20:00–20:40 | Lecture-performance
Waswas by Vartan Avakian

📍 Armenian Evangelical Church of Greece, 30 Lamias Street, Piraeus, 18542

21:00–22:30 | Film screenings
Menq (Artavazd Peleshian, Armenia, 1969, 30 min) and Geographies (Chaghig Arzoumanian, Lebanon, 2015, 72 min).

📍 Armenian Evangelical Church of Greece, 30 Lamias Street, Piraeus, 18542

Getting there: Nikaia is approximately 20 minutes from Monastiraki via the blue metro line (Line 3).

‼️Please note that the TAVROS exhibition space will remain closed today.

In collaboration with the Armenian Evangelical Church of Greece and the Azatamart Armenian Educational and Cultural Association.

💫AMAN AMAN IN NIKAIA💫On Friday, 9 October, AMAN AMAN moves to Nikaia for a full day of exhibition, performance and film....
02/10/2026

💫AMAN AMAN IN NIKAIA💫

On Friday, 9 October, AMAN AMAN moves to Nikaia for a full day of exhibition, performance and film.

Just 22 minutes by Metro Line 3 from Monastiraki, Nikaia is connected to Tavros through a shared history of migration. Both neighbourhoods were shaped by the arrival of refugees from Asia Minor in 1922, while continuing to provide a place of settlement and solidarity for more recent arrivals. The exhibition is housed in one of the remaining refugee houses in Nikaia, drawing attention to these architectural witnesses and the histories they hold.

📌 The day begins with Industries of Denial by Angela Melitopoulos & Kerstin Schroedinger , an ongoing audiovisual research project around the Berlin–Baghdad Railway and the politics of historical denial connected to it. Through mapping, archival photographs transferred onto 16mm film and essayistic recordings along the railway line, the work connects the history of genocidal violence with routes of migration and the ways in which this history is presented and silenced today. At the Nikaia Cultural Centre, three stages of the project are presented, including Stage 10: From Musa Dagh to Port Said, presented in 2026 as part of the Berlinale Forum Expanded exhibition.

📌In the evening, Vartan Avakian’s Waswas delves into the persistent myth of buried Armenian gold and its place in Turkey’s popular imagination. Drawing on hundreds of hours of online material from treasure-hunting forums, the lecture traces a world of cryptic maps, spells, rumours and conspiracy theories, revealing how the legacy of Armenian dispossession continues to haunt the landscape.

📌The day concludes with Chaghig Arzoumanian’s GEOGRAPHIES. The young Lebanese filmmaker and video artist follows the footsteps of her grandparents, who fled their home village of Burunkisla during the Armenian genocide of 1915. Through first names, stories, journeys and photographs passed down through hearsay and anecdotes, the film follows the routes of exile from Anatolia to Beirut and beyond, where an inherited history takes on new forms across the landscapes of the diaspora.

See you there!

In preparation for the opening of AMAN AMAN at TAVROS on 8 October, we’re sharing a first look at some of the works crea...
29/09/2026

In preparation for the opening of AMAN AMAN at TAVROS on 8 October, we’re sharing a first look at some of the works created by the artists taking part in the exhibition.

🔷 Larissa Araz
Hâlimiz Duman (We Are Doomed) (2026)
A vinyl record bringing together two historical recordings from New York, one in Greek and one in Turkish, opens a story around Marika Papagika and the Café Aman she ran in the city, where music brought together communities from across the Ottoman diaspora.

Portrait: Selim Süme

🔷 Vartan Avakian
A Curse That Turns Gold Into Ladybugs (2025)
Through stories of hidden Armenian gold, treasure maps and imagined landscapes, Avakian’s work looks at how memories of displacement and loss persist through myths and rumours passed between generations.

Portrait: Atdhe Mulla

🔷 Marina Papazyan
A Tatavla Gothic (2025)
Set in Istanbul’s Tatavla in 1925, Papazyan’s novella follows a young Greek-Armenian writer moving through the city’s literary and artistic circles, bringing together the languages and communities as well as urban myths and histories of a city undergoing political change.

🔷 Didem Pekün
Promised You a Miracle (2026)
Pekün’s new essay-film follows an endless journey across land, sea and air towards a miracle that never arrives. Storms, whales, volcanoes and landscapes coexist with humans and animals encountered along the way, as the film connects migration with the expectation of a miracle and the desire for a more liveable future.

Portrait: Ekin Ozciber

More on the works and artists coming soon.

8 OCTOBER 2026
19:00–22:00

AMAN AMAN is a project by Goethe-Institut Athen, SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA and TAVROS, in collaboration with local and international partners. The exhibition at TAVROS is realised with the financial support and under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture, and with the support of SAHA Association. The TAVROS programme contributions by artists based in Turkey are supported by Vehbi Koç Foundation.

MEET THE ARTISTS ROUND 2✨In preparation for the opening of AMAN AMAN at TAVROS on 8 October, we’re sharing a first look ...
29/09/2026

MEET THE ARTISTS ROUND 2✨

In preparation for the opening of AMAN AMAN at TAVROS on 8 October, we’re sharing a first look at some of the works in the exhibition, including newly commissioned works created especially for the project.

🔷 Cevdet Erek
Hayat (2026)
Created specifically for TAVROS, Hayat takes the form of a wooden structure inspired by the architecture of Ottoman-era houses in Northern Greece and present-day Türkiye. It creates spaces for gathering, becoming a vessel for future events and encounters that form part of the AMAN AMAN public programme.

Portrait: Cevdet Erek in front of Bergama Stereo in Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 2019. Photograph by Mathias Voelzke

🔷 Valinia Svoronou
Ypsilon (2026)
A black-and-white moving image work made through pencil drawings, Ypsilon moves between Athens and Schoinoudi in Imbros. The title refers to the letter Y and its association with a crossroads and a moment of choice. From drawing the n**e model at the Athens School of Fine Arts to a family story of movement and return in Schoinoudi, the work brings together different places and memories from the artist’s personal and family history.

🔷 Zafos Xagoraris
2 Camps (2026)
Exhibited in the nearby backyard of the Tavros Solidarity School, Xagoraris’s research installation focuses on two prisoner-of-war camps that operated in Germany during the First World War. The work brings sound recordings made there by German linguist Wilhelm Doegen into the present, alongside a reconstructed sign pointing towards Wünsdorf.

🔷 Vassos Kapantais
Ικέτις (1964)
Kapantais’s sculpture depicts a human figure in a kneeling position, evoking the ancient figure of the suppliant. The gesture can suggest prayer, a plea or a request for mercy, while also bringing to mind a state of vulnerability and the need for protection.

📌 More on the artists of the Nikaia chapter and the kick-off of the public programme on 9 October coming soon.

🗓️ 8 OCTOBER 2026 → TAVROS
19:00–22:00

📍AMAN AMAN is a project by Goethe-Institut Athen, SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA and TAVROS, in collaboration with local and international partners. The exhibition at TAVROS is realised with the financial support and under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture, and with the support of SAHA Association. The TAVROS programme contributions by artists based in Türkiye are supported by Vehbi Koç Foundation.

t a v r o s

⚡️TEN ARTISTS. SEVEN NEW COMMISSIONS. THREE EXHIBITION SITES⚡️On 8 October, AMAN AMAN arrives at TAVROS with a new exhib...
18/09/2026

⚡️TEN ARTISTS. SEVEN NEW COMMISSIONS. THREE EXHIBITION SITES⚡️

On 8 October, AMAN AMAN arrives at TAVROS with a new exhibition bringing together works by Vartan Avakian, Larissa Araz, Cevdet Erek, Vassos Kapantais, Marina Papazyan, Didem Pekün, Valinia Svoronou and Zafos Xagoraris, curated by Maria-Thalia Carras and Eirini Fountedaki.

Across TAVROS and the Tavros Solidarity School, the exhibition brings together microhistories shaped by journeys across the Aegean, Anatolia and the Southeast Mediterranean.

And on 9 October, AMAN AMAN continues in Nikaia, where Angela Melitopoulos & Kerstin Schroedinger present a new audiovisual installation, alongside the launch of the public programme.

In the coming posts, we’ll be introducing the artists and sharing more about the works they have created for AMAN AMAN.

🗓️ 8 October 2026 19:00-22:00→ TAVROS
🗓️ 9 October 2026 16:00-22:30→ Nikaia

📍AMAN AMAN is a project by Goethe-Institut Athen, SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA and TAVROS, in collaboration with local and international partnerns.
The project is funded by Goethe-Institut Athen. The exhibition is realised with the financial support and under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture, and with the support of SAHA Association. The TAVROS programme contributions by artists based in Turkey are supported by Vehbi Koç Foundation.

✨SAVE THE DATE✨AMAN AMAN exhibition opening:🗓️ Thursday 8 October 2026📍TAVROS, AthensA new season begins with AMAN AMAN!...
11/09/2026

✨SAVE THE DATE✨

AMAN AMAN exhibition opening:
🗓️ Thursday 8 October 2026
📍TAVROS, Athens

A new season begins with AMAN AMAN!

Across the Eastern Mediterranean and its diasporas, histories travel and meet, taking new forms. AMAN AMAN brings these connections into view by means of installations, films, performances, screenings, and more.

We’ll be sharing more in the weeks ahead: the full artist list of the exhibition, a parallel programme in Nikaia, the artists, and the many people and organisations coming together around the project.

See you on 8 October!

Project partners & initiators
Goethe-Institut Athen, SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA, TAVROS

Support
The project is funded by Goethe-Institut Athen. The exhibition at TAVROS is realised with the financial support and under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture, and with the support of SAHA Association. The TAVROS programme contributions by artists based in Turkey are supported by Vehbi Koç Foundation. The film series and some artistic contributions to the AMAN AMAN public programme are co-financed by the German Federal Foreign Office through funds of the German-Greek Future Fund.

30/07/2026

HIGHLIGHT SERIES
Reel #5

We conclude our Highlight Series with a final excerpt from the film commissioned by TAVROS, bringing together fragments from across our 2025–2026 programme.

This Reel moves between collective vocal exercises from The Choir for Non-musicians by Bint Mbareh, moments from the i-Speak II: Psychogeographies & Visual Narratives mapping workshop by BEND with the 1st High School of Tavros, Dafni Lianantonaki's walk From the Peak of the Mountain You See the Sea, and Songs for Waters, a screening of films by Lamia Joreige, Jumana Emil Abboud, Anna Moreno, and Noor Abed.

We wrap up this year with great joy and gratitude to all the artists, collaborators, participants, and contributors who made this programme possible.

You can now watch the full film by Nefeli Papaioannou on our Vimeo channel.

🎬 Direction & audiovisual documentation: Nefeli Papaioannou

29/07/2026

HIGHLIGHT SERIES
Reel #4

We continue our Highlight Series with another excerpt from the film commissioned by TAVROS.

This Reel brings together three moments from the public programme of For Our Time Is the Time of Water.

We return to The Choir for Non-musicians by Bint Mbareh, a collective vocal practice that asks how bodies can merge through sounds accessible to everyone taking part. We also revisit Krasta, Sofia Zafeiriou's porous electroacoustic live set inspired by our (water) bodies as transmission media.

The Reel also includes moments from Songs for Waters, a screening of films by Lamia Joreige, Jumana Emil Abboud, Anna Moreno, and Noor Abed. The programme brought together stories from across the Mediterranean, each centred on a different body of water.

🎬 Direction & audiovisual documentation: Nefeli Papaioannou

Tomorrow, we'll be sharing the final post in our Highlight Series. Soon, you'll also be able to watch Nefeli Papaioannou's full film on our Vimeo channel.

27/07/2026

HIGHLIGHT SERIES
Reel #3

We continue our Highlight Series with another excerpt from the film commissioned by TAVROS.

This Reel brings together two events from the public programme of For Our Time Is the Time of Water.

The first features We are in Flood by Ayesha Hameed and Tom Hirst. The performance brings together voices from the artists' earlier works Black Atlantis: The End of Eating Everything and Brown Atlantis Radio, continuing their explorations of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and the imagined Kumari Kandam, a lost Tamil continent described as an Atlantis before Atlantis. The performance included music by Bi Kidude, Rabindranath Tagore, and Pearl Divers from the Arabian Peninsula, alongside the voices of Rachel Baker, Lizzie Homersham, Bijan Moosavi, Christian Nyampeta, and Theodor Ringborg.

The second takes us back to Dafni Lianantonaki's walk From the Peak of the Mountain You See the Sea. We hear Dafni's words as we follow her through the landscapes of Mesogeia, returning to the mountain to see the sea.

🎬 Direction & audiovisual documentation: Nefeli Papaiannou

More Reels from our Highlight Series will be released throughout the month, so stay tuned!

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