Oyoun

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Oyoun initiiert, konzipiert und realisiert künstlerisch-kulturelle Projekte mit migrantischen, dekolonialen und queer*feministischen Perspektiven - in Berlin und weltweit.

23/12/2025

On transnational solidarity, intersectional justice and socially engaged arts.

A few weeks ago, as ruangrupa celebrates its 25th anniversary in Indonesia, we were honoured to be there, engaging with extraordinary artists, curators and activists who continue to amplify alternative, ancestral and beautifully ordinary narratives of everyday people.

We feel lucky to have experienced the curatorial brilliance of ruangrupa's edition of Germany's documenta fifteen back in 2022.

What followed was Germany's orchestrated censorship, repression, cancellations and smear campaigns against ruangrupa and its allied artists, it was neither its first nor its last shameful attempt to undermine artistic freedom.

It was refreshing to snap out Germany's repressive climate and dive into listening, learning and connecting, from witnessing the last days of Biennale Yogyakarta 18, to holding talks at Taring Padi, and reconnecting with ruangrupa, gudskul and other empowering community spaces.

We are incredibly grateful to have made these meaningful connections and to have found inspiration in ways that can sustain transnational solidarity and intersectional alliances. Special thanks and deepest gratitude to everyone who made this possible.

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06/10/2025

Yesterday, we received a note to all of us from Louna, who is still illegally detained at Ktzi'ot prison after having been kidnapped in international waters by Israeli forces.

In her note she tells us about the physical assault and threats from the moment they were brought to port, the inhumane conditions of over 50 activists being crammed into mere 24 square meters, about being woken in the middle of the night, being forced to watch live footage from October 7, of being denied basic rights and being physically attacked for demanding those.

Most importantly she tells us that nothing the activists endure comes even close to what Palestinians go through every single day. Let's listen to her and not be intimidated. We keep our eyes on Gaza, mobilise to end the genocide and create a humanitarian corridor - the next flotilla is already on their way!

Today join the protest on 6th October in front of the foreign office at 3pm to demand justice - Link in Bio

Sign the petition or verify your signature as we had to move the petition to another platform - Link in Bio

Call your embassies and the foreign office to put pressure and bring our activists home - Link in Bio

on Gaza

05/10/2025

We demand the immediate release of all remaining members of the flotilla. Flotilla activists were denied basic necessities like drinking water, access to toilets, sanitary products and medication. Activists including Louna Sbou started a hunger strike while being held. We demand the return of the humanitarian aid supplies, boarts, and continued prison visits to safeguard their rights. We demand daily access to legal aid and consular support for the kidnapped activists and a chance to communicate with the family. The time is now to amplify the flotilla demands, end to genocide, an end to western complicity and a free Paestine.

Show solidarity and take action. Write to your representatives, sign and share the petition. All links in bio. 🔗

Join the protest on 6th October in front of Auswärtiges Amt at 3 PM to demand justice.

on Gaza

02/10/2025

Dringender Aufruf zur Solidarität: Die israelische Armee hat am 01.10. die Global Sumud Flotilla in internationalen Gewässern überfallen – darunter Louna Sbou, Leiterin von Oyoun, und 18 weitere Deutsche. Ihre Festnahme und Entführung ist ein klarer Bruch des internationalen Völkerrechts und eine akute Bedrohung für Leib und Leben. Wir fordern sofortige diplomatische Intervention der Bundesregierung, klare Solidarität von Kulturinstitutionen und breite Mobilisierung der Zivilgesellschaft. Schweigen ist keine Option – es geht um Leben, Gerechtigkeit und die Freiheit von Kunst und Kultur.

Alle Links für Aktionen in Bio.

Steht zusammen in Solidarität und verfolgt, was in Gaza passiert.

your Eyes on Gaza

27/08/2025

This is the biggest attempt ever to break the illegal Israeli siege over Gaza!
Dozens of boats. 44+ countries. A global mission to peacefully break the siege and deliver aid:
The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF)

Louna Sbou, director of Oyoun, has joined this mission to set sail on August 31st, 2025.

We call on cultural workers and everyone who has a conscience to take action to end the Gaza genocide now - amplify, mobilise, resist!

Support the mission and find out more:

07/07/2025

🌿 OPEN CALL: Radical Rest Residency
📍 Marrakech, Morocco
4 - 11 November 2025

Eligibility: FLINTA* of Colour artists + cultural workers based in Germany

✨️ Apply now (by 20 July 2025 CET) → link in bio

“Care is the antidote to violence.” – Saidiya Hartman

Rooted in a practice of collective care and refusal, the Radical Rest Residency is not about productivity. It’s a week-long sanctuary to rest, regenerate, mourn, listen, dream - collectively. In a time of increasing repression, censorship, and systemic violence, we believe in rest as strategy, as resistance, as survival.

Held on the outskirts of Marrakech and facilitated by SWANA Healing (Elu & Rose), this residency is fully funded by Oyoun and includes travel, accommodation, meals, facilitation, and an honorarium of 500€.

We especially invite those affected by censorship or silencing - particularly around Palestine solidarity - to apply.

✿ No production. No performance. Just rest.

✨️ Apply now → link in bio

Questions? [email protected]

05/04/2025

✨️ The struggle continues, and so does our work ✨️

Oyoun was birthed as a Berlin-based cultural centre dedicated to decolonial, class-critical, and queer*feminist perspectives.

Following Germany's worrying developments around artistic freedom, state violence, defunding, and undermining democracy, Oyoun continues its mission as a hybrid space dedicated to building transnational solidarity, intersectional justice and socially engaged arts.

Rooted in anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian racism, the current political climate has far-reaching consequences, from censorship of the arts, culture, and academia to police brutality and increasingly repressive migration policies.

How can we further establish artistic, social, and cultural alliances, collectively build networks of care, resilience, and resistance? How do we nourish, cultivate, and empower marginalised communities and ecosystems of relational aesthetics? How do we raise funds, curate, and navigate architectures of survival in an increasingly hostile environment?

We are grateful to be invited to share our stories and are open to collaborating:

📝 Send us an email to [email protected]

18/12/2024

*** English below ***

Apropos deutsche Medien: Wir haben gerade eine Presseanfrage aus einer Leitmedien Redaktion erhalten.

Wie seriöser investigativer Journalismus nicht geht: Fragestellungen, die mehr Vorverurteilungen als gründliche Recherche beinhalten.

*** English translation ***

Speaking of the German media: We have just received a press enquiry from a leading daily newspaper.

How serious investigative journalism does not work: questions that contain more prejudgements than thorough research.

"Ladies and gentlemen,

we have the following questions for a report in ### (German daily newspaper):

1. what makes you decide to offer a stage on Friday to Ramsis Kilani, of all people, who has repeatedly attracted attention in the past by glorifying violence, glorifying terrorist groups, hating Israel and making anti-Semitic statements?

2. will you tolerate it if Kilani again attracts attention on Friday by glorifying violence, glorifying terrorist groups, hating Israel and making anti-Semitic statements?

3. how do you deal with the fact that Oyoun is now considered to be largely isolated both in Berlin's left-wing scene and in Berlin's art scene?

4. why haven't you moved out of the premises yet?

4. will you be giving up the premises at the end of the year?

5. are you planning to provoke an eviction?

6. do you hope that this eviction will allow you to present yourself as a victim once again?

7. how much have you cost the taxpayer this year?

We need the answers by 3 pm on Wednesday.

Yours sincerely"

18/12/2024

*** English in slides *** Deutsch unten:

Abschied vom Haus, aber nicht von unseren Werten

Nach fünf intensiven Jahren im Haus in der Lucy-Lameck-Straße haben wir uns im November mit dem Gastfestival UNFRAME und ein letztes Zusammenkommen vergangenes Wochenende verabschiedet. Am 8. Januar übergeben wir die Schlüssel an die Berliner Kulturverwaltung. Das Haus wird aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach leer stehen, trotz enorm hoher Instandhaltungskosten von jährlich 530.000 Euro – ein weiteres Beispiel für die mangelnde Verantwortungsübernahme der Berliner Kulturverwaltung.

Wir haben uns 13 Monate selbst verteidigt. Im November 2023 hat die Kulturverwaltung in einer Sitzung des Kulturausschusses beiläufig verkündet, unsere bis Ende 2025 zugesagte Förderung vorzeitig zu beenden. Alle Gesprächsversuche mit der Berliner Kulturverwaltung unsererseits wurden ignoriert oder liefen ins Leere. Stattdessen wurde öffentlich ein Bild konstruiert, das unsere Integrität und Arbeit diskreditieren sollte. Die Berliner Kulturverwaltung hat durch gezielte mediale Kommunikation Narrative konstruiert, die das Oyoun sowie die darin Beteiligten in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung kriminalisieren und dadurch wissentlich in Gefahr gebracht haben und weiterhin gefährden. Gegen einige dieser Angriffe konnten wir uns dank der Unterstützung einer starken Community juristisch durch mehrere Instanzen verteidigen, mit der klaren Überzeugung, dass dieser Präzedenzfall weit über das Oyoun hinaus seine zerstörerische Wirkung entfaltet.

Wir sind ernüchtert, aber vor allem bestärkt.

Unser Fall zeigt, wie strategisch kulturelle Akteure mit machtkritischer Ausrichtung systematisch untergraben werden. Was am Oyoun getestet und durch Gerichtsentscheidungen legitimiert wurde, setzt nun eine Dynamik in Gang, die weitreichende Folgen hat: Förderungen werden eingestellt, ohne vertragliche Verpflichtungen, Arbeitsverhältnisse oder Aufenthaltsgenehmigungen zu berücksichtigen. Dieses Modell der Zerstörung trifft besonders Institutionen, die Diversität, Intersektionalität, dekoloniale Theorien und queer-feministische Perspektiven vertreten.

(... weiter in Kommentar unten)

12/12/2024

This will be the last event at Oyoun and before our eviction. Come by, hang out and get a kufiyeh for yourself or loved ones.

The last and only kufiya factory, handmade in Palestine 🇵🇸 - Berlin pop up at Oyoun, by

📆 SUN, Dec 15th
🕗 14 - 18 h
📍 Oyoun (inside the cafe), Lucy-Lameck-Str. 32

"The symbolic “Kufiya” (aka “Shemagh” / “Keffiyeh”) garment is more important today than ever. Traditionally worn over the head or shoulders by farmers, the last century has seen a revival of the Kufiya as it became synonymous with the quest for Palestinian freedom and independence.

From the era of the British Empire to the Israeli occupation, the Kufiya has remained a symbol of resistance and sovereignty for the Palestinian people.

Keeping tradition alive, the Hirbawi Kufiya is now the only kufiya still being actively produced in Palestine. ⁠Yasser Hirbawi opened his historic factory in 1961.⁠

Each Kufiya headdress is handmade using a specific cross-stitching technique developed over decades. Only a handful of people still know these time-honoured techniques that are honed over many generations.

The Kufiya today is more than just a symbol of Palestinian heritage. Wearing the Kufiya has become an expression of resistance and rebellion against injustices of all kinds. A way to express solidarity with all those whose rights are stolen and whose voices are silenced. A colourful piece of fabric that speaks a thousand words."

More: https://kufiya.org/

14/11/2024

Die letzte und einzige Kufiya-Werkstatt, handgefertigt in Palästina 🇵🇸 - die legendären Kuffiyeh gibt es jetzt im Oyoun zu kaufen (für eine sehr kurze Zeit)

Original Kuffiyeh - Berlin's Pop Up mit

Wann?

📆 Nov: 15, 22, 24
🕗 17- 20h
📍 Oyoun, Lucy-Lameck-Str. 32

'Das symbolische Kleidungsstück "Kufiya" (auch "Shemagh" / "Keffiyeh" genannt) ist heute wichtiger denn je. Die Kufiya, die traditionell von Bauern über dem Kopf oder den Schultern getragen wurde, erlebte im letzten Jahrhundert eine Wiederbelebung, sie wurde zum Synonym für die Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit Palästinas.

Von der Zeit des britischen Empire bis zur israelischen Besatzung ist die Kufiya ein Symbol des Widerstands und der Souveränität des palästinensischen Volkes geblieben.

Die Hirbawi Kufiya ist heute die einzige Kufiya, die in Palästina noch aktiv hergestellt wird, und hält die Tradition lebendig. Yasser Hirbawi eröffnete seine historische Fabrik im Jahr 1961.

Jede Kufiya-Kopfbedeckung wird mit einer speziellen, über Jahrzehnte entwickelten Kreuzstich-Technik handgefertigt. Nur eine handvoll Menschen kennen noch diese altehrwürdigen Technik, die über viele Generationen hinweg gepflegt wurden.

Die Kufiya ist heute mehr als nur ein Symbol des palästinensischen Erbes. Das Tragen der Kufiya ist zu einem Ausdruck des Widerstands und der Rebellion gegen Ungerechtigkeiten jeglicher Art geworden. Es ist ein Ausdruck der Solidarität mit all jenen, die ihrer Rechte beraubt werden und deren Stimmen zum Schweigen gebracht werden. Ein buntes Stück Stoff, das mehr als tausend Worte sagt.'

Mehr: https://kufiya.org/

14/11/2024

The last and only kufiya factory, handmade in Palestine 🇵🇸 - Berlin pop up at Oyoun, by

📆 Nov: 14, 22, 24
🕗 17- 20h
📍 Oyoun, Lucy-Lameck-Str. 32

"The symbolic “Kufiya” (aka “Shemagh” / “Keffiyeh”) garment is more important today than ever. Traditionally worn over the head or shoulders by farmers, the last century has seen a revival of the Kufiya as it became synonymous with the quest for Palestinian freedom and independence.

From the era of the British Empire to the Israeli occupation, the Kufiya has remained a symbol of resistance and sovereignty for the Palestinian people.

Keeping tradition alive, the Hirbawi Kufiya is now the only kufiya still being actively produced in Palestine. ⁠Yasser Hirbawi opened his historic factory in 1961.⁠

Each Kufiya headdress is handmade using a specific cross-stitching technique developed over decades. Only a handful of people still know these time-honoured techniques that are honed over many generations.

The Kufiya today is more than just a symbol of Palestinian heritage. Wearing the Kufiya has become an expression of resistance and rebellion against injustices of all kinds. A way to express solidarity with all those whose rights are stolen and whose voices are silenced. A colourful piece of fabric that speaks a thousand words."

More: https://kufiya.org/

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Lucy-Lameck-Str. 32
Berlin
12049

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http://www.oyoun.de/

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