Yalla Tnam by Ahmad Mallah & Rebecca Lillich // Krüger

Yalla Tnam is a multidisciplinary performance work containing song, loop machine, movement and text, Ahmad Mallah & Rebecca Lillich // Krüger invite the viewer to become a witness in this eulogy for the future.

Interweaving Fairuz’s Yalla Tnam with Syrian grief rituals from the Syrian Revolution, Mallah’s singing is a hypnotic expression of care and pain as Lillich // Krüger moves through a series of laden gestures. Aesthetically mythological, the pair offer the scene as a ceremony of grief to examine their differing and conflicting relationships, heritage, the diversity of their migration experiences in their new home, the Netherlands.

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Ahmad Mallah & Rebecca Lillich // Krüger are an Amsterdam-based performance duo intersecting the personal and political, performing open symbols to generate reflection, introspection and connection.
Their debut works The Ladder (2023) and The Price of Bricks (2024) utilize singular objects through multiple mediums as action-based performance art happenings.
Their new works, pulling blood from stone (2025) and Yalla Tnam (2026), dive into surrealism and heteronormativity through song, gesture and costume as an evolution of their process.
The duo has performed at Oerol Festival (Terschelling NL), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam NL),
Sismógraf Festival (Olot ES), and Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam NL), among others, and
recently presented their first full-length exhibition following a residency at Nieuwe Vide (Haarlem NL).

photo by Reinout Bos

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