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Anyma is bringing his ÆDEN show to Istanbul, a production he has already performed at several stops since its Coachella debut. On September 12, 2026, Ataköy Marina Arena will host an evening built around six artists: alongside Anyma himself, the stage will feature Kevin de Vries, Stephan Bodzin, Dimitri Vangelis & Wyman, Henri Bergmann, and Istanbul's own Gaia Ekho. Anyone considering a trip for this show should sort out Anyma Istanbul tickets early: the program will run for several hours, and a lineup this deep rarely comes together on one stage.
ÆDEN in Istanbul: what's behind Anyma's new show
In April 2026, Anyma debuted ÆDEN at Coachella, where he had been booked as a headliner. High winds forced the cancellation of the festival's first night, and the premiere was pushed to the second weekend: a screen running the full length of the main stage, a platform that raises and lowers the artist, and visuals built on a mix of science fiction and ancient imagery. Part of that visual world was already familiar to anyone who caught Anyma's Sphere residency, where a segment featuring distorted, bulging eyes from the track "Voices In My Head" returned in ÆDEN with a darker new treatment.
Istanbul was among the cities Anyma named as one of the first stops when the ÆDEN tour was announced, alongside China and Milan. By the time the show reaches Istanbul, it will already have passed through Brussels, London, Beirut, Gdańsk, and Mexico City, so the production arrives at Ataköy Marina Arena already road-tested on several stages. Judging by the tour's venue list, ÆDEN tends to favor open spaces: a park in Brussels, a stadium in Mexico City, a shipyard site in Gdańsk, and Ataköy Marina Arena fits that pattern as an open-air venue on the water.
Anyma: from closing out GENESYS to a new chapter with ÆDEN
Anyma, real name Matteo Milleri, is known both as one half of the duo Tale Of Us and as a co-founder of the Afterlife label. He built his solo career around the Genesys album trilogy: the debut Genesys came out in 2023, followed a year later by Genesys II, which featured Grimes, and the cycle closed with The End Of Genesys. That record became the foundation of his Sphere residency in Las Vegas, where in late 2024 and early 2025 Anyma became the first electronic artist to run a full run of shows at the venue.
After Sphere, an expanded edition, The End Of Genesys Deluxe, was released via Afterlife and Interscope, adding six new tracks including a collaboration with Ejae, "Out Of My Body." That same body of music forms the basis of ÆDEN. Conceptually, the project moves beyond Genesys: where the earlier trilogy was built around themes of technology and humanity, ÆDEN blends futurism with ancient mythology, visible in a stage design where columns, statues, and digital landscapes share the same frame.
For Istanbul, this is already a second encounter with Anyma. In September 2024, he brought his GENESYS show here with a different supporting lineup, including Kevin de Vries and Innellea. ÆDEN arrives as the next step after that concert, with a new visual language and a considerably bigger program built around the headliner.
Kevin de Vries and Stephan Bodzin (LIVE): two different formats next to the headliner
Kevin de Vries has been one of Afterlife's key artists since 2018, known for tracks like "Dance With Me" and "Metro," with recent appearances at Sphere Las Vegas, Coachella, and Tomorrowland. In summer 2026 he released "Before You Go," a joint track with Dimitri Vangelis & Wyman and vocalist Luxtides, timed to their shared b2b performances, and his current tour includes Anyma's [UNVRS] residency in Ibiza and the ARC festival in Chicago. On the ÆDEN Istanbul bill, he's listed as a standalone act, not only as part of a b2b set.
Stephan Bodzin will perform in a LIVE format. The German producer from Bremen has built his shows since the mid-2000s not around a DJ set but around a self-built rig of synthesizers and a MIDI controller, playing melodies and parts in real time. Audiences expecting a lineup of straightforward, melancholic techno will get something different from Bodzin's set: a live improvisation over recognizable themes from his albums Powers Of Ten and Boavista, rebuilt from scratch at every show.
The contrast between Kevin de Vries's DJ set and Bodzin's live performance shapes the evening: one artist works with tracks as a DJ, steering the floor through Afterlife's familiar catalog, while the other assembles the music on stage from scratch, instrument by instrument.
Dimitri Vangelis & Wyman and Henri Bergmann: another thread in the night's lineup
Dimitri Vangelis & Wyman, the duo of Dimitrios Vangelis and Andreas Wiman from Sweden, have spent more than a decade shaping progressive and melodic house, releasing on SIZE Records and remixing Avicii and Tiësto. Their joint track with Kevin de Vries, "Before You Go," came out in summer 2026, a couple of months before the Istanbul show, adding another link to the bill: two artists on the lineup have already performed together and released music with each other shortly before this night.
Henri Bergmann brings a more vocal, emotive sound to the program. A UK-based producer and DJ, and founder of the Automatik label, she has released on Watergate, Crosstown Rebels, and Afterlife, with tracks like "Protection" and "Higher Dimension" standing out as notable releases in the melodic house space. Recent festivals on her schedule include Coachella, Glastonbury, and Fabric London, and her sound leans on her own vocals and synth lines, setting her sets apart from the more instrumental performances elsewhere on the bill.
Together, these two names form a separate thread within the lineup: not headline-level, but recognizable enough that part of the audience will be there specifically for them.
Gaia Ekho: the local name in an international lineup
The local support slot on the ÆDEN bill goes to Gaia Ekho, an Istanbul-based DJ and producer with classical training: she played cello and piano before moving into electronic music. She has kept that background alive in her club sets, occasionally working in live keyboard and vocal parts. In 2022, Gaia Ekho founded her own label, Anadole, and over the past year her stops have included Sonar Istanbul and Volkswagen Arena alongside ZHU.
On the ÆDEN bill, she remains the only name from the local scene next to an international cast, which alone is a reason for Istanbul's electronic music crowd to pay attention to the show.
Ataköy Marina Arena: how an open-air venue by the sea fits ÆDEN's visual production
Ataköy Marina Arena sits in the Bakırköy district on Istanbul's European side, right by the water. It's an open-air venue, and the fact that a show with this much screen content is being staged under the open sky rather than indoors says something about the organizers' approach: the evening sky becomes an extra backdrop for the video projections, and the open space changes how the large screen reads compared to an enclosed hall.
The same venue hosted Anyma's Istanbul debut with the GENESYS show back in 2024, so for organizers Ataköy Marina Arena is already a proven fit for this kind of production. Since then, other major electronic names have played there too, including Black Coffee and Adriatique, which points to the venue as an established fixture on Istanbul's electronic music map rather than a one-off location for a single concert.
The open-air format also shapes how the program itself will land: the shift between artists on a stage by the sea feels different from a club setting, and the move from Kevin de Vries's DJ set to Bodzin's live performance and then to Anyma's full-scale show will stretch across the whole evening under the open sky.
September 12 in Istanbul: what's known about timing, format, and tickets for ÆDEN
The concert takes place on Saturday, September 12, 2026, organized by Only You Live. Start times listed across different ticketing platforms vary, from daytime hours to evening, so it's worth confirming the exact time when placing an order. Given that tickets for popular open-air shows of this scale tend to sell out by category, with some sections closing earlier than others, it's easier to pick a date and book Anyma Istanbul tickets for 2026 well ahead of time rather than leaving it for the final weeks before the show.
For anyone planning a trip specifically for ÆDEN, it's worth thinking through logistics early: an open-air venue by the sea means paying separate attention to transport and where to meet up after the show, since the night will run late, and with six artists on the bill the program itself will take noticeably longer than a standard club set.
Disclaimer: event dates, times, and venues are subject to change. Please confirm current details before booking tickets.