ONASSIS AIR: OPEN CALL FOR THE 2025/26 SEASON
Artists and creative practitioners from diverse disciplines are invited to apply for a research-based residency in Athens for the 2025/26 season, with four distinct strands including extended research residencies, dramaturgy fellowships, digital/immersive art fellowships, and technical residencies.
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- Award
- Research-based residency with dedicated space, time, resources, and collaborative facilities
- Location
- Athens, Greece
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Program Overview
Onassis AiR has launched its Open Call for the 2025/26 season, inviting artists and creative practitioners from diverse disciplines and backgrounds to participate in a dynamic and immersive research-based residency in Athens, Greece. The program aims to foster artistic research and experimentation, providing dedicated space and time for professionals to explore their practice without the expectation of presenting a final work. Over the past five years, Onassis AiR has supported more than 200 Fellows and received over 7,000 applications. For 2025/26, the program introduces new directions, embracing crafts and material-based practices, and invites creatives from fashion, design, and applied arts to engage in an environment that promotes collaboration and knowledge sharing.
Residency Strands
- Extended Research Residencies: Three-month artistic residency for artists, curators, artisans, filmmakers, writers, and other creative practitioners, supporting research and development with access to resources for experimentation with materials, scale, and collaborative processes.
- Dramaturgy Fellowships: Open to Greece-based directors, choreographers, playwrights, and theatre/dance professionals to research and develop new performance projects that have not yet been presented.
- Onassis AiR/ONX Fellowships: In collaboration with Onassis ONX, focusing on digital and immersive art, including Mixed Realities, computational art, performative elements, digital performances, kinetic installations, and interactive stage designs.
- Technical Residencies: Supports professionals in technical roles including stage management, lighting, sound design, and advanced production technologies, with hands-on collaboration with technical and production teams.
Key Dates
- Submission deadline: March 7, 2025, at 12:00 noon (UTC+2)
Eligibility
Open to artists and creative practitioners from diverse disciplines and backgrounds. Dramaturgy Fellowships are restricted to professionals based in Greece.
- Award
- Research-based residency with dedicated space, time, resources, and collaborative facilities
- Theme
- The residency fosters artistic research and experimentation across diverse creative fields, with new directions in 2025/26 embracing crafts and material-based practices, fashion, design, and applied arts.
- Eligibility
- Open to artists and creative practitioners from diverse disciplines and backgrounds; Dramaturgy Fellowships restricted to Greece-based professionals.
- Audience
- Artists, curators, artisans, filmmakers, writers, and creative practitioners from diverse disciplines; Dramaturgy Fellowships open to Greece-based directors, choreographers, playwrights, and theatre/dance professionals
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