Athens AiR Community

🌸March brings the first public event of 2026 at : the Spring Open Days are an opportunity to step inside the residency environment and experience the in-progress work of the Onassis AiR Fellows of the Spring Cycle of the program.

🎤On Friday 20th of March and Saturday 21st of March join us for a two-day event that features dance, music, and lecture-performances, sculptural and audiovisual installations, talks, and other presentations by Miriam Hillawi Abraham, Maria Bregianni, Alba Cros, Alexis Fidetzis, GeoVanna Gonzalez, Neve Harrington, Christiana Kosiari, Chryssa Kotoula, Ladele, Pavle Mijuca, Louiza Ntourou, and Ioanna Paraskevopoulou.

📣On Saturday afternoon, join an artist-led tour through the spaces, and hear directly from the about their artistic research and works in progress.

🎶On the same day, the second iteration of this season’s Electric Café by Stegi Radio will feature dr orange, a DJ and artist who moves between music and photography, connecting sound and image as mediums of expression and communication.

➡️RSVP here to join us: https://tickets.onassis.org/en/Organizer/sgt/EventPage?eventSlug=onassis-air-spring-open-days-2026

ONX SEEDS | OPEN CALL
📱No Smartphones at the Family Table

💣Deadline: Tuesday, February 10, 2026

What fits on a screen and what doesn’t? How can a product, through subtle digital interventions, challenge the screen’s boundaries and conventions? Can we design digital objects with analog qualities? Are we able to escape the tyranny of the algorithm?

A 4-month artistic development program dedicated to creating early-stage works (Proofs-of-Concept) and supporting creators working at the intersection of art and technology to create digital works that seek the idleness of the analog.

🔎Addressed to: New media creators, creative technologists, and designers, with an emphasis on worldbuilding, innovation, and speculative design. Greek and international artists and collectives.

ℹ️Find out more and apply here:
https://www.onassis.org/open-calls-past/%CE%BFpen-call-onx-seeds

✨ONASSIS AiR FELLOWS HIGHLIGHTS | ODD 2026

🔵We couldn't be more excited to see our presenting the projects they developed during the residency at the Onassis Dance Days 2026: “FÁE” by Efthimios Moschopoulos and “(REST IN) BLUE” by Katerina Foti are two solo works that, through explosive corporeal vocabulary and a contemporary neopaganism, are situated within the field of autoethnography.

🌙Also, the central performance of this year’s festival is an international co-production by Onassis Stegi, “NÔT” by the Marlene Monteiro Freitas from Portugal, which opened the Avignon Festival in 2025, while our 2025/26 Fellow Efi Gousi, presents her video installation “Tectonic Riders” at Onassis Stegi’s –1 Black Box.

The ODD contemporary dance festival focuses this year on the ‘familiar and the unfamiliar,’ exploring notions of origin, family, the known and the unknown, as well as chosen kinship. How is choreographic identity shaped through ties of blood, memory, or imagination? What new forms of ‘kinship’ emerge in a world of fluid connections? Can choreography become a meeting ground for relatives by blood, by choice, or by surprise?

ℹ Find out more and book your tickets, here: https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/onassis-dance-days-2026

📽 SOPHIE ATAYA: WHO WE ARE

Meet Sophie, participating Fellow of for 2025/26.

Sophie Ataya is a German-Palestinian writer, director, and film curator based in Berlin. Before shifting to filmmaking, Sophie worked in cultural production with international organizations in Lebanon and Palestine. Through storytelling, she seeks to amplify underrepresented narratives, using film as a tool for empowerment and anti-colonial practice.
“Who We Are” (WT) is a feature-length documentary exploring the erasure of Palestinian identity in Germany. Through a deeply personal lens, it follows the director’s journey to reclaim her Palestinian heritage after growing up in an East German village where any connection to it was met with silence—from family, the community, and, by extension, the German state.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE RESEARCH >>
https://www.onassis.org/initiatives/onassis-air/extended-research-residencies/sophie-ataya-who-we-are

👾ONASSIS AiR TECHNICAL RESIDENCIES: GEORGIOS CHEROUVIM

Meet Georgios, participating fellow of for 2025/26 through the Technical Residencies program.

Georgios Cherouvim is an Athens-based artist working with computer animation and code. He experiments with algorithms, new technologies, and installation, pursuing new aesthetics and visual languages. He often programs custom tools and instruments that he uses to produce his work, and enjoys shifting between the roles of developer and artist. His work has been featured in festivals and venues around the world, including SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, South by Southwest, the International Symposium on Electronic Art, Art Futura, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), the Athens International Film Festival, and the Greek National Opera. Since 2005, he has worked as a creative and technical director in visual effects for feature films, television, and virtual reality.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE TECHNICAL RESIDENCIES PROGRAM >>
https://www.onassis.org/initiatives/onassis-air/onassis-air-technical-residencies

🎭 ONASSIS AiR TECHNICAL RESIDENCIES: ANNA PASPARAKI

Meet Anna, participating fellow of for 2025/26 through the Technical Residencies program.

Anna Pasparaki was born and raised in Athens. She holds a BA in Theater Studies from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, as well as a master’s degree from the Department of Informatics at the University of Piraeus (“Digital Culture, Smart Cities, IoT, and Advanced Digital Technologies” ). Anna has been active in the theater field since 2007, holding a wide range of positions, including production and stage manager, dramaturgy assistant, marketing coordinator, box office supervisor, tour manager, and organizer of school visits for children’s and student performances. Since 2017, she has been working at Poreia Theater, where she is involved in production coordination, line production, marketing, and serving as the venue’s manager.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE TECHNICAL RESIDENCIES PROGRAM >>
https://www.onassis.org/initiatives/onassis-air/onassis-air-technical-residencies

🎬ONASSIS AiR COLLABORATIONS ✨

As part of the Athens Palestine Film Festival ’s annual edition, we have the pleasure of hosting a screening of short films by three female directors and in the context of the festival’s satellite program "In Frame".

Join us on Wednesday 29th of October at 19:00 for “Interrupted Futures: Artists in the Shadow of Suspended States”, an evening that gathers the work of: Shuruq Harb, Pary El-Qalqili, and Sophie Ataya, whose practices confront the dissonance between hope and arrest, visibility and erasure, voice and censorship.

📽Films presented:

- ROOTS | 2022 | Sophie Ataya | 4min
- SCHILDKRÖTENWUT (The Turtle's Rage) | 2012 | Pary El-Qalqili | 70min
- Off You Shore Paper Trail | 2024 | Shuruq Harb with Federica Bueti | 11min

The screenings will be followed by a Q&A with the artists.

ℹ Admission to the event is free with prior registration.

➡Find out more about the event and book your place, here: https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/interrupted-futures-artists-in-the-shadow-of-suspended-states

📸: Still from "Roots" by Sophie Ataya.

💦ALEXANDRA NIAKA: THE RIVER WHERE YOU SET YOUR FOOT JUST NOW IS GONE ✨

Meet Alexandra, participating Fellow of for 2025/26 through the AiR/ONX Fellowship.

Alexandra Niaka is an interactive media artist who expresses herself through interactive installations, immersive technologies, and written text. “The river where you set your foot just now is gone” is an immersive, real-time generated installation with its core lying in the history of water, not only as a force of creation but also as a vessel of collective memory and catastrophe. Rooted in a Thessalian folklore myth, in which the dead once a year emerge around areas of water to share stories from the past, present, and future, the artwork reveals how rivers, floods, and the cyclical presence of water have shaped both the cultural imagination and the lived realities of Thessaly.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE RESEARCH >>
https://www.onassis.org/initiatives/onassis-air/onassis-air-onx-fellowships/alexandra-niaka-the-river-where-you-set-your-foot-just-now-is-gone

🦩EFI GOUSI: SPEAK, LITTLE WINGS 🪶

Meet Efi, participating Fellow of for 2025/26.

Efi Gousi is a Greek multidisciplinary artist based in Paris, working across photography, film, and stage direction. In the framework of the Onassis AiR Fellowship Gousi will work on the script of a film that is part of the trilogy she initiated with “Tectonic Riders,” her first Art Film, which was presented at Plásmata in May of 2025. The second film poses a new and urgent question: What do we save in a catastrophe? Similar to part one, and retaining common narrative techniques, “Speak, Little Wings” adopts a poetic and metaphysical approach, centering on the climate crisis, female identity, and the silent forms of resistance that emerge when everything seems to be lost.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE RESEARCH >>
https://www.onassis.org/initiatives/onassis-air/fellowships/efi-gousi-speak-little-wings