New space and new chapter
Over the past three years, Onassis AiR has been housed in a historical neoclassical building in the center of Athens. This house became the home of more than 100 artists and practitioners who participated in its various programs or used it as a space to exchange practices and present work. That space was integral for shaping our community and it will continue to inform the ways we come together in the future.
As of September 2022, we are embarking on a whole new chapter. Onassis AiR is moving to the lively neighborhood of Neos Kosmos to a new space that offers more ample studio and rehearsal areas as well as large indoor and outdoor communal spaces to accommodate the various research needs of our artistic community.
This is also the time to say goodbye to our director Ash Bulayev, whose leadership and vision brought us together. Ash is stepping down after four years of relentless work towards building an inclusive and non-homogeneous program. His ongoing urge for novelty and experimentation shaped and will keep inspiring our ethos as we move forward. We are truly grateful for what he has offered and we are confident that he will continue doing groundbreaking work in the future. Nefeli Myrodia, creative producer and dramaturge of the program between 2018-22, will take on the direction of the program from September 2022.
Tailor-made fellowships 2022/2023
Onassis AiR grounds its mission in the ongoing support of artistic research and practice. Since we opened our doors in September 2019, we have experimented with various formats of thinking and practicing together—from individual research programs to fostering a thematic collective research study—always adapting our programs based on the needs of a growing community of peers. In the aftermath of the pandemic and of the major social and political changes happening in the world, we ask ourselves: how do we stay relevant to the needs of our artistic community?
In order to prevent stagnation and stay relevant to our times, in November 2021 we initiated a process of reassessing the needs of the people who are or will be part of Onassis AiR. Through a series of community meetings with all our past participants our aim is to collectively think and devise a new participatory governance model for Onassis AiR that actively engages its artistic community in its future programming. To honor the time and energy needed for this process, we decided not to release an Open Call for the period 2022/23, but instead open up to existing collaborations and colleagues of the broader Οnassis ecosystem and to offer the time, space and resources for them to develop their research and practice.
Between September 2022 and July 2023, Onassis AiR is awarding 57 tailor-made Fellowships. These are individual research fellοwships that adopt an open-ended form. Through professional development workshops and seminars, feedback and skill sharing sessions, site visits and field trips, as well as through an exchange with other local institutions and members of the art community, these fellowships are tailored to the participants’ own research needs.
Onassis AiR welcomes the tailor-made Fellows: Noor Abed, Yota Argyropoulou, Margarita Athanasiou, Orestis Athanasopoulos, Tristan Bera, Khaleb Brooks, Federica Bueti, Nuno Cassola, Marianna Christofides, Stavros Chrysafidis, Marc Delalonde, Anastasia Diavasti & Sumugan Sivanesan, Dennis Dizon, Bryony Dunne, Alkisti Efthymiou, Victor Ehikhamenor, Moriah Evans, Ryan Ferko, Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė, Danai Giannoglou, Marina Gioti, Arshia Fatima Haq, Samuel Hertz, Julian Hetzel, Stella Ioannidou, Harry Isra Muhammad, Laure Jaffuel, Christina Kotsilelou, Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Vishal Kumaraswamy, Latent Community (Sotiris Tsiganos Ionian Bisai), Joey Lubitz & Aslı Özdoyuran, Marina Miliou-Theocharaki, Vladimir Miller, Movement I (Federica Bueti, Anastasia Diavasti, Moriah Evans, Daniel Hui, Sumugan Sivanesan, and Kostas Tsioukas), Inés Muñozcano, Kenneth Pietrobono, Margarita Pita, Paz Ponce, Theo Prodromidis, Will Rawls, Aristide Rontini, Miriam Simun, Sister Sylvester (aka Kathryn Hamilton), Lito Skopeliti, Felipe Steinberg, Prodromos Tsinikoris, Nikolas Ventourakis, Amanda Vincelli, Ingrid Vranken, Lydia Xynogala, and Ioanna Zouli
Onassis AiR was established by the Onassis Foundation in September 2019. Onassis AiR team: Nefeli Myrodia, Georgia Giannakea and Myrto Katsimicha.
