Application deadline: March 7, 2025, 12pm
Onassis AiR is the Artistic Research, Residency & Fellowship Program of the Onassis Foundation established in September 2019. Having received over 7000 applications through our open calls and supported more than 200 Fellows over the past five years, the program has become a hub for cross-disciplinary thinking and exchange among local and international art practitioners and researchers.
For 2025/26 the program invites artists, curators, artisans, performance artists, choreographers, fashion and costume designers, writers, dramaturgs, architects, filmmakers, sculptors, light and sound designers, and other creative practitioners from any medium of expression or discipline, to apply for one of the available residency strands that will take place in Athens, Greece, between September 2025 to July 2026. The total number of Residencies & Fellowships that will be awarded for this period is thirty-three.
For this season, Onassis AiR enhances its function as an instigator of creative experimentation and welcomes a wider community of art practitioners by offering opportunities on four different strands. Situated in the broader Mediterranean region, Onassis AiR, finds itself in proximity with current geopolitical tensions and recognizes the necessity of addressing these challenges through critical awareness and dialogue.
The Onassis AiR Extended Research Residencies
A program of artistic residencies with a duration of three months. It is addressed to creators, individuals or collectives, who are looking for dedicated time and space to nurture, develop, or refine in-progress work, with the support and peer-to-peer connection needed to move their projects forward.
The Onassis AiR Dramaturgy Fellowships
Onassis AiR invites performing art professionals from Greece or based in Greece to submit their proposals for a Dramaturgy Fellowship to develop a new theater, dance, and/or performing arts project that has not yet been presented. The Onassis AiR Dramaturgy Fellowships are open to directors, choreographers, dancers, dramaturgs, authors, playwrights, or practitioners working in the wider fields of theater and dance arts.
The Onassis AiR/ONX Fellowships
For 2025/26 the Onassis AiR/ONX Fellowships are open to proposals that combine immersive narratives with Mixed Realities and performative elements and address the potential of computational and network technologies to foster resilient and sustainable practices, while taking environmental impact into consideration. Proposals may include durational performances, time-based digital works, kinetic installations, stagecraft experimentations, prototypes for stage performances and digital games.
The Onassis AiR Technical Residencies
Onassis AiR inaugurates a new strand that turns its focus on the people behind the scenes. For the first time, the program welcomes art professionals working in the technical areas of theater, dance, music, cinema, and digital productions who are eager to further develop their skills in the expanded fields of Stage Management, Theater Production, Scenic Design, Lighting/Projection Design, Sound Design and Engineering, as well as the technical and production development of projects at the intersection of Art & Advanced Technologies. Selected participants will work closely with the highly skilled technical and production teams of Onassis Stegi and Onassis ONX and will be actively involved in the projects of Onassis AiR Fellows.
All selected participants will receive an artist’s fee, a research/production budget, housing, travel to/from Athens, a collective budget for group site-visits and research trips, opportunities to engage with the art scene of Athens through networking events, and access to mentoring and audiovisual equipment.
Additionally, the program participants are invited to participate in the Onassis AiR Open Days, a series of events that run throughout the year and are open to the public. They are also encouraged to contribute to the Οnassis AiR Community by offering something back in the form of a workshop, in-progress presentation, lecture, screening, skill-sharing session, or any other format of their choice.
Click here to see the full open call announcement and link to the application form.
Onassis AiR team: Nefeli Myrodia, Sotiria Smyrnaiou, Ioanna Zouli and Effie Georganta.
