THE ROAD TO ELEFSINA
A 8-day intensive artist residency on the Mysteries of art in energy vibrating Athens & ancient Elefsina
The Athens residency includes intensive workshops in storytelling, performance and video, and promotes the artists’ work through presentation, catalogue and participation in video festivals. The physical residency follows an online introduction to the significance of Greek heritage for contemporary artists.
Application deadline: 22 June 2025
Residency dates:
25 May – 22 June 2025
14 – 21 September 2025
16 – 23 November 2025
The Road To Elefsina aims at expanding the artists' spectrum of cultural experiences, and offer insight into the beginnings of civilization. The learning program enhances artists’ understanding of how art and poetry may have a soothing effect on human agonies.
The residency, workshop and presentation project addresses visual artists, designers, crafters, jewelry makers, ceramists, performers, photographers, filmmakers and art theorists who wish to dive into the Greek myth of death and resurrection. The myth of Persephone also highlights the mother and daughter bonding, and the challenges of growing up.
MYSTERIES OF BLISS
From the secrets of Copper Age Eleusis to the revelations of Christian Greece.
14-day intensive artist residency on art, poetry, performance and faith.
The Mysteries of Bliss residency program aims at expanding the artists' spectrum of interwoven cultural experiences, and at offering insight into the human quest for immortality, love and bliss that lies in the very heart of civilization.
Application deadline: 22 June 2025
Optional residency dates:
28 April - 22 June 2025
2 - 15 June 2025
6 – 19 October
The Mysteries of Bliss residency program enhances the understanding of how art, performance and poetry may have a soothing effect on human agonies. The residency program initiates participants in understanding how to read, and be inspired by, the long - pre-Christian and Christian - icon tradition, and explains concepts of time, space, eternity, providence, and divine union embedded in the visual language of Byzantine art, an evolving art discipline still practiced today.
This highly conceptual art created by the combination of mastering ancient techniques and preparing the artist's body and mind for creative contemplation is widely unknown to the West.
The creative and educational project addresses jewelry makers, designers, visual artists, designers, photographers, crafters, ceramists, performers, filmmakers, art theorists who wish to dive into fourty centuries of Greek art and study concepts of life, death, unity and resurrection that are still meaningful nowadays.
THE ART OF THE ICON
14-day Athens artist residency on Byzantine art and the concept of the icon.
The Art Of The Icon is a residency and video / comics / narrative project for visual artists, jewelers, crafters, designers, filmmakers, performers, art theorists, curators, academics who wish to explore Athens’ medieval and Byzantine cultural traditions that still live on.
Application deadline: 22 June 2025
Residency dates:
16 – 29 June 2025
1 – 14 September 2025
22 September – 5 October 2025
Byzantine art, a highly conceptual art created by a combination of mastering ancient techniques and preparing the artist’s body and mind for creative contemplation, is widely unknown to the West. Icons are intellectual and emotional bridges to the invisible world, while the sacred space becomes a stage for performing rituals of bonding between past, present and future.
The Art Of The Icon residency program includes an online introductory course into Byzantine art history, and its significance for contemporary conceptual art, Pop Art and major modern art movements, guided visits at Unesco sites, museums and Byzantine monuments, individual tips on Athens' secret addresses, a narrative, comics and video workshop in Athens, as well as curatorial and editorial advice for the realization of a creative video or comics or narrative.
A SHORT MOVIE ABOUT LOVE & OBJECTS
E-Residency and video project based on literature, Applied Art, movies
Participants’ videos will be screened at Grassimesse Leipzig in October 2025 and at SCHMUCK Munich Jewelry Week in March 2026. Artists' works will be publishes in a SMCK Magazine catalog
Application deadline: 29 June 2025
A SHORT MOVIE ABOUT LOVE & OBJECTS includes an e-Residency, video workshop, editing and production, screenings in two of the most prestigious Applied Art events, plus a catalogue in SMCK Magazine issue no.12.
The project matches the artist’s love story with a masterpiece of world literature. It gives the artist’s love story and work a new context, frame and perspective; it adds depth to the artist’s story and work, and presents it through different lenses, approaches and media.
GREEK EMBROIDERY RESIDENCY & WORKSHOP
5-Day Athens Residency & Workshop program for artists, designers, crafters, researchers.
The 5-day long intensive Greek Embroidery Residency program in Athens with textile artist Loukia Richard addresses artists, designers, crafters, art theorists or journalists, as well as amateur embroiderers who wish to explore Greek embroidery masterpieces, and master some of its most refined techniques.
Application deadline: 30 June 2025
Greek embroidery is a distinctive style in textile history, a sign language reflecting the cultural background, the trade exchange and the world view of civilizations flourishing in Eastern Mediterranean since time immemorial.
The Greek Embroidery Residency program covers 6,000 years of textile history through collections visits and lectures; it explains the visual traditions that build the alphabet of Greek embroidery; it teaches antique embroidery techniques, and shows how to design and stitch vibrant and eye-capturing motifs on textile. And it explores the experimental art, conceptual and social bonding uses of Greek embroidery.
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