Greece

ECHO Academies (ECHOAc) is an arts project that aims to foster young and emerging European artists by connecting them to heritage as a means and inspiration for their work. This open call is for an ECHO Academy focused on comics that will take place in Athens, Greece from 12 June – 2 July 2023. 

‘Handle with Care | Culture for Social Well-being’ is the 2023 edition of Culture Action Europe’s Beyond the Obvious gathering, taking place in Elefsina, Greece from 7-10 June 2023. 30 projects will be selected to present themselves in the Agora, an informal marketplace showcasing local and international/European projects working with the topics of care, community and individual well-being, health, mental health and culture.

Performing Life Akademia Network [PLANT] is a 2-year transdisciplinary project, funded by Creative Europe Programme, that aims to encourage the development and experimentation of contextual artistic and curatorial practices around cross-performing arts, eco-thinking and everyday life. PLANT is now calling for proposals for artistic projects to be developed through residencies of 1 year period, in the countries involved in the project (Portugal, Greece and Spain).

The project ETERIA – Enhance Transborder Experiences, Rebuild Interactions of Artists is calling for emerging and professional artists from Europe to participate in three hybrid online and in-person residencies involving masterclasses, activities, and rehearsals towards the realisation of a multilingual site-specific performance. Residencies will be held in 2023 and 2024 online and in Greece, Romania and Italy.

Onassis AiR, invites artists, curators, designers, dancers, chefs, gardeners, activists, writers, educators, legal advocates, performers, economists, architects, filmmakers and other practitioners from any medium of expression or discipline, from anywhere in the world, to apply for a Tailor-made Residency running between September 2023 and July 2024 in Athens, Greece.

ARTSFORMATION invites you to apply to the RESISTANCE Participatory Arts Productions scheme, which will take place in Lesvos, Greece between 11-21 April 2023. 10 artists will be selected to participate in a programme aimed at spurring the production of individual artworks that respond to the themes set out by ARTSFORMATION, as well as the challenges posed by Europe’s digital transformation. The programme is open to citizens of the European Economic Area (EEA). Swiss and UK citizens are also eligible.

As part of the European project Rewilding Cultures, The Ionian University is calling for applicants for the ‘TTTfellows: Art and Science Residency’, taking place 17-30 April 2023 online, and 1-16 May 2023 on the island of Corfu. The open call is for one artist and one scientist to collaborate with one another.

The G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation invites applications from Greek and international artists for the 2023 Art Prize. This year’s Art Prize calls for site-specific, large-scale wall-mounted works created to be part of a specific, configured environment; works which narrate an internal path/route; and which can be reference points-landmarks within their exhibition space. The selected works will be presented to the public in June 2023 and remain on permanent display at Minos Palace, in Agios Nikolaos, Crete.

The 5th Little Islands Festival in Sikinos, Greece invites new media and performing arts artists to submit proposals that engage with ecology, anthropology, and science in the enduring dialogue about the relationship between humanity and nature. This next edition of Litltle Islands Festival will take place for 4-6 days between mid-July and mid-August of 2023.

‘ECHO III: for memory’s sake’ is an arts and heritage project that aims to bring together artists working in the fields of theatre, music, visual arts, and literature in order to explore tradition and culture through the themes of marriage, arranged marriages and nuclear families in the Balkan context. ECHO III is looking for 24 artists, 6 Greek, 6 Romanian, 6 Bulgarian, 6 Albanian, working in the fields of theatre, music, visual arts, and literature to participate in the project with creation residencies and a short tour.

Artists from all arts disciplines are invited to apply for the new Art Futures fellowship programme, which includes a two-month residency in Athens during 2023.