Season 2025-2026 at Onassis Stegi - Annual Booklet in English

2025—2026

This year, the Onassis Foundation celebrates 50 years of life and contribution. Half a century’s worth of initiatives that have left their mark on education, healthcare, and culture. From the thousands of scholarships that opened paths for new generations to the network of Onassis Public Schools and the Onassis Hospital, the Foundation remains a catalyst for progress, with a decisive impact on society.

At the same time, the Onassis Stegi marks 15 years of presence in Athens and around the world, 15 years of innovation, boldness, and an alternative stance. A space that was never afraid to experiment, clash, and start conversations where there was silence.

This journey is not only artistic, but also social and political. The Onassis Stegi has become a free area, a refuge for views and voices that cannot be articulated elsewhere. An institution that defends diversity, embraces new ideas, and engages in equal dialogue with the world.

Within this framework, the annual theme for the 2025–2026 season is “Families.” Because family is not only the bonds of blood or the memories of childhood, but also the conflicts, the wounds, and the choices that shape us. These are the facets that artists will illuminate through their works, transforming them into moments to be shared by all, creators and audiences alike.

In a trying time, the Onassis Stegi invites us to stand together, to see art not only as spectacle but as an experience, not only as listening but as participation.

Guided by our history, we move into the next 15 years of the Onassis Stegi with the same faith in the power of art, society, and humanity. A living organism that grows, evolves, and continues to shape the future. We invite you to be part of this journey through this season’s productions and actions that open dialogue and build bonds of community.

Anthony S. Papadimitriou President of the Onassis Foundation

We love them, we can’t stand them, they love us, we reject them, we love them, they reject us./ they hurt us, we yell at them, we call them our folks, we look at old photos and our eyes well up, some of us try to make new ones to call “our own,” others don’t./ we hug, we fight over the family home, we get together in the holidays, and then regret we did it, we remember the dinners that went well since we laughed, we fall out over nothing, then make peace over everyday problems and start again./ but there’s also the other kind. We call them friends, we say they’re “like family to us,” “better than family.” They’re our chosen partners in life. The ones we picked, and who picked us./ something secret ties us to those we truly call family. It doesn’t have a name./ it really is a secret./

Afroditi Panagiotakou Artistic Director of the Onassis Foundation

THE S ECRET AGENT (O AGENTE S ECRETO)

JUERGEN TELLER: you are invited

ONA SSI S AiR FALL OPEN DAYS

WIM W ENDER S

OEDIPU S

LOVERS’ CHORUS

DIANE MORGAN

BULL’S HEART

ONA S SI S DANCE DAYS (ODD)

PRINCE BLUES

JUERGEN TELLER you are invited

EXHIBITION

With his signature gaze—honest, tender, yet always unpredictable—he has famously bridged fashion with contemporary art, establishing his own unique subversive style within popular culture. The exhibition you are invited marks a significant moment in Juergen Teller’s artistic oeuvre, which has been shaped by landmark events and encounters.

Over the past eight years, Teller has collaborated with his wife, Dovile Drizyte, on projects that reflect various aspects of their personal and professional relationship and the birth of their daughter. This exhibition provides a crucial opportunity to showcase important personal series, such as We Are Building our Future Together, The Myth, Guten Morgen Sonnenschein, and Symposium of Love, celebrating Teller’s renewed energy and the ongoing evolution of his creative journey.

While Teller has always made personal work, this exhibition demonstrates a new sense of purpose triggered by recent commissions, such as photographing Pope Francis in a women’s prison during the 2024 Venice Biennale and his invitation to photograph Auschwitz for the 80th anniversary of its liberation earlier this year.

These recent life-changing experiences have generated a deeper intensity regarding the way Teller responds to the world around him, forming profound connections and translating them into meaningful narratives. His resulting photographic and video works explore familial and universal stories of love, trust, hope, fertility, environment, politics, and religion. The cross-fertilization between fashion, art, and life is firmly embedded within his recent work, such as the road trip around historic churches in Italy for Harper’s Bazaar Italia Consequently, Teller’s heightened emotional bond with his subject matter embodies positivity, spiritual awareness, and a renewed attitude to life. you are invited brings together series, individual works, and videos, combining past works with new, unpublished images and series created especially for this exhibition. It includes seminal portraits (Iggy Pop, Alexander Skarsgård, Kurt Cobain, Kate Moss, Charlotte Rampling, Vivienne Westwood), still-lifes, landscapes, and intimate family moments.

As the most extensive solo exhibition of his work to date shown in Greece, this collaboration between Juergen Teller and Onassis Stegi reflects a shared belief that art can be both intimate and political, raw and poetic, personal and collective. The show will be presented in Athens from October 19 to December 30, 2025, at the industrial space of Onassis Ready in Rentis in a site-specific installation, designed by 6a architects. This former factory has been transformed into a site of experimentation, radical ideas, and dialogue between art and technology.

Through this partnership, you are invited opens up a space for dialogue between Teller’s emotionally charged universe and the contemporary realities of Greece, inviting a compelling encounter between the local and the global.

The renowned photographer Juergen Teller inaugurates Onassis Ready with a landmark exhibition that will be his largest solo show to date staged in Greece.

YORGOS LANTHIMOS: PHOTOGRAPHS

EXHIBITION

EXHIBITION HALL -1

Yorgos Lanthimos is celebrated for his world-building and absurdist explorations of human relationships, establishing him as one of the most distinctive auteurs in contemporary cinema. This exhibition at Onassis Stegi brings together three bodies of still photographs made over the course of the past five years, offering new perspectives and insight on this unique and singular visionary.

The show includes three photographic series. Two of them are born from the spaces of Lanthimos’ cinema, made on the fringes of film locations in New Orleans and Atlanta, and in the recreated cities built as sets on soundstages in Budapest. Many of the photographs appear in his recent books: Dear God, the Parthenon Is Still Broken (2024), comprised of photographs made during the filming of Poor Things (2023), and i shall sing these songs beautifully (2024), made alongside Kinds of Kindness (2024).

The third series is the first showing anywhere of works from an ongoing body of personal photographs made in his native Greece. Compiled during solitary walks around the edges of the city of Athens and on visits to islands in the Aegean Sea, Lanthimos brings a quiet, meditative eye to focus on the quotidian and mundane, harnessing the medium’s capacity for abstraction and transformation.

Across all of Lanthimos’ photography is a contemplative engagement with the banal and the familiar. He presents this matter-of-factness of subject matter with exquisite clarity and intimacy, representing the world as particular and complex. In a similar vein to his filmmaking, what emerges is a language that is a record of its own making, a luminous picture of phenomena.

The first-ever exhibition in Greece of photographs by the renowned director, producer, and screenwriter.

TILDA SWINTON Ongoing

EXHIBITION ONASSIS READY

The performer, visual artist, and fashion icon Tilda Swinton meets her longtime collaborators and friends in a singular, deeply personal exhibition at the Onassis Foundation’s new space, Onassis Ready. Director Luca Guadagnino creates an intimate new portrait of her in the form of a short film and a sculptural work. With re-edited footage, a new soundtrack, and manipulated imagery, Jim Jarmusch transforms scenes from his surreal zombie film, The Dead Don’t Die (2019), into an entirely new installation. Together with acclaimed fashion historian Olivier Saillard, Swinton will present a multiday performance that brings to life a unique wardrobe, featuring garments from her personal collection, film costumes, red-carpet looks, and family heirlooms. Photographer Tim Walker visited Swinton at her family home for a portrait series exploring lineage and the continuity of the place. Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul will create a meditative, immersive installation. Pedro Almodóvar presents The Human Voice (2020) for the first time as an installation. With her childhood friend and filmmaker Joanna Hogg, Swinton will unveil Flat 19, a multimedia reconstruction of her London apartment in the 1980s and an exploration of memory, space, and personal history.

Finally, Swinton pays tribute to one of her greatest influences, director Derek Jarman (1942–1994), with whom she collaborated on seven feature films. The exhibition is produced by Eye Filmmuseum in co-production with Onassis Culture.

Tilda Swinton, an iconic, daring performer and subversive visual artist, takes center stage in a personal exhibition that brings together new and past works by eight of her close artistic collaborators and friends: Pedro Almodóvar, Luca Guadagnino, Joanna Hogg, Derek Jarman, Jim Jarmusch, Olivier Saillard, Tim Walker, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. 02 05 → 14 06 26

(↑) Ruediger Glatz, (→) Swinton Archive

(↓) Credits

The exhibition is organised by Eye Filmmuseum in close collaboration with Tilda Swinton / The exhibition was developed in coproduction with Onassis Stegi – Athens / Eye Director: Bregtje van der Haak / Head of Exhibitions: Vincent van Velsen / Exhibitions Coordinator: Marente Bloemheuvel / Executive Producer and Project Manager: Julia Kozakiewicz / Project Manager: Reinier Klok / Technical Employee: Martijn Bor / Production of new works: Julia Kozakiewicz, Pinky Ghundale / Exhibition design: Claus Wiersma / Production Assistant: Sebastián Vásquez / Editor: Dan Walwin / Exhibition Texts: Vincent van Velsen, Tilda Swinton, Marente Bloemheuvel, Mariska Graveland / Technical Production: Rembrandt Boswijk, Indyvideo, Utrecht / Installation: Syb Sybesma, Surinamekade.nl, Amsterdam / Film Program: Anna Abrahams / Acknowledgements: Tilda Swinton · Tilda Swinton team: Christian Hodell, Sue Carls, Alexandra Stockley, Lewis Watson, Angus John Maclellan, Kasia Tabecka, Danny Watson, Katie Young, Jill Wild, and Tilda Swinton’s children, Honor & Xavier Swinton-Byrne · Pedro Almodóvar · Luca Guadagnino · Joanna Hogg · Derek Jarman · Jim Jarmusch · Olivier Saillard · Tim Walker · Apichatpong Weerasethakul · Sandro Kopp · The teams and representatives from the creative partners, including Bárbara Peiró Aso, Gloria Albanesi, Sofia Hallström, Stephane Collonge, Jovan Ajder, James Mackay, Carter Logan, Aymar Crosnier, Gael Mamine, Mod Kamonpan, Chatchai Suban (Boyd), Antonio Perricone, Jess Briscoe-Stagg, Zoé Guédard, Guy Chassaing · Jacqueline Lucas Palmer · Ruediger Glatz · Simon Fisher Turner · San Francisco Film Preserve · Irma Boom · Rizzoli Electa · Hannibal Books · Sandra den Hamer · Julian Ross · Mila Schlingemann · Marnix van Wijk

JULIEN GOSSELIN

LE PASSÉ

TEXT LEONID ANDREYEV

16 → 19 10 25

THEATER MAIN STAGE

An epic theatrical work that unfolds as a postmodern requiem for the 20th century, for love, and for humanism, featuring live cinematography and powerful performances by a seven-member cast. Created by the acclaimed French director and artistic director of the Odéon Théâtre de l’Europe in Paris.

“The future is the past,” declares Julien Gosselin, and in his first appearance at the Onassis Stegi, he invites us on a grand quest in search of lost time, humanism, and faith in beauty.

A director closely associated with the celebration of literature on stage since his early adaptations of Michel Houellebecq’s The Elementary Particles and Roberto Bolaño’s 2666, the now 38-year-old Gosselin draws inspiration for Le Passé from the short stories of Russian author Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919). His goal: “a tribute to extinct art and humanity.” Le Passé opens with a failed femicide, includes a shocking scene in which the ideal of first love is dismantled, and traces a series of extremes committed in the name of love. And yet, the production is crafted as a work of art. Period costumes and scenes reminiscent of Tarkovsky’s cinema, lit by candlelight, unfold in a house that is built and collapses, just like the relationships of its inhabitants. Snow-covered landscapes, evocative of the Flemish Renaissance painter Brueghel, coexist with live filming of the cast, who deliver consistently intense performances in a wrenching farewell ritual to love and, by extension, to humanity.

MATINÉE PERFORMANCE → SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, AT 14:00

Show not recommended for children under 15

(↓) Credits

Text: Leonid Andreyev / Adaptation & Direction: Julien Gosselin / With: Guillaume Bachelé, Joseph Drouet, Denis Eyriey, Carine Goron, Victoria Quesnel, Achille Reggiani, Maxence Vandevelde / Cameramen: Jérémie Bernaert, Baudouin Rencurel / Translation from Russian to French: André Markowicz / Set Design: Lisetta Buccellato / Dramaturgy: Eddy D’aranjo / Musical Creation: Guillaume Bachelé, Maxence Vandevelde / Lighting Designer: Nicolas Joubert / Video Designer: Pierre Martin Oriol / Sound Designer: Julien Feryn / Costume Designer: Caroline Tavernier, Valérie Simmoneau / Props: Guillaume Lepert / Masks: Lisetta Buccellato, Salomé Vandendriessche / Stage Direction Assistant: Antoine Hespel / General Stage Manager: Léo Thévenon / General & Stage Management: Simon Haratyk, Guillaume Lepert / Stage Management & Props: David Ferré / Lighting Operator: Zélie Champeau / Sound Operator: Hugo Hamman / Video Operator: David Dubost / Technical Trainees: Pierrick Guillou, Audrey Meunier / Set Construction & Painted Canvas: Workshop Devineau / With the team of Odéon Théâtre de l’Europe / Surtitles’ Translation from French to Greek: Louisa Mitsakou / Surtitling: Yannis Papadakis / Premiere: September 10, 2021, Théâtre national de Strasbourg / Production: Si vous pouviez lécher mon coeur / Co-production: Odéon Théâtre de l’Europe; Festival d’Automne à Paris; Le Phénix—Scène nationale Valenciennes—Pôle européen de création; Théâtre national de Strasbourg; Théâtre du Nord—Centre dramatique national Lille | Tourcoing, Hauts-de-France; Les Célestins, Théâtre de Lyon; Théâtre national populaire; Maison de la culture d’Amiens; L’Empreinte, Scène nationale Brive-Tulle; Château Rouge—Scène conventionnée d’Annemasse; Comédie de Genève; Wiesbaden Biennale; La passerelle—Scène nationale de Saint-Brieuc; Scène nationale d’Albi; Romaeuropa / Supported by the Ministry of Culture / With the artistic collaboration of Jeune théâtre national / With the support of Montévidéo, Centre d’art and T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers / Ékatérina Ivanovna and Requiem are published to Mesures editions (September 2021) / Duration: 4h30 (with intermission)

ONE CAN ONLY REST WHEN ONE IS ALONE

ONASSIS AiR

OPEN DAYS

The Onassis AiR Open Days return with renewed energy, inviting the public to experience a wide range of artistic practices and creative encounters. For two days, performances, screenings, talks, multimedia installations, and soundscapes come to life in the residency’s spaces behind the Onassis Stegi building in Neos Kosmos.

The Onassis AiR Open Days take place three times a year, showcasing works-in-progress by the current Onassis AiR Fellows. Each event is carefully tailored around the practices of the participating artists, focusing not on presenting a ‘final’ work, but on the creative process that leads to it.

Following last season’s warm reception by the public, with over 1,300 visitors, the Open Days continue, offering time and space for deeper engagement with the Onassis AiR Fellows and their projects. Through performances, screenings, talks, multimedia installations, and soundscapes, artists from around the world once again transform the Onassis AiR spaces into fields of experimentation.

Find out more about the events’ programming at onassis.org.

ROBERT ICKE OEDIPUS

BASED ON “OEDIPUS REX” BY SOPHOCLES

20 11 → 28 12 25

THEATER MAIN STAGE

STARRING

NIKOS KOURIS

KARYOFYLLIA KARABETI

Following a sold-out run in London’s West End and almost right alongside its Broadway premiere in New York, the Olivier Award-winning contemporary adaptation of Sophocles’ tragedy arrives at the Onassis Stegi. Robert Icke’s work grips and shakes you to the core. His Oedipus premieres in Athens, with a Greek cast, featuring Nikos Kouris and Karyofyllia Karabeti in the roles of Oedipus and Jocasta, respectively. What happens when everything you believed in collapses? When your very existence shatters before your eyes?

Election night. A capable leader, the frontrunner in the race. A countdown ticking toward triumph. The polls predict a landslide victory. Everything is about to change. We may know the story of Oedipus, but we could never have imagined this contemporary reading of the ancient myth.

“Oedipus will always haunt us. It is a story we cannot stop telling,” notes academic Simon Goldhill. Sophocles’ 428 BC tragedy on the relentless force of fate is reimagined through the contemporary lens of public image, personal responsibility, and the limits of human endurance. With unrelenting intensity, sardonic humor, and scenes that echo both political thriller and family tragedy, British playwright and director Robert Icke—known to Greek audiences from The Doctor and his adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984—returns with an Oedipus bound to spark discussion.

Alongside the leading duo, Alexandros Mylonas as Creon and Rania Oikonomidou as Merope (a character introduced by Icke) head an eleven-strong ensemble. Charged with political, erotic, and existential tension, this is the most electrifying version of the Oedipus myth ever imagined.

MATINÉE PERFORMANCES → SUNDAYS AT 14:00

ENGLISH SURTITLES → SUNDAYS, NOVEMBER 30, DECEMBER 14 & 28, 2025

ACCESSIBILITY SERVICES → DECEMBER 18, 19, & 20, 2025

Greek surtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing people

Audio description for people who are blind or have low vision

Tactile tours

In collaboration with the cultural organization liminal. Accessibility services are provided with the support of the Europe Beyond Access network, co-funded by the “Creative Europe” program of the European Union.

The text of the performance, published by Onassis Publications, will be available at the Onassis Shop and selected bookstores. (↓) Credits

Writer & Director: Robert Icke / Set: Hildegard Bechtler / Costumes: Wojciech Dziedzic / Lighting: Natasha Chivers / Associate Lightning: Charlotte Burton / Sound: Tom Gibbons / Associate Sound: Erwin Sterk / Video Design: Tal Yarden / Revival Director: Lizzie Manwaring / Originally produced by International Theater Amsterdam Greek Production Credits—Translation: Nikos Hatzopoulos / Associate Director: Prodromos Tsinikoris / Assistant to Revival Director: Korina Vasileiadou / Associate Set Designer: Mikaela Liakata / Props Manager: Athina Botonaki / Assistant to Set Designer: Maria Stathopoulou / Associate Costume Designer: Maria Karapouliou / Line Production: Zoe Mouschi & Rena Andreadaki / Cast (in alphabetical order): Danai-Arsenia Filidou, Chara Giota, Karyofyllia Karabeti, Nikos Kouris, Alexandros Mylonas, Kostas Nikouli, Rania Oikonomidou, Socratis Patsikas, Takis Sakellariou, Giannis Tsoumarakis, Giorgos Ziakas / Commissioned & Produced in Greece by Onassis Stegi

OEDIPUS:    I FEEL I’VE –DISAPPOINTED YOU, SOMEHOW JOCASTA:          OH NO – OH NO, NO, I AM SO PROUD OF YOU                 TONIGHT. BUT EVERY NIGHT BEFORE TONIGHT TOO, EVERY MINUTE.                 I WANT YOU TO KNOW IN THIS MOMENT THAT, THROUGH IT ALL, YOU WERE LOVED.

NOT WHAT YOU DID. NOT THE MARK YOU LEFT. YOU. I LOVE – YOU, FOR YOU.*

TIAGO RODRIGUES

LOVERS’ CHORUS

04 12 25 → 18 01 26

UPPER STAGE ONASSIS STEGI & 22 → 25 01 26

THESSALONIKI CONCERT HALL

WITH NIKOS KARATHANOS MARISHA TRIANTAFYLLIDOU THEATER

Following rave reviews and a truly heartfelt response from audiences, the Portuguese creator’s hymn to love returns—after last year’s sold-out run at the Onassis Stegi Upper Stage—for a limited number of performances. The two Greek lead actors become one in an unforgettable encounter.

“A unique theatrical experience that will leave its mark on the Athenian stage.” “A theatrical gem that in its own way calls for a broader humanism, a political, ecological, and personal way of life, which advocates for genuine love.” “An interpretive tour de force by Nikos Karathanos and Marisha Triantafyllidou.”

A performance of surprising tenderness, intensity, humor, and emotion, Lovers’ Chorus received glowing reviews last season and now returns as part of the Onassis Stegi three-part tribute to Tiago Rodrigues for a limited run in Athens and Thessaloniki.

Artistic director of the Festival d’Avignon and creator of Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists, which was presented at the Onassis Stegi in 2023, Tiago Rodrigues directs, in collaboration with the artistic director of the National Theatre of Greece, Argyro Chioti, the actors Nikos Karathanos and Marisha Triantafyllidou. The performance also features lighting design by Rui Monteiro and set and costume design by Magda Bizarro, who is in charge of the Festival d’Avignon’s international artistic programming.

A couple in the middle of the night. “I can’t breathe,” she says. “She can’t breathe,” he repeats. They rush to the car and head to the hospital. The play of the Portuguese writer and director already grabs us from the very first phrases.

Lovers’ Chorus pulls us into the heart of the relationship between two people as they step on the threshold of a life-and-death experience. And from there, into the course of their shared life, a “together forever” that stands against time and corrosion.

This is Rodrigues’ debut theatrical work, and his most autobiographical one, which he began writing in 2006 and completed in 2020.

MATINÉE PERFORMANCES → SUNDAYS AT 17:00

The text of the performance translated into Greek was published by Onassis Publications and is available at the Onassis Shop and selected bookstores.

(↓) Credits

Text & Direction: Tiago Rodrigues / With Nikos Karathanos and Marisha Triantafyllidou / Artistic Collaboration: Argyro Chioti / Lighting Design: Rui Monteiro / Artistic Assistant, Set, & Costumes: Magda Bizarro / Translation into Greek: Maria Papadima / Assistant to the Set & Costume Designer: Margarita Tzannetou / Line Production: Zoe Mouschi & Rena Andreadaki / Commissioned & Produced in Greece by Onassis Stegi / Thanks to Cláudia Gaiolas, Tónan Quito, Alma Palacios, Océane Caïraty, David Geselson, Grégoire Monsaingeon, Thomas Walgrave

so many things I could still say the hitmen storm the mansion they pass by the fountain with the neon pink sign that says the world is yours and where do we begin? and do we have time for everything?

we need another room but houses are so expensive the hitmen storm the mansion they pass by the fountain with the neon pink sign that says the world is yours and do we have time for everything? and where do we begin?

there is still time we must watch the al pacino movie we must watch it till the end yesterday we fell asleep halfway through I love you

there is still time for you to get well there is still time for you to get angry at my clothes that smell of cigarettes there is still time for us to drink our coffees and for you to ask for the cup to be brought to us full there is still time for us to scandalize the café goers with your giggles there is still time for us to complain that the money isn’t enough there is still time to decide who will get up to give milk to our daughter there is still time until the day comes when my clothes will no longer smell of cigarettes there is still time plenty of time to make love with the lights on

ONASSIS DANCE DAYS

ODD

05 → 08 02 26

DANCE

MAIN STAGE, UPPER STAGE, EXHIBITION HALL -1

This year’s contemporary dance festival at the Onassis Stegi invites us into the familiar fields of ancestral lands and the unfamiliar landscapes of our darkest dreams, embracing paradox as second nature. After all, there are many family secrets left unspoken at the Sunday dinner table.

The Onassis Dance Days (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?

The festival’s centerpiece this year is NÔT, an international co-production of the Onassis Stegi by Portuguese choreographer Marlene Monteiro Freitas; an unconventional ritual that breaks apart form and reconstructs collective experience through the ecstatic physicality of its eight performers. Among the works featured, we will also see productions emerging from the research of last year’s Onassis AiR Fellows, Efthymis Moschopoulos and Katerina Foti.

Some of the choreographies resemble family photo albums: at times tender, at times strange, sometimes truthful, sometimes entirely fictitious. They search for the cracks, the imprints, and the subconscious traces of family, whether biological or invented, as well as places of origin, both real and imagined. This year’s ODD invites audiences into a transformative experience, where familiarity meets the uncanny, and where the body remembers, forgets, and invents new kinships.

(↓) Credits

Curatorial Direction:

MARLENE MONTEIRO FREITAS

NÔT

NÔT means ‘night’ in the Cape Verdean Creole language. The performance that stunned audiences at the 79th Festival d’Avignon unfolds as a ritual outburst of everything you hold inside: the absurd, the repressed, the irreconcilable. Inspired by One Thousand and One Nights and steeped in ecstasy, it is this year’s international production of Onassis Dance Days.

NÔT is a night like no other: bacchic, orgiastic, ritualistic, strange, unforgettable. A night filled with acts of violence, pleasure, and survival. Because darkness hides stories, and this night has many to whisper. Drawing constant inspiration from the carnivalesque, from the sacred and the grotesque, the tragic and the sardonic, Marlene Monteiro Freitas—one of the most explosive figures of the contemporary stage, awarded the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale (2018) and honored at major festivals such as Festival d’Automne (Paris, 2022) and Brandhaarden (Amsterdam, 2025), as well as an Onassis AiR Fellow for the 2024–25 season—brings to Onassis Dance Days her latest production which opened the Festival d’Avignon in 2025 and became one of its most talked-about events.

Ecstatic dances and bodies in frenzy, with magical masks on their faces, in a fenced-in set that becomes the enchanted valley of a dream, filled with white beds and blood-stained sheets, where knives transform into percussion instruments. Here, chaos is not disorder but a path toward a new order. NÔT is a transcendent, hypnotic choreographic narrative, full of fragments of dream visions and nightmares. Like a memory from One Thousand and One Nights and Scheherazade’s act of survival, telling unfinished stories each night to her femicidal king-husband to escape death. Through this indirect reference, Freitas presents NÔT as an absurd hymn to freedom. It does not seek to explain but to etch impressions, like dreams do.

(↓) Credits

Choreography: Marlene Monteiro Freitas / Choreography Assistance: Francisco Rolo / With: Ben Green, Henri “Cookie” Lesguillier, Joãozinho da Costa, Mariana Tembe, Marie Albert, Miguel Filipe, Rui Paixão, Tomás Moital / Set Design: Yannick Fouassier, MMF / Lights and Technical Direction: Yannick Fouassier / Costumes: MMF, Marisa Escaleira / Sound: Rui Antunes / Stage Management: Ana Luísa Novais / Special Stage Prop: Cláudio Silva / Set Design internship: Emma Ait-Kaci / Artistic Consultancy: João Figueira, Martin Valdés-Stauber / Production: P.OR.K. / Diffusion: Key Performance / Co-producers: Festival d’Avignon (Avignon, FR); Berliner Festspiele (Berlin, DE); International Summer Festival Kampnagel (Hamburg, DE); Culturgest—Lisboa (Lisbon, PT); MC2: Maison de la Culture de Grenoble—Scène nationale (Grenoble, FR); Le Quartz—Scène Nationale de Brest (Brest, FR); La Comédie de ClermontFerrand scène nationale (Clermont-Ferrand, FR); Maison de la danse, Lyon—Pôle européen de creation (Lyon, FR); La Villette—Paris (Paris, FR); La Comédie de Genève & La Bâtie—Festival de Genève (Geneva, CH); Onassis Stegi (Athens, GR); Teatro Municipal do Porto (Porto, PT); Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels, BE); PACT Zollverein (Essen, DE) / Residencies support: O Espaço do Tempo; Alkantara; OPART, E.P.E./ESTÚDIOS VICTOR CÓRDON; Onassis AiR; MC2: Maison de la Culture de Grenoble—Scène nationale; International Summer Festival Kampnagel / Institutional support: Dançando com a Diferença / Acknowledgements: Carlos Duarte, Atelier MC2 Grenoble / The dramaturgical research of NÔT was supported by Onassis AiR in 2025

STEGI.RADIO

For the third year in a row, the Onassis Stegi web radio takes over the entire building with two explosive nights celebrating desire, inclusivity, and the liberating power of clubbing. Contemporary electronic music, emerging DJs from Greece and beyond, and intensity. A community sharing the same dancefloor.

DIO TAkEOVER

Desire becomes rhythm, and the Onassis Stegi transforms into a space of imagination, disruption, and reunion. The festival that changed how we experience electronic music in the city returns to deconstruct and rebuild everything we thought we knew about it. On February 13 and 14, STEGI.RADIO Takeover 2026 transforms the Onassis Stegi into a musical stage of new and unexpected experiences: a celebration of openness, desire, and the liberating, inclusive forms of clubbing. From Detroit techno ambassador Carl Craig and the iconic Moodymann to the radical MC Yallah and the king of dabke-techno Omar Souleyman, the Takeover returns with local and international artists from across the global electronic scene and a lineup ready to fill every corner of the Onassis Stegi with bold energy and unpredictable musical encounters.

(↓) Credits Artistic Direction: Voltnoi & Quetempo (STEGI.RADIO), Akis Chontasis

Part of STEGI.RADIO Takeover 2026 is carried out within the framework of the European project TMLAB, co-funded by the “Creative Europe” program of the European Union.

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Co-funded by

BORDERLINE FESTIVAL

03 → 04 04 26

MUSIC ONASSIS READY

The Onassis Stegi electronic music festival returns for a second year at Onassis Ready. Nothing can prepare you for what’s about to happen.

The ultimate talk of the town is back. A volatile mix of explosive, unpredictable elements once again takes over the industrial space of Onassis Ready, as the STEGI.RADIO festival dives even deeper into stormy sonic landscapes, exploring the boundaries between experimentation and new club forms. Two days, dozens of DJ sets and live acts, and a venue that pulses like a living organism. Borderline Festival 2026 reaffirms its mission: to redefine the way we experience electronic music in Athens. Stay tuned for the festival program at onassis.org.

(↓) Credits Artistic Direction: Voltnoi & Quetempo (STEGI.RADIO), Akis Chontasis

Part of Borderline Festival 2026 is carried out within the framework of the European projects TMLAB & 25av, co-funded by the “Creative Europe” program of the European Union.

Within the framework of

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MARIANO PENSOTTI

A VORACIOUS SHADOW

The internationally acclaimed Argentinian director and writer presents his latest work, adapted to Greek, featuring award-winning young actors Yiannis Niarros and Kostas Nikouli as climbers, actors, and sons living under the “voracious shadow” of a mountain, a career, and a father. Memory, identity, and fatherhood. On the Onassis Stegi Upper Stage.

One experience, two versions. A mountaineer who lived through an incredible ordeal on a mountain. And an actor who portrayed his story on film. Mariano Pensotti returns to Onassis Stegi for his third staging, offering a narrative charged with intensity and tenderness, unrelenting suspense and biting sarcasm. Fathers and sons. Ascents and falls. Icebergs, ghosts, the truth and its cinematic retelling, shocking revelations and comic twists, all brought to life by the tour de force duet of Yiannis Niarros and Kostas Nikouli, in their first theatrical collaboration.

Following a premiere in Avignon in 2024 and its distinct versions in Austria and Argentina, two actors in Greece now take the stage to speak about, among other things, as Pensotti characteristically puts it, “missing fathers whose children mythologize and present fathers whose children despise. Just as climate change is melting the world’s ice, time seems to undo the myths that families forge around them.”

The experiences that divided us, the shared journeys that united us, our desires and hardships, truth and fiction, all set against a story that ties human lives together with an unbreakable bond. Drawing inspiration from Stendhal, Balzac, and Tolstoy, Pensotti set out to write a play resembling an unattainable novel, a story that contains a palimpsest of other stories, like cracks opening pathways to forgotten lives and unspoken truths. Because the ascent of a mountain and the making of a film ultimately become an existential challenge: to confront height and embrace depth.

MATINÉE PERFORMANCES → SUNDAYS AT 17:00

ENGLISH SURTITLES → SUNDAYS, MARCH 15 & 29, AND APRIL 19, 2026

(↓) Credits

Text & Direction: Mariano Pensotti / With: Yiannis Niarros and Kostas Nikouli / Set & Costume Design: Mariana Tirantte / Music & Sound: Diego Vainer / Artistic Consultant & Production: Florencia Wasser / Lighting: David Seldes / Dramaturgy: Aljoscha Begrich / Translation into Greek: Maria Chatziemmanouil / Associate Director: Yolanda Markopoulou / Line Production: POLYPLANITY Productions / Production of the original version: Festival d’Avignon / In co-production with Wiener Festwochen | Free Republic of Vienna / Commissioned & Produced in Greece by Onassis Stegi / Supported by the Onassis Stegi Touring Program

–IT’S UNBELIEVABLE HOW MUCH YOU’VE ENDED UP RESEMBLING YOUR FATHER…

–YOU THINK SO? I ALWAYS SAW MYSELF AS VERY DIFFERENT.*

GIANNIS AGGELAKAS

THE LITTLE PRINCE BLUES

12 03 → 26 04 26

MUSIC — THEATER MAIN STAGE

DIRECTORIAL OVERSIGHT YORGOS GOUSSIS

The legend of the Greek rock scene returns after Nekyia with a new performance-experience. An electrified ode to the prince we all once loved, directed by the award-winning creator of Magnetic Fields.

Nekyia began as a friendly chat between Giannis Aggelakas and Olia Lazaridou, and in 2023, with both on stage and under the direction of Christos Papadopoulos, it premiered at the Onassis Stegi, sold out, was published as a book, and traveled to Amsterdam and Thessaloniki.

The Little Prince Blues began even earlier; back in Aggelakas’ teenage years, when he first discovered Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince. A book he kept on his shelf with the cover always facing outward. To remember. To not forget that “all grown-ups were once children… but only a few of them remember it.” Or, as he puts it, “A world cut off from its childhood is lifeless, frightening, and bleak.”

Aggelakas envisioned the stage version of the famous 1943 book as a kind of blues, a long, resonant pulse, at times melancholic, at times celebratory, paying tribute to Pavlos Sidiropoulos and his iconic album The Prince’s Blues. Like an electromagnetic wave of words, music, and songs that move through soul and body, through earthly wars and interplanetary journeys, through the Pilot and the Little Prince, through the musicians and performers on stage, and the audience itself.

With Aggelakas himself in the leading role and award-winning filmmaker Yorgos Goussis (Magnetic Fields) directing, the stage becomes a universe made of words and thoughts that flash with light—a performance that affirms life, love, and friendship. Because by now we all know:

“You can only see well with your heart. The essence of things is invisible to the eye.”

MATINÉE PERFORMANCES → SUNDAYS AT 14:00

ENGLISH SURTITLES → SUNDAYS, MARCH 22, APRIL 5 & 19, 2026

ACCESSIBILITY SERVICES → MARCH 26, 27, & 28, 2026

Greek surtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing people

Audio description for people who are blind or have low vision

Tactile tours

In collaboration with the cultural organization liminal. Accessibility services are provided with the support of the Europe Beyond Access network, co-funded by the “Creative Europe” program of the European Union.

The text of the performance, published by Onassis Publications, will be available at the Onassis Shop and selected bookstores.

(↓) Credits

Translation into Greek: Stratis Tsirkas / Concept, Original Music, & Artistic Supervision: Giannis Aggelakas / Directorial Oversight: Yorgos Goussis / Free Adaptation & Original Lyrics: Giannis Aggelakas, Theodora Kapralou / Arrangement: Giannis Aggelakas, Coti K. / Dramaturgical Editing: Yorgos Goussis, Andonis Tsiotsiopoulos / Set Design: Loukas Bakas / Lighting Design: Eliza Alexandropoulou / Visuals & Animation: Aristotelis Maragkos / Movement Supervision: Alexandra Kazazou / Costumes: Katerina Zoura / Director Assistant: Anna Nikolaou / Production Management: Kassie Kafetsi / Musicians—Coti K.: sound production, bass & electronics | Nikos Giousef: musical saw | Periklis Tsoukalas: ‘Medusa’ (custom electric, baritone string instrument inspired by the Cümbüş), alternative tuning electric guitar with effects | Konstantinos Zambos: percussion, synths | Dimitris Saleapakis: sounds generation, pre-recorded modular synthesizer / Narration & Vocals: Giannis Aggelakas, Nadia Katsoura, Nadia Baiba, Irini Bountali / Line Production: ΠLANKTON—Konstantinos Koukoulis, Wild Rose Productions—Giorgis Dragatakis, Evangelia Petraki / Premiere: Onassis Stegi / Commissioned & Produced by Onassis Stegi / Supported by the Onassis Stegi Touring Program

LA DISTANCE

07 → 10 05 26

THEATER MAIN STAGE

Year 2077. A father. A daughter. He’s on Earth. She’s on Mars. Humanity stands at a breaking point, and so does their relationship. How many miles can this love traverse? The performance that moved Avignon comes to the Onassis Stegi Main Stage.

Tiago Rodrigues, one of the great storytellers of contemporary theater, delivers a love letter to family in his latest work. A bond that stretches across planets, environmental collapse, and lifetimes. A voice message sent into infinity. Then another, and another. Each transmission is more powerful than memory, vaster than distance. Two lives orbit on a rotating stage, far apart yet closer than ever.

Half a century from now, humanity teeters on the edge of survival. As life on Earth becomes increasingly fragile, a part of the population has relocated to Mars, striving to establish new systems of living and coexisting. Tiago Rodrigues tells the story of a father who chooses to stay behind, on Earth, unwilling to let go of a disappearing world, and a daughter who chooses Mars, embracing a future yet to be conceived. Though 225 million kilometers apart, as Rodrigues puts it, “by talking about distance, we also discover proximity. […] This dissonance between a collective goal and the reality of political and economic powers is one of the paradoxes of our time. How will we explain this to future generations… It will be the symptom of what we are as a species: a profound contradiction between our immense capacity for creation and our sense of destruction. […] La Distance reflects on the titanic task awaiting us over the next fifty years. But I feel it like someone who, after reading an encyclopedia, finally writes a sonnet. It is an amplification through the miniature.”

Rodrigues’ La Distance is an interplanetary stage in motion. Two relatives in parallel orbit. An unseen thread connecting generations. A moving elegy about memory, existential tension, parenthood, and the emancipation of children. A profoundly human performance celebrating the vastness of the universe and of love. Two worlds that, ultimately, become one.

MATINÉE PERFORMANCE → SUNDAY, MAY 10, AT 14:00

(↓) Credits

Text & Direction: Tiago Rodrigues / With: Alison Dechamps and Adama Diop / Translation: Thomas Resendes / Scenography: Fernando Ribeiro / Costumes: José António Tenente / Lighting: Rui Monteiro / Music & Sound: Pedro Costa / Artistic Collaboration: Sophie Bricaire / Assistant Director: André Pato / Assistant Trainee Director: Thomas Medioni / Production: Festival d’Avignon / Coproduction: Teatro stabile di Napoli—Teatro Nazionale (Naples); Onassis Stegi (Athens); La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand scène nationale; Divadlo International Theatre Festival (Plzeň); Le Volcan, Scène nationale du Havre; Teatre Lliure (Barcelona); Centro Dramatico Nacional (Madrid); Malakoff scène nationale—Théâtre 71; Culturgest (Lisbon); De Singel (Antwerp); Équinoxe—Scène nationale de Châteauroux; Points communs—Nouvelle scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise / Val d’Oise; Piccolo Teatro di Milano—Teatro d’Europa (Milan); Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg—Scène européenne; NTCH Taiwan—National Theater and Concert Hall; Les Célestins, Théâtre de Lyon; Théâtre du Bois de l’Aune (Aix-en-Provence); Théâtre de Grasse—Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national—Art & Création; Scènes et Cinés, Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national—Art en territoire (Istres); Le Bateau Feu—Scène nationale de Dunkerque; Plovdiv Drama Theatre; Malta Festival (Poznań); Espace 1789 (Saint-Ouen) / With the support of the integration program of the École du TNB (Théâtre national de Bretagne at Rennes) / Set Construction: Ateliers du Festival d’Avignon / Residency: La FabricA du Festival d’Avignon / Acknowledgements: Marie Azevedo, doctoral researcher in planetary sciences at the University of Bern and member of the CaSSIS team for the ExoMars mission; Magda Bizarro; Beatriz Rodrigues; the Festival d’Avignon teams; Odéon Théâtre de l’Europe (Paris) / Duration: approx. 1 hour and 45 minutes / Year of creation: 2025

BY HEART

MAIN STAGE

In a world where we mostly memorize numbers, passwords, and PINs, what place is there for a performance built around ten people learning a Shakespeare sonnet by heart? A moving monologue by the Portuguese creator, joined on stage by ten volunteers from the audience.

“Once 10 people know a poem by heart, there’s nothing the KGB, the CIA, or the Gestapo can do about it. It will survive,” said George Steiner. Tiago Rodrigues reminds us of this with the minimal, yet powerful By Heart, the final work in this year’s Onassis tribute to the Portuguese creator.

The stage is bare. There are only ten chairs and crates filled with books. They await the ten volunteer audience members Rodrigues invites to the stage at the start of the performance. Ten years after its first presentation at the Onassis Stegi, By Heart returns with its writer-director now as actor-narrator, unfolding a chronicle of personal and communal stories while teaching—live and in Greek—a sonnet by William Shakespeare.

The turmoil of the 20th century, as well as the lives and words of great writers such as Nobel laureate Boris Pasternak, Ray Bradbury, George Steiner, and Joseph Brodsky, interweave with personal narratives, most notably that of Tiago’s grandmother, as she gradually lost her sight. A heartfelt and literally “by heart” confession in defense of our minds and souls—the safest hiding place for free thought, for forbidden texts, for the words and stories we want to shape our world. A cultural safeguard, even in the hardest of times.

An ode to the power of poetry, memory, and freedom.

(↓) Credits

Written, Directed, and Performed by Tiago Rodrigues / English translation: Tiago Rodrigues, revised by Joana Frazão / Extracts and quotations from William Shakespeare, Ray Bradbury, George Steiner, and Joseph Brodsky / Scenography, Costumes, and Props: Magda Bizarro / General Manager: André Pato / Executive Production: Festival d’Avignon / Based on an original creation by the company Mundo Perfeito / Co-production: O Espaço do Tempo, Maria Matos Teatro Municipal / With the support of Camões Centre culturel portugais à Paris for the 77th edition of the Festival d’Avignon / Support for creation: Governo de Portugal—DGArtes / Executive production of the original creation: Magda Bizarro, Rita Mendes / Duration: 1 hour and 45 minutes / Year of creation: 2013

WE HAVE LEARNED THROUGHOUT THE 20TH CENTURY THAT THEY CAN TAKE EVERYTHING AWAY FROM US.

OUR HOUSE. OUR FAMILY. OUR LIVELIHOOD. WE HAVE LEARNED THAT WE ARE ALL WANDERERS IN THIS WORLD. WE ARE ALL PREYS READY TO BE HUNTED.*

THE SECRET AGENT

(O AGENTE SECRETO)

DIRECTED BY

KLEBER MENDONCA FILHO ,

02 10 25 GREEK PREMIERE

CINEMA MAIN STAGE

One of the most important films of 2025, lauded with the Best Direction and Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival, arrives at the Onassis Stegi for its Greek premiere, as part of the collaboration between the Athens International Film Festival, Onassis Culture, and Spentzos Film.

In 1977, during the Brazilian dictatorship, a forty-year-old man with an obscure past and dubious intentions, seemingly moving under the shadow of some threat, arrives in the city of Recife. His arrival triggers a political thriller, with which the creator of the films Aquarius and Bacurau invites us to an experience made for the big screen and the collective magic of the cinema theater.

Kleber Mendonça Filho maintains absolute control over his narrative; he integrates elements of different film genres and references into a solid unit; and, behind suspense tropes and social records, he brings the film to a broader level: He delivers an homage to the power of cinema to restore truth, to keep memory alive, and to render an experience that also knows how to preserve recollections over time, in the same way it creates them.

DIRECTED BY

ROMAIN GAVRAS

SPRING 2026

An environmental conference is disrupted, first by celebrities and then by eco-terrorists. Chris Evans, Anya Taylor-Joy, Vincent Cassel, Salma Hayek Pinault, John Malkovich, Ambika Mod, Charli XCX, and Jonatan “Yung Lean” Leandoer star in the new film by the Greek-French director, a satirical action-adventure shot in Greece and co-produced by Onassis Culture.

Following its world premiere in Toronto, Romain Gavras’ new film will be presented for the first time in Greece at the Onassis Stegi. In Sacrifice, Joan (Anya Taylor-Joy) and her siblings, driven by a mysterious volcanic prophecy, believe it is their duty to cleanse the Earth. Their radical group hijacks a glamorous charity gala and takes three unlikely hostages for a sacrificial ritual: their hero, movie star Mike Tyler (Chris Evans); their villain, pragmatically cold billionaire Ben Bracken (Vincent Cassel); and their lover, an unlucky performer named Katie (Ambika Mod). As the night descends into chaos, both an inward journey and an outward adventure ensue, where the line between performance and belief, salvation and sacrifice, begins to blur.

Thought-provoking, visually arresting, and powered by a kinetic original script co-written with Will Arbery (Succession), Romain Gavras’ English-language debut, Sacrifice, is a satirical action-adventure and visually explosive epic led by a magnetic star-studded ensemble, also featuring Salma Hayek Pinault, Yung Lean, and Charli XCX. Onassis Culture is proud to be part of the film, continuing its creative collaboration with Romain Gavras that began with Gener8ion and Athena

BROKEN V EIN

DIRECTED BY

YANNIS

ECONOMIDES

24 11 25

CINEMA MAIN STAGE

like a gut punch; a breathtaking contemporary urban drama.

Thomas Alexopoulos, a middle-aged businessman, owes money to the local loan shark and desperately seeks help. He’s running out of time to save his home, and he feels suffocated from the pressure of the situation. On the brink of disaster, a simple last-minute plan seems to be the only salvation to his problem. Broken Vein is a pure and solid urban drama with tragic characters set in a gray universe that looks like a minefield. Sprung forth from the loins of the immense tradition of ancient Greek tragedies, the film bridges the past with the present to revisit concepts such as Ethos, Hubris, Destiny, Shame, Immodesty, Voluntary and Involuntary Crime. At the heart of it all lies an unchanging truth—the lonely, tragic nature of man, a poignant reminder of our shared fate at the end of life’s frenetic journey. The film stars Vasilis Bisbikis, Maria Kechagioglou, Betty Arvaniti, and Yiannis Niarros, while the script is co-written by Yannis Economides and actor Vangelis Mourikis. The film, a co-production of Onassis Culture, will premiere at the Onassis Stegi shortly before its official release in Greek theaters.

BULL’S HEART

STEFΑΝI

JANUARY 2026

CINEMA MAIN STAGE

Can art give meaning to our lives? Turning her camera on Dimitris Papaioannou, Eva Stefani follows the inception and trajectory of Transverse Orientation step by step as the show travels to different theatrical stages around the world.

Filmmaker Eva Stefani follows the preparations behind Transverse Orientation and its tour across theatrical stages, observing from a close distance Dimitris Papaioannou and his collaborators in their effort to give shape and breathe life into the work. For two years, her camera captured scenes from the rehearsals at the Onassis Stegi during the pandemic, as well as performances in Paris, London, Vilnius, and other international destinations, leading to the last show in San Francisco.

The film explores the dynamics created from a work of art, revealing moments of anxiety, uncertainty, and profound trust that define the world of rehearsals—the hope that arises in times of crisis, and the transformation of loss into creation. With insatiable curiosity and a wondrous gaze, Dimitris Papaioannou brings the representation of the human body on stage, striving to capture every movement, every emotion. In turn, Eva Stefani captures Dimitris himself with her cinematic gaze, recording his creative process. Bull’s Heart is not just a documentary about a performance or an artist, but a study on the very nature of creation. Besides, as Dimitris Papaioannou says in one of the film’s scenes: “The joy of art is that it gives you the sense that there is something beyond the life you are living.”

The film was lauded with the WIFT GR (Women in Film and Television) Award and the Special Award by the Youth Jury Award of Thessaloniki University Students at the 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival. In the fall of 2025, it will be screened at the major international festivals Doclisboa and Doc NYC, and will have its Athenian premiere at the Onassis Stegi shortly before its release in Greek cinemas. With the support

HOW TO SHOOT A GHOST

DIRECTED BY

CHARLIE KAUFMAN

10 12 25

CINEMA MAIN STAGE

Following its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, the new short by the great 21st-century filmmaker Charlie Kaufman will be screened for the first time in Greece at the Onassis Stegi. A haunting Athens constructed from fragments of memory, archival material, and captivating images.

The award-winning director of Synecdoche, New York and Anomalisa, as well as Oscar-winning screenwriter of Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Charlie Kaufman, filmed How to Shoot a Ghost in Athens. The film explores mortality both as a fact and a metaphor, and is the second part of a diptych—following Jackals & Fireflies—both written by poet Eva H.D. In the film, two newly dead ghosts roam the streets of Athens, drifting through the pulsing cityscape and the lingering echoes of history. They were outsiders in life: he, a queer Lebanese translator; she, a half-Irish photographer. As they wander the city together, they find solace in the difficult beauty of life—and what comes after.

Regarding his choice of Athens as the film’s backdrop, Kaufman explains: “Athens is a city in which the bones of history are always on display—whether it’s the living scars from the dictatorship of the 1970s or the presence of monuments that stood during the plague that wiped out so many citizens two thousand years ago. It is the perfect location to explore the tangle of past and present, and how the policies and longings of the dead go on living within us.”

How to Shoot a Ghost is an Unmade, Soft Focus Films, and Monarch Kaleidoscope production, coproduced with Green Olive Films, in association with Nightjar Films and Liaison Pictures, with the support of Onassis Culture and the participation of the Athens Film Office and the Municipality of Athens, starring Jessie Buckley and Josef Akiki, with cinematography by Michał Dymek and additional cinematography by Giorgos Koutsaliaris. The film had its world premiere at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival, and it will be screened for the first time in Greece at Onassis Stegi.

GORGONΑ

DIRECTED BY

EVI KALOGIROPOULOU

CINEMA MAIN STAGE

Evi Kalogiropoulou’s debut feature comes to the Onassis Stegi, after its international premiere at the Venice Film Festival Critics’ Week. An exhilarating film made with feminine drive and neon labels that illuminate the darkness we live in.

Following her Cannes-awarded short On Xerxes’ Throne, Onassis Culture supports the director’s debut feature. Gorgonà unfolds in a timeless dystopian future, in a patriarchal city-state plagued by violence and environmental pollution. Two women rebel, fighting for their freedom and identity, becoming symbols of resistance and transformation.

Gorgonà expands Kalogiropoulou’s body of work, which consistently explores themes of exclusion and inclusion, multicultural identity, female presence through the lens of ancient Greek mythology, and postapocalyptic landscapes. Produced by Neda Film, Gorgonà is a co-production of Onassis Culture, Blonde, Blue Monday Productions, Kidam, Greek National Television [ERT], Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center, and Authorwave, with international sales handled by Playtime. The cast includes Melissanthi Mahut, Aurora Marion, Christos Loulis, Kostas Nikouli, Stavros Svigkos, Errika Bigiou, Niki Vakali, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Stella Kazazi, Ksenia Dania, Erifyli Kitzoglou, Myrto Kontoni, Nayla Gougni, Hercules Tsuzinov, and Vasilis Mihas. Gorgonà had its world premiere at Venice Film Festival’s Critics’ Week, the festival’s parallel competitive section showcasing filmmakers from across the globe.

German filmmaker. Poet of the open road. Four-time Oscar nominee. Onassis Stegi presents a three-day tribute to Wim Wenders, the most emblematic European director of his generation, from 1970 to today, along with a conversation with Afroditi Panagiotakou on the Main Stage.

Wim Wenders films the world as if seeing it for the first time. From Paris, Texas to Perfect Days, the universe of this great German filmmaker does not move at the pace of everyday life but leaves time for wandering. His characters do not speak much; they observe the small and the immense around them. His films allow audiences to breathe, and this tribute to his life and work reminds us that the essence of living is often found in silences, glances, and journeys. Following the paths of wanderers searching for themselves, from Hamburg to Hollywood, from harsh realities to the enchanting landscapes of dreams, Wenders arrives in his uniquely singular way on the Main Stage of the Onassis Stegi.

Wenders became internationally renowned in 1984 with the release of Paris, Texas, co-written with Sam Shepard. This melodramatic story of a man in the American Southwest who feels physically and spiritually shattered won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Three years later, Wenders received the Best Director Award at Cannes for the hauntingly beautiful Der Himmel über Berlin (a.k.a. Wings of Desire), in which angels wander through contemporary Berlin. The film’s sequel, In weiter Ferne, so nah! (1993, a.k.a. Faraway, So Close!), continued the story of these celestial wanderers.

DIANE MORGAN

01 26

TALK MAIN STAGE

Actress, screenwriter, and director, with a fascinating career. Diane Morgan comes to the Onassis Stegi Main Stage for a conversation with Afroditi Panagiotakou and brings with her a whole world of sarcastic humor, unexpected stories, and revealing details.

Multiple-BAFTA and Emmy-nominated Diane Morgan is perhaps best known for her portrayal of the satirical persona Philomena Cunk—from Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe, the TV program by the Black Mirror creator that satirized British pop culture, to the award-winning Cunk on Shakespeare (nominated for BAFTA), Cunk on Christmas, Cunk on Britain, and Cunk on Earth on BBC Two. Through this role, Morgan created UK television’s most famous pseudo-documentary filmmaker, who became a global phenomenon. She has created, written, directed, and starred in the sitcom Mandy (also on BBC Two), a bizarre, surreal comedy that went from a simple pilot episode in 2019 to three seasons and became the channel’s most popular comedy that summer. We’ve also seen her as Liz in the BBC satirical series Motherland, as Kath in Ricky Gervais’ series After Life on Netflix, as well as in the TV series Frayed (Sky/HBO Max), Intelligence, The Cockfields, and Rovers. She has appeared in the satirical specials Death to 2020 and Death to 2021, alongside Samuel L. Jackson, Hugh Grant, and Lisa Kudrow.

Morgan’s path was far from predictable: she worked from an Avon saleswoman and telephone operator in a call center to a factory production line worker packaging pills for worms, before ending up on stage and screens as a comedian and actress, and becoming hugely popular on TikTok. A course that shows how the unexpected can become pure comedy material and turn into a universally recognizable style. In January 2026, Diane Morgan comes to the Onassis Stegi to tell us how she did it and make us laugh.

MIRANDA JULY

30 04 26

TALK MAIN STAGE

She’s a film director, author, performance artist, and one of the boldest voices of our time. On the occasion of her new novel, All Fours, Miranda July comes from Los Angeles to the Onassis Stegi and challenges us to reconsider the institution of marriage and family.

Miranda July creates works that defy categorization and touch on multiple means of expression, from film and literature to visual arts and performance. Many of them have been hosted at MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Biennial.

She chose the surname ‘July’ from a fictional character when she was 15 years old, and at 20, she officially adopted it. It has been written that “Miranda July is good at plot. Stories will come to her fully formed, like a gift from the gods; all she has to do is unwrap them” (New Yorker). In the 1990s, she experimented as part of the ‘riot grrrl’ scene with various theater, multimedia performance, and film projects at independent festivals and alternative art spaces. In 2005, she made her directorial film debut with Me and You and Everyone We Know and won the Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival and four awards at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Golden Camera. In the field of literature, she has proven her charisma and ability to capture —sometimes with humor and sometimes with sensitivity—what is discussed on the online and offline side of life. With books such as No One Belongs Here More Than You (2007), a critically acclaimed collection of short stories, and her first novel, The First Bad Man (2015), she explores themes such as loneliness, alienation, and the human need for connection. Regardless of the medium and genre she chooses, her voice always remains refined and deeply human.

In April, she will be at the Onassis Stegi to present some of her films as well as her recent novel, All Fours (2024). It is an ode to love in all its forms, now part of the conversations of American women who have joined the 40+ club but, at the same time, experience desires without age.

DR. GABOR MATÉ

How does anxiety manifest in the body? How are childhood traumas healed? And why have we normalized the wrong values?

Dr. Gabor Maté comes to the Onassis Stegi to speak about the things we rarely dare to confront: anxiety that turns into illness, the childhood traumas we carry for a lifetime, and the values that make us sick without us even realizing it. The Main Stage becomes a space of care and honesty through a conversation between Gabor Maté and Afroditi Panagiotakou, the Artistic Director of the Onassis Foundation. A doctor, bestselling author, and internationally sought-after speaker, Dr. Gabor Maté has devoted his life to understanding psychological trauma, childhood, parenting, addiction, chronic stress, and ADHD. Through his method of Compassionate Inquiry, he has inspired thousands of mental health professionals to help people reconnect with their bodies and emotions.

Dr. Gabor Maté’s appearance at the Onassis Stegi is accompanied by a screening of the documentary The Wisdom of Trauma (2022) and the workshop “Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture,” offering a deeper exploration of the thought and work of one of the most important contemporary thinkers on health and the human psyche.

ALEXANDROS VOULGARIS (THE

BOY)

I HAVE NEVER TRAVELED TO AUSTRALIA

Τhe Boy's Australia is not a country. It is a rupture in reality and a surreal takeover of the Onassis Stegi—an immersive spectacle that evokes a car chase scene from an Australian ozploitation film of the 1980s.

It is not Australia, but a reading of it. A fictional country born in The Boy’s mind after a film scene in the red desert, a hangover inside a beige Ford Fairlane 500, the dream of green ants, a repressed journey. Since 2013, this country has lived inside him: hyper-violent, free, and inexplicably familiar. In the Outback of his mind.

“I have never traveled to Australia,” he says, before unfolding, in every corner of the Onassis Stegi and with actress Flomaria Papadaki as the connecting thread, his own Australia.

And so it takes the form of a concert, a theater play, a film retrospective, a video installation, a photography exhibition, a journey through every stage, corridor, and foyer. A school classroom in the middle of the Tanami Desert. Desks and textbooks covered in sand. David Gulpilil explains a dream to us in the Yolngu language.

On the Main Stage, an eco-horror concert by The Boy transforms into a multilayered creation by visual artist Kostas Lambridis and animator Eirini Vianelli, with the contribution of motionless dancers, storytellers who once traveled to Australia, and a cappella interventions by musicians and longtime collaborators of The Boy.

On the Upper Stage, a farewell is staged to the Skyline Matraville Dead End Drive-In, which closed in 1984, with screenings of cinematic masterpieces of the Australian New Wave—the first retrospective of its kind ever held in Greece.

In the –1 exhibition hall, a new feature film by The Boy connects with a photographic exhibition by Myrto Tzima. Nine monologues unfold into a contemporary bushranger crime drama fairytale set against the backdrop of Australia in 1981.

In the corridors and foyers, emotionally charged objects from a life that never existed extend the experience across space and time. Sounds from imagined remote countrysides, childhood nightmares with the Hobyahs, creatures of Australian folklore, Mulkurul stones arriving from the rising sun, Everett De Roche’s typewriter, the remnants of Betty Crabtree’s strange violin, the scent of burnt rubber, and radio signals from nowhere. A score by Miss Trichromi runs through like a vein connecting all spaces and actions. Australia here is not a place; it is a mirror. It reflects back a distorted version of yourself. It is a soft pillow made of sheep wool from Carriewerloo.

The Boy creates worlds. If you ask him what this “Australia” is, he will answer:

“A concert or maybe a performance or even a scribble.

A film retrospective.

A feature film.

A dream that welcomes you.

A song that feels familiar.

A portrait of Judy Davis and Jack Thompson.

I have never traveled to Australia.”

15 YEARS ONASSIS STEGI

5 YEARS ONASSIS STEGI

15 YEARS OF ONASSIS STEGI. OVER 1,500 PRODUCTIONS AND FESTIVALS. MORE THAN 1.75 MILLION PEOPLE IN OUR AUDIENCES.

From 2010 to this day, we have been sharing, taking a stand, daring, changing, and evolving.

Onassis Stegi began as a cultural center in the heart of Athens and grew into something much greater: a meeting point for the brave, the restless, the creative. A place where Greek and international artists find the tools and support to experiment, expose themselves, and go further, deeper, and more honestly. A place where conversations are sparked on essential issues that are far from self-evident. Where stereotypes are challenged and new questions are posed.

Onassis Stegi is the place where science, art, society, education, and politics meet and are redefined. Where critical thinking is more than just a buzzword. Where today becomes a creative ground for tomorrow. With bold productions, international collaborations, and openness to new voices, Onassis Stegi reframes what contemporary culture means. From its own stage to the other side of the world.

It’s not just the works, the performances, the festivals. It’s the ideas, the gazes, the reactions, the conversations in the foyer and on social media. It’s the long nights and the small moments that become big. It’s our people—on our stages and in our events. All that was born and raised inside the Onassis Stegi and spread far beyond its walls.

ONASSIS CINEMA

New stories. New films. Productions and co-productions by Onassis Culture. Short and feature-length. Documentaries and animation. Awards, tributes, and celebrations through cinema. Screenings on the Onassis Channel. Classic films revisited with fresh eyes. An open call for short films. Because life is always better with cinema.

T[he] Last D[ays] of My Fat[her] Titanic Ocean Oh, How Fun!

ARGYRIS PAPADIMITROPOULOS

OH, HOW FUN!

AN ONASSIS CULTURE CO-PRODUCTION

Argyris Papadimitropoulos, director of Bank Bang, Wasted Youth, Suntan, and Monday, returns to Antiparos; this time, in a film full of contradictions, he moves to the other side of the island, to the well-designed villas and their offbeat residents. At the party of Oh, How Fun!, hosts and guests share one thing in common: their love of crude pranks. Funny and cruel, charming and awkward, colorful and dark, humorous and playful, Argyris Papadimitropoulos’ new film deconstructs the fantasy of social climbing, shedding light on the human vanity behind the glitter. Oh, How Fun! invites audiences to laugh at the absurd, reflect on the ridiculous, and, eventually, identify the cracks beneath the glossy surface. The film, written by Argyris Papadimitropoulos and Giorgos Georgopoulos and produced by Fenia Kosovitsa, is an Onassis Culture co-production.

KOTzAMANI

TIT ANIC OCEAN

AN ONASSIS CULTURE CO-PRODUCTION

At a special boarding school in Japan, where teenage girls are trained to become professional mermaids, 17-year-old Akame will discover the deep, inner voice of the siren. She will fall in love for the first time. And she will experience a metamorphosis.

Oscillating between dream and reality, realism and magic, Titanic Ocean immerses into the mythical universe of mermaids. In her debut feature, Konstantina Kotzamani explores the complex world of the new generation—a fluid generation that hopes, fears, revolts, and remains on the lookout. As the girls transcend their physical and emotional boundaries, they discover magic, dreams, and danger, as well as the power that lies within them. Titanic Ocean is a poetic and provocative film where the feminine becomes an unstoppable flow of transformation; a flow that will flood the world, much like a huge wave. The film, a Homemade Films production coproduced by Onassis Culture, is expected to be completed in 2026.

ARISTOTELIS MARAGKOS

T[HE] LAST D[AYS] OF MY FAT[HER]

Through silent notes and faded images, a son reconstructs a life he never led—an imaginary bond with a father whose voice survives only on paper. Directed by Onassis Foundation scholar and Onassis AiR fellow Aristotelis Maragkos, this animated short comprises a speculative dialogue between the poet C. P. Cavafy and a son he never had. In the last months before his death, Cavafy, unable to speak due to a tracheostomy, could communicate only through handwritten notes. These excerpts—combined with VHS footage, drawings, and archival material—become the basis for a posthumous conversation. Through personal notebooks, poems, and diaries, which are approached as relics of a shared domestic life, the film visualizes him as a father figure, embedding his silences and secrets into the filmmaker’s family universe. Commissioned and produced by Onassis Culture and the Cavafy Archive, the film is expected to be completed in 2026, while research was conducted within the framework of Onassis AiR.

MARY DOMINIKOS IGNATIADIS

AN ONASSIS CULTURE CO-PRODUCTION

Mary Tsoni has gone down in history as one of the most important artists in recent decades in Greece. She belonged to this category of people who live outside the norm, constantly taking risks, yet—more often than not—paying the price of their choices. The feature-length documentary Mary, directed by Dominikos Ignatiadis, produced by Christos Pytharas, and coproduced by Onassis Culture, attempts to portray the multifaceted personality of Mary Tsoni. Archival footage, interviews, song lyrics, and a deeply confessional radio discussion comprise her story. A musician, actress, dancer, and performer, an artist true to oneself, guides the filmmaking process like a prompter would. Her story opens like an umbrella for all suffocating women. The documentary is currently in production and is expected to be completed in 2026.

THE PUBLIC PRIVATE HOUSE: 9 STANZAS FOR ATHENS TASSOS LANGIS

AN ONASSIS CULTURE PRODUCTION

How does the future of Athens look through the eyes of those who inhabit its architecture— tenants, young people, immigrants, or birds? The Public Private House: 9 Stanzas for Athens, a documentary directed by Onassis AiR Fellow Tassos Langis and produced by Onassis Culture, is loosely inspired by two books, themed around the Athenian apartment blocks (polykatoikías): 37 Stories from the Athenian Apartment Blocks (an Onassis Foundation publication, edited by Thomas Maloutas, Nikolina Myofa, Dimitris Balampanidis, and Ifigeneia Dimitrakou) and The Public Private House by Richard Woditsch, from which it also borrows its title.

The Public Private House is a film essay in nine stanzas that weaves together Athens and Berlin, habitation and history, private and collective. In a porous, playful, and permeable way, it adopts the perspectives of other bodies in Athens, bridging the gaps between them. It follows four young women who live together, along with their pets, in a penthouse on Acharnon Street, in a neighborhood of intense ethnic and social stratification. The film focuses on a participatory documentation ‘from within,’ getting away from a sense of hierarchy and status. The academics on screen do not hold titles or roles; instead, they switch positions equally with the four women, their friends, the buildings, and the other creatures that co-inhabit Athens and homes. They all have the same significance, the same narrative space. The film portrays Athens as a modern city carved not from stone and concrete, but from the timeless, common need for ‘domestic happiness’: through the lives that struggle to hold on, that leave for the ‘better,’ that strive to belong. At the core lies the polykatoikía not as a simple building, but as an incubator of lives, uses, dreams, and transformations. The documentary is expected to be screened in 2026.

ONASSIS FILM AWARDS

Since 2021, the Onassis Foundation has been present at Greece’s major film festivals with the Onassis Film Awards. From the Drama International Short Film Festival and Athens International Film Festival to the Thessaloniki International Film Festival and Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, the Foundation supports independent Greek cinema by awarding filmmakers for the development or completion of their films. Yorgos Goussis (African Grey), Andreas Gatopoulos (The Eggregores’ Theory), Alki Papastathopoulo (Honeymoon), Despoina Kourti (Numb), and Lucas Paleocrassas (Bugboy) were the winners of the Onassis Film Awards 2024–25.

OPEN CALL: BIG SHORT FILMS

How much emotion can fit into just a few minutes? Onassis Culture consistently and actively supports emerging creators and artistic experimentation, offering space for new cinematic ideas. For the fourth year running, it issues an open call for short fiction, documentary, and animation films. Five selected projects will each receive €10,000 in funding. The first completed Big Short Film was MJ by Giorgos Fourtounis, which premiered at the 2024 Drama International Short Film Festival and was awarded the Silver Dionysus, while later it also received the Golden Athena Award for Best Short Film at the Athens International Film Festival. The selected films for 2025 were Amnesia (Nikos Kolioukos), Meridian (Markela Kontaratou), Highway! (Fokion Xenos), ADA (Sophia Kourou), and Final Girls (Pinelopi Mavropsaridi). The new Open Call: Big Short Films will be announced in early 2026.

ONASSIS MASTERCLASSES

A rare insight into the minds and methods of today’s leading creators: Tiago Rodrigues, Wim Wenders, Julien Gosselin, Mariano Pensotti, Romain Gavras, Yannis Economides, Charlie Kaufman, and Marlene Monteiro Freitas.

How does Tiago Rodrigues begin writing a play? How does Julien Gosselin build his complex stage universe step by step, and how did Mariano Pensotti collaborate with Yiannis Niarros and Kostas Nikouli? How does Romain Gavras choose his actors, and how does Yannis Economides guide them through rehearsals and on set? How, ultimately, does Charlie Kaufman’s mind work? Which images spark Marlene Monteiro Freitas’ explosive choreographies? Onassis Stegi opens a dialogue between the international artists presenting their work on its stages this season and Greece’s theater, dance, and film communities through a series of singular encounters. Framed as an open field for conversation and experimentation, these masterclasses showcase the power of creative exchange, bringing together acclaimed creators with industry professionals and audiences interested in the creative process. Onassis Masterclasses offer a rare chance to see how an artist thinks and works, to hear stories never told, and to share a live experience of inspiration and exchange. They invite a deep dive into each artist’s work, method, and technique, as well as into the unique worlds they create.

STEGI.RADIO

The Onassis Stegi web radio tunes into the rhythm of the city, broadcasting from Athens to the world. With more than 160 producers, a 24-hour stream, three curated channels, filmed sets on YouTube, a new app, and an archive of over 8,000 shows, it is much more than just a radio station.

The Onassis Stegi online radio station broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Always in motion. Athens is the place it knows and understands best. That is where it begins, before reaching the other side of the world. It curates all of Onassis Stegi’s music programming and expands into the city with events, talks, and workshops that connect Athens’ ever-evolving and inspired local scene with others abroad. At the same time, it continues to explore musical and cultural currents across the Mediterranean, navigating an imaginary archipelago without borders, limits, or time.

STEGI.RADIO is a transmitter that captures and broadcasts the past, present, and future, acting as a cultural adhesive between people, communities, and artistic creation. It already counts over 160 producers in a continuous 24/7 program, three curated channels, a new YouTube channel featuring filmed sets, and more than 8,000 archived shows.

With the STEGI.RADIO booth at Plásmata 3 in Pedion tou Areos, the Onassis Stegi web radio turned up the volume of the exhibition and set the tone with a diverse lineup of DJs and music producers. Tune in at https://stegi.radio and download the app on iOS or Android.

(↓) STEGI.RADIO Credits

STEGI.RADIO Artistic Directors: Yorgos Konstantinidis (Voltnoi), Makis Kentepozidis (Quetempo) / Radio & Program Manager: Nikki Georgiou / Content Manager: Yannis Galiatsos / Studio Manager: Stefanos Konstantinidis / Social Media Editor: Christos Melidis

STAG ES A/LIVE

The Last Drive, the legendary Greek garage rock band, kicks off the fifth season of Stages A/LIVE.What follows is an homage to Romanian folk, Cretan music, rizitika, rap, and hip-hop beats from the Onassis Stegi music festival “Why Are the Mountains Black ’25.”

From the mountains of Epirus to Athens’ underground scene, Stages A/LIVE, the Onassis Stegi music program directed by Christos Sarris, returns for a fifth season with live gigs that keep playing in our minds long after the last note fades.

The Last Drive, the iconic band that ignited every stage they set foot on since the ’80s, play their final shows at Gagarin. A farewell ride at full throttle, a monumental send-off to the “Drive Tribe,” the loyal musical fan group born from their raw, untamed rock ’n’ roll that never faded and never will.

The season continues with a tribute to the Onassis Stegi music festival “Why Are the Mountains Black ’25,” held this past June in Konitsa. A celebration where traditional Balkan sounds meet the experimental improvisations of today. A celebration of music nestled among towering mountains and the myths and legends of Epirus, curated by Christopher King.

Tune in to the Onassis Foundation’s YouTube channel and turn it up.

SOCIETY UNCENSORED

A platform for public dialogue about today. We speak openly about everything that matters, without censorship, live at the Onassis Stegi and on the Onassis Channel on YouTube.

Since 2020, the “Society Uncensored” series has served as a platform for meaningful dialogue on the issues that concern us both locally and globally. Since its launch, bold and honest conversations have taken place at the Onassis Stegi on topics such as femicides and gender-based violence, Black Lives Matter, hate speech, body shaming, the rights of the Roma people, cultural accessibility for people with disabilities, the crisis of democracy, the institution of marriage, euthanasia and assisted suicide, the use of psychedelics, and the power of Greek rap. These discussions have amassed over 800,000 views on the Onassis Channel on YouTube. In the 2025–26 season, “Society Uncensored” returns with timely topics and questions that offer no easy answers. Because society changes only when people speak openly.

ONASSIS WITH PRIDE

Stay Awake

Onassis Stegi has always stood by and continues to support the LGBTQI+ community, firmly backing its ongoing fight for equality and inclusion. In 2015, it made its own coming out by supporting Athens Pride for the first time. Since then, it has proudly declared its #presence every year, delighted to see participation growing alongside it. On the occasion of Athens Pride 2018, the Artistic Director of the Onassis Foundation, Afroditi Panagiotakou, spoke with two teenagers about fundamental human rights, responding to ‘tough’ questions about sexual orientation and gender identity. In 2020, Onassis Stegi spread the message “Athens Home for All” across the city, so that everyone could feel safe to be themselves. In 2022, it declared “Love Makes a Family,” launching a campaign of love and inclusion in support of equal rights for same-sex families in Greece, which helped pave the way for the passage of relevant legislation. In 2025, celebrating 20 years of Athens Pride, it launched a visibility campaign. The message “Stay Awake” is a call for everyone to keep their eyes open to homophobia and transphobia. To remain active citizens, aware that this is where our true power lies.

ACCESSIBILITY

At Onassis Stegi, culture is a space of equality, dialogue, and active presence. For the 2025–26 season, the performances of Oedipus and The Little Prince Blues are being designed as fully accessible experiences. From supporting artists with disabilities to redesigning the Stegi street party into a fully inclusive event, Onassis Stegi continues to invest in a cultural environment where every voice matters and belongs.

At Onassis Stegi, accessibility is not a special provision. It is how we understand culture itself: as an open, polyphonic field where every individual body and every individual voice have a right to presence and creation. By consistently supporting both the artistic expression of people with disabilities and the inclusive experience of audiences, we continue to expand who has the opportunity to take the stage, who tells their stories, and who participates in shaping the cultural landscape.

For the 2025–26 season, the performances of Oedipus and The Little Prince Blues are designed as accessible experiences, incorporating tools such as surtitles, audio description, and tactile tours. At the heart of this approach are the communities themselves—not merely as recipients but as co-creators of the process. In parallel, we continue to support artists with disabilities through professional training, networking, and international exposure through participation in workshops and residencies.

In the same spirit, for the first time, Onassis Stegi’s street party, the major neighborhood celebration in Neos Kosmos, is being designed to be fully accessible. In a project with heightened technical and organizational demands, the visitor experience for people with disabilities is being reconsidered from the ground up, so that access is not just possible but meaningful. The aim is not simply to ‘include’ people, but to co-create a culture that addresses them from the start.

Meanwhile, Europe Beyond Access, the largest European initiative to strengthen the participation of artists with disabilities in the performing arts, continues into its second implementation cycle (2024–2027), shaping a shared European space of inclusion, creativity, and professional empowerment. Onassis Stegi has been an active partner since 2018.

At Onassis Stegi, we don’t just build pathways to accessibility; we open up new perspectives for artistic participation and redefine who counts as a creator, an audience, or an institution. By continually reimagining, accessibility becomes a tool for equity, co-creation, and repositioning art at the center of social life.

ONASSIS STEGI TOURING PROGRAM

Standing by our artists’ side, every step of the way.

At Onassis Stegi, extraversion is a long-term investment with a global artistic footprint. Since 2011, we have been fostering relationships, enhancing mobility, and supporting the work of Greek artists at every stage of their creative journey.

With the support of the Onassis Stegi Touring Program, more than 20 Greek productions toured across 24 countries and 44 cities last year, participating in 59 festivals, events, and cultural venues around the world.

From the Festival d’Avignon, Sadler’s Wells and Dance Umbrella in London to Under the Radar in New York, Onassis Stegi’s touring initiative backs and amplifies the international presence of contemporary Greek creation, taking part in a global network of cultural mobility that begins at Onassis Stegi and extends everywhere: through Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Oceania, with stops along the way in Bogotá, Chile, Taiwan, and Perth.

BEYOND GEOGRAPHIC ROUTES, THE FOOTPRINT OF EXTRAVERSION IS MAPPED ONTO HUMAN

Within a dense and demanding international artistic landscape, Onassis Stegi serves as a reference point, where creators can present their work, seek co-producers, and meet curators and producers from around the world. Whether through Onassis Dance Days, where more than 60 contemporary dance professionals came to Athens last season to attend showcases and meet artists, or through performances such as MAMI and My Fierce Ignorant Step, which brought international guests into direct contact with these works and their makers, Onassis Stegi provides a framework in which performances become opportunities for dialogue and meaningful exchange.

In the same spirit, artist participation in strategic visits, such as the presence of Greek creators in Avignon for networking with curators or the residency of choreographer Christiana Kosiari at the Watermill Center in New York, further strengthens long-term connections between artists and international ecosystems, empowering them to deepen their practice in intercultural contexts.

NEXT STOP: 2025–26

BUILDING NEW NETWORKS OF TRUST. REACHING TOWARD MORE DISTANT HORIZONS.

The journey of the Onassis Stegi Touring Program for the 2025–26 season continues with new alliances and an even more focused approach. This season, our attention turns to what comes before and after the performance: strengthening the creative environment and supporting artists in ways that allow for experimentation, presentation, connection, and growth, with sustainability and continuity at the core.

The consistently successful invitation of professionals to participate in Onassis Dance Days has become a fixture of our activity, which continues this season, offering a meaningful meeting point between artists and decision-makers, while also serving as a platform for exchange through pitching sessions, open discussions, and face-to-face connections. At the same time, we continue to enhance the international presence of Greek creators at key festivals and cultural forums across Europe. By engaging with international producers and programmers, we help create the conditions for long-term collaborations, co-productions, and network development.

Our presence in the global arts landscape serves as a bridge, connecting the local scene in Athens with a European ecosystem of exchange and support, where Greek creation is not merely represented but actively contributes to shaping the contemporary artistic field in a meaningful, lasting, and vibrant way.

From New York to Copenhagen, Rome, Amsterdam, Tokyo, and Bogotá, productions born or supported at Onassis Stegi are set to travel this season to key destinations on the global cultural map, including Julidans, RomaEuropa, Grec Fest, Dance Umbrella, and December Dance.

Mario Banushi’s MAMI, following its triumphant reception at the Festival d’Avignon in July 2025, continues its impressive journey with stops at the Espoo Theatre in Finland, Noorderzon, and NYU Skirball in New York as part of Under the Radar. Christos Papadopoulos’ My Fierce Ignorant Step will be presented in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Rome, Bruges, and Madrid, while Chara Kotsali’s to be possessed travels from Lisbon and Bogotá to Brussels, highlighting both the breadth of contemporary Greek creation and its ability to engage across diverse cultural contexts. Meanwhile, works such as Elena Antoniou’s LANDSCAPE and Xenia Konghylaki’s SLAMMING have been selected by festivals including Dancehallerne and SAAL Biennaal.

INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS

Building communities through art, innovation, and collaboration.

At Onassis Stegi, international networks are a way to create and strengthen communities. Communities of artists, researchers, and cultural institutions that share a common desire to redefine the relationship between art, everyday life, innovation, and social cohesion.

Since 2011, we have invested in long-term partnerships and new meeting grounds, from local initiatives to international ecosystems of creation. For us, every new network is the starting point of a connection: a place for new voices to be heard, for collectives to be activated, and for coexistence to be nurtured beyond borders and hierarchies.

In the 2025–26 season, we continue to cultivate new bonds and reinforce existing ones, aiming to foster the exchange of knowledge, experience, and artistic practice across borders. Through six active European projects, we are collaborating with over 100 partners in 34 countries. With a focus on supporting emerging artists, we are investing in collaborative models that link art with innovation and connect education with the labor market in the field of digital innovation.

Transnational Music Lab (TMLAB) supports, connects, and empowers the music communities of tomorrow. It brings together artists and curators from underrepresented backgrounds, creating spaces for expression, visibility, and exchange. From Athens to Brussels, Turin, Madrid, and Lyon, the program expands access and participation in the music industry while building lasting relationships among emerging creative voices across Europe.

Europe Beyond Access paves new paths to accessibility in the performing arts by empowering disabled artists through commissions, professional development opportunities, and international exchange networks. The program nurtures a polyphonic community that transcends barriers and redefines who has space, voice, and presence in contemporary cultural production.

25AV supports emerging artists through residencies, live performances, and mentoring schemes, forming a cohesive European network for artistic development. Five radio stations across Europe act as hubs, amplifying new voices in the music landscape and strengthening cross-sector and crossborder collaboration. Through sound, performance, and physical presence, 25AV builds a pan-European ecosystem of audiovisual creation.

Prospero is a European theater ecosystem that acts as a collaborative space for emerging directors and theater-makers. Through residencies, touring, and co-productions, it fosters connection and mobility, promoting exchange of expertise and collective creation. Involving 19 partner institutions, the platform will, over the next four years, form a network of support for more than 300 artists.

Smart Attica, the European Digital Innovation Hub, supports cultural organizations, small businesses, and artistic communities in exploring and applying new technologies such as AI and 5G. Through workshops, experimental projects, and cross-sector partnerships, it promotes the engagement of cultural communities in digital transformation, fostering inclusive innovation.

As part of the European Digital Deal, Onassis Stegi commissions new artistic works and empowerment initiatives that position art as a political tool in debates on human rights, technology, and democracy. By bringing together artists, researchers, and institutions from across Europe, the program opens up a space for public dialogue on how digital technologies can remain open, accessible, and serve the common good.

ONASSIS DIGITAL & INNOVATION (ODiN)

We bring creations into new spaces, both physical and digital. We highlight the local while seeking out the global. We forge international collaborations around cutting-edge technologies and discover new audiences. Through the programs of Onassis Digital & Innovation (ODiN), artists and creators are invited to challenge the boundaries between art and technology.

The Onassis Digital & Innovation (ODiN) programs support creators of all kinds in experimenting with new technologies, reaching new audiences, and developing works and business models that are both sustainable and impactful. Key components of ODiN include the international artistic incubation and acceleration program Onassis ONX and Plásmata, a multifaceted exhibition-intervention in public space aimed at redefining and reengaging it. Onassis ONX is an outward-looking platform, with studios in New York and Athens, that provides artistic support and fosters community-building, with a focus on advanced technologies and their role in the creative process. Onassis ONX offers technological infrastructure, curatorial, artistic, and production support, as well as a range of funding tools and collaborative programs with international institutions such as Rhizome, MIT, NYU, Tribeca Festival, Agog, Museum of the Moving Image, Sculpture Center, Lincoln Center, Factory International, M+, PHI, and The Lumen Prize.

ONASSIS ONX IN ATHENS

Since 2020, members of Onassis ONX have showcased their work at major festivals worldwide, including SXSW, Sundance, Ars Electronica, Cannes, Performa, IDFA, and the Venice International Film Festival.

Digital art and technology from New York to Athens. After five years of partnership with our New York studio, Onassis ONX opens its doors in Athens, at the Onassis Ready building. ONX aims to establish itself as a destination where one can encounter what is to come as well as what is already here. ONX is a dynamic, open space for gathering and experimentation for artists, makers, technologists, creative entrepreneurs, researchers, and collectives working at the intersection of art and innovation.

ONX SHOWCASE

YOUR JOURNEY INTO THE ART OF TOMORROW BEGINS IN THE HEART OF ATHENS AND REACHES ALL THE WAY TO NEW YORK. ONASSIS ONX PRESENTS WORKS FROM THE ONX SEEDS AND ONASSIS AIR FELLOWS IN A SHOWCASE AT THE NEW ONASSIS READY BUILDING. THROUGH VARIOUS MODES OF STORYTELLING AND IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES, THE EXHIBITION FOCUSES ON THEMES OF IDENTITY, DESIRE, INTERACTION, AND TRANSFORMATION.

In May 2026, Onassis Ready hosts the ONX Showcase, a celebration of creativity, technological innovation, and new forms of artistic expression. The ONX Showcase marks the launch of Onassis ONX in Greece, presenting a four-day program of selected works and events from ONX’s residency, acceleration, and artist development initiatives in Athens and New York. Through the Onassis AiR residency, the ONX Seeds program, the ONX Futures skill-building initiative (which focuses on artificial intelligence and audiovisual production), and the creative community in New York, Onassis Ready becomes a space for vibrant dialogue between artistic practice and technological research.

ONX FUTURES: AI & MIXED REALITY FILMMAKING

WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF CINEMATIC STORYTELLING? ONX FUTURES IS A HYBRID THREE-MONTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM DESIGNED TO EMPOWER THE CREATIVE COMMUNITY BY ENHANCING PARTICIPANTS’ SKILLS IN EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES.

This year’s theme, which also launches the ONX Futures program, is focused on Artificial Intelligence and Mixed Realities, inviting participants to reconsider the ‘grammar’ of the moving image in a new era of storytelling. An intensive in-person bootcamp and online masterclasses lead to mentorship across three modules: Generative AI in Moving Image, Virtual and XR Production, and Intellectual Property Rights Management. The program is designed for audio visual professionals and production companies. Selected projects developed during the program will receive initial funding to support the creation of a prototype or early-stage work.

The program is part of the Smart Attica EDIH initiative and is co-funded by the European Union.

CAN A STORY CHANGE THE WORLD AROUND US? ONX SEEDS IS A SIX-MONTH ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOCUSED ON THE CREATION OF EARLY-STAGE WORKS (PROOF OF CONCEPT) AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY.

Emerging creators, recent graduates, teams, and artistic communities will experiment with concepts of innovation and worldbuilding. By constructing imagined worlds, participants move beyond material objects to craft immersive experiences that extend around and beyond them.

Projects selected through an Open Call process receive support, personalized mentorship, and access to an international network of professionals. These pieces will be presented at the ONX Showcase in Athens in May 2026.

SUMMER SCHOOL: INNOVATION, TECH & CULTURE

SUMMER SCHOOL: INNOVATION, TECH, & CULTURE RETURNS FOR A THIRD CONSECUTIVE YEAR, AIMING TO BRIDGE THE WORLDS OF CULTURE AND DIGITAL ARTS WITH TECHNOLOGY, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP.

Summer School: Innovation, Tech, & Culture is an intensive, two-week studio/lab-style program designed for professionals, focusing on skill development at the intersection of art, technology, and creative entrepreneurship. Co-organized by Onassis ONX, ACEin of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), and NYU Tandon School of Engineering, the program features talks by leading experts in its three core areas and invites participants to develop creative ideas and projects that lie at the crossroads of art and commercial products, combining high aesthetic value, functionality, and entrepreneurial maturity.

ONASSIS ONX IN NEW YORK

A new artistic season. New opportunities for the international creative community. A new space in the heart of New York City. The Onassis Foundation’s global platform for new media and digital culture, Onassis ONX, moves even closer to its vision of progressive creation through programs and initiatives across America, Europe, and Asia.

As a dynamic platform shaping art and advanced technologies, Onassis ONX collaborates with a global network of artists and partners to produce, present, and distribute pioneering works. In New York, Onassis ONX is moving into a new, state-of-the-art production space downtown, set to relaunch in Fall 2025 with an equally bold program. In November 2025, Onassis ONX will co-produce artist Ayoung Kim’s first live performance in the Performa Biennale. In January 2026, the second edition of TECHNE will inaugurate the new studio in New York with a series of dynamic large-scale artworks that bridge the gap between installation and performance through AI, interactivity and live simulations. At the same time, Onassis ONX returns to the Under the Radar Festival with a lineup of immersive performances, including Graham Sack’s Neuro-Theater Experience sol_AI_rs, developed with the support of Johns Hopkins University. Beyond New York, Onassis ONX is supporting the distribution of Theo Triantafyllidis’ video-game installation Feral Metaverse. First exhibited in Group Hug, curated by Onassis ONX in New York in Fall 2024, the work will now tour the world, beginning in Poland in October 2025. The platform’s commitment to festivals continues with two projects from the Venice Film Festival, both by members of the Onassis ONX Studio in New York: Sarah Silverblatt -Buser’s Collective Body and Sister Sylvester & Nadah El Shazly’s Constantinopoliad. These works will travel to the Lincoln Center and National Sawdust respectively, before touring internationally.

ONASSIS READY

In the industrial area of Rentis, the Onassis Foundation’s factory of experiences opens its doors with renewed energy, welcoming new audiences and fresh initiatives for the 2025–26 season.

–HOW DO I LOOK? –YOU LOOK READY. *

Starting in October 2025, a major exhibition dedicated to the work of Juergen Teller will illuminate the long, creatively restless journey of one of the most influential photographers of our time. The space becomes a field of live dialogue with Teller’s disarming language and bold aesthetic.

In April 2026, Onassis Stegi’s longest-running electronic music festival, Borderline, returns to Onassis Ready. With renewed intensity and unexpected sonic materials, the festival will re-tune body and sound to industrial rhythms.

In May 2026, Onassis Ready transforms into a stage of the future with the ONX Showcase, a fourday program dedicated to artificial intelligence, art, and research. Four artists and Onassis AiR Fellows participate in a program that looks towards tomorrow in artistic terms.

That same month, Tilda Swinton activates the industrial space with Ongoing, an exhibition traveling from Amsterdam to Athens, bringing with it a unique universe of creative collaborations.

Beyond hosting major events, Onassis Ready functions as a space for artistic expression, experimentation, and exploration, welcoming Onassis AiR and Onassis ONX Fellows. The building also houses the Onassis Archive, the first shipping business archive ever assembled in Greece, comprising approximately 1 million documents. At the same time, it serves as a versatile multipurpose venue, open for hire for creation, rehearsals, and other artistic or professional activities.

GIANNIS PETRIDIS

COLLECTION

The Onassis Foundation acquires the unique collection of Greece’s most influential radio producer, journalist, and pop culture figure of the past 50 years, with the aim of making it accessible in the future for listening, research, and enjoyment.

Giannis Petridis did not just follow global music; he lived it, documented it, and narrated it. Meeting some of the biggest names in the world scene, from David Byrne and the Dire Straits to Ennio Morricone, Nick Cave, and Joe Cocker, and having served as director of record labels such as Virgin Records Greece, Petridis shaped one of the most impressive and comprehensive private collections ever assembled in the country, often influencing local musical trends himself. The collection includes more than 170,000 items, centered on vinyl records (33 and 45 rpm), CDs, films, video clips, and original audiovisual material on VHS, cassettes, DVDs, and Laser Discs, as well as memorabilia related to the music and film industry, his personal career, and rare music-related artifacts from the 1960s to today. A significant part of the collection consists of magazines such as Rolling Stone, New Musical Express (NME), Mojo, Music Week, and Billboard, along with Greek music publications like Pop & Rock, which he co-created, and which covered both international and Greek music from 1978 to 2012. His collection is not simply a music archive. It is a cultural universe. A condensed memory that records, reconstructs, and interprets more than five decades of music, society, and aesthetics. Its geographic scope spans from the USA and the UK to France, Italy, and the rest of Europe, extending further to Latin America, Asia, and Africa.

The acquisition of the Giannis Petridis Collection by the Onassis Foundation will be paired with the creation of a dedicated space for listening, research, and enjoyment. At the same time, a new documentary is being developed on the personality, work, and record collection of Giannis Petridis, directed by Yorgos Teltzidis and based on research by Panagiotis Menegos.

STAVERIS ARCHIVE

The frantic journey of a country through time. A photographic archive that captures daily life, the world of labor, entertainment, and politics, as well as Athens, carefree and restless, subdued and rebellious.

The Onassis Foundation, in collaboration with influential photographer Spyros Staveris and an expertized team of archivists, curators, and digitization specialists, has organized and digitized the Staveris Archive— an image archive of daily life, of the worlds of labor, entertainment, and politics, of Athens that is at once old-fashioned and modern, carefree and restless, subdued and rebellious, glamorous and marginal. The archive also includes images from Greece and abroad, drawn from the photographer’s travels and commissions spanning across time.

Approaching the city and its society as a dynamic space of coexistence and transformation, the Onassis Foundation, through this initiative, brings together the bulk of images that emerged from the photographer’s personal explorations and distinctive gaze, as well as from diverse collaborations with publications from the 1980s to today. A ‘mural’ reflecting the transformations of society takes shape, without a blueprint, through the accumulation of images born of Spyros Staveris’ wanderings and collaborations.

After completing the research project “Spyros Staveris 1980–today: A visual history of contemporary Greece,” the Onassis Foundation is proceeding with the completion and release of the Staveris Photographic Archive, aiming not only at its preservation but also at ensuring free access for all who wish to delve into the social and political history of Greece over the past four decades and beyond.

ART IN PUBLIC SPACE

Through the works of contemporary Greek artists that soothe the gaze, offer comfort, and create small pauses amid the daily noise of Athens, art becomes part of our everyday journey through the city.

In neighborhoods, buildings, and places in need of breathing space, the Onassis Foundation supports Greek creators and transforms public space. Apartment blocks, public and private buildings, bridges, and neighborhoods host works on both small and large scales, meeting each of us in our daily lives.

This year, three new interventions remind us that art can appear in the most unexpected places: Jannis Varelas’ mural Snooze at the Onassis Hospital and the large crystal by Nikomachi Karakostanoglou in a specially designed space for reflection and rest at the same model hospital invite visitors, doctors, and patients to pause, breathe, and turn inward. Teo Triantafyllidis’ That Feeling of Not Knowing at the Aegean Airlines Business Lounge in Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” reminds every traveler that every escape is a privilege. For the Onassis Foundation, interventions in public space are an open dialogue between art and everyday life, a way to bring the unexpected into the familiar and beauty into our shared environment.

T HE ROOM OF STRENGTH

A space for calm, reflection, and resilience within the Onassis Hospital.

At the Onassis Hospital, next to the waiting area, there is a room unlike any other. Visual artist Nikomachi Karakonstanoglou has created a space for those moments when one needs a breath to carry on, a moment to reflect, a respite to rise up again. It was conceived thinking of the demanding hours of doctors and staff on duty, for visitors seeking relief from anxiety for their loved ones, and for patients who want to stop for a moment and consider what an examination, a surgery, or a battle for their life means to them. A space shaped like a womb with a crystal resting at its center, a vast crystal that journeyed from the depths of the earth in Brazil to Arizona and from there to Athens, and was shaped into a sculpture taking the form of the organ of a heart, a symbol of strength and calm, beauty and healing. Lighting by Eliza Alexandropoulou traces its own path, echoing the hours of day and night, shifting slowly like another sun that sets and rises.

The soundscape, created by Afroditi Panagiotakou and Manolis Manousakis, serves the need for quiet and solace, offering respite from the noise of the hospital environment and transporting visitors to moments of ease. It weaves in sounds of nature from Messinia and Epirus; cicadas, scops owls, and gentle sounds of the sea to soothe the mind.

A room of strength, a place of reflection and focus, easing the weight of painful thoughts.

Nikomachi Karakonstanoglou created a work for all that is human, for all of us, for each of us, and above all for those experiencing pain, their own or that of others.

Here, art becomes truly public, truly human, appearing where you least expect it, perhaps capable of working its own small miracle.

The Room of Strength, a name given by the head nurse of the Onassis Hospital one evening during its preparation, is always open and accessible to everyone.

(↓) Credits

Artist: Nikomachi Karakostanoglou / Artistic Direction & Concept: Afroditi Panagiotakou, Artistic Director, Onassis Foundation / Design & Technical Surveys: Eliza Alexandropoulou (Lighting Design), Afroditi Panagiotakou & Manolis Manousakis (Sound Design), Alexandr Lala, KA-LA architects (Architectural Design), Nikolaos Papailiou (Structural Engineer), Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos and Associates (Structural Engineers), Dimitris Kapetanelis (Lighting Programmer), Dimitris Theocharoudis (Lighting Calculations) / Construction & Materials: Giorgos Agallou (Marble Carver), Vangelis Kamizoulis (Plasterboard), Nikos Stathopoulos (Metal Frame), TecAza (Electronics Installation), Victoria Dumbrava–Apollon Design (Roof Membrane), Altin Hasanago (Coordination and Special Constructions) / Coordination & Support: Harry Gkizas (Finance Manager, Onassis Foundation), Alexandra Chrysanthakopoulou (PR Executive, Onassis Culture), Hara Syrou (Gallery Administrator, Onassis Culture), Lefteris Karabilas (Technical Project Consultant, Onassis Stegi), Antonis Kokkoris (Technical Manager, Onassis Stegi) / In collaboration with the Onassis Hospital: Panos Minogiannis (General Manager), Panagiotis Agrogiannis (Head of Technical Department), Antonis Sarlis (Technical Department), all hospital security and cleaning staff / Legal Services: Petros Axarlian (Chief Compliance Officer – Lawyer [ASOFIN]), Anastasios Tsimplakis (Compliance Officer – Lawyer [ASOFIN]), Thalia Sotiriou (Compliance Administrator [ASOFIN]) / Thanks: Leto Karakostanoglou, Isabella Papadimitriou, Konstantinos Lymberis, Ilias Papailiakis, Alexis Politis

ΟΝASSIS COLLECTION

The world of the Onassis Collection is rich and unexpected, with over 2,000 works spanning from 1500 to today—from paintings and sculptures to digital art and installations.

Building bridges between different forms of art, the Onassis Foundation’s hybrid collection ranges from Doménikos Theotokópoulos and Auguste Rodin to Jannis Varelas and Bob Wilson. Greek and international artists across eras, generations, and styles come together to form an open-ended narrative shaped by diversity, inclusion, and non-linearity. Chryssa meets Etel Adnan, Rena Papaspyrou encounters Theo Triantafyllidis, Salvatore Emblema converses with Jannis Kounellis, and Andreas Angelidakis engages in dialogue with Wael Shawky.

The Onassis Foundation’s collection weaves its way into everyday life, transforming the spaces where we live and move. From the Onassis Library and the Onassis Stegi to the Foundation’s offices and the Onassis Hospital, its works unfold in public space, cross borders, and become part of major exhibitions in leading museums in Greece and abroad.

This year, The Girl Painting by Yannis Moralis will appear in the upcoming Protoleia exhibition at the Benaki Museum (October 2025 to January 2026), while Ioannis Permeniatis’ The Crucifixion and Madonna and Child traveled to the Palazzo Ducale for the exhibition Painted Gold, in dialogue with the artistic heritage of Crete and Venice. At the same time, the digital art piece That Feeling of Not Knowing by Theo Triantafyllidis is being screened at the Aegean Airlines Business Lounge in Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos,” inviting travelers into a moment of silent anticipation through the initiative The Art of Waiting, on view through November 2025.

The Onassis Foundation’s collection affirms the vital necessity of art in our time—art that is bold, consoling, and redemptive.

OnAthens

We are constantly seeking the points where the city meets its people. The Onassis Foundation is renovating six sports courts, rebuilding a playground, and creating two murals in Palaio Faliro, investing in a more open, participatory, and vibrant public space.

Culture begins with play. As part of the OnAthens initiative, the Onassis Foundation aims to transform young people’s everyday experience in public space through a series of interventions across the city. This time, it moves slightly beyond central Athens and collaborates with the Municipality of Palaio Faliro to renovate and rebuild a playground, a basketball court, a volleyball court, and a small football pitch on Zephyrou Street. With the addition of new plants near the park’s western gate, the environment becomes more green. Furthermore, three tennis courts are being constructed on Aiolou Street.

Unexpected corners of the neighborhood come alive with color, weaving art into everyday life. Two contemporary artists bring color to courts and walls in Palaio Faliro, embracing the urban landscape in unique ways. Twenty Three Artist transforms the basketball court on Zephyrou Street into a Compass, inspired by the geographic and historical identity of Palaio Faliro as an ancient Athenian port, a place of arrivals, departures, and transformations. Within the rhythm of the game, the Compass suggests a new orientation not only on the map but also through time, relationships, and personal journeys. A living artwork for those who play, watch, leave, or return.

At the crossing near Faliro Bay, Costas Theoharis sets up a Feast as a pause in the flow of daily life and constant street movement. This Feast is not an event or celebration but a state of mind, honoring spontaneous gatherings among friends, small moments of togetherness where community comes alive without any need for invitation or direction.

The Onassis Foundation aligns itself with the city, redefines notions such as wandering and encounter, and turns its gaze toward the future and the new generation.

ΟNASSIS PUBLICATIONS

Exploring the pages of the Onassis Foundation’s eclectic world of publications.

The publishing series of the Onassis Foundation listens to and records trends in contemporary research, showcases the voices of today’s most significant Greek creators, and raises questions about issues that will concern us in the future. By opening a creative dialogue among artists, researchers, academics, and both local and international readers, the Onassis Publications’ titles highlight the importance of critical thought, experimentation, and collective reflection. This year brings new titles with themes that resonate: the peculiar universe of photographer Pinelopi Gerasimou in the photobook We the People; Transpatial Gestures, a photographic project by Onassis AiR Fellow Tasos Gkaintatzis, exploring the rituals and local festivals of Northern Greece; RETIRÉ, an art book by Onassis AiR Fellow Sofia Dona, documenting the penthouses of Athens while drawing through family archives and video works; Takis Zenetos: Electronic Urbanism, a volume edited by Lydia Kallipoliti and Panos Dragonas and published in collaboration with Spector, highlighting the oeuvre of the trailblazing 20th-century architect; and a photographic publication by Kleopatra Charitou, produced with ERIS, which sets up a dialogue between the entrances of Athenian apartment buildings and the city’s funerary landscapes.

Four more volumes bring us closer to the texts of performances presented this season at Onassis Stegi: The Little Prince Blues by the legendary Greek rock artist Giannis Aggelakas, A Voracious Shadow by subversive Argentinian director Mariano Pensotti, and La Distance and By Heart by acclaimed Portuguese theater-maker Tiago Rodrigues.

The Onassis Publications’ titles are available at selected bookstores and at the Onassis Shop.

LIVE FROM MOUNT OLYMPUS

The Onassis Foundation’s multi-award-winning podcast series returns for a seventh and final season with a new myth.

With more than 2 million downloads, the Onassis Foundation and PRX podcast series has enhanced the way we experience Greek myths via the podcast format. Weaving together these timeless stories with the artistry of leading contemporary theater-makers and the imaginative power of audio, the series invites listeners of all ages to experience an unforgettable dramatic adventure full of gods, monsters, and heroes.

The seventh and final season of Live From Mount Olympus focuses on the twin gods Apollo and Artemis. Myths about the pair unravel in a unique way, from the wanderings of their mother Leto as she struggles to find a place on Earth that allows her to give birth, to the confrontation between the two of them and the gods. Featuring sibling rivalry, family dynamics, confrontations with terrifying monsters, and epic musical battles, the end is near!

This richly imagined dramatic podcast is a production of the Onassis Foundation, in collaboration with Brooklyn-based theater company The TEAM, and is distributed by PRX. The series was created by Peabody Award–winning producer Julie Burstein, who is the showrunner for all seven seasons, and is directed by Tony-award winner Rachel Chavkin (Lempicka, Hadestown) and Josiah Davis (Reconstructing). The legendary André De Shields—Tony, Emmy, and Grammy Award–winning performer—is Hermes, the charismatic host of our “GodsPod.”

Revisit the mythic adventures of Perseus (2021), Persephone (2022), Atalanta (2023), Prometheus (2024), Pandora (2024), and Theseus & Ariadne (2025), wherever you get your podcasts.

ONASSIS AiR

After six years, more than 200 artists, and over 9,500 applications from around the world, Onassis AiR continues to evolve. With a renewed focus on technical support and production, updated programs and partnerships, and the addition of a new space—all designed to meet the needs of contemporary artistic creation.

For the 2025–26 season, Onassis AiR expands its role as a platform for creative experimentation and enriches its artistic community by welcoming creators across four distinct tracks, in collaboration with the departments of Dramaturgy, Onassis ONX, and Production & Technical Support of the Onassis Stegi. Building on the fruitful creative paths of the previous year’s Fellows, the Onassis AiR Extended Research Residencies, Dramaturgy Fellowships, and AiR/ONX Fellowships continue. At the same time, we introduce the Technical Residencies, a new strand that focuses on the individuals who provide technical and production support for artistic creation.

This year, Onassis AiR also focuses on artistic practices at the intersection of design and the applied arts, offering space to creators who work with materials, produce large-scale objects or visual installations, and experiment with immersive technologies or the relationship between performance and cutting-edge tech. This direction is supported by our new facilities at Onassis Ready; an environment designed to host innovative modes of presentation and interdisciplinary creative research.

At the same time, we are expanding the program’s international partnerships, such as the collaboration with the National Theater & Concert Hall in Taipei. As part of this exchange, two artists from Taiwan will be hosted in Athens, while two Onassis AiR Fellows (Katerina Andreou and Mario Banushi) will travel to Taipei for their research. We also continue our participation in international networks, such as Grand Luxe and Europe Beyond Access, thereby strengthening both cross-border exchange and inclusion across practices and geographies.

The 44 Onassis AiR Fellows participating in the 2025–26 season are: Miriam Hillawi Abraham, Gouled Ahmed, Alqumit Alhamad, Yannis Aposkitis, Sophie Ataya, Eleni Bagaki, Stratos Bichakis, Tania Bizoumi, Maria Bregianni, Adam Cole, Alba Cros, Rachel Cusk, Alexis Fidetzis, Theodoros Gennitsakis (Pressure), GeoVanna Gonzalez, Efi Gousi, J Neve Harrington, Tora Hsu, Vassilia Kaga, Christiana Kosiari, Chryssa Kotoula, Aristidis Kreatsoulas, Thanasis Kritsakis, Ladele, Eirini Lampiri, Liu I-Ling, Leslie Mannès, Natalia Manta, Pavle Mijuca, Wura Oirana Moraes, Louiza Ntourou, Odydoze, Eliana Otta, Ludovico Paladini, Vasilis Papageorgiou, Konstantinos Papanikolaou, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou, Anna Pasparaki, Irene Ragusini, Camellia Rashidi, Foiy Scamell-Katz, Siemon Scamell-Katz, Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou, and Marina Xenofontos.

The following pages introduce some of the individuals who will join the Onassis AiR community this year, along with the projects they will explore or develop as part of the program.

Miriam Hillawi Abraham is a multidisciplinary designer from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. With a background in architecture, her work deals with experimental preservation and the continuation of both material heritage and immaterial knowledge from the African continent. Her methodology places Abraham in the role of a weaver, interlacing threads that connect scattered worlds with one another. As an Onassis AiR Fellow, Abraham will explore materials, matter, and mythos, focusing on the ‘extra-mundane,’ that which exists beyond the material world—salt, honey, wax, propolis, gum, tallow, and herb. Materials such as these map a spectral geography, charting invisible linkages as they are carried across political and corporeal boundaries, and contribute to metabolic transformations that occur between intelligent beings, both human and otherwise.

Gouled Ahmed

Gouled Abdishakour Ahmed is a Somali visual artist, costume designer, and filmmaker based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Their work explores themes of memory and belonging through the lens of selfportrait photography, film, costume design, and textile art, focusing on cultural heritage, code-making, and inherited stories. It is concerned with chronologies of kinship and with the issues of re-memory, edited memory, and experimental bio-mythologies. As an Onassis AiR Fellow, Gouled will develop a multimedia project that incorporates textile art, photography, performance, film, and poly-vocal sound art into their world-building. Through a series of mixed-media tapestry works, primarily featuring the Macawis (sarong) textile, the project explores psycho-memorial, psychosomatic, and psycho-spatial terrains. It investigates the choreographic registers of dispossession, elegiac forms of ritual making, mourning, and navigating geographies of loss. How can we map the histories of our dead through world-building, mythmaking, and sound and image?

Alqumit Alhamad

Alqumit Alhamad is a Syrian multidisciplinary artist based in Sweden. His artistic practice is informed by lived experiences of war, displacement, and queerness. He works across sculpture, drawing, painting, textile, illustration, and installation, combining archival research, traditional crafts, and sensory materials such as scent, sound, and tactility. As an Onassis AiR Fellow, he will develop an ongoing artistic research project that examines how official documents and bureaucratic systems perpetrate violence, particularly in contexts of war, displacement, and asylum. Drawing on his experience as a war refugee, Alhamad investigates how visas, stamps, signatures, and border control documents serve not as passive records but as instruments of control, exclusion, and delay. His project asks how we might confront the bureaucratic state not only by exposing its violence but by transforming its forms through new ways of seeing, making, and bearing witness.

Yannis Aposkitis

Yannis Aposkitis is a playwright, director, screenwriter, and dramaturg. He treats theater as a laboratory of comedic macabre hallucinations, always delivering electrifying punchlines. Blending political absurdity with dark humor, his work moves between stage and screen, with a taste for the grotesque and the philosophical. In the framework of his Onassis AiR Dramaturgy Fellowship, he will develop a meta-morphed adaptation of a classic ancient Greek theater play, following the zeitgeist of the 21st century: Aristophanes’ The Frogs. Aposkitis’ work, titled Aeternox, explores the collapse of our own era— an age suspended between planetary decay and digital resurrection. On the one hand, we face the climate crisis, which threatens the planet’s green pulse and human survival. On the other, we witness the rise of artificial intelligence, promising a new synthetic reality—a digital, immortal, yet lifeless world.

Sophie Ataya

Sophie Ataya is a writer, director, and film curator based in Berlin. Her work focuses on themes of identity and belonging from a postmigration perspective. Through storytelling, she seeks to amplify underrepresented narratives, using film as a tool for empowerment and anti-colonial practice. In the context of Onassis AiR, she will develop her documentary, Who We Are (working title), a film about the erasure of Palestinian identity in Germany. Through a deeply personal lens, the film follows the director’s journey to reclaim Palestinian history within her family, while also confronting the absence and silence that surrounded her, seeking the reasons why her father avoided his own identity after settling in Germany. What does it mean to reconnect with a heritage that was never transmitted? How does one reclaim a silenced identity?

Eleni Bagaki

Based in Athens, Eleni Bagaki works across painting, collage, text, video, sound, and sculpture to explore the intersection of autobiography and fiction. Informed by feminist theory, her practice examines the connections between personal narratives and the collective and political. As an Onassis AiR Fellow, she follows C. P. Cavafy’s footsteps in Athens, engaging with his diary and his first visit to the city, which he found oppressively hot, humid, and blindingly bright. She intends to recreate his experiences, reimagining his narratives through the lens of her own subjectivity in contemporary Athens while exploring how weather shapes our experience of place and its impact on us both physically and emotionally.

Stratos Bichakis

Stratos Bichakis is a media artist and composer living in Berlin. He works with a range of cutting-edge technologies and is actively engaged in the fields of artistic creation, education, and engineering. Stratos’ interest in psychoacoustics, as well as visual, spatial, and temporal perception, informs his creative approach, which extends to the creation and adaptation of tools or instruments and the fabrication of experiences. Within the framework of the Onassis AiR/ONX Fellowship, Stratos will develop an audiovisual performance that explores the forces of creation, nature, and desire. Chaos Gaia Eros is a dynamic, multisensory journey—from magmatic depths to ethereal spheres of genesis— unveiling the fluid, boundless essence of reality. Symbolic associations and dissociations, along with realworld data, inform both the sound and visuals, bridging speculative mythmaking with urgent planetary and ecological themes.

Maria Bregianni

Maria Bregianni is a chemical engineer and dancer. As a performer, she has collaborated with Dimitris Papaioannou, Christos Papadopoulos, Lenio Kaklea, Sofia Mavragani, RootlessRoot dance company, and Euripides Laskaridis, performing at international festivals such as the Athens Epidaurus Festival, Festival Grec de Barcelona, Brigittines International Festival, Julidans, Festival de Otoño, Santiago a Mil, GIFT Festival, Perth Festival, Dampfzentrale, and Dublin Dance Festival. In 2017, she participated in the film Suspiria, directed by Luca Guadagnino and featuring choreography by Damien Jalet. As an Onassis AiR Fellow, Bregianni will examine the complex dynamics of intimate relationships and the patterns we inherit and repeat within them, exploring how roles emerge, mutate, and persist, often beyond our conscious choice. Using movement as a tool of inquiry, the duet-based project explores emotional codes embedded in physical habits and common gestures that carry subtle undercurrents of meaning. An embrace may hold both tenderness and withdrawal. A kiss may conceal a form of control. The aim is to create a language in which contradiction is not resolved, but fully embodied.

Adam Cole

Adam Cole delves into the complexities of intimacy and identity in the age of AI, crafting immersive works that explore desire in the shadow of artificial representation. He integrates advanced AI technologies, film, and installation to challenge the normative fantasies embedded in AI networks, seeking more diverse, poetic, and sensual alternatives. His installations have been recognized by multiple prestigious awards and have been exhibited worldwide at prominent galleries, film festivals, and media arts conferences, including Tate Britain, SXSW Film Festival, Sheffield DocFest, Sonar+D Barcelona, Le Lieu Unique, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, and SIGGRAPH Arts. As an Onassis AiR/ONX Fellow, Cole will further develop his project, Infinite Jest, an immersive multi-channel video installation that critically examines how encoded cinematic myths shape and commodify our desires. The work invites viewers to interact with the installation, which harnesses advanced real-time AI, and to question how identity, intimacy, and longing are transformed into commodities promised by, yet governed through, invisible computational structures.

Alba Cros

Alba Cros is a filmmaker, cinematographer, and teacher based in Barcelona whose work explores identity, intimacy, and other narratives. Her creative journey moves fluidly between fiction and documentary. As an Onassis AiR Fellow, she will develop a poetic, research-based artistic project that explores lesbian cruising in Southern Europe, with a particular focus on the Mediterranean as a space of fluid intimacy and collective imagination. The project departs from the dominant imaginary of cruising shaped by urban gay male cultures and US-centric aesthetics. It seeks to trace a different, Mediterranean grammar of desire— southern, fluid, collective. In both Athens and the island of Lesvos, the project will explore how space, memory, and encounter shape nonlinear geographies of intimacy.

Alexis Fidetzis

Alexis Fidetzis is a visual artist and currently a doctoral candidate at the Athens School of Fine Arts. He uses historical research as a means of artistic production to engage with current social, cultural, and political issues. He is interested in the institutional management of collective social trauma alongside the ways in which power structures shape our common past. He has been awarded by institutions in Greece and abroad, while his work has been presented in group and solo exhibitions in Greece, France, Germany, Switzerland, and the USA, and is part of several private and public collections, including the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens EMST. As an Onassis AiR Fellow, he will develop a project that aims to serve as a platform for critically engaging with the intersection of materiality and power, questioning how control is both constructed and contested. Using the act of destroying material archives as a metaphor for the evolution of power itself, Fidetzis will explore how artists can build their material worlds that interrogate power structures, when power itself has become increasingly detached from matter.

Theodoros Gennitsakis (Pressure)

Theodoros Gennitsakis, born and raised in Paris to Greek immigrant parents, works in the fields of design, creative direction, production, and photography. He is the founder of Pressure Culture, a creative and production company, and Pressure Clothes, his own clothing line. Additionally, he spearheads a Parisbased art direction and production company named Pressure. By blending his multicultural upbringing with a global perspective, with each of his projects, he invites audiences to reconsider their perceptions of Greece and its cultural significance, offering a fresh perspective that is both authentic and transformative. As an Onassis AiR Fellow, he will continue to explore and create photographic and physical art content to depict the cultural side of a forgotten area in northern Greece, Serres, an impoverished region but rich in traditions, religion, and clandestine movements.

GeoVanna Gonzalez

GeoVanna Gonzalez is a visual artist and curator based in Miami. Gonzalez’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Art and Design, Miami (2024); Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo (2024); Locust Projects, Miami (2021); and Grund Gallery, Berlin (2019). She has participated in group exhibitions at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2025), MCA Denver (2024), Untitled Art Fair (2023), ICA Miami (2022), Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston (2021), Fringe Projects (2021), Emerson Dorsch, Miami (2021), NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale (2020), and Spinello Projects, Miami (2020). During her residency at Onassis AiR, Gonzalez will explore the resonances and divergences between Afro-Caribbean and Greek mourning traditions, focusing on the transmission, adaptation, and persistence of these practices across diasporic contexts. Greek mourning customs—such as laments, commemorative gatherings, and ritual garments—offer a comparative framework for examining how different cultural practices ritualize loss, honor ancestors, and negotiate the intersections of gender, spirituality, and memory.

Efi Gousi

Efi Gousi is a Greek multidisciplinary artist based in Paris, working across photography, film, and stage direction. Her work explores themes of femininity, identity, and the metaphysical, often characterized by a dreamlike, poetic atmosphere. As an Onassis AiR Fellow, Gousi will develop the follow-up to Tectonic Riders, her first art film, which was presented at Plásmata 3 in May of 2025. Speak, Little Wings once again brings the climate crisis, the next generation, and the essence of femininity to the forefront, employing the same narrative techniques as its predecessor. Through a poetic and metaphysical approach, the film explores the fragile and often invisible condition of caring within a landscape of collapse. What do we save in a catastrophe?

J Neve Harrington

J Neve Harrington is a neuroqueer interdisciplinary artist and access support worker. Her background is in psychology, dance, and visual arts. Her work spans choreography, conversation, costume/textile design, and space design, prioritizing explorations around access, play, agency, and confrontation across times/scales beyond the human, as well as neurodivergent experiences of information processing and attention. As an Onassis AiR Fellow in the framework of the EU program Europe Beyond Access, she aims to reinvigorate relationships between the threads which connect her practice: movement, writing, space design, book arts, textiles, and access.

Vassilia Kaga

Vassilia Kaga is a queer, feminist curator and performer whose multifaceted practice challenges heteronormative, classist, and dominant narratives in both art and the public sphere. Within the framework of the Onassis AiR, they will develop a curatorial research project that explores the intersection of gay cruising culture and the gentrification of Pedion tou Areos in Athens. As economic and political forces reshape the city, former queer meeting points become increasingly surveilled, erased, or co-opted by commercial interests. Through ethnography, moving image, and artistic intervention, the project reimagines queer history not as a static past but as an ongoing, embodied present, revealing the ephemeral and ever-evolving nature of queer memory.

Christiana Kosiari

Christiana Kosiari is a professional dancer, dance teacher, and choreographer. As a choreographer, she premiered her piece RUNWAY as part of Onassis Dance Days 2024 at the Onassis Stegi. In August 2024, the piece was featured in the artist residency program Credixa/Anima Fluo in Bologna. It was subsequently presented at the Under the Radar Festival in New York in January 2025 and at the Moving Balkans platform in Slovenia in May 2025. In July 2025, she was selected as an artist-in-residence at the Watermill Center, founded by Bob Wilson in the United States, where she worked on her new piece, UnPhobia (working title), which she will continue to develop at Onassis AiR through the Dramaturgy Fellowship in collaboration with Onassis ONX. UnPhobia is a choreographic and multimedia exploration of the fear of change and uncertainty. It focuses on how these existential fears—loss, loneliness, failure, or an uncertain future—are shaped by today’s social and technological conditions. A live experiment in fear, the unknown, and the possible, the project combines dance, language, technology, and philosophical inquiry, seeking to create an embodied experience.

Chryssa

Kotoula

Chryssa Kotoula is an artist, designer, and the founder of Matters of Concern, a creative studio primarily focused on material research, particularly in contemporary ceramic creation. Through her practice, she reimagines reclaimed matter as a valuable resource, forging new chains of value and transforming artifacts into carriers of history. Her works have been shortlisted for the Officine Saffi Foundation Biennial Prize 2024 (Italy), where she was awarded the Officine Saffi Special Prize, and the European Ceramic Context 2024 Triennial (Denmark), among others. In the framework of the Onassis AiR residency, Kotoula aims to rethink materials not only as tools but as sources of creative insight. Based in Athens, a city marked by continuous transformation, which also offers a wide range of construction, organic, or discarded materials, her project will explore how reclaimed urban materials such as soil, glass, various minerals, construction debris, and organic waste from local restaurants can be reimagined as alternative components for ceramic production.

Thanasis Kritsakis

Thanasis Kritsakis is a director, actor, and dramaturg based in Athens, who has studied visual arts, theater, and political science. His work is based on the performing arts and, more specifically, on post-dramatic forms of theater and their connections with political theory. As an Onassis AiR Fellow, through the Dramaturgy Fellowship, he will develop a research project aimed to develop new forms of dramaturgy and to explore sex and sexuality. From sexual rights to pornography, and from the repressed nature of the contemporary subject to sexology, the project intends to break through the barrier of shame to seek how discourses of sexual pleasure are produced and reproduced.

Ladele is an Afro-Greek rising musician and rapper. Her sound fuses new wave aesthetics with disarmingly lyrical content and a powerful on-stage presence. She has collaborated with key names from the local rap scene, including Tsaki, Mpelafon, DJ Silence, Styl Mo, and Grizzle. In 2025, she worked with director Evi Kalogiropoulou, writing lyrics and recording a track for her upcoming film. Ladele continuously challenges her own boundaries and seeks truth through art, aiming to realize her creative potential fully. As an Onassis AiR Fellow, she will explore the concepts of truth and authenticity, particularly as they pertain to artistic creation. Following internal reflection and conversations with fellow artists, Ladele focuses on the tension between inner impulse and external constraints, such as commercialization and social norms. What does it mean to speak the truth through your art, and what do you risk when you do?

Natalia Manta

Natalia Manta is an artist based in Athens. While clay serves as her primary medium, she also adeptly navigates metal, wax, light-sensitive chemicals, and video. Her works have been featured in numerous exhibitions at prestigious institutions and galleries and are part of private and public collections. In the last ten years, she has co-organized and curated, with Jannis Anastasakis, the audiovisual live improvisation session Sound of Color at the TV Control Center (KET) in Athens. As an Onassis AiR Fellow, she will focus on creating a series of sculptures that evoke tools, musical and ritual instruments, wearable weapons, bodily appendages, substrate mechanisms, and devices of torture or pleasure. Ceramics, metal, and fabric are blended to create visual and sculptural ‘antidotes’— artistic responses to often-hidden but universal anxieties. Rooted in both pleasure and trauma, the project becomes a leap of faith into our inner fears. It reflects the complex interplay of place, identity, and artistic evolution within Athens’ rapidly transforming cultural landscape.

Pavle Mijuca

Pavle Mijuca is an artist living and working in Amsterdam. His practice examines the power structures embedded in urban planning and architecture. Grounded in mediated research and role-based performance, Mijuca constructs site-specific personas, ranging from tour guides and architects to real estate agents, that operate as critical vessels for storytelling, critique, and embodiment of competing stakeholder narratives. These personas unfold across formats, including lectureperformances, guided tours, and staged media presentations. His work blurs the boundary between reality and fiction, employing confabulation, mythmaking, and satire, while his objects form an integral component of his practice, functioning simultaneously as sculptural props and rhetorical instruments. Drawing on the visual and linguistic registers of real estate, state bureaucracy, and the construction industry, he fabricates speculative maps, promotional hoardings, textiles, and 3D models that mimic and contest conventional readings of urban space. As an Onassis AiR Fellow, he will reconsider contemporary Athens through the visionary yet underappreciated lens of architect and urbanist Takis Zenetos, foregrounding him as a conceptual counterpart. By bridging historical paradigms and current realities, the project ultimately delves into how architecture can operate beyond nostalgia or spectacle, offering instead a mode of resistance to the homogenizing forces shaping cities today.

Louiza Ntourou

Louiza Ntourou (Orlof) is an artist and filmmaker based in Athens. Her work explores the unexpected facets of reality, reimagining the everyday through a lens that uncovers the hidden poetry in both animate and inanimate objects. Over the last few years, she has been developing a video series inspired by the haiku poetic form, translating its principles into the language of the moving image. As an Onassis AiR Fellow, she has undertaken the documenting of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens’ living fabric while its transformation is underway, in sync with the city’s rapid redevelopment. Adopting an observational approach, archival research, and oral history techniques, the project aims to convey the history and intangible heritage of the museum in a documentary film, preserving the identity of a cultural landmark before it undergoes significant change.

Eliana Otta

Eliana Otta is a Peruvian artist living between Athens and Vienna, who questions our relationships with what is usually called ‘nature,’ precarious labor in neoliberal, extractivist economies, and gender inequality, intersecting feminism, poetry, and politics. She addresses these issues by creating spaces for sharing intimacy, trust, and curiosity within projects that often involve pedagogical, curatorial, and editorial work. Growing up in a (post?) colonial context and her current migrant experience inform her approach to art as a realm to build up communities and rehearse other possible worlds. As an Onassis AiR Fellow, she will develop a project in the Eleonas Bazaar and how it is affected by the upcoming Panathinaikos New Stadium. The large flea market, which has evolved over time to adapt to the dynamics of its location, is now in danger of disappearing or, at the very least, undergoing a drastic transformation. Otta will follow closely what may be the last period of its current form, producing an archive of sound and visual material, including conversations with the people working there and participatory activities on site.

Vasilis Papageorgiou is an artist based in Athens. His practice explores themes of togetherness, communication, and solitude, reflecting on the role of leisure in everyday life. He focuses on semiprivate or semi-public spaces—such as bars, beaches, or local football stadiums—where people reclaim their right to be alone together, experiencing both community and solitude. As an Onassis AiR Fellow, he will explore humanity’s relationship with sunlight—from its healing potential to its manipulation and control—through a project that examines the historical, cultural, and environmental dimensions of solar exposure through art, architecture, and daily life.

Konstantinos Papanikolaou

Konstantinos Papanikolaou is a dancer, choreographer, and performer. As a performer, he has collaborated internationally with Gerard & Kelly and Alexandra Bachzetsis, has taken part in Munich, Lyon, and Birmingham’s biennials, and has also performed at various venues, including Centre Pompidou (Paris), Hellerau (Dresden), The Place (London), and Mercat des Flors (Barcelona). His debut choreographic work, The Diving Horse and Other Mythologies, was presented at the Onassis Stegi’s New Choreographers Festival in 2021. Part of his next project’s research and development, titled A User’s Manual, took place at TROIS C-L (Luxembourg) and Le Grand Studio (Brussels), in the framework of the annual support by the Grand Luxe network. As an Onassis AiR Fellow through the Dramaturgy Fellowship, Papanikolaou will develop a choreographic piece inspired by the ‘Rashomon effect’: How a single event can be interpreted in multiple ways due to the subjectivity of the witnesses.

Ioanna Paraskevopoulou

Ioanna Paraskevopoulou is a dancer and choreographer based in Athens. She has collaborated as a performer with numerous choreographers and artists, including Iris Karayan, Christos Papadopoulos, Dimitris Papaioannou, Katerina Andreou, Lenio Kaklea, Alexandra Waierstall, Andonis Foniadakis, Patricia Apergi, Tzeni Argyriou, and Brendan Fernandes. Her artistic practice explores the relationship between audiovisual media and movement, seeking to expand the choreographic field through hybrid methodologies. Within the framework of the Onassis AiR Dramaturgy Fellowship, she will develop the project hardcore echoes, a sonic and choreographic exploration born from a desire to enter into dialogue with the memories of those who once lived in another time. The project begins with a phrase that haunts Paraskevopoulou: “Seek things where nothing exists.” The choreographer searches for unheard voices and forgotten stories to reshape them and bring them into the present moment. The project may be seen as an attempt to map lost elements—a persistent effort to document fragments of our collective memory, a dialogue with the ghosts of the past, a resonant imprint of everyday recollections, an experiment in processing grief and loss, a way to prepare for what is yet to vanish, and a physical imprint of embodied workspaces.

Irene Ragusini

Irene Ragusini is a visual artist born in Italy and raised in Athens, Greece. In 2021, her work was selected as the Greek representation at Bornholm’s Biennial for Contemporary Glass in Denmark. Earlier, she received a mobility fund from the EU program i-Portunus for her project, The Archipelago of Shards. She has participated in various shows in Greece and abroad and has founded her own artist-run space, KOREN process space, located in Νeos Kosmos, Athens. During the Onassis AiR residency, she will explore the material and ecological aftermath of extraction and industrialization through a series of wearable sculptures and hybrid instruments crafted from both geological and urban debris. Drawing a continuous line between the ancient silver mines of Lavrio and the scrapyards of contemporary Athens, her project will trace how raw minerals are transformed by human labor into infrastructure, tools, and machines, only to be discarded and forgotten. Ragusini will craft sculptural objects informed by the anatomy of endangered and extinct insect species native to Greece. Fragmented wings, antennae, and chitinous exoskeletons are sculpted into hybrid forms, linking the ecological disappearance of these species to the exploitation of land and matter. Far from static, these works are designed as tools or prosthetics— meant to be worn, activated, or carried by the body.

Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou

Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher who works and lives between Los Angeles, California, and Athens, Greece. Their practice constructs speculative worlds that pulse between reality and fiction, centering a chorus of queer, femme, and more-thanhuman voices existing in the margins of techno-capitalist regimes. Their work spans experimental films, XR performances, participatory installations, and sculptural works forming immersive and radically soft hubs for unruly presents and hopepunk futures. As an Onassis AiR/ONX Fellow, she will develop an ongoing interdisciplinary project that merges film, performance, robotics, XR play, and experimental documentary practices to reimagine human-robotplanetary interaction. It is an attempt to soften the rigidity, cleanness, and accelerationist logic often associated with robotic technologies and propose a new language of relationality with the human and the more-than-human world.

Marina Xenofontos

Marina Xenofontos is a visual artist specialized in sculpture and based in Athens, Greece. Her practice engages with cultural memory, collective narratives, and the politics of display, often navigating the thresholds between public and private space. In 2023, she presented Public Domain at Camden Art Centre in London, following her receipt of the Camden Art Centre’s Emerging Artist Prize at Frieze London in 2022. As an Onassis AiR Fellow, through the AiR/ONX Fellowship, Xenofontos will work on her video game project, Twice Upon a While, which evolved from animation and sculpture into an open-world RPG. The game follows Twice, an ideologically conflicted girl navigating a surreal world of choices, dead ends, loops, and disorientation.

This year, Onassis AiR launches a new direction, focusing for the first time on those behind the scenes: the professionals who provide technical support for theater, dance, music, film, and digital productions.

AiR FELLOWS

TECHNICAL RESIDENCIES

The Onassis AiR’s new direction is designed for professionals seeking to enhance their technical skills in areas such as stage management, line production, set, lighting, projection, and sound design, as well as sound engineering and the technical development of works at the intersection of art and advanced technologies. Participants will work closely with the technical teams of Onassis Stegi and Onassis ONX while being actively involved in the projects of Onassis AiR Fellows. For the 2025–26 season, the Onassis AiR Fellows selected for the Technical Residencies are: Aristidis Kreatsoulas, Anna Pasparaki, and Camellia Rashidi (Technical Residencies at Onassis Stegi), and Eirini Lampiri (Technical Residency at Onassis ONX).

Aristidis Kreatsoulas has been working in festivals and artistic projects as a stage and production assistant for over a decade. He began his career as a technical producer at the Chios Music Festival and has since collaborated with both emerging Greek artists and internationally acclaimed directors in the field of technical production. Since spring 2024, he has served as technical producer and touring technician for Taverna Miresia by Mario Banushi, with stops at festivals and cultural venues, including FTA (Montreal), Theater Spektakel (Zurich), and DeSingel (Antwerp), among others.

Anna Pasparaki has been working in theater since 2007, holding various 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 in production coordination, line production, marketing, and as the venue’s manager. She has collaborated with the company Gravity and the Athens Epidaurus Festival on surtitles operations, served as website manager for the digital magazine Urbanorama, and worked as an assistant director alongside Dimitris Tarlow, Stathis Livathinos, and Giorgos Papageorgiou. She has experience in digital tools, which she applies in cultural and educational projects with a contemporary technological focus.

Eirini Lampiri is an XR experience designer, creative producer, and practice-based researcher. With an interdisciplinary background in digital and interactive media, she explores the intersections of live performance, immersive theater, and cinematography through emerging technologies, focusing on the creation of humancentered immersive experiences using virtual and extended realities (VR/ XR). Drawing on her background as a set and costume designer, she retains a strong interest in tactility and the materiality of textures, fabrics, and physical objects. Her practice blends the material with the virtual, crafting multisensory, hybrid experiences that encourage embodied interaction. Lampiri has received consecutive nominations for the “Best Use of XR” award at TechSPARKS for Is This My Body? (2023) and Cognition (2022). Her projects have been showcased at notable festivals and cultural venues, including Ars Electronica (Austria, 2024), Beyond Innovation Expo (Greece, 2022), Arnolfini (UK, 2021), and Bristol Beacon (UK, 2021).

Camellia Rashidi

Camellia Rashidi is an Iranian-born visual artist. Storytelling through movement and light lies at the core of her work. Her artistic practice weaves together film, performance, and the poetics of space. Rashidi has worked as a camera assistant on a range of short and feature films, as well as a stage manager and lighting designer, collaborating with circus artists, dancers, and opera productions across France. Since 2023, she has been part of the Flying Carpet Festival—the first mobile festival of circus, dance, and music for children in Türkiye—where she continues to nurture the connection between art and community. In parallel, she writes and directs short films and visual pieces for musicians, choreographers, and circus performers, always seeking new forms of narrative where body, sound, and memory intersect.

ONASSIS FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS

Since 1978, the Foundation has believed in the bold dreams of more than 8,000 people. With the support of the Onassis Foundation, thousands of young scientists and researchers have overcome obstacles and revolutionized their fields.

The Onassis Foundation has long supported the aspirations of thousands of people through its Scholarship Program. With a focus on the sciences of the future, it welcomes each year young individuals who are dedicated to working systematically towards a better society.

Looking ahead, the Foundation invests in both the sciences we know and those we are yet to discover. From nanotechnology and bioinformatics to computational linguistics and data analytics, the Scholarship Program fosters knowledge, innovation, and progress. By supporting its scholars, the Foundation not only transforms their lives but also positively impacts society at large, offering solutions to global challenges. Even after their studies are complete, the Onassis Foundation continues to support its scholars’ professional journeys, promoting growth and networking through a vibrant alumni community of more than 2,700 members, building new bridges for the future.

The call for the 2026–27 academic year is expected to be announced in 2025.

CΑVΑ FY Α RCHIVE IN ΑTHENS

Located on Frynichou Street in Plaka, the Cavafy Archive is more than a museum. It houses the personal and work archive of the Alexandrian poet, along with 966 books from his library and contemporary creations by internationally acclaimed artists from New York to Athens. It is a living archive that continues to grow and evolve.

Following the launch of the Cavafy Archive’s digital collection in March 2019, which made the archive freely accessible to all, the Onassis Foundation created a physical space dedicated to the poet, opening the Cavafy Archive in Athens in November 2023.

The venue showcases Cavafy’s manuscripts and books, as well as his personal belongings and furniture, alongside a curated selection of artworks that illuminate his ever-growing influence on artists from his time to the present day.

In December 2024, the Archive was expanded with two new rooms, presenting additional materials from his library, works from his contemporaries which were inspired by the poet, as well as pieces by internationally recognized artists first featured in the Onassis Foundation’s Archive of Desire festival in New York (April 28 to May 6, 2023). Two years after their premiere at National Sawdust, in October 2025, two of the festival’s most iconic productions return to the stage. As part of the new season program of the independent music venue and incubator for emerging artists in Brooklyn, Robin Coste Lewis’ performance Archive of Desire will be presented in October 2025, while a new version of Constantinopoliad by Sister Sylvester will transport us into a digital, Cavafy-imbued universe in the winter of 2026.

The Cavafy Archive continues to grow richer, with new exhibits on site, new acquisitions, and connections to Cavafy collections held by other institutions in Greece and abroad. Explore more than 3,000 items from the digital collection at cavafy.onassis.org.

Cavafy Archive: 16B Frynichou Street, Plaka, 10558

Opening hours: Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, 11:00–18:00 Free admission

The Cavafy Archive welcomes school visits as part of the educational program “School visits to the

Learn more at onassis.org.

CΑVΑ FY HOUSE IN ΑLEXΑNDRIΑ

Can you imagine the place where C. P. Cavafy dreamed, reflected, and wrote his poems? In constant dialogue with the Cavafy Archive in Athens, the Cavafy House in Alexandria completes the puzzle of the poet’s story.

In early 2022, the Onassis Foundation, in collaboration with the Hellenic Foundation for Culture (now HFBC), undertook the restoration of the Cavafy House in Alexandria with the goal of transforming it into a destination for visitors from around the world. Since May 2024, the apartment where C. P. Cavafy spent most of his life and wrote many of the poems that established him as a world-renowned poet has been restored and reimagined to reflect the atmosphere of the home as it was during his lifetime. The Cavafy House aims to illuminate the poet’s deep connection with the city of Alexandria, to highlight the lasting impact of his work, and to offer a journey back in time, a kind of time capsule into his world.

ONASSIS LIBRARY

The historic building at 56 Amalias Avenue opens its doors to all—without restriction—ushering in a new digital era. At library.onassis.org, over 10,000 volumes, archival materials, and artworks have been digitized and made freely accessible, unlocking the gates of knowledge, history, and research.

At the heart of Athens, the neoclassical Onassis Library building stands in dialogue with the surrounding ancient monuments, at the junction of Amalias Avenue and Dionysiou Areopagitou Street. Here, Homer meets Voltaire and Rigas Velestinlis, while C. P. Cavafy encounters Sappho and Jane Austen. Works by El Greco and Giorgio de Chirico converse with the creations of Yanoulis Halepas and Lucas Samaras, alongside Maria Callas’ very own piano. With six distinct collections, over 10,000 volumes, and a wealth of archival materials, the Onassis Library offers a richly diverse journey through time and lesser-known facets of Greek history and beyond, serving as a haven of rare books, artworks, and historical documents.

In 2025, the Onassis Foundation completes the grand project of the Library’s full digitization, offering researchers, scholars, and the general public a new digital experience and expanding the horizons of knowledge and inquiry. Through the launch of library.onassis.org, featuring more than 200,000 scans from book and archive collections dating from the 15th century to the present day, along with a suite of digital applications showcasing its rich cultural holdings, the Onassis Library evolves into a modern open repository—a welcoming and accessible resource for research that becomes a vehicle to ‘travel’ into stories, sources, images, books, and knowledge.

“Our goal, always in collaboration with the State, is to offer modernized schools, upgraded in both infrastructure and curriculum. Above all, we are building schools that will be loved by teachers, parents, and most of all, by their students.”

–Anthony S. Papadimitriou, President of the Onassis Foundation

ONASSIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS

The Onassis Public Schools are transforming public secondary education: Middle Schools (Gymnasiums) and High Schools (Lyceums) that inspire, empower, and offer every child the space to dream, create, and grow. With the start of the current academic year, the first 12 schools are operating in Kolonos, Peristeri, Acharnes, Kozani, Xirokrini (Thessaloniki), and Xanthi.

Open to students who dare to dream and to teachers who never stop inspiring, the Onassis Public Schools will offer more than 22,000 students across Greece, over the course of twelve years, the experience of the public school we envision for the future: high-quality, innovative, and rooted in equal opportunity.

Since the signing of the agreement between the Hellenic Republic and the Onassis Foundation in January 2025, the Onassis Public Schools have been developing a new network of model public schools with a strong social focus. Aiming to upgrade public education, particularly in areas facing social and economic challenges, 22 middle and high schools across the country are being gradually transformed into modern, creative, and inclusive learning environments that adopt contemporary pedagogical and operational models.

The Onassis Public Schools are redesigning public education with renovated infrastructure and equipment, laboratories, innovative curricula, and afternoon Clubs and Ensembles that foster creativity, innovation, and free thinking. Emphasis is placed on fields such as STEAM, the humanities, the arts, and digital technologies, cultivating skills essential for the twenty-first century. All schools in the network operate under the supervision of the Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs, and Sports, while a special nine-member Governing Committee (Onassis Public Schools Governing Committee) monitors their operation to ensure the credibility and quality of the educational work.

With the start of the current school year, the first 12 Onassis Public Schools have already begun operating across four regions of Greece. In Attica, the 52nd Day Middle School (Gymnasium) and the 52nd Day General High School (Lyceum) of Athens in Kolonos are now operational, along with the 3rd Day Middle School (Gymnasium) and the 7th Day General High School (Lyceum) of Acharnes in Menidi, and the “Odysseas Elytis” 5th Day Middle School (Gymnasium) and the 5th Day General High School (Lyceum) of Peristeri.

In Thessaloniki, in the district of Xirokrini, the 12th Day Middle School (Gymnasium) and the “Periklis Stefanidis” 16th Day General High School (Lyceum) are in operation. In Kozani, the 3rd Day Middle School (Gymnasium) and the 3rd Day General High School (Lyceum) are active, while in Xanthi, the 1st Day Middle School (Gymnasium) and the 2nd Day General High School (Lyceum) have also begun operating.

The Onassis Public Schools are not merely a new model of schooling. They are a promise for a future where public education becomes a solid foundation for equal opportunity, creativity, and growth for every child.

ONASSIS HOSPIT AL

A new, unified, and fully digital Onassis Hospital opens the way for the future of healthcare in Greece.

In its new form, the Onassis Hospital brings together the modernized Cardiac Surgery Center, which harnesses the latest technology in interventional and diagnostic healthcare, the National Transplant Center, which becomes a national reference point for organ donation and transplantation, and the new Onassis Children’s unit, specializing in pediatric cardiology, cardiac surgery, and pediatric transplants.

With digital health and state-of-the-art infrastructure at its core, the Onassis Hospital combines advanced medical care with personalized therapeutic approaches, always placing people at the center: patients, healthcare professionals, and administrative staff. At the new Onassis Hospital, every heartbeat is a story of safeguarding health and a reminder of the value of life.

50 YEARS OF THE ONASSIS FOUNDATION

SINCE 1975, THE ONASSIS FOUNDATION HAS ACTED AS A CATALYST IN SOCIETY, ADVANCING PROGRESS WITH A CLEAR VISION: TO REMAIN CONSISTENTLY INNOVATIVE AND CREATIVELY DISRUPTIVE.

“As we look to the opportunities ahead, let us remember that the best way to honor the past is to act in the present and imagine the future. With faith in our values, with courage and creative spirit, we continue on the path of innovation, bold reinvention, and growth.”

–Anthony S. Papadimitriou, President of the Onassis Foundation

For 50 years, the Onassis Foundation has been creating the conditions to unleash potential on both individual and collective levels. We seek out ideas and spark conversations that lead to a better society. We ensure access to healthcare, education, and culture. We challenge stereotypes. We support innovation and a bold break from the past. We ignite public curiosity and act as a catalyst in shaping active citizens. We invest in human capital and sustainable entrepreneurship. We build lasting relationships of trust with those who seek to grow, release their potential, and contribute to society. With 2025 marking the 50th anniversary of its founding, the Onassis Foundation renews its vision for the next fifty years to come.

WHO WE ARE

ONASSIS FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Anthony S. Papadimitriou President of the Board

Costas Grammenos Vice-President of the Board

Dennis Μ. Houston Vice-President of the Board

Florian Marxer Vice-President of the Board

Panayiotis Touliatos Secretary of the Board

Stefanos P. Tamvakis Member of the Board

Michael-Spyros Sotirhos Member of the Board

Simon Critchley Member of the Board

Karen Brooks Hopkins Member of the Board

Paul Holdengräber Member of the Board

Nikolaos Karamouzis Member of the Board

Mary Karagianni-Michalopoulou Member of the Board

Konstantinos Bikas Member of the Board

Eleni Panagiotarea Member of the Board

Peggy Antonakou Member of the Board

ONASSIS CULTURE

Afroditi Panagiotakou Artistic Director

Dimitris Theodoropoulos Executive Director

CURATORIAL TEAM

THEATER & DANCE

Iliana Dimadi Dramaturg

Konstantinos Tzathas Curator

Vaso Vasilatou Curatorial Consultant

MUSIC

Giorgos Konstantinidis (Voltnoi)

Makis Kentepozidis (Quetempo)

STEGI.RADIO Artistic Directors

Akis Chontasis Curatorial Consultant

DIGITAL

Prodromos Tsiavos Head of Digital & Innovation

TALKS & THOUGHTS

Pasqua Vorgia Talks & Thoughts Program Coordinator

CINEMA

Elizampetta Ilia-Georgiadou Cinema Program Coordinator

Theodora Kapralou Curatorial Project Manager

Maria Vasariotou Budget Manager

Vera Petmeza Budget Associate

Christina Kosmoglou Publications Manager

Smaragda Dogani Project Coordinator

Alexandra Chrysanthakopoulou PR Executive

Niovi Polychronidou Office and PR Coordinator

Artemis Palaska Gallery Coordinator

Hara Syrou

Gallery Administrator

Evangelos Constantis Special Events Manager

Myrto Kontoni Project Facilitator

COMMUNICATION & CONTENT

Demetres Drivas

Head of Communication and Content

Kanella Psychogiou

Senior Campaign Manager

Haris Giakoumakis

Elisavet Pantazi

Daniel Vergiadis Campaign Managers

Eirini Skoufi Junior Campaign Manager

Maria Chalkia Media Specialist

CONTENT

Alexandros Roukoutakis Content Leader

Elizampetta Ilia-Georgiadou

Margarita Grammatikou

Evangelia Kolaiti

Valia Papadimitraki Copy Editors

Despina Kalyvi Website Editor

MEDIA OFFICE

Vaso Vasilatou

Katerina Chortaria-Tamvaki Media Officers

Nefeli Tsartaklea-Kasselaki Junior Media Officer

SOCIAL MEDIA

Vasilis Bibas

Social Media Manager

Alexandra Sarantopoulou

Dafne Skolarikou

Social Media Editors

Giorgos Athanasiou

Social Media Performance Specialist

ONASSIS CREATIVE STUDIO

Christos Sarris

Creative Head

Theodoros Koveos

Georgia Leontara Senior Graphic Designers

Constantinos Chaidalis

Senior Motion Graphics Designer

Maria Poyiadji

Thomas Tsoulias Graphic Designers

Elena Choremi Audio Visual Producer

Angeliki Avgeri

Audio Visual Line Producer

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Lida Argyroglou Business Development Manager

Dimitra Pappa Audience Development Coordinator

Maria Proestaki CRM Specialist

Ioanna Tousiadou Sales Executive

PRODUCTION

Vasilis Panagiotakopoulos Head of Production

Dimitra Chatzicharalampous

Akis Chontasis

Christina Pitouli

Despoina Sifniadou Producers

LINE PRODUCTION

Dimitra Bouzani

Marianota Giannaki

Danai Giannakopoulou

Ioulia Stamouli Line Producers

Mariana Antzoulatou

Fay Minopetrou Line Producer Assistants

DIGITAL & INNOVATION

Prodromos Tsiavos

Head of Digital & Innovation

Iraklis Papatheodorou

Digital & Development Project Manager

Efi Oikonomakou

Digital Senior Officer

Giorgos Souvaliotis Digital Officer

Anastasia Mavrogianni Innovation Officer

Katerina Varda

Digital & Innovation Administrator

ONASSIS AiR

Nefeli Myrodia Head of Onassis AiR Program

Ioanna Zouli

Communication Coordinator of Onassis AiR

Sotiria Smyrnaiou Onassis AiR Program Coordinator

Georgia Giannakea Effie Georganta

Onassis AiR Administrators

NETWORKING

Theodora Vougiouka Networks & Strategic Partnerships Officer

Katerina Michou Networks & Strategic Partnerships Assistant

Christos Christopoulos Touring Program Officer

Xenia Sotirchou Touring Program Administrator

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Chronis Lillis Chief Operating Officer

Despina Bourdeka Senior Project Manager

Eleni Keratsa Dimitris Stagianos Project Managers

Michalis Makris Project Coordinator ONASSIS ONX

Mandy Boikou Administrative Director

Clare Nelson Senior Executive Assistant

Jazia Hammoudi ONX Deputy Program Director

Matthew Niederhauser ONX Technical Co-Director

John Fitzgerald ONX Innovation Co-Director

Aaron Santiago ONX Studio Fellow

Sofia Pipa Project Manager

THEATER TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT

Antonis Kokkoris Technical Manager

Giannis Ntovas

Deputy Technical Manager

Lefteris Karabillas Technical Project Consultant

Stavros Kariotoglou Touring Technical Manager

Revekka Stamou Technical Office Coordinator

Danis Chatzivasilakis Backliner

Vasia Christodoulou Head of Stage Management

Katerina Kotsou

Melina Lorkidi

Natalia Vorria Stage Managers

Vangelis Moundrichas Head of Lights

Pavlos Pappas

Senior Light Technician

Sotiris Muhammed Ali Sompchy

Antonios Tsevas

Lighting Technicians-Operators

Ioannis Christodoulakis

Eleftherios Daskalantonakis

Panagiotis Fourtounis

Alexandros Kanellopoulos

Giannis Psarros

Georgia Tselepi

Charis Vasilopoulos

Ioannis Vollelis

Assistant Lighting TechniciansOperators

Iakovos Darzentas Head of Stage Engineers

Stelios Bourdis

Senior Stage Engineer

Thanasis Ntako

Stage Engineer/Fly Operator

Michail Faitakis

Ioannis Kontorouchas

Giorgos Koulianidis

Nikos Nizamis

Nikos Papanikolopoulos

Konstantinos Petronanos

Spyros Pitsos

Platonas Tsamados

Assistant Stage Engineers

Panagiotis Hajisavas Head of Video

Efstratios Toganidis

Senior Video Technician

Efstathios Darzanos

Production & Video Engineer

Iasonas Pierrakos

Assistant Production & Video Engineer

Alexios Politis

Head of Sound

Theodoros Tsachalos

Senior Sound Technician

Giannis Gkliatis

Stefanos Papoutsakis

Sound Technicians-Operators

Dimitris Samaras

Giorgos Tsatsoulis

Alexandros Tzovaras

Assistant Sound TechniciansOperators

Fotis Andrianopoulos Head of Electrics & Stage Automation

Leonard Cela

Angeliki Dimitrakopoulou Fly Operators-Programmers

Filippos Kokkinakis

Kyriakos Xanthopoulos Electricians

Areti Antonatou

Maria Beraha

Dressing Room & Hospitality Assistants

FRONT OF HOUSE

Zenia Agkistrioti

Visitor Experience Supervisor

Emmanouil Chatzakis

Konstantinos Iacovou

Konstantinos Psychopaidis

Visitor Experience Facilitators

FACILITY MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT

Giorgos Raptis

Facility Maintenance Manager

Antreas Branis

Panagiotis Generalis

Ioannis Karropoulos Facility Maintenance Engineers

Hara Sidirokastriti

Margarita Kousouri Administrative Assistants

Panagiotis Foskolos Building Services Assistant

Dimitris Bougioukos

Marios Chatzis Electricians

Vasileios Chatzieleutheriou Assistant Electrician

Petrit Mula

Iraklis Zervas Technicians

Vaios Mammos Plumber

FINANCE & ACCOUNTING

Harry Gkizas Onassis Foundation Finance Manager

Theofilos Nikolaou Accounting Manager

Martina Panagaki Finance Associate

Antonis Seitelmann Supplies Manager

Dimitris Tsokalis

Nancy Stavropoulou Onassis Foundation Accountants

Vasia Filippopoulou Accountant

Myrto Giannakopoulou Oana-Giorgiana Hirceaga

Evangelia Vatsaki Accounting Assistants

HUMAN RESOURCES

Sotiris Stamatiou Group HR Director

Eleni Mpragia HR Manager

Sophia Vasileiou Organization & People Development Lead

Sofia Sakellariou HR Generalist

Evi Kateva Senior HR Administrator

Maria Glentou HR Systems Specialist

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Dimitris Tolias Group ICT Director

Manos Karteris Onassis Foundation IT Manager

Ioannis Chazakis Network Administrator

Theodoros Giannakopoulos Giorgos Panagiotou System Administrators

Archontoula Bontzidou Giannis Chelmis IT Support Technicians

GROUP INTERNAL AUDIT

Agathi Massali Group Internal Audit Director

Eleni Lessi Senior Internal Auditor

COMPLIANCE

Petros Axarlian Chief Compliance Officer

Tasos Tsimplakis Compliance Officer

Thalia Sotiriou Compliance Administrator

SAFETY & SECURITY

Andronikos Pandis

Group Safety, Security, & Facility Management Director

Nikos Kampanis

Safety & Security Team Leader

Anastasia Sampani

Safety Awareness Officer

Spyros Triantafyllakis

Security Assurance Team Leader

Ioannis Giannakos

Security Assurance Professional

Lefteris Saganis

Security Operations Professional

Alexandra Azariadou

Anastasios Korobilis

Georgia Oustabasiadou

Spyros Papadopoulos Konstantinos Vlachos

Security Operations Center Administrators

Alexandros Bechlivanidis

Evangelos Chalikias

Dimitris Delikaris

Dimitris Georgiou

Vasilis Gkrisin

Ioannis Kafesakis

Dimitris Karykis

Apostolos Kasidiaris

Nikos Konstantinou

Evgenia Krania

Giannis Lelis

Lefteris Loukatos

Konstantinos Milis

Katerina Mitsi

Giorgos Moutzalias

Athanasios Nikiforakis

Dimitrios Oikonomou

Giorgos Resvanis

Spyros Stratis

Giorgos Touris

Dimitris Tsokos

Kyriakos Tsoupis

Anastasios Zeibekis

Safety & Security Agents

FOOD & BEVERAGE

Fotis Liapis Food & Beverage Manager

INTEGRATED FACILITIES

& LOGISTICS

Efi Vasilakou

Integrated Facilities & Logistics Supervisor

Afendra Mparola Safety & Awareness Administrator

Christina Prentzia

Integrated Facilities & Logistics Administrator

Aristea Sagani

Integrated Facilities & Logistics Assistant

Christina Charitaki

Vicky Despotopoulou

Roula Takopoulou Guest Services Assistant

Vasilis Korobilis Warehouse Coordinator

Giannis Kouros Senior Art Handling Technician

Giannis Frantzeskos Art Handling Technician

Dimitris Lianos Office Services Administrator

Dimitris Nazos

Vasilis Stergiou Office Services Technicians

Christos Giakoumis

Michalis Moros

Panagiotis Stergiou Office Services Assistants

Nikos Mitilineos Messenger

Giorgos Gaitanos Facilities Assistant

Giota Avgeraki Housekeeping Office Assistant

ONASSIS FOUNDATION

Dimitris Theodoropoulos Executive Director of Onassis Foundation

Stella Tatsi Head of Scholarships and Education Initiatives

Maria Vasariotou Budget Manager

SCHOLARSHIPS

Polina Panagopoulou Onassis Scholarships’ Supervisor

Antigoni-Maria Chantzolou

Ioanna Kailani

Katerina Roussaki

Onassis Scholarships’ Specialists

Alkisti Iliadi

Onassis Scholarships’ & Scholars’ Association Specialist

ONASSIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Katerina Magkel

Education Initiatives Project Coordinator

Sofia Mansola

Project Coordinator at Onassis Schools

Nikos Athanasopoulos

Cultural Projects Advisor at Onassis Schools

Christina Panagiotakou

Psychosocial Support and Special Educational Needs Advisor at Onassis Schools

ONASSIS ARCHIVES

Marianna Christofi Onassis Archives Manager

Eleanna Semitelou

Christina Kostoglou Project Coordinators

Giannis Gonatidis Onassis Archive Coordinator

Dimitris Zougris Petridis Collection Specialist

Vicky Gerontopoulou Onassis Library Coordinator

Olga Delidaki Grants & Office Management Specialist

HEALTH

Alexandros Morellas Head of Health Programs

Anastasia Stamatopoulou

Foteini Maragkou Health Programs Specialists

Tickets

The Onassis Foundation has always championed unlimited access to culture for all and offers a range of reduced-price tickets.

Reduced-price tickets are available in Zones B and C for all performances except on Fridays and Saturdays, for young people up to 26 years old, people over 65, families with three or more children, and soldiers.

Reduced-price tickets are available in Zones B and C for all performances except on Fridays and Saturdays, for students of public and private educational institutions in Greece and abroad, as well as for holders of the European Youth Card.

Reduced-price tickets are available in Zones B and C on Thursdays and Sundays, for residents of the Onassis Stegi neighborhood.

Unemployed individuals can purchase tickets at a 30% discount, available in Zones B and C for all performances except on Fridays and Saturdays.

Tickets at €10 or less are available for persons with disabilities and their companions for all performances.

Reduced-price tickets are also available in all zones for Onassis Friends.

The above discounts may not apply in certain cases. For more information, please see the webpage for each performance.

Tickets for residents of the Onassis Stegi neighborhood

Applicable to the following areas: Neos Kosmos, Koukaki, and Kallithea.

For neighborhood resident tickets, it is necessary to present a utility bill proving that the buyer resides in one of the above areas.

Booking via telephone and purchase at the box office (within 2 days) is possible upon presentation of the required documentation.

Each eligible person may purchase one (1) ticket per production. If they wish to buy tickets for additional family members living in the same household, they must also present a family status certificate along with the utility bill, listing the family members. The same restriction of one ticket per family member per production applies.

Tickets are subject to availability at the time of the request and are offered in Zones B and C.

PRE-SALES

For the 2025–26 Onassis Stegi season, ticket presales are launching with a new three-phase model. The first pre-sale phase opens with Early Tickets on Monday, September 15 at 17:00 for Onassis Friends and on Saturday, September 20 at 17:00 for the General Public.

During this phase, a limited number of seats are available at special prices for selected Main Stage productions, while all Upper Stage performances and certain exhibitions at Onassis Stegi and Onassis Ready are offered at a fixed price.

The second pre-sale phase begins on Monday, December 15 at 17:00 for Onassis Friends and on

Saturday, December 20 at 17:00 for the General Public. Productions and events included in the first two pre-sale phases will be announced on onassis. org.

The third pre-sale phase opens one month before each production’s opening, with Onassis Friends enjoying exclusive access one week earlier than the General Public. Exact opening dates for the third pre-sale phase for the General Public will be announced on onassis.org.

TICKET PURCHASE

Tickets can be purchased via onassis.org, via phone at 219 219 1000, and at the Onassis Stegi box office, Thursday–Sunday between 18:00–21:00, from September 15 until the end of May.

Box office hours may vary depending on performances.

Visa® and MasterCard® credit and debit cards are accepted.

Online Ticket Sales

For online purchases, you will receive a digital ticket. Open the PDF file on your smart device, or alternatively save your ticket to your Android or iOS wallet, or print it and proceed directly to the venue.

Onassis Friends must log in with their Friends account in order to enjoy their membership benefits during transactions.

Ticket Sales via Phone

Number: 219 219 1000 Monday–Sunday 10:00–21:00

Ticket sales via onassis.org and the call center close 30 minutes before the start of the performance.

Onassis Stegi Box Office

The box office of the Onassis Stegi is located at the Stegi building, 107 Andrea Syngrou Avenue, Athens 117 45.

For information on opening hours, please visit onassis.org/en/onassis-stegi/tickets. Alternatively, you can contact infotickets@onassis.org or call at 219 219 1000.

Contact email for Onassis Friends: friends@onassis.org

For admission to performances, it is necessary to present your ticket in either electronic or printed form. In addition, holders of reduced-price tickets must present the relevant proof of eligibility upon entry.

TICKET INFORMATION

Tickets are strictly personal and non-transferable. Refunds are possible only under specific conditions:

• In the event of cancellation of a performance or part of it, you will be informed about the ticket refund process through an announcement on onassis.org.

• Ticket cancellations are only possible if made

no later than 12:00 noon on the day before the scheduled performance.

Lost, stolen, or damaged tickets cannot be replaced.

Accessible seating for Persons with Disabilities

Designated seats are available in the stalls and balconies of the theaters for persons with disabilities and their companions.

With the support of

GENERAL

INFORMATION

Standard start times for performances at the Onassis Stegi:

MAIN STAGE 20:30

UPPER STAGE 21:00

These times apply to all performances unless otherwise stated in the program or on onassis.org.

Matinée performances (Sundays):

MAIN STAGE 14:00

UPPER STAGE 17:00

The start time applies to all performances unless otherwise stated in the program or on onassis. org. Entry to the venues after the performance has begun is not permitted. During performances, flash and non-flash photography, audio recording, video recording, and the use of mobile phones are strictly prohibited.

Smoking is not permitted inside the Onassis Stegi premises.

For children under the age of six, entry is allowed only for educational programs or other activities and events specifically designed for children.

Tipping the Onassis Stegi staff is not permitted.

Please follow the instructions of the security and audience services staff upon entering and exiting the venues.

Onassis Stegi reserves the right to request the removal from the event of any ticket holder who does not comply with the above measures and regulations.

GETTING TO ONASSIS STEGI

By bus/trolley: “Pantios” Bus Stop

By metro:

“Syngrou–Fix” Stop Line 2 (red line) Anthoupoli–Elliniko

By tram:

Kasomouli stop

Line 6: Syntagma–Pikrodafni

By car:

Onassis Stegi offers free underground parking, with 150 spaces for visitors during their stay in the building. Entrance to the parking area is via Leontiou Street, upon presentation of the ticket, and is subject to availability on a first-come, first-served basis. Accessible parking spaces are

available on all levels next to the elevators, while charging stations for electric vehicles are located on level –5.

ACCESSIBILITY

Onassis Stegi ensures access for all with a ramp located at the side entrance of the building, at the corner of Leontiou Street and Syngrou Avenue.

Elevators provide access to all floors, and every event space in Onassis Stegi is wheelchair accessible. Accessible restrooms are available on all floors.

With the support of

Media Sponsors

Supported by Medical Cover

STEGI PARTY

FIFTEEN YEARS TOGETHER. THIS YEAR, THE ONASSIS STEGI OPENS ITS HOME AND TAKES TO THE STREETS TO CELEBRATE AS IT SHOULD: WITH A BIG, ACCESSIBLE STREET PARTY IN ITS NEIGHBORHOOD, NEOS KOSMOS.

A block party around the Onassis Stegi and a birthday cake that won’t be cut, because it belongs to everyone. Each layer marks a different chapter of our shared journey.

Headliners of this year’s street party are Daniel Avery and JG Wilkes (half of Optimo), with an eclectic, electrifying set that brings club culture to the streets of Neos Kosmos, keeping alive the memory of JD Twitch, whose energy and musical genius left a lasting mark on music culture with the Optimo duo. Alongside them, Buzz shares the pulse of Athens’ western suburbs, Madam X brings the energy of grime, Metaman and special guests create a musical universe where synths and beats strike together, while pink. wav sets up a limitless electronic dancefloor.

The celebration kicks off early with a colorful family session by the Bobos Arts Festival, with music, games, and dancing for all ages. This year, the Onassis Stegi street party isn’t just another event. It’s a meeting point. An open embrace for every body and every beat.

We celebrate what unites us. We dance as we are. All of us. Together.

THE ONASSIS STEGI PARTY BECOMES ACCESSIBLE

With tactile maps (piaf), QR codes for audio description, Greek Sign Language interpretation, sound visualization, wearables, sensory kits, and a specially designed quiet space for anyone who needs a break. Deaf performers step onto the DJ booths to share rhythm in another way, while shuttle buses ensure comfortable transport for those who need it.

For wheelchair users, a raised platform with unobstructed visibility will be available, along with lowaccess points to bars and canteens for convenient service. Menus are available via QR code, and there will be an access info point at the party venue with more information about accessibility.

Onassis Stegi paves the way for an experience where everyone participates equally.

Together with Supported

Photos (cover/back cover):

Director

Afroditi Panagiotakou

Consultants

Dimitris Theodoropoulos

Demetres Drivas

Creative Director

Christos Sarris

Editor-in-Chief

Christina Kosmoglou

Managing Editor

Alexandros Roukoutakis

Design

Constantinos Chaidalis

Theodoros Koveos

Georgia Leontara

Maria Poyiatji

Thomas Tsoulias

Editorial Team

Iliana Dimadi

Elizampetta Ilia-Georgiadou

Margarita Grammatikou

Evangelia Kolaiti

Vaso Vasilatou

Content Coordination

Despina Kalyvi

Kanella Psychogiou

Haris Giakoumakis

Elisavet Pantazi

Daniel Vergiadis

Photoshoot Production

Kanella Psychogiou

Angeliki Avgeri

Elena Choremi

Alexandra Sarantopoulou

Nefeli Tsartaklea-Kasselaki

Translations

Vassilis Douvitsas

Alkisti Efthimiou

David Kynigos

Geli Mademli

Text Editing—Proofreading

Vassilis Douvitsas

Editorial Coordinator

Apostolos Vassilopoulos

Design Implementation

Anna-Maria Vlasopoulou

Print Management

Yiannis Alexandropoulos

ONASSIS.ORG