Onassis AiR Open Call 2025/26

Submission deadline: March 7, 2025, at 12:00, noon (UTC+2).

Onassis AiR announces its new Open Call for the 2025/26 season aiming to foster artistic research and process by providing space and time to arts professionals from diverse geographies and disciplines, enabling them to delve deeper into their practice without the pressure of presenting a final work.

Submission deadline: March 7, 2025, 12:00 noon (UTC+2).
To apply, you must first create a personal account in the Onassis Directory.

After five successful years of operation, over 7,000 applications in the program's Open Calls and the support of more than 200 Fellows, Onassis AiR has become a hub for cross-disciplinary thinking and exchange among local and international art practitioners and researchers. The program cultivates the conditions for the exchange of ideas by foregrounding current issues and addressing the urgency of our times, rooted in the local context and attuned to the constantly evolving global landscape. 

Onassis AiR invites artists, curators, artisans, performance artists, choreographers, dancers, fashion and costume designers, writers, dramaturgs, architects, set designers, filmmakers, sculptors, and other creative practitioners from any medium of expression or discipline, to apply for their selected program strand that will take place in Athens, Greece, between September 2025 to July 2026.

This year, the program turns towards new directions, further embracing crafts and material-based practices. Onassis AiR seeks to enrich its artistic community by welcoming creatives working in fashion, design, and applied arts, navigating the potential of cross-disciplinary collaboration and co-existence within an environment of ongoing exploration.

For the 2025/26 season, Onassis AiR enhances its function as an instigator of creative experimentation and welcomes a wider community of art practitioners by offering opportunities on four different strands, in collaboration with the Onassis ONX, Dramaturgy, Production, and Technical departments of Onassis Stegi.

Onassis AiR Extended Research Residencies
The Onassis AiR Extended Research Residencies is a program of artistic residencies with a duration of three months. After the successful launch of the program last season, its second iteration expands its reach to a broader creative community that focuses on crafts. The program addresses artists, curators, artisans, performance artists, fashion and costume designers, writers, architects, set designers, filmmakers, sculptors, and other creative practitioners from any medium of expression or discipline, from anywhere in the world. Taking advantage of our new facilities that allow for further experimentation with scale, materials, and collaborative processes, we invite creators who are looking for dedicated time and space to nurture, develop, or refine in-progress work, with the support and peer-to-peer connection needed to move their projects forward. . We welcome individuals or collectives interested in engaging with the locale of Athens and embracing moments of exchange and knowledge sharing.

Onassis AiR Dramaturgy Fellowships
In the 2024/25 season, Onassis AiR launched the Dramaturgy Fellowships, in collaboration with the Dramaturgy department of Onassis Stegi, aiming to support the research and development of new performance-based work. Building on the progress of last year's Fellows, both in Greece and internationally, the collaboration extends into the 2025/26 season, addressing the Call to directors, choreographers, dancers, dramaturgs, authors, playwrights, or practitioners working in the wider fields of theater and dance arts. We invite performing art professionals from Greece or based in Greece to submit their proposals for the development of a new theatre, dance and/or performing arts project that has not yet been presented.

Onassis AiR/ONX Fellowships
The Onassis AiR/ONX Fellowships return for a second year in collaboration with Onassis ONX, the global platform of Onassis Culture dedicated to the development of new media art and immersive art. Onassis ONX empowers creators to craft digital worlds and immersive experiences of exceptional artistic quality, utilizing cutting-edge technologies while ensuring financial sustainability. For the 2025/26 AiR/ONX Fellowships, we specifically invite proposals that combine immersive narratives with Mixed Realities and performative elements and address the potential of computational and network technologies to foster resilient and sustainable practices, while taking environmental impact into consideration. Proposals may include durational performances, time-based digital works, kinetic installations, stagecraft experimentations, prototypes for stage performances and digital games. 

Onassis AiR Technical Residencies
This year, Onassis AiR inaugurates a new strand that turns its focus to the people behind the scenes. For the first time, we invite proposals from art professionals working in the technical support of theater, dance, music, cinema, and digital productions who are eager to further develop their skills in the expanded fields of Stage Management, Theater Production, Scenic Design, Lighting/Projection Design, Sound Design and Engineering, as well as the technical and production development of projects at the intersection of Art and Advanced Technologies. The residency is designed for those who already have foundational professional knowledge in their field and wish to refine their technical skills in a dynamic and interdisciplinary creative environment. Selected participants will work closely with the highly skilled technical and production teams of Onassis Stegi and Onassis ONX and will be actively involved in the projects of Onassis AiR Fellows.