Season 2025-2026 at Onassis Stegi

From October 2025 to June 2026, Onassis Stegi invites us on a journey into the first thread of our lives, into the vortex of the family, sometimes as a survival guide, at other times not only as a biological bond but also as a community, as a field of memory and future, as the nucleus of life. The family as we experience it: fragile, contradictory, tender, often traumatic, always defining.

This season unfolds as a multifaceted family portrait, through works that speak of closeness and distance, love and loss, the need to belong and the fear of disappearing; stories that touch upon memory, transmission, estrangement, and desire, inviting us to reconsider what ‘family’ means today.

"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 for the holidays, and then regret we did it, we remember the dinners that went well because 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