Onassis AiR Spring Open Days 2026

Building on the record-breaking success of the Onassis AiR Fall Open Days 2025, which welcomed more than 650 visitors, the Spring Open Days arrive with an inspiring group of 12 Onassis AiR Fellows currently immersed in their research and creative processes, who will present their work to the public over two days this March.

On Friday, March 20, and Saturday, March 21, the residency spaces behind the Onassis Stegi building in Neos Kosmos open their doors to the public once again. The audience is invited to meet the Fellows of the Spring Cycle of the program as they share their ongoing research and questions that guide their practices, offering a glimpse into the projects currently being developed at the program.

The two-day event features dance, music, and lecture-performances, sculptural and audiovisual installations, talks, and other presentations by Miriam Hillawi Abraham, Maria Bregianni, Alba Cros, Alexis Fidetzis, GeoVanna Gonzalez, J Neve Harrington, Christiana Kosiari, Chryssa Kotoula, Ladele, Pavle Mijuca, Louiza Ntourou, and Ioanna Paraskevopoulou.

On Saturday afternoon, join an artist-led tour through the spaces, and hear directly from the Onassis AiR Fellows about their artistic research and works in progress. On the same day, the second iteration of this season’s Electric Café by STEGI.RADIO will feature dr orange, a DJ and artist who moves between music and photography, connecting sound and image as mediums of expression and communication.

Friday, March 20 (18:30–22:30), and Saturday, March 21 (16:00–22:30)

[presenting throughout the event]

Alba Cros | The Gentle(man) | Audiovisual installation

Alexis Fidetzis | Undesirable Past | Installation

GeoVanna Gonzalez | Through the Veil (part of Without Goodbyes series) | Film projection

J Neve Harrington | Time Enzymatic and the Good Luck Dinosaur | Installation

Miriam Hillawi Abraham | Mythos & Materia: Eating the/each Other | Installation

Chryssa Kotoula | Matters of Concern | Installation

Louiza Ntourou | Inside the Museum | Audiovisual installation

Friday, March 20 | 18:30–22:30

18:30–18:45 | Miriam Hillawi Abraham | Mythos & Materia: Eating the/each Other | Lecture-Performance

18:45–19:00 | Christiana Kosiari | Echo Chamber | Performance

19:00–19:30 | J Neve Harrington | Time Enzymatic and the Good Luck Dinosaur | Lecture-Performance

19:30–20:00 | Alexis Fidetzis | Undesirable Past | Open Discussion w/Nikos Erinakis

20:00–20:30 | Pavle Mijuca | A Dizzying Palimpsest | Lecture-Performance

20:30–20:45 | Μaria Bregianni | Latent Structures | Dance Performance

21:00–21:30 | Ladele | Where the Voice Cracks | Music Performance

22:00–22:20 | Ioanna Paraskevopoulou | hardcore echoes | Performance

Saturday, March 21 | 16:00–22:30

16:30–17:00 | Chryssa Kotoula | Matters of Concern | Workshop

17:00–18:30 | Guided tour by the artists

18:30–18:45 | Miriam Hillawi Abraham | Mythos & Materia: Eating the/each Other | Lecture-Performance

19:00–19:15 | Christiana Kosiari | Echo Chamber | Performance

19:30–20:00 | J Neve Harrington | Time Enzymatic and the Good Luck Dinosaur | Lecture-Performance

20:00–20:30 | Pavle Mijuca | A Dizzying Palimpsest | Lecture-Performance

20:30–22:00 | STEGIO.RADIO | Electric Café | DJ set

21:00–21:15 | Μaria Bregianni | Latent Structures | Performance

22:00–22:20 | Ioanna Paraskevopoulou | hardcore echoes | Performance

Maria Bregianni | Latent Structures

This work-in-progress is a duet performance exploring intimate relationships as a shifting field between refuge and battlefield. A man and a woman perform a distorted social dance that turns into a struggle over roles, where nothing is clear, and everything is questioned. Set within a frozen domestic landscape of abandoned traces, the piece asks whether closeness heals loneliness, conceals it, or even deepens it.

Find out more about the research, here.

Alba Cros | The Gentle(man)

Through the display of materials in a video piece, the space invites viewers to engage with the creative process of Alba Cros’ next feature film: “The Gentle(man).” With the Mediterranean as a shared space, and from a lesbotransfeminist perspective, communities from Athens and Barcelona build a common language around fluid intimacy, sex in public spaces (cruising), oral storytelling, and collective imagination.

Find out more about the research, here.

Alexis Fidetzis | Undesirable Past

Starting with the 1989 destruction of Greek police surveillance files on political dissidents, “Undesirable Past” explores how the materiality of power shifts in the digital age. During the Open Days, Fidetzis presents his research and engages in an open discussion with Dr. Nikos Erinakis about contemporary matters of control.

Find out more about the research, here.

GeoVanna Gonzalez | Through the Veil (work-in-progress)

As part of the “Without Goodbyes” series, GeoVanna Gonzalez will present “Through the Veil” (work-in-progress), a short film exploring embodied ritual and diasporic memory, alongside research materials that inform the larger project. The presentation will share movement, sound, and archival inquiry, offering insight into how ritual travels, transforms, and sustains communities across geographies.

Find out more about the research, here.

J Neve Harrington | Time Enzymatic and the Good Luck Dinosaur

A work-in-progress sharing of research weaving autobiographical, poetic writing, images, and textile with selected frameworks that attempt to create accessible dramaturgies to map events and their entanglements, from John Latham’s “Flat Time Theory” to the “Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists”’ Doomsday Clock.

Find out more about the research, here.

Miriam Hillawi Abraham | Mythos & Materia: Eating the/each Other

Presented as a museological display and illustrated catalogue of “living materials” originating from Ethiopia, Egypt, and elsewhere, the installation complicates Western classical systems of ordering and taxonomy. The very materials held within this errant collection inherently refuse categorization and classification; they exist beyond the material world. The installation will be activated through a performance blending myth, ancestral knowledge, and power.

Find out more about the research, here.

Christiana Kosiari | Echo Chamber

“Echo Chamber” is a confession about our growing dependency on Artificial Intelligence. Beginning with a personal admission of fear—of change, uncertainty, and the world accelerating around us—the performer seeks connection through a chatbox, entering dialogue with an AI voice that becomes companion and counterpart. What happens when a body relies on something that has no body—guidance, control, or projection?

Find out more about the research, here.

Chryssa Kotoula | Matters of Concern

Grounded in Athens’ urban waste streams, this project takes the form of an installation that foregrounds every stage of labor behind ceramic production. It positions materials as sources of insight rather than passive tools, centering circularity as both method and narrative. Food waste, ash, shells, glass, soil, and construction debris are transformed into clay bodies and glazes, revealing the material afterlives embedded in the city. Glaze and food share origin stories, forming a closed-loop system in which recipes act as mediators—translating material cycles and processes of transformation to the public.

Find out more about the research, here.

Ladele | Where the Voice Cracks

Ladele presents a performance with a band and a theatrical intervention by actor Eleni Papalamprou. Through rap and spoken word, the piece explores the space between authenticity and what becomes marketable, following the tension, irony, and vulnerability that unfold as the artist navigates expectations, visibility, and the constant negotiation of how to exist, be seen, and remain real today.

Find out more about the research, here.

Pavle Mijuca | A Dizzying Palimpsest

A performance drawing from research on the work of the architect Takis Zenetos. The performance will delve into the history of Zenetos’ broader body of work in relation to the city of Athens, using the FIX Brewery, now the Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (ΕΜΣΤ), as a case study.

Find out more about the research, here.

Louiza Ntourou | Inside the Museum

This project takes the form of a multimedia installation that reimagines scenes from the National Archaeological Museum of Athens as archaeological discoveries. The visual material will be presented as though it were fragments and ruins dispersed across the ground, inviting viewers to encounter contemporary cultural imagery as if it were part of an ancient excavation.

Find out more about the research, here.

Ioanna Paraskevopoulou | hardcore echoes

A performance that explores the body as a mechanism of sound production. The ongoing research approaches labor as a practice of repetition, meditation, and feedback. It draws from material traces of manual manipulations, as well as from the notion of hardcore as a condition of extreme dedication, shaping an experimental field where action and rest, production and pleasure coexist in constant alternation.

Find out more about the research, here.

Electric Café is the meeting point for the creative scene of Athens, a hub for producers, artists, and communities. An invitation to gather under the same roof and be present with each other, open to fresh ideas and yet-to-be-unearthed tastes and sonic combinations. An opportunity to solidify communal bonds while being immersed in music.

For its second iteration of this season, Electric Café presents dr orange, a DJ and artist who moves between music and photography, connecting sound and image as mediums of expression and communication. She has performed behind the decks at festivals and clubs, blending with a distinctive aesthetic nu jazz, soul, hip hop, lo-fi, and Japanese grooves, crafting a continuous sonic journey full of vivid imagery.

Saturday, March 21, 20:30–22:00 @ Atrium

The Open Days are a series of public events held throughout each residency season at Onassis AiR. Each event is carefully shaped around the practices of the artists that participate in each cycle of the residency, focusing not on presenting a ‘final’ work but on the creative process that leads to it.

Across the 2025–26 season, the Onassis AiR Open Days unfold in three iterations: Fall, Spring, and Summer. Visitors are invited to engage with the work of the participating artists over two days of live events, screenings, performances, talks, multimedia installations, and sound-based works.