Onassis AiR Summer Open Days 2026

On Friday 19 and Saturday 20 of June, the residency spaces open to the public, offering access to projects currently under development across theater, visual arts, film, sound, digital practices, and curatorial research.

More specifically, the two-day event features spoken word performances, sculptural, sound, and audiovisual installations, as well as presentations of research material by the Onassis AiR Fellows Yannis Aposkitis, Eleni Bagaki, Adam Cole, Ben Frost, Vassilia Kaga, Despina Krey & Orestis Mavroudis, Thanasis Kritsakis, Irene Ragusini, Foiy Scamell-Katz, and Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou.

The audience is invited to move through different formats and to engage directly with the artists and the questions, methods, and processes that shape their research practice.

On Saturday afternoon, you can join an artist-led tour through the spaces and hear directly from the Onassis AiR Fellows about their artistic trajectories and ongoing projects.

Friday, June 19 (19:00–22:30), and Saturday, June 20 (17:30–22:30)

[presenting throughout the event]

Yannis Aposkitis | AETERNOX Office | Audiovisual installation

Eleni Bagaki | Messing with Cavafy | Installation

Adam Cole | Is This What You Want | Audiovisual installation

Vassilia Kaga | Cruising Manifesto | Sound installation

Despina Krey & Orestis Mavroudis | Who Pays for the Marble? | Presentation of research material

Thanasis Kritsakis | Discharge ⅕ | Multimedia installation

Kosmas Nikolaou | Sinesiou Kirinis 24 | Installation & sound works

Irene Ragusini | Wearing Matter, Carrying Time | Sculptural installation

Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou | the soft animal of your body | Audiovisual installation

Friday, June 19 | 19:00–22:30

19:30–19:45 | Foiy Scamell-Katz | GIANT STEPS | Performance 

20:00 – 20:20 | Vassilia Kaga | Cruising Manifesto | Spoken Word Performance

20:30 – 20:45 | Kosmas Nikolaou | Sinesiou Kirinis 24 | Lecture Performance

21:30 – 22:30 | Ben Frost | The Volunteers | Audiovisual installation

Saturday, June 20 | 17:30–22:30

18:00-19:00 | Guided tour by the artists

19:30–19:45 | Foiy Scamell-Katz | GIANT STEPS | Performance 

20:30 – 20:45 | Kosmas Nikolaou | Sinesiou Kirinis 24 | Lecture Performance

21:30 – 22:30 | Ben Frost | The Volunteers | Audiovisual installation

Yannis Aposkitis | AETERNOX Office

A guided tour of the offices

of the company

adapting
Aristophanes’
“Frogs”

A third-floor office is temporarily transformed into the headquarters of the AI technology company AETERNOX, inviting visitors to become acquainted with its practices and explore the possibilities it offers to its members—after death.

Find out more about the research, here.

Eleni Bagaki | Messing with Cavafy

Drawing from the archive of C. P. Cavafy, his notebooks, letters, and autobiographical writings, Eleni Bagaki explores how identity is constructed through narrative: through diaries, poetry, and the continuous act of writing and rewriting oneself over time. Cavafy kept reworking his poems; the self, like the text, remains perpetually in formation.

Working with photographs, text, prints, and fabrics, Bagaki creates an installation that approaches identity as a fluid, unstable condition, constantly revised and reassembled through memory, language, and lived experience.

Find out more about the research, here.

Adam Cole | Is This What You Want

An interactive installation exploring the seductive world of personalized AI video. Through a work-in-progress demo, Cole previews a developing project that reflects on desire, fantasy, and projection in the age of generative media. The work questions how we move beyond the addictive, normative logics of AI toward images that feel truly our own.

Find out more about the research, here.

Ben Frost | The Volunteers

In botany, a ‘volunteer’ is a plant that establishes itself without cultivation, from seeds left in disturbed soil. In Frost’s “The Volunteers,” two salvaged strobe lights and a subwoofer sit in a space. The sub, upturned, cone exposed, plays the remnants of a melody. It can only produce the low frequencies, so what remains is pressure without detail; the body of a sound stripped of its surface. Cables search across the floor; the strobes, trained on the speaker, emit two alternating frequencies as if to sustain growth.

Find out more about the research, here.

Vassilia Kaga | Cruising Manifesto

“Cruising Manifesto” is an ongoing curatorial research project exploring the gentrification of Pedion tou Areos park through the oral histories of cruising that has taken, and still takes, place there. Approaching the material as an affective archive, during the Open Days, Vassilia Kaga will present part of the research through a sound installation centered around the acanthus plant, as a witness of the park, and a spoken word performance combining personal writing, the voices of cruisers sharing their stories, and whispers from the park itself.

Find out more about the research, here.

Despina Krey & Orestis Mavroudis | Who Pays for the Marble?

At the Summer Open Days 2026, Krey and Mavroudis will present for the first time the results of the research "Who Pays for the Marble? A Study on the Socio-Economic Conditions of Visual Arts Professionals in Greece", in both print and digital formats. The research was realized with the support of Onassis AiR.

Find out more about the research, here.

Thanasis Kritsakis | Discharge ⅕

“Discharge” is an ongoing dramaturgical research project examining the fragments of discourse that shape the landscape of sexualization and pornographization in contemporary society. This introductory installation, titled “Discharge ⅕,” explores certain aspects of conducting on-site qualitative research aimed at gathering dramaturgical material. Opening the doors of the laboratory, we seek to foster communication and discover new perspectives.

Find out more about the research, here.

Kosmas Nikolaou | Sinesiu Kirinis 24

“Sinesiu Kirinis 24” is a short-duration spoken-word guided tour that creates different environments and settings. It is an attempt to work with the idea of archaeology and the politics of gossip.

“Sinesiu Kirinis 24” is a physical address on the Athenian map and functions as a storytelling encounter. Analytical tools such as excavation, free association, evidence, and witness are used in an abstract way to create an open narration. Findings, leftovers, or abandoned items, props, devices, rumors, sayings, and spoken words come together and re-enact the place of a memory and re-examine geography and politics.

Find out more about the research, here.

Irene Ragusini | Wearing Matter, Carrying Time

A sculptural installation that brings together wearable forms, natural materials, industrial remnants, and photographic traces shaped by travel, field research, and manual processes, rooted in mining landscapes and industrial histories across Greece. Moving between bodily intimacy and extraction, the installation unfolds through structures where matter is carried, suspended, concealed, and transformed, forming a shifting environment between body, industry, and geology.

Find out more about the research, here.

Foiy Scamell-Katz | GIANT STEPS

In order to present an excerpt from his work-in-progress screenplay, Scamell-Katz has developed a 10-minute ‘proof-of-concept,’ live performance of one of the scenes from the coming-of-age romance/comedy/drama. The scene features two friends grappling with respective breakups, one recent and one from years passed.

Find out more about the research, here.

Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou | the soft animal of your body

For their showcase at the Summer Open Days, Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou presents fragments of their ongoing practice-based research on softness as an ethic of relation: a queer, ecological, and affective relationship with the world through fragilization, tenderness, opacity, and collective joy.

Find out more about the research, here.

The Onassis AiR Open Days are the public moment of the residency during which the audience can encounter the work of the program’s participants as it develops. The most important aspect of the event is that the focus is not on presenting a ‘final’ work but 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. Each event reflects the dynamics of the group of artists participating in the program’s cycle, unfolding over two days of performances, multimedia installations, screenings, and discussions.