Research Residencies in Greece

CAP/ Corinth Art Platform Residency

Corinth, Greece

CAPres is the artist-in-residence program of Corinth Art Platform, which supports artistic research centered on the ethics of hospitality and social design. The program provides a stage for exploring the multifarious meanings of 'art' and 'artist' in the city of Corinth, Greece.

EIGHT, critical institute for arts and politics

Athens, Greece

EIGHT is a cultural space in central Athens that hosts an artist residency program open to artists, theorists, and researchers across artistic, curatorial, and critical practices, particularly encouraging research-based work engaging with socially/politically engaged practices, alternative ecologies, and urban interventions. The program provides time and space for developing, testing, and presenting work through an initial work-sharing presentation, meetings with the collective, and a final public presentation, with opportunities for collaboration on hybrid events across art, politics, and theory. Located near Exarcheia and Omonoia square, it supports urban research and social action in response to Greece's socio-political landscape.

Kinono Tinos Art Gathering

Tinos, Greece

Kinono Tinos Art Gathering is a multidimensional cultural organization in Tinos, Greece, since , running the 'Four-plus one- Elements' residency program that integrates the landscape, seasons, and elements (earth, water, air, fire, plus time) into artistic creations. It hosts interdisciplinary artists for site-specific works including visual arts, performing arts, sound, film, workshops, and research projects in non-urban island locations, fostering collaboration with locals and producing content for a digital artistic map of Tinos. The program emphasizes reflection on nature, tradition, history, and metaphysics, with past editions like the residency involving around 45 participants across five landmarks.

Phoenix Athens

Athens, Greece

Phoenix Athens is a nonprofit artist-run gallery and residency in Athens that provides international and local creatives with space, facilities, and time to develop their artistic practice while engaging with the local community. Founded in by artist Dimitri Yin, the residency emphasizes inclusion, social justice, ecology, and multiculturalism through its Villa Exarcheia program, which offers lodging, workshop access, and exhibition opportunities.

Thassos artists' retreat

Thassos Island, Greece

The Thassos artists' retreat, also known as Water & Rock art residency, is a nature-focused program on Thassos Island, Greece, welcoming artists, writers, musicians, researchers, and scientists to nurture creative expression in a mountainous village setting surrounded by forests and sea. It emphasizes cross-disciplinary exchanges, art-nature excursions, community living, and immersion in the local Greek island lifestyle, with options for guided hikes, yoga, and permaculture volunteering. Residencies typically last 1 week to 1 month, housed in a shared house with studio spaces, though a separate marble sculpting-focused retreat exists.