EMΣΤ x Cité internationale des arts
Programme for Greek visual artists
Programme
The Cité internationale des arts and the EMΣΤ | The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens and Cité internationale des arts, Paris, have structured a residency programme for Greek visual artists, working and residing in Greece. The objective of this programme is to encourage and facilitate the mobility of artists and to expand their professional and artistic network.
Initiated by EMΣΤ, this residency programme is part of the Project SUB 6.4, “Actions to promote Greek cultural exports and strengthen the Greek cultural name by the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens”, which is implemented within the framework of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan “Greece 2.0”, funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.
About
5 residencies per year
3 months’ residency
Programme created in 2025
Eligibility criteria
- Be of Greek nationality, work and reside in Greece
- Have graduated from an art school in Greece or abroad and have been developing a professional artistic practive for at least 3 years
- Have participated in a minimum of three institutional exhibitions (museum, kunsthalle, art centre, non-profit space, public or private foundation)
- Be a visual artist
The partner of this programme :
EMΣT is the leading national institution for contemporary art and visual culture in Greece, and one of the flagship institutions in Southern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean. It was founded in 2000 and for the first years of its existence, it operated as a nomadic institution. In 2015 it moved into its permanent premises, the former FIX brewery, a landmark industrial building of 20.000 metres built by celebrated Greek modernist architect Takis Zenetos (1926-1977) at the end of the 1950s. The pioneering building was renovated for the occasion and now boasts state-of-the-art facilities, eight exhibition spaces, two auditoriums, a library, archive, café, and restaurant and 360-degree views of Athens, including the Acropolis, in the heart of bustling Athens and within reach of some of the city’s most diverse and exciting neighbourhoods, such as Koukaki, Plaka, and Monastiraki.
The Μuseum regards art and visual culture as a transformative element in education, knowledge production, storytelling and a tool for the advocacy of progressive and emancipatory values in society. Among the Μuseum’s founding goals is to promote innovative and experimental artistic movements and the production of ambitious works in audiovisual and multi-disciplinary media.
