Argo residencies provide time and space to develop your practice in a social, supportive, and stimulating environment.
They are open to artists, writers, performers, musicians, scholars, and any other creative discipline.
All of our residencies take place in Athens, Greece. Every resident has a dedicated workspace in Argo Studios, and accommodation is provided in the Argo Mansions. You can read more about our spaces and approach here.
We offer two types of residency:
〰️ Self-directed residencies allow you to focus on a project or practice of your own choice. They are open year-round, and most residents choose to come for 1-2 months 〰️
〰️ Themed residencies draw together a group of creatives working on a particular theme. They take place over a set period (usually 3-5 weeks), and can provide a chance to work collaboratively 〰️
Self-Directed Residency
Open all year except August and December
A self-directed residency provides you with accommodation, studio space, and access to the cultural riches of Athens. It provides a chance to focus on a particular project, conduct research, or experiment with new practices.
Why so serious?
Carnivalesque subversion and revelry
11 January - 15 February 2026 〰️ Application deadline 30 November
Our first themed residency will look (again) at the radical potential of the carnivalesque. In the 2010s, anarchic celebration seemed to offer a way to challenge social, political, and gendered structures, and the carnival became an important site of resistance. Now, facing war and famine and the climate crisis, art seems to have taken a turn for the serious. Why is that?
We invite applications from artists, writers, philosophers, ontological jugglers, epistemic unicyslists, circus freaks, and elephants. Our motley crew will gather in Athens as the Winter ends and Carnival begins, to look again at the old rituals and invent some new ones.
Funding may be available for European artists via Culture Moves Europe.
Past Residents
〰️
Past Residents 〰️
Martina Andreoni
Residency: She, Ruins, Everything
Martina graduated in February 2025 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bergamo, in the Painting and Visual Arts program. The themes of her artistic and theoretical research are death, animality, and the human relationship with the landscape - specifically regarding animality, She studied Natural Sciences for a year at the University of Milan due to a deep interest in ethology, before moving to Fine Arts out of a need for a more experimental, creative, and humanistic approach. She approaches these themes from both a philosophical and an anthropological/political perspective, trying to analyze the gazes we direct toward the world in our daily lives, and the creative possibilities art offers to describe and reshape them.
Nim Jundoosing
Residency: She, Ruins, Everything
Nim is a multidisciplinary artist based in Dresden, Germany, originally from Mauritius. Her practice spans painting, writing, ceramics, and installation, blending traditional techniques with contemporary forms. With a background in interior design, she brings a nuanced understanding of space, material, and composition to her visual language.
Nim’s work engages with themes of identity, gender, and cultural stigma. Through bold and inquisitive imagery, she explores how desire, sexuality, and the body are shaped—and often silenced by inherited cultural narratives. Her current body of work reflects a process of reclamation: confronting societal taboos and opening space for vulnerability, pleasure, and agency.
Rooted in a feminist perspective, her practice is both intimate and political. It invites the viewer into a dialogue that bridges personal experience with broader questions of belonging, freedom, and the power of representation..