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 residency offers:
〰️ A dedicated workspace in the Argo Studios 〰️
〰️ Accommodation in our neo-classical apartments 〰️
〰️ Connections with the Athens art scene 〰️
〰️ Recommendations for research and material resources 〰️
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 with similar interests. They take place over a set period (usually 3-5 weeks), and can provide a chance to work collaboratively.
Residencies Available Now
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Residencies Available Now 〰️
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.
Overtouristification
International capital and homogenisation
July 1 - 30
Apply by March 30
For Argo’s summer 2026 themed residency, we invite artists & scholars & writers & philosophers & thinkers & movement people & craft makers to come together in Athens, Greece during July, the height of tourist season, to investigate the consequences of tourism and re-imagine the search for belonging.
In July 2025, Athens hosted about 7 million tourists. For a city of about 3.5 million, that means a lot of extra everything. The land, the people, the resources, and the sites are squeezed by the tourist desire for - what? Escape, experience, exploration, a break from the norm and the grind. The tourist comes and adds pressure to the city, and brings money/ jobs, and homogenizes culture. People in Athens are fighting back, especially in Exarchia. Signs and chants say “Tourists go home!” Now, a thorny reflection: if you, as an artist, a writer, a creator, a scholar, if you come to visit Athens one July, and you stay for a solid several weeks, and you really immerse in the local scene, what does that make you? Are you also a tourist? Is it also a problem?
Funding may be available for European artists via Culture Moves Europe.
Eco-Witchery
The occult in a time of climate crisis
AUTUMN 2026— — — — — — —Dates & Application Deadline TBC
In Autumn 2026 we are looking for artists, scholars, writers, performers, witches, herbalists, ecosexuals, and other creative folx interested in exploring Eco-Witchery. Here are some of the themes, keywords, and sources we’re looking at:
〰️ worlding 〰️ networks of kinship & care 〰️ divination (ancient Greek and otherwise) 〰️ botany, eroticism, agriculture and myth 〰️ Donna Haraway 〰️ Anna Tsing 〰️ trance states 〰️ prophecies at Delphi 〰️ multi-species entanglement 〰️ ghosts (and climate crisis) 〰️ traditional nature caring & engagement practices 〰️ knot magic 〰️ plant magic 〰️ altars and shrines 〰️ potions 〰️ herbal remedies 〰️ witches as healers 〰️ full moon dances 〰️ Silvia Federici 〰️ animism & pantheism 〰️ rewilding 〰️ ecology/sex/death practice 〰️ fear of the occult/ vilification of witches 〰️ supernatural appreciation of nature 〰️ pleasure of entanglement with more-than-human species 〰️ werewolves 〰️ animal familiars 〰️ Eleusinian mystery rites 〰️ shamanic/ mystical encounters with plant/animal consciousness
Funding may be available for European artists via Culture Moves Europe.
Past Residents
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Past Residents 〰️
Han-Roze Adonis
Self-Directed Residency
Han-Roze Adonis (she/her) is a British-Cypriot writer, actor and theatre-maker.
Her work often includes classical, mythological or folkloric influences, seeking to find hope in tragedy, challenge power, and bring people together. Her interest in identity as a theme stems from her family’s displacement from Varosha, Famagusta.
She trained as an actor (LIPA/The Oxford School of Drama) during which she collaborated with Gecko creating ensemble work inspired by her family’s journey, which later went on to inspire parts of their show ‘Kin’. Since graduating in 2020, her work has included new writing, R&D, and devised theatre. As a writer-performer she has self-produced projects supported by Arts Council England. Her one-woman show ‘Ophelia’ (Theatre by the Lake) explores mental health and rural isolation in Cumbria, where she grew up. Screen credits (acting and writing) currently include four award-nominated and award-winning short films screening at festivals across the UK.
Matthew Schembri
Self-Directed Residency
Matthew Schembri (b. 1993) is a multimedia artist, writer and poet based in Malta. He earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Digital Arts in 2017. Schembri won Divergent Thinkers 04 (2015), Shifting Contexts (2019), and was named The Young Artist of the Year in 2017 by Arts Council Malta. In addition to Malta, he exhibited his works and was awarded art and literary residencies in the US, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, France, Spain, Croatia and Finland.
Schembri’s debut novel, Stessi (2018), won The Literary Contest of Novels for Youth 2016, and with his first poetry collection, Ħassartek (2021), he received the Best Emerging Author award given by the National Book Council Malta in 2022. In the same year, he was one of the winners of the A Sea of Words writing contest organised by IEMed and the Anna Lindh Foundation. His work was translated into English, French and Croatian.
Annie Edwards
Residency: RCA-Argo Collaborative
Annie's multidisciplinary practice distorts our familiar sense of reality by incorporating robotic, figurative sculptures with abstracted skeletal forms. Her installation and performances aim to understand the body from biological, psychoanalytical and social perspectives. Annie's research choreographs the tension between body and machine, embedding visceral knowledge into mechanical gesture. Her work references wider systems of control present in domestic, medical and industrial environments, drawing on her personal experience of trauma, neurodiversity, atopic illness, and her background in farming.
Her work embraces the grotesque and the abject as strategies to confront the beauty and discomfort of embodiment—using the language of the body to expose what is usually hidden, repressed, or deemed unacceptable. Annie’s work asks the viewer to reckon with their own embodiment, their own complicity, and their own capacity for tenderness.
Darcy Inman
Residency: RCA-Argo Collaborative
Darcy Inman is an artist based in London. Her work is characterised by deep reflections on the human condition through a constant veiling and unveiling of the self. She uses a confessional and sometimes autobiographical sense of communication – the temporality of spaces, bodies and desires becomes the vehicle for her contemplations in the depths of relationships and sudden intimacies.
Meredith Gunderson
Residency: RCA-Argo Collaborative
Meredith Gunderson is a London based multidisciplinary artist and researcher. Her practice draws from ethical complexities, voids and limitations within systems of knowledge and knowledge hierarchies inherited from the Enlightenment world views. Recurring themes include speculative and affirmative world building through soft systems, the power of tenderness, ephemerality and a characteristic combination of the sensorial and industrial. Many pieces are site specific or site responsive.
Meredith works with industrial processes and materials in non-normative ways. Mediums and processes include ceramic, 3D printing, silicone, casts in bronze and silver, frottage, pastel, plaster, textiles, animations, mirror, tracing paper and drawing.
Born in Buffalo, New York and based in the UK since 2001 primarily in London, as well as Edinburgh, Cambridge and the Hebrides.
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..