14-day Residency & exhibition project designed for two artists in Athens
ONE + ONE is a residency project + presentation for international artists, jewelers, crafters, performers, filmmakers and designers who wish to explore Athens’ rich cultural life, art and traditions, and present their work in an event / publication / video.
Application deadline: 27 July 2025
Residency dates:
22 Sept – 5 Oct 2025
20 Oct – 2 Nov 2025
The ONE + ONE residency program also includes a customized introduction to the ancient and contemporary Greek culture (online introductory course + two guided visits at Unesco sites, museums and art venues), individual networking advice, tips on Athens' secret addresses, as well as advice for the realization of the artist's project.
ONE + ONE provides shared or single accommodation and studio space in central Athens for two artists who wish to share ideas and experiences, and present their work or project to an international audience.
5-Day Athens Residency & Workshop program for artists, designers, crafters, researchers.
The 5-day long intensive Greek Embroidery Residency program in Athens with textile artist Loukia Richard addresses artists, designers, crafters, art theorists or journalists, as well as amateur embroiderers who wish to explore Greek embroidery masterpieces, and master some of its most refined techniques.
Application deadline: 1 August 2025
Greek embroidery is a distinctive style in textile history, a sign language reflecting the cultural background, the trade exchange and the world view of civilizations flourishing in Eastern Mediterranean since time immemorial.
The Greek Embroidery Residency program covers 6,000 years of textile history through collections visits and lectures; it explains the visual traditions that build the alphabet of Greek embroidery; it teaches antique embroidery techniques, and shows how to design and stitch vibrant and eye-capturing motifs on textile. And it explores the experimental art, conceptual and social bonding uses of Greek embroidery.
Tell your love story through your art or design object and win the SMCK On Reel video award!
Love stories move and inspire us. Let’s think of ourselves as the protagonists of a unique love story with our works – jewelry, ceramics, clothes, shoes, bags or shoes, glass, textiles, furniture, or even photographs or videos or drawings and designs – playing a central role in the plot. But what can objects tell about our passions, thoughts, life and memories, and how can we include all these elements in a video shot with a smartphone or amateur camera?
Application deadline: 1 August 2025
FaveLAB, in cooperation with SMCK Magazine's SMCK ON REEL video festival, invites artists, crafters, and designers working with jewelry, textile, applied arts, crafts, fashion and accessories, objects, performance, film or poetry, to submit their personal love stories on video. Create your video using a camera or simply your smartphone – what matters most is your story and message!
All videos will be:
‣ screened at Grassimesse Leipzig 2025, SCHMUCK Jewelry Week in Munich, and the Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim (Germany), 2026.
‣ presented on SMCK Magazine's SMCK On Reel website and promoted through the social media.
‣ nominated for the SMCK On Reel Video Award 2026.
From the secrets of Copper Age Eleusis to the revelations of Christian Greece.
14-day intensive artist residency on art, poetry, performance and faith.
The Mysteries of Bliss residency program aims at expanding the artists' spectrum of interwoven cultural experiences, and at offering insight into the human quest for immortality, love and bliss that lies in the very heart of civilization.
Application deadline: 3 August 2025
Residency dates:
6 – 19 Oct 2025
18 Nov – 1 Dec 2025
The Mysteries of Bliss residency program enhances the understanding of how art, performance and poetry may have a soothing effect on human agonies. The residency program initiates participants in understanding how to read, and be inspired by, the long - pre-Christian and Christian - icon tradition, and explains concepts of time, space, eternity, providence, and divine union embedded in the visual language of Byzantine art, an evolving art discipline still practiced today.
This highly conceptual art created by the combination of mastering ancient techniques and preparing the artist's body and mind for creative contemplation is widely unknown to the West.
The creative and educational project addresses jewelry makers, designers, visual artists, designers, photographers, crafters, ceramists, performers, filmmakers, art theorists who wish to dive into fourty centuries of Greek art and study concepts of life, death, unity and resurrection that are still meaningful nowadays.
A 8-day intensive artist residency on the Mysteries of art in energy vibrating Athens & ancient Elefsina
The Athens residency includes intensive workshops in storytelling, performance and video, and promotes the artists’ work through presentation, catalogue and participation in video festivals. The physical residency follows an online introduction to the significance of Greek heritage for contemporary artists.
Application deadline: 3 August 2025
Residency dates:
14 – 21 Sept 2025
16 – 23 Nov 2025
4 – 11 January 2026
The Road To Elefsina aims at expanding the artists' spectrum of cultural experiences, and offer insight into the beginnings of civilization. The learning program enhances artists’ understanding of how art and poetry may have a soothing effect on human agonies.
The residency, workshop and presentation project addresses visual artists, designers, crafters, jewelry makers, ceramists, performers, photographers, filmmakers and art theorists who wish to dive into the Greek myth of death and resurrection. The myth of Persephone also highlights the mother and daughter bonding, and the challenges of growing up.
14-day Athens artist residency on Byzantine art and the concept of the icon.
The Art Of The Icon is a residency and video / comics / narrative project for visual artists, jewelers, crafters, designers, filmmakers, performers, art theorists, curators, academics who wish to explore Athens’ medieval and Byzantine cultural traditions that still live on.
Application deadline: 3 August 2025
Residency dates:
1 – 14 Sept 2025
22 Sept – 5 Oct 2025
Byzantine art, a highly conceptual art created by a combination of mastering ancient techniques and preparing the artist’s body and mind for creative contemplation, is widely unknown to the West. Icons are intellectual and emotional bridges to the invisible world, while the sacred space becomes a stage for performing rituals of bonding between past, present and future.
The Art Of The Icon residency program includes an online introductory course into Byzantine art history, and its significance for contemporary conceptual art, Pop Art and major modern art movements, guided visits at Unesco sites, museums and Byzantine monuments, individual tips on Athens' secret addresses, a narrative, comics and video workshop in Athens, as well as curatorial and editorial advice for the realization of a creative video or comics or narrative.
Discover our Athens studio offers.
FaveLAB offers studio spaces for artists, designers, writers, researchers, and art historians. Our studio options include both accommodation and workspace in central Athens for individual artists or small groups (up to four artists). These spaces are ideal for creative work, research, and inspiration within the dynamic cultural atmosphere of Athens.
In addition to regular studio rentals, we also offer studio programs that combine a residency experience with guided visits and tailored presentation or publication formats.
For more details, please visit our >>> studios section.
