Argo Arts is a multifaceted arts organization based in Athens, Greece
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What's On 〰️
Autumn Residencies: Limited Places Still Available!
We have some amazing artists lined up for our Autumn residencies, but there are still some slots available. Places will fill up fast, so if you’d like to join us apply soon.
Our residencies are open to artists, writers, performers, and any other creative types. You get beautiful accommodation in the heart of Athens, access to a large shared studio, and the chance to connect to the Athens art scene.
You can find out more about our residencies here, and can apply by clicking below.
Guest Artist #3: Isobel Atacus
July 2025
Exhibition Opening 17 July
This month our guest artist is Isobel Atacus
Isobel Atacus is an artist living and working in London (UK). Her practice incorporates sculpture, text and performance, through which she questions the fleeting and ambiguous nature of interactions that take place in the physical realm. Playfully re-directing and re-describing the streams of information that come at us from all sides, Atacus creates scenarios and encounters where rules are wilfully misapplied. Her curatorial work, teaching and pedagogy frequently take collaborative form, and she has just completed a practice-based PhD between King’s College London and the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. Alongside her individual practice she directs the icing room artist run space.
Instagram: @isobelatacus
She Ruins Everything Collaborative Residency
July 2025
Exhibition Opening: 24 July 2025
A 3-week-long multidisciplinary collaborative group residency, featuring international and Athens-based artists, working together to respond to the theme: She, Ruins, Everything (or: She ruins everything).
With artists:
Chandana Banerjee
Dimitra Bouritsa
Martina Andreoni
Nim Jundoosing
Xenia Papadopoulou
Coming soon
2026 Open Calls
Stay tuned… we will soon be launching our new and updated Open Calls for residencies for 2026 and beyond!
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She, Ruins, Everything - Open Call for Collaborative Residency + Group Show
Now Open! Application Deadline: June 15
3 weeks residency: 6-27 July, 2025
〰️multidisciplinary art practices, working together on new work for a group exhibition〰️
〰️open to artists, writers, theorists, performers, crafters, scholars〰️
〰️collaborate with artists from the Athens art scene 〰️
Performance by The Saras
Saturday 14 June
Join us for a ritual improvisational procession of sun-moon Sara and moon-sun Sara, exploring the cyclical nature of time (before they bring their performance to Waking Life festival in Portugal).
Guest Artist #2: Sara Cowdell
June 2025
This month our guest artist is Sara Cowdell.
Sara Cowdell is a New Zealand performance artist and curator. She is the director and founder of Performance Art Week Aotearoa, as well as an independent curator.
As a performance artist, Cowdell utilizes multiple modalities including action, costume, somatics, and ethnography to explore society through a formalized and qualitative intimacy. Cowdell’s work strives for a raw viscerality and lingers on the uncomfortable textures of lived experience. **She screams the words you keep trying to swallow because they feel so unbearably uncomfortable in your mouth.**
Cowdell has worked extensively with site-specific practices and has created and presented work in numerous political, natural, and unusual sites, alongside traditional arts and theatre spaces. She has presented work across South Korea, Germany, Denmark, India, U.S.A, Australia and New Zealand.
In 2025 she will be presenting new performance works at Turku New Performance Festival Finland and Waking Life Festival Portugal.
www.performanceartweekaotearoa.com
Instagram: @sara.cowdell
Argo Annex Grand Opening
Thursday 22 May 19:30-00:00
Performance at 20:30
Join us for a very special ritual performance to open our project space!
a multimedia ritual performance using music, costume, art objects, puppets and stop motion animation to create an immersive theatrical experience. A brand new collaboration by Argo Annex guest artists Cookie Tongue & Sweet Oddity.
"Quilted constellations to blanket wish bounded souls..."
Plus: exhibition of brand new artworks by Cookie Tongue
Guest Artists: Omer Gal and Krystal Burns
May 2025
This month our guest artists are Omer Gal and Krystal Burns, aka Cookie Tongue and Sweet Oddity.
Omer is an international artist and musician, currently living in New Orleans. Along with Omer’s art comes his music, puppetry and sound work, which he incorporates into performance, ritual movement, drawing, animation and video. His short stop motion animation works and videos have been featured at international festivals and galleries.
His theatrical musical project “Cookie Tongue” started in 2011. Cookie Tongue is a theatrical freak folk musical menagerie led with puppetry, animation, butoh-inspired dance, and ritual magic, featuring original songs and whimsical interludes inspired by Cookie Tongue's surreal mythology, fairytales, childhood, ghost stories, and a sprinkle of the occult. Performed with guitar, singing saw, glockenspiel, organ, bells, drums, experimental percussion, and orphaned toys to send you tumbling down the Cookie hole, through sugar ash and rolling sleeves of starlight, "spellbound, tasting of a world just beyond."
Learn to make a puppet!
Saturday 17 May, Argo Studios
13:00 - 16:00
Argo Studios: 49 Kallidromiou, Athens 10681
All ages, and no experience needed! In this workshop you will learn how to build your very own unique hand puppet from recycled materials and a dash of inner child magic.
Cost: €15
Sign up here, or turn up on the day.
the Annex Picnic
29 March 2025
In March we were joined by a beautiful group of close friends for a very secret unofficial opening picnic. Many stories were shared and many cakes were eaten.