Curatorial Residency Exchange: Open Call for Applications
ARTWORKS (Athens, Greece) – SAHA (Istanbul, Türkiye)
Program Overview
ARTWORKS and SAHA are pleased to announce a collaborative Curatorial Residency Exchange Program, fostering cross-cultural dialogue and professional development between Greece and Türkiye. This initiative offers curators the opportunity to immerse themselves in the host country's art ecosystem over a six-week residency.
Eligibility Criteria
This program is open to curators based in Greece and Türkiye who are actively engaged in contemporary art and interested in cross-cultural exchange. Applications are welcome from curators with at least 7 years of professional experience seeking to broaden their professional horizons and immerse themselves in a new cultural context.
Residency Benefits
Program Requirements
Application Procedure
Interested candidates are invited to submit the following materials:
Submission: Please send your application as a single PDF file to application@saha.org.tr with the subject line: "Curatorial Residency Exchange Application – [Name]."
Key Dates
We look forward to receiving your applications and supporting the exchange of ideas and practices that this residency aims to cultivate.
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Founded in 2017, ARTWORKS is a nonprofit organization that aims to create a fertile and nurturing environment for Greek artists through funding and public engagement opportunities. ARTWORKS is supported by its founding donor, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. In partnership with ARTWORKS based in Greece, SAHA hosts one of the ARTWORKS' curatorial fellows at SAHA Studio for six weeks.
SAHA supported participants of the program
Akis Kokkinos
October-December 2023
Akis Kokkinos is a curator and founder of DEO projects in Chios Island, Greece. Over the last ten years, Akis has worked for major cultural institutions in the UK and Greece, private collections, as well as independent projects. He studied the MA Curating contemporary art at the Royal College of Art (2018-2020), fully funded by a double NEON scholarship, the Schilizzi Foundation, and the RCA continuation fund. In 2021, Akis was awarded the Develop Your Creative Practice by Arts Council England and participated in the Young Curators Residency Programme at the Fundaciòn Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Madrid. In 2022, he curated the group intergenerational show Doomed companions, unsubstantial shades at the Hellenic Residence in London; commissioned and produced by NEON. The exhibition presented 18 artworks of Greek- speaking migrant contemporary artists including some historically-significant pieces from the D. Daskalopoulos Collection Gift. His projects have been featured in international media and platforms including Frieze magazine, Artforum, Damn Magazine, Art Basel Stories, ESTADÃO, El Pais newspaper, among others. Akis’ curatorial practice is focused on ways to disrupt the ‘objective’ and institutional by introducing or supporting other less appreciated and recognised forms of knowledge. Through multidisciplinary discourses, eco-feminist, non-western approaches, and other non-rational thoughts and philosophies, his practice focuses on the less spoken, invisible or liminal. He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022). In December 2023, Akis will become the first-ever Fulbright Fellow at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in NYC, conducting curatorial research on the global-art initiatives of the museum.
Ioanna Gerakidi
May-June 2023
SNF ARTWORKS Curatorial Fellow Ioanna Gerakidi, writer, curator and educator will be travelling to Istanbul for a 6-week curatorial residency program at SAHA Association, where she will get the chance to further develop her research and practice. During her residency, Ioanna will research the subjects of companionship, kinship, witness and solidarity for writing a lexicon of psalms and spells, of idiolects and neologisms, spoken by the ones whose voices haven’t yet been heard. Through engaging diverse communities, her research longs for inventing, transcribing or legitimizing a language of trauma, suffering, catastrophe, political and personal turmoil.
Ioanna Gerakidi is a writer, curator and educator based in Athens. Her research interests think through the subjects of language and disorder, drawing on feminist, educational and anti-colonial studies. Poetry and other diaristic and archival schemes are often embedded in her practice. She has collaborated with and curated group and solo shows and events for Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens Biennale, State of Concept (Athens), Haus N (Athens), Hot Wheels Athens and Studium Generale of Gerrit Rietveld Academie (at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam), among others.
For detailed information: Curatorial Program | Ioanna Gerakidi
Eirini Fountedaki
October-November 2022
The second curator in residence as per SAHA’s partnership with the Athens-based ARTWORKS was Eirini Fountedaki (Athens, 1991). The curator worked at SAHA Studio in the period of October-November 2022, visited artist studios the majority of which were women artists who work with video and sound, while exploring relevant archives, art institutions, and places of memory in Istanbul. During the public presentation she gave at SAHA Studio on 12 November, Fountedaki shared with the audience her experience as the resident of these two programs and details regarding to her ongoing research.
Eirini Fountedaki (Athens, 1991) is an independent curator and writer based in Athens and Berlin. In 2019-2020, she was the co-curator for public programs such as the monthly film series Residing in the Borderlands at the Berlin-based SAVVY Contemporary—The Laboratory of Form-Ideas. She is one of the curators selected to participate in the curatorial workshop titled How now to gather organized during the 11th Berlin Biennale in 2020. She worked as a research assistant for the publication and exhibition projects at the Bergen Assembly between 2021 and 2022, a period during which she also co-curated film programs for Sinema Transtopia, like the Sounding Womanhood series that focused on feminist perspectives through sound in film.
Eva Vaslamatzi
May-July 2021
Eva Vaslamatzi (Athens, 1990) is an independent curator and writer working between Athens and Paris. Most recently, she was the co-curator for visual arts at DOC!, a non-profit multipurpose space in northeastern Paris (2017-2019), while also working as an assistant curator at the Palais de Tokyo (2018-2019).
Vaslamatzi was in residency at SAHA Studio between May and July 2021. Vaslamatzi visited artist studios, archival and art institutions in Istanbul. She presented her curatorial research at the SAHA Studio Open on 15–19 June and developed her network. She completed her curatorial research by a group exhibition, I heard it from the valleys in Haus N Athen, held on 2 October 2021 – 5 November 2021, featuring works by 6 artists, including Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, and Marina Papazyan from Istanbul. The exhibition's graphic design was done by Kibele Yarman.
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