Sotiris Felios Collection Art History Residency 2025

The Residency Programme for Academic and Curatorial Research of Contemporary Greek Art 2025 is now open for applications for the Art History Programme. This fully funded residency offers current Courtauld students, PhD candidates, and recent alumni the opportunity to develop their practice as art historians through engagement with the Sotiris Felios Collection.

Building on a broad network of art professionals from Athens-based institutions and leading art practitioners living and working in Greece, this residency programme aims to create support channels for emerging art historians who want to expand academic research around contemporary figurative art and its connection to the international art scene.

Residents are invited to spend six weeks in Athens to develop a self-initiated project that builds on themes linked to The Sotiris Felios Collection and the community of Athens while learning about the collection, meeting the artists associated with it and art professionals from leading museums and galleries.

To apply, applicants must provide the following:

• A completed and signed application form.
• Curriculum Vitae (no more than two pages).
• A selection of previous projects (include documentation of past projects, such as exhibitions, essays, publications, or other relevant work – no more than 2 pages).
• A 500-word proposal on the research willing to undertake while on residency
• A 300-word text outlining your motivation for participating in this residency and explaining how it would benefit your long-term academic or curatorial practice.
• A writing sample of up to 3,000 words (we suggest you submit formally assessed work submitted as part of your degree or post-graduate studies)
• Α completed and signed reference form.

More information about the Art History and the Curatorial residencies can be found below. A call for applications to the Curatorial Programme will be shared at a later date.

The application deadline is 22 April 2025. Any submissions received after this date will not be considered.