2026 WORLDWIDE OPEN CALL
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This year’s theme, “Land of Myths,” calls for speculative, critical and poetic responses to the living mythologies of the Greek world, its coasts and mountains, its islands and archipelagos, its layered histories and ever-shifting ecological realities. We invite practices that approach the Mediterranean not only as a sea, but as a mythic engine, a crossroads of stories, a threshold between worlds where transformation is always underway.
Sea-as-interface: liquid borders, maritime imaginaries and coastal futures shaped by mythology.
We welcome artists, thinkers, researchers and hybrid practitioners to engage with the Aegean and the Mediterranean sea as a mythscape in motion, a fluid archive of memory, a post-geographic portal where ancient narratives echo into emerging futures.
Set in the coastal city of Kavala, where the continental edge meets the restless waters of the Pelago, the residency offers a site where the land of Greece folds into its own sea-born imagination.
Relational aesthetics, interspecies thinking and eco-somatic practices inspired by Greek landscapes and creatures.
This year’s residency is self-guided and unsupervised, with no formal curation, offering you space to work at your own pace and the freedom to shape your time on your own terms. There is no schedule but the one you bring, no program but the one you summon. Think of it as a mythic retreat, an invitation to immerse yourself in your practice while moving through the rhythms, textures and atmospheres of a Mediterranean vacation.
We seek to host critical and experimental projects across visual arts, media arts, performance, painting, sound, writing, architecture, design, photography, film, collage, new media and hybrid practices.
- Oceanic thinking and maritime imaginaries
- Climate change, displacement and border ecologies
- Myth-making, memory and layered temporalities
- Future storytelling, imaginary states and interspecies dialogues
Participants will have time and space to develop on their own new work in dialogue with Kavala’s topography, local communities and the shifting cultural landscapes of the wider Mediterranean.
Come create where the land meets the water,
where the mythic and the digital collide,
where old myths breathe through new stories and
where echoes become signals from the Pelago ahead.
Set in a lively hillside town overlooking the Aegean, the residency offers space for artists to reflect, research and create while enjoying an inspired vacation by the sea.
The open call theme is not restrictive, instead it works as a basic concept for artists to freely explore, research and express their own impressions and ideas during their residency from their experience of living in an always evolving Mediterannean urban city by the Aegean sea.
Our program offers artists a unique opportunity to spend their time creatively on their own and dive deeply into their creative process. Set in a landscape where coastal charm meets mountain majesty and where urban energy blends seamlessly with rural rhythms, this residency provides the ideal backdrop for reflection, experimentation and exchange.
*** All photos featured on our website are taken from final exhibitions and workshop events held at the end of past residencies. During your stay, you'll work independently or alongside one or two fellow resident artists. With a capacity of just 1 to 3 artists per season, the space offers a calm, focused environment ideal for deepening your practice. At the end of each season we can host an optional open studio exhibition event at no extra cost, an opportunity to share your work with the local community.
Nekubi Art Residency, El. Venizelou 79, Kavala - Greece