Lifelong learning and Academic Exchanges
As part of our commitment to lifelong learning, innovation and creative expression, we warmly welcome exchanges with students and faculties from both within and outside of Greece. Phoenix Athens has had the privilege of collaborating with the faculty of The Athens School of Fine Art, The American College of Greece, H.G.B Leipzig, The Vilnius Academy of Fine Art and the College Year in Athens program. Our most recent group collaboration was with the team at Ethnofest which included students and faculty members from both Greece and several other countries in Europe.
If you are a faculty member and would like to collaborate with us please fill out this form. Please fill out this form if you wish to pursue academic research in Athens. Discounted rates for recent graduates (1-2 yr) are a feature of the Accelerator Residency.
You may also call us directly at: 0030 6970516245
Phoenix Athens offers several learning pathways in the arts through different internship programs.
Students are welcome to apply for our internship program via the Atlas platform (for Greece) or Erasmus+ (for Europe). Phoenix Athens proposes internship programs in the Art and Design sectors, for individual and collectives, as well as an internship program in the field of Eco Design through the project Green Athens founded by Dimitri Yin, director of Phoenix Athens.
Previous Collaborations
December 2022
ETHNOFEST
In December 2022, Phoenix Athens hosted international artists and academic researchers with collaborators ETHNOFEST and over 20 participating artists, academics from Germany, Sweden and Greece.
ETHNOFEST was created in the framework of the European Encounters Project.
Partners in this project included :
The University of Agder (Norway)
The University of the Aegean
The University of Amsterdam
RAKETA (Sweden) and
And sponsors :
The Onassis and Niarchos Foundations, the French Embassy and the Cervantes Institute.
Fall 2021
Athens School of Fine Art
Summer 2022
Vilnius Academy of Fine Art
In June 2022, Phoenix Athens hosted Vilnius Academy of Fine Art graduates: Egle Zostautaitè & Emilija Visinskaite.
The artists conducted a comparative analysis of environmental factors in both Vilnius and Athens, and how these contrast with post-modern para-surrealist narratives such as those of Camus and René Daumal.
Their mentorship program would culminated with the exhibition "What you told me."
Fall 2020
H.G.B. Leipzig
In Fall 2021, Phoenix Athens collaborated with faculty member Erifil Veneria and students from Athens School of Fine Art for a tour and presentation of Phoenix Athens.
The presentation familiarised students with the operational duties and roles of alternative spaces and galleries in Athens and how these spaces represent career opportunities for artists, curators and other actors in the arts.
2019
The American College of Greece
In 2020 Phoenix Athens collaborated with professor Stefan Riebel and students from H.G.B Fine Arts Academy in Leipzig, Germany. The students conducted a survey of Athenian artist-run spaces, museums and other cultural venues in order to enhance their knowledge of art and curating.
This research would culminate with the exhibition: Running Athens. In addition to showcasing artwork inspired by the unique landscape of Athens and its art spaces, the exhibition featured talks and discussions about the contrasting paradigms of the creative ecologies in Germany and Greece.
The exhibition Running Athens featured works by: Anabelle, David Behrens, Tobias Fabek, Elisabeth L. Kraus, Haiguang Li, Tianxu Liu, Mandy Möbes, Kay Lotte Pommer and Johannes Unger.
In 2019 Phoenix Athens collaborated with students of the American College of Greece-Deree for the exhibition: "Memory of Hominina."
Participating artists included Sherouk Elabasi, Sabri ElCharif, Angelos Lignos, Aliki Ntounia, Alexandreia Papageorgeiou, Eirini Souma, Angeliki Tsiati and Natalia Tsouloucha.
Phoenix Athens maintains ongoing exchanges and collaborations with students and faculty from ACG Deree.