Artist residency programme by the French Institute in Greece and the B&E Goulandris Foundation

The French Institute in Greece and the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation join forces to inaugurate a new collaboration, aiming to establish an artist residency programme on the island of Andros.

The residency will take place from September 25 to October 25, 2026, at the B&E Goulandris Foundation’s Museum of Contemporary Art in Andros, under the joint curatorship and guidance of the two institutions. It is open to French artists, as well as artists based in France, working in the field of visual arts, with a particular focus on photography or painting.

Applicants are invited to submit, by 31 May 2026, a creative proposal related to the Cycladic environment of the island and its distinctive characteristics. Particular consideration will be given to projects that engage with the history and the modern and contemporary art collection of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation.

The selected artist will be hosted in a specially designed studio within the Museum and will have the opportunity to develop a creative project in dialogue with the artistic environment of the island of Andros.

The programme forms part of the broader development of artist residency initiatives by the French Institute in Greece, in collaboration with cultural institutions across Greece.

Application deadline: May 31, 2026

Further details regarding the residency programme and participation requirements are available in French, on the website of the French Institute of Greece.

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Andros

The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation was inaugurated on July 28, 1979, in Chora, Andros, the birthplace of its founder, Basil P. Goulandris, and is the first museum of contemporary art in Greece. The impetus for its construction was the need to house and present the works of the Andriot sculptor Michalis Tombros, which he bequeathed to his hometown.

On July 20, 1986, the Museum’s New Wing was inaugurated. The founders envisioned the creation of a small museum of contemporary art, equipped with the most advanced museological standards, capable of hosting international exhibitions.

As early as 1987, the Museum presented its first major exhibition of international acclaim in the then newly built New Wing. In the years that followed, it hosted a series of landmark temporary exhibitions featuring works by artists who shaped the 19th and 20th centuries, including Matisse, Kandinsky, Balthus, Giacometti, Klee, Chagall, de Chirico, Rodin, Picasso, Braque, Miró and Toulouse-Lautrec, among others.

The Museum’s primary aim is to continue offering its own creative contribution to contemporary artistic discourse and, as part of the international art scene and the promotion of aesthetic education, to support and advance modern and contemporary art, both Greek and international.

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