“With FAMILY”: Onassis Stegi unveils its 2025/26 season

Βy Katerina Parri

Stegi celebrates its 15th anniversary “with FAMILY,” with the 2025/26 season featuring names such as Tilda Swinton, Wim Wenders, Tiago Rodrigues, Robert Icke, Yorgos Lanthimos, Diane Morgan, Romain Gavras, Julien Gosselin, Mariano Pensotti, and Gabor Maté

A milestone year for the Onassis Stegi: celebrating its 15th anniversary, it continues to be the roof under which we encounter international names, experience artistic experimentation, live cultural events, and dance at festivals and parties. It remains the “home” that makes us feel at ease, and in a unique way everything that happens inside it speaks directly to the heart-some things less, others more, of course. That’s why, each time the announcement of its artistic program comes, we wait to hear what Stegi has in store for us this year. Expectations are always high, because over the years Stegi has earned that place.

This year’s announcement took place at the Onassis Mandra on 2 Dionysiou Areopagitou Street, in the Athenian courtyard of the Mandra, in a “family” atmosphere. The names, works, and initiatives presented by Onassis Culture ranged from remarkable and unique to groundbreaking.

There, the Artistic Director of the Onassis Foundation, Afroditi Panagiotakou, as host, unveiled the program with this year’s beautiful theme: FAMILIES, giving the floor along the way to key contributors from upcoming productions: Karyofyllia Karabeti, Nikos Kouris, Giannis Aggelakas, Nikos Karathanos, The Boy, Giannis Oikonomidis, Evi Kalogiropoulou, and Giannis Niarros.

A program was announced that truly has everything: from Tilda Swinton to Wim Wenders, from Tiago Rodrigues to Robert Icke, from Juergen Teller to Yorgos Lanthimos, from Diane Morgan (Philomena Cunk) to The Boy, from Romain Gavras to Giannis Oikonomidis, from Miranda July to Giannis Aggelakas and Giorgos Gousis, from Julien Gosselin and Mariano Pensotti to Gabor Maté-Stegi turns its gaze to the family. The one we were born into. The one we chose. With all its wounds and wonders.

As Afroditi Panagiotakou notes on this year’s theme, FAMILIES:
“We love them, we can’t stand them, they love us, we reject them, we love them, they reject us. They wound us, we curse them, we call them our kin, we look at old photographs and tear up, some of us struggle to create new ones to call ‘our own,’ others not. We embrace, we fight over the family house, we gather at the holidays only to curse the moment afterward, we yearn for those meals that worked because we laughed, we fall apart over nothing, we come together over trouble, and then start all over again. But there are also the others: friends we call ‘like family,’ ‘better than family.’ Life partners. Those we chose and who chose us. Some secret ingredient binds us to those we call and feel as family. It has no name. It truly is a secret.”

From October 2025 to June 2026, a multifaceted family portrait will unfold, through works that speak of closeness and distance, love and loss, the need to belong and the fear of disappearing-stories touching on memory, transmission, estrangement, and desire-inviting us to reconsider what “family” means today.

Some highlights from the productions, discussions, and collaborations: the theater season opens with Le Passé by Julien Gosselin, Artistic Director of the Odéon Théâtre de l’Europe in Paris; a tribute to Avignon Festival’s Artistic Director Tiago Rodrigues; Robert Icke’s Olivier Award–winning production of Sophocles’ Oedipus; Marlene Monteiro Freitas with the dance piece NÔT; Wim Wenders in Greece; a retrospective exhibition on the life and work of Tilda Swinton; a photographic exhibition by Yorgos Lanthimos; and Greek premieres of the films Sacrifice by Romain Gavras (October 30, 2025), Broken Vein by Giannis Oikonomidis (November 24, 2025), How to Shoot a Ghost by Charlie Kaufman (December 10, 2025), and Gorgoná by Evi Kalogiropoulou.

Alongside Stegi’s 15 years, there is another, even larger milestone: the 50th anniversary of the Onassis Foundation. Among its new initiatives is the transformation of the Onassis Hospital, now comprising the modernized Cardiac Surgery Center, equipped with cutting-edge interventional and diagnostic technology; the National Transplant Center, set to become a national reference point in organ donation and transplantation; and the new Onassis Children’s Unit, specializing in pediatric cardiology, cardiac surgery, and pediatric transplants.

Also worth noting: the Public Onassis Schools (ΔΗΜ.Ω.Σ.), aimed at upgrading public education, especially in areas facing social and economic challenges. 22 high schools across the country are gradually being transformed into modern, creative, and open learning environments, adopting innovative pedagogical and operational models.

As for Stegi’s new initiatives: the long-awaited Onassis Ready opens its doors. Housed in a former plastics factory in the heart of Agios Ioannis Rentis, spanning 3,760 square meters, it is inaugurated with over 600 photographs by Juergen Teller in a major exhibition conceived specifically for the space. Onassis Ready is set to experiment with the ideas of tomorrow, inviting us to experience artistic creation and the works of Onassis AiR/ONX Fellows-building a bridge between the physical and the post-digital world.

The next major announcement is the Yiannis Petridis Collection: Yiannis Petridis has donated his entire collection to Stegi-an archive that is not simply about music. It is a living memory that records, reconstructs, and interprets more than five decades of music, society, and aesthetics. The acquisition of this remarkable collection by the Onassis Foundation goes hand in hand with the creation of a new, specially designed space for listening, research, and enjoyment. At the same time, a documentary about Petridis and his rich collection, directed by Giorgos Teltzidis, is in the works.

In addition, the Onassis Foundation, in collaboration with photographer Spyros Staveris and a dedicated team of archivists, curators, and digitization experts, has catalogued and digitized the Staveris Archive—a body of images capturing everyday life, the world of work, entertainment, and politics, and the city of Athens itself. Following the completion of the research project “Spyros Staveris 1980–today: A visual history of contemporary Greece”, the Onassis Foundation is now finalizing and making the Staveris Photographic Archive available to the public.

News also comes from the U.S., where Onassis ONX in New York is moving its lab to a new space in the heart of Manhattan. In November 2025, it will present a new co-production with artist Ayoung Kim at Performa, one of North America’s leading festivals for avant-garde performance art. In January 2026, ONX will inaugurate its second TECHNE program, showcasing a series of new installations by ONX Fellows.

To celebrate its 15th anniversary, Stegi invites us all to the annual Block Party on October 9, headlined by Daniel Avery and Optimo.

And so, under the banner STEGI 25/26 | FAMILIES, before the closing video gave visual form to all that had been announced, the Artistic Director of the Onassis Foundation, Afroditi Panagiotakou, left us with these words:
“Let us endure our families—whatever they may be. Let us love them, let them love us, and let us embrace one another, because with embraces everything becomes softer.”

ONASSIS STEGI
2025 / 2026

TICKET PRESALES – PHASE A
Opens Monday, September 15, 17:00 for Members
Saturday, September 20, 17:00 for the General Public

Sundays at Stegi: performances start early.
Every Sunday, shows begin at 14:00 on the Main Stage and at 17:00 on the Small Stage.

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CINEMA

The Secret Agent
Kleber Mendonça Filho
October 2, 2025 | Main Stage
Greek Premiere

One of the most acclaimed films of 2025, distinguished at Cannes with the Best Director and Best Actor awards, comes to Stegi for its first screening in Greece, through a collaboration between the Athens International Film Festival “Premiere Nights,” Onassis Culture, and Spentzos Film.

Within the framework of the 31st Athens International Film Festival “Premiere Nights.”

In 1977, during Brazil’s military dictatorship, a forty-year-old man with a mysterious past and vague intentions arrives in the city of Recife, seemingly under threat. His arrival sets the stage for a political thriller by the director of Aquarius and Bacurau, an experience made for the big screen and the collective magic of cinema. Kleber Mendonça Filho maintains absolute control over his storytelling, weaving together diverse cinematic genres and references into a cohesive whole. Beneath the suspense and social observation, the film unfolds as a broader meditation on cinema’s power to restore truth, preserve memory, and create experiences that, just like memories themselves, know how to endure over time.

MUSIC

Stegi Block Party 2025
October 9, 2025 | Around the Stegi neighborhood

15 years together. This year, Stegi opens its doors and takes to the streets of Neos Kosmos to celebrate properly—with a big, accessible street party in the neighborhood.

An open-air gathering around Stegi, with a birthday cake that isn’t cut because it belongs to everyone. Each layer symbolizes a different part of the journey so far.

Headliners of this year’s Block Party: Daniel Avery and Optimo, with an eclectic, electrified set that brings club culture to the streets. Joining them are Buzz with the pulse of the western suburbs, Madam X with the energy of grime, Metaman and special guests creating a sonic universe where synths and beats collide, while pink.wav sets up a limitless electronic dance floor.

The party begins early with a colorful family session by the Bobos Arts Festival, filled with music, play, and dance. This year, the Stegi Block Party is not just an event—it’s a meeting place. An open embrace that welcomes every body and every rhythm. We celebrate what unites us. We dance as we are. Together.

Accessibility: tactile maps (piaf), QR codes with audio description, Greek Sign Language interpretation, sound visualizations, wearable sensory kits, and a specially designed quiet space for anyone who needs a pause. Deaf performers take over the DJ booths to share rhythm in new ways, while shuttle buses ensure comfortable transport for those who need it. Stegi leads the way toward an experience where everyone participates equally.

THEATER

Le Passé (The Past)
By Leonid Andreyev
Adaptation – Direction: Julien Gosselin
October 16–19, 2025 | Main Stage

An epic theatrical work that unfolds like a postmodern requiem for the 20th century, for love, and for humanism—complete with live cinematography and powerful performances by a seven-member cast.

Julien Gosselin, Artistic Director of Odéon–Théâtre de l’Europe in Paris and one of France’s leading theater directors, makes his first appearance at Stegi, inviting us into a monumental exploration of lost time, humanism, and faith in beauty.

The play draws inspiration from the short stories of Russian writer Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919). It begins with a failed femicide, includes a shocking scene in which the ideal of first love is dismantled, and traces a series of extremes in the name of love. Yet it is built as a work of art: period costumes, Tarkovsky-like candlelit scenes, and a house that is constructed and collapses—mirroring the relationships of its inhabitants. Snow-filled landscapes reminiscent of Brueghel’s Renaissance canvases coexist with live film projections of the cast delivering performances of unrelenting intensity. A heart-rending ritual farewell to love—and, by extension, to humanity.

Not recommended for children under 15.

Creative team
Text: Leonid Andreyev / Adaptation & Direction: Julien Gosselin / Cast: Guillaume Bachelé, Joseph Drouet, Denis Eyriey, Carine Goron, Victoria Quesnel, Achille Reggiani, Maxence Vandevelde / Camera: Jérémie Bernaert, Baudouin Rencurel / Russian–French Translation: André Markowicz / Set Design: Lisetta Buccellato / Dramaturgy: Eddy D’Aranjo / Original Music: Guillaume Bachelé, Maxence Vandevelde / Lighting Design: Nicolas Joubert / Video Design: Pierre Martin Oriol / Sound Design: Julien Feryn / Costume Design: Caroline Tavernier, Valérie Simmoneau / Props: Guillaume Lepert / Masks: Lisetta Buccellato, Salomé Vandendriessche / Assistant Director: Antoine Hespel / Stage Management: Léo Thévenon / General Stage Management: Simon Haratyk, Guillaume Lepert / Props & Stage Management: David Ferré / Lighting Technician: Zélie Champeau / Sound Technician: Hugo Hamman / Video Technician: David Dubost / Technical Interns: Pierrick Guillou, Audrey Meunier / Scenery & Painted Canvas: Workshop Devineau / With the company Si vous pouviez lécher mon coeur / Co-producers: Odéon–Théâtre de l’Europe (Paris), Festival d’Automne à Paris (Paris), Le Phénix – Scène nationale Valenciennes – Pôle européen de création (France), Théâtre national de Strasbourg (France), Théâtre du Nord – Centre dramatique national Lille/Tourcoing (France), Les Célestins, Théâtre de Lyon (France), Théâtre national populaire (Villeurbanne, France), Maison de la culture d’Amiens (France), L’Empreinte, Scène nationale Brive-Tulle (France), Château Rouge – Scène conventionnée d’Annemasse (France), Comédie de Genève (Switzerland), Wiesbaden Biennale (Germany), La passerelle – Scène nationale de Saint-Brieuc (France), Scène nationale d’Albi (France), Romaeuropa Festival (Italy) / With the support of the French Ministry of Culture / Artistic collaboration: Jeune théâtre national / With the support of Montévidéo, Centre d’art (Marseille) and T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers (Paris) / The French translations of Leonid Andreyev’s Ékatérina Ivanovna and Requiem are published by Mesures (September 2021).

Duration: 4.5 hours (with one intermission).

EXHIBITION

you are invited
Juergen Teller
October 19 – December 30, 2025 | Onassis Ready

The iconic photographer Juergen Teller inaugurates Onassis Ready, the Onassis Foundation’s new space. From Iggy Pop to Iggy’s daughter, from Kate Moss to Pope Francis—Teller presents the most extensive solo exhibition to date in Greece.

you are invited. There could hardly be a more fitting title for the exhibition by the emblematic photographer Juergen Teller that opens Onassis Ready, the Onassis Foundation’s new venue in Agios Ioannis Rentis. Running from October 19 to December 30, 2025, you are invited sets a new marker on Athens’ cultural map and signals a pivotal moment in the artist’s trajectory.

Rich in defining encounters and landmark moments from Teller’s illustrious career, this retrospective brings together series, standalone works, and numerous videos—combining selections from earlier shows with new, previously unseen images spanning from the 1990s to today. It is a celebration of his art and an active dialogue around the ever-shifting paths of inspiration and creative exploration running through his work—the most extensive Teller solo show ever mounted in Greece. While Teller has long produced deeply personal work, this exhibition coincides with a period in which he has found renewed meaning as an artist. Hypnotic portraits of legendary figures—from Iggy Pop to Alexander Skarsgård, Kate Moss to Charlotte Rampling—sit alongside images from his shoot with Pope Francis at a women’s prison during the 2024 Venice Biennale, photographs from Auschwitz marking the 80th anniversary of its liberation, as well as still lifes and landscapes.

Over the last eight years, Teller has also collaborated with his wife, Dovile Drizyte, on works that reflect different aspects of their relationship and the birth of their daughter. These works are marked by a characteristic blend of seriousness, intimacy, and often humor, with an aesthetic that brushes against the grotesque. These life-shaping experiences have instilled a quiet tension in Teller’s response to the world, generating spontaneous connections that crystallize into deeply meaningful narratives. The photographic and video works arising from these connections explore family and universal stories—of love, kinship, trust, hope, fertility, the environment, politics, and religion. His renewed emotional bond with each subject embodies positivity, spiritual awareness, and a refreshed stance toward life.

Presented in Athens as the inaugural show of Onassis Ready—a former factory in the city’s erstwhile industrial zone—the exhibition introduces a venue designed to host experimental works that push the boundaries of contemporary creation and act as a platform for bold artistic voices worldwide. Onassis Ready also houses the Athens hub of Onassis ONX, an international program (with a base in New York) supporting artists working with emerging technologies. Balancing contemporary art and innovation, Onassis Ready launches its first major exhibition within the Onassis Stegi 2025–26 artistic program. The collaboration between Juergen Teller and Stegi reflects a shared belief that art can be at once intimate and political, raw and poetic, personal and collective. Through this partnership, you are invited opens a space for dialogue between Teller’s emotionally charged universe and the contemporary realities of Greece—inviting a meaningful encounter between the local and the global.

Credits
Exhibition curation: Juergen Teller and Dovile Drizyte / Architectural design: Tom Emerson, 6a architects / Production management: Josselin Merazguia (Juergen Teller Studio) / Commission & production: Onassis Stegi.

CINEMA

Sacrifice
Director: Roman Gavras
In collaboration with Onassis Culture
October 30, 2025 | Main Stage

An environmental conference is interrupted—first by celebrities, then by eco-terrorists. Chris Evans, Anya Taylor-Joy, Vincent Cassel, Salma Hayek Pinault, John Malkovich, Ambika Mod, Charli XCX, and Jonatan “Yung Lean” Leandoer star in the new film by the Greek-French director—a satirical action adventure shot in Greece, co-produced by Onassis Culture.

Following its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, Romain Gavras’ new film receives its first Greek screening at Onassis Stegi. In Sacrifice, Joan (Anya Taylor-Joy) and her siblings, guided by a mysterious explosive prophecy, believe they have been tasked with purifying planet Earth. The radicalized group crashes an exclusive charity gala and takes three unexpected hostages for a ritual sacrifice: their hero Mike Tyler (Chris Evans), a movie star; their nemesis Bracken (Vincent Cassel), a ruthless billionaire; and their lover, an unlucky performer named Katie (Ambika Mod).

As the night descends into chaos, an inner journey unfolds alongside an outer adventure—blurring the lines between performance and belief, salvation and sacrifice. Provocative in thought and visually arresting, powered by a frenetic original screenplay co-written by Will Arbery (Succession), Sacrifice—Gavras’ English-language debut—is a satirical action odyssey with a magnetic, star-studded cast. Onassis Culture is proud to be part of the film, continuing a creative partnership with Romain Gavras that began with Gener8ion and Athena.

Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Evans, Vincent Cassel, Jade Croot, Salma Hayek Pinault, John Malkovich, Ambika Mod, Jonatan “Yung Lean” Leandoer, Sam Richardson, Miriam Silverman, Charli XCX.

ONASSIS AiR

AiR OPEN DAYS
Autumn AiR Open Days — November 7 & 8, 2025
Spring AiR Open Days — March 20 & 21, 2026
Summer AiR Open Days — June 19 & 20, 2026

Onassis AiR Open Days return in force—two days of performances, screenings, talks, multimedia installations, and soundscapes open to the public, unfolding in the spaces behind Stegi in Neos Kosmos.

Held three times a year, the Open Days showcase works-in-progress by Onassis AiR Fellows. Each event is tailored to the practices of the participating artists in that period, focusing not on a “final” work but on the path toward it. After last season’s warm reception—welcoming more than 1,300 visitors—the events continue, creating space and time for deeper encounters with the Fellows and their projects through performances, screenings, talks, multimedia installations, and soundscapes. Once again, artists from around the world transform Onassis AiR into a site of experimentation.
Discover more about their program at onassis.org.

WORDS & THOUGHTS

WIM WENDERS
November 14, 2025 | Main Stage
Film Tribute: November 15 & 16, 2025 | Small Stage & Level -1, Stegi

German filmmaker. Poet of the open road. Four-time Oscar nominee. On the occasion of his 80th birthday, Stegi presents a three-day film tribute to Wim Wenders—the most emblematic European director of his generation from the 1970s to today—alongside a conversation with Afroditi Panagiotakou on the Main Stage.

Wenders films the world as if seeing it for the first time. From Paris, Texas to Perfect Days, his cinema resists the rush of daily life, giving space to wander. His protagonists speak little; they observe the small and large things unfolding around them. His films let audiences breathe, and this tribute to his life and work reminds us that the essence of life resides in silences, glances, and journeys. Following the travels of wanderers in search of themselves—from Hamburg to Hollywood, from harsh realities to the enchanted realm of dreams—Wenders lands, in his uniquely personal way, on Stegi’s Main Stage.

Wenders gained international acclaim in 1984 with Paris, Texas, co-written with Sam Shepard, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. Three years later he received Best Director at Cannes for the ravishing Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire). Its sequel In weiter Ferne, so nah! (Faraway, So Close!, 1993) followed.

THEATER

Oedipus
By Sophocles
Adaptation & Direction: Robert Icke
November 20 – December 28, 2025 | Main Stage

After a string of sold-out performances in London’s West End, the Olivier Award–winning production of Sophocles’ tragedy comes to Onassis Stegi. Adapted and directed by Robert Icke, the work is staged here with a Greek cast, featuring Nikos Kouris and Karyofyllia Karabeti as Oedipus and Jocasta.

Election night. Polls predict a landslide. Sweeping change is expected. Oedipus, the frontrunner, is about to watch his career, his family, and his very identity shatter before his eyes. Sophocles’ 428 BC drama about the inexorable force of fate is re-read through the modern lens of public image and personal responsibility.

“As a story, Oedipus will always haunt us. It’s a tale we cannot stop telling,” notes academic Simon Goldhill. With unrelenting intensity, sardonic humor, and scenes that evoke both political thriller and family tragedy, British playwright-director Robert Icke—known in Greece for The Doctor and his adaptation of Orwell’s 1984—brings the myth electrifyingly into the present.

Alongside the leads, Alexandros Mylonas as Creon and Rania Oikonomidou as Merope (Oedipus’ adoptive mother, a character Icke introduces) head an eleven-member cast. Charged with political, social, and existential urgency, this is the most electrified take on the Oedipus myth one could imagine.

Credits
Adaptation & Direction: Robert Icke / Set Design: Hildegard Bechtler / Costumes: Wojciech Dziedzic / Lighting: Natasha Chivers / Associate Lighting: Charlotte Burton / Sound: Tom Gibbons / Associate Sound: Erwin Sterk / Video Design: Tal Yarden / Revival Director: Lizzie Manwaring / Original Production: International Theater Amsterdam

Greek Production: Greek Translation: Nikos Chatzopoulos / Associate Director (Greek version): Prodromos Tsinikoris / Assistant Revival Director: Korina Vasileiadou / Set Design Associate: Mikaela Liakata / Props Lead: Athina Botonaki / Assistant Set Designer: Maria Stathopoulou / Costume Associate: Maria Karapouliou / Production Management: Zoi Mouschi & Rena Andreadaki / Cast: Hara Giota, Giorgos Ziakas, Karyofyllia Karabeti, Nikos Kouris, Alexandros Mylonas, Kostas Nikouli, Rania Oikonomidou, Sokratis Patsikas, Takis Sakellariou, Giannis Tsoumarakis, Danae-Arsenia Filidou / Commission & Production (Greek version): Onassis Stegi

English surtitles on Sundays: November 30, December 14 & 28, 2025; January 11 & 25, 2026
Accessible performances: December 18, 19 & 20, 2025
Surtitles for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (SDH) / Audio Description (AD) for blind and visually impaired audiences / Tactile tour of the stage (TT) in collaboration with cultural organization liminal.
Accessibility services supported by the Europe Beyond Access network, co-funded by the EU’s Creative Europe program.
The play text will be published by Onassis Publications, available at the Onassis Shop and selected bookstores.

CINEMA

Broken Vein
Director: Giannis Oikonomidis
A co-production of Onassis Culture
November 24, 2025 | Main Stage

The creator of Matchbox, Knifer, and Ballad for a Pierced Heart returns with a gut-punch of a film—a breathless contemporary urban drama.

Thomas Alexopoulos, a middle-aged businessman, is deep in debt to loan sharks and desperately seeks help. Time is running out to save his beloved home, and the pressure is suffocating. On the brink of ruin, a simple last-minute plan appears to be his only lifeline. Broken Vein is a pure urban tragedy—populated by fated characters in a gray, mined world. Drawing from the wellspring of ancient Greek drama, the film brings the past into the present to reexamine notions of Ethos, Hubris, Fate, Shame, Excess, and Voluntary vs. Involuntary Crime. At the end of life’s wild ride, what remains is the solitary, tragic nature of the human condition.

Starring Vasilis Bisbikis, Maria Kehayoglou, Betty Arvaniti, and Giannis Niarros. Screenplay by Giannis Oikonomidis and actor Vangelis Mourikis. A co-production of Onassis Culture, the film premieres at Onassis Stegi shortly before its national theatrical release.

THEATER

Lovers’ Dance
Text & Direction: Tiago Rodrigues
December 4, 2025 – January 18, 2026 | Small Stage
January 22–25, 2026 | Thessaloniki Concert Hall

After rave reviews and a deeply moving audience response in last season’s sold-out run on the Small Stage, the Portuguese creator’s hymn to love returns for a limited number of performances. Two Greek leads become one-in an encounter that lingers.

“A unique theatrical experience that will mark Athens’ theater scene.” “A theatrical gem that, in its own way, calls for a broader humanism-a political, ecological, and personal stance that champions essential love.” “An acting tour de force by Nikos Karathanos and Marissa Triantafyllidou.”

A show of disarming tenderness, intensity, humor, and emotion, Lovers’ Dance earned ecstatic reviews last season and returns within Stegi’s Tiago Rodrigues triptych for a limited run in Athens and Thessaloniki.
Artistic Director of the Avignon Festival and creator of Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists (Stegi, 2023), Tiago Rodrigues directs, in collaboration with National Theatre Artistic Director Argyro Chioti, with Nikos Karathanos and Marissa Triantafyllidou on stage. Lighting by Rui Monteiro; sets and costumes by Magda Bizarro, Head of International Programming at the Avignon Festival.

A couple in the night. “I can’t breathe,” she says. “She can’t breathe,” he repeats. They rush to the car and race to the hospital. From its opening lines, Rodrigues’ play grips us. Lovers’ Dance pulls us into the heart of a relationship at the edge between life and death, and from there along the course of a shared life-a “together forever” against time and decay. This is Rodrigues’ first and most autobiographical play, begun in 2006 and completed in 2020.
The text, translated from Portuguese by Maria Papadima, is published in Greek by Onassis Publications and available at the Onassis Shop and selected bookstores.

Credits
Text & Direction: Tiago Rodrigues / Translation: Maria Papadima / Performed by Nikos Karathanos and Marissa Triantafyllidou / Artistic Associate: Argyro Chioti / Lighting Design: Rui Monteiro / Artistic Assistant, Sets & Costumes: Magda Bizarro / Assistant Set & Costume Designer: Margarita Tzannetou / Production Management: Zoi Mouschi – Rena Andreadaki / Commission & Production (Greek version): Onassis Stegi.

CINEMA

How to Shoot a Ghost
Charlie Kaufman
December 10, 2025 | Main Stage

Charlie Kaufman—director of the award-winning Synecdoche, New York and Anomalisa, and Oscar-winning screenwriter of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind-shot his new short film, How to Shoot a Ghost, in Athens, “a city where the bones of History are forever exposed,” as he notes. Exploring mortality both as fact and as metaphor, the film is the second part of a diptych-following Jackals & Fireflies-with scripts by poet Eva HD.

In the film, two ghosts who have just died wander through Athens, carried by the city’s pulsing fabric and the insistent echoes of History. In life, both were outsiders: he, a Lebanese queer translator; she, a photographer of half-Irish descent. As they roam the city together, they find solace in the difficult beauty of life—and in what follows after. On choosing Athens as a setting, Kaufman explains: “Athens is a city where the bones of History are forever exposed-whether the open wounds of the 1970s dictatorship or the monuments that still stood when a plague wiped out so many citizens two thousand years ago. It’s the ideal place to unravel past and present and explore how the politics and desires of the dead continue to live within us.”

A production of Unmade, Soft Focus Films, and Monarch Kaleidoscope, co-produced by Green Olive Films, in association with Nightjar Films and Liaison Pictures, with the support of Onassis Culture and the participation of the Athens Film Office. Starring Jessie Buckley and Josef Akiki; cinematography by Michał Dymek with additional photography by Giorgos Koutsaliaris. World premiere: 79th Venice International Film Festival.

WORDS & THOUGHTS / TALK

PHILOMENA CUNK
January 7, 2026 | Main Stage

Diane Morgan-aka Philomena Cunk, a global comedy phenomenon-comes to the Main Stage for a conversation with Afroditi Panagiotakou.
Can Philomena Cunk change how documentaries are made today? The question leads to Diane Morgan, who has perfected the role of mockumentary host through her comic alter ego. With deadpan delivery and meticulous attention to absurd detail, Morgan has built a character that has followed her throughout her career.

Morgan’s path was anything but linear: from Avon salesperson and call-center operator to factory line worker packing deworming pills-before ending up on stage and screen as a comedian and actor, and, unexpectedly, a TikTok favorite. A journey showing how the unforeseen becomes comedic material and evolves into a distinct style.

Cunk is eccentric, misinformed, and nearly always wrong. From gloomy Liz in Motherland to Kath in Ricky Gervais’ After Life (Netflix), and Onya Doorstep in Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, Morgan has, for a decade, delivered squirm-inducing, revealing moments that balance the ridiculous and the incisive.

Cunk first appeared on Charlie Brooker’s satirical Weekly Wipe (2013) and led to the Emmy-nominated series Cunk on Life, attempting to answer humanity’s big existential questions. Through long, improvisation-heavy interviews, Morgan uses the character to wait out the perfect answer to her unusual questions-“Because you never know when someone will throw back a ‘what do you think?’” In Spring 2026, she brings her gloriously absurd questions to Stegi.

CINEMA

The Heart of the Bull
Director: Eva Stefani
January 2026 | Main Stage
Can art give meaning to our lives?

A documentary produced by Onassis Culture, inspired by Dimitris Papaioannou’s production Transverse Orientation. Director Eva Stefani follows the preparation and European tour of the work—produced by Onassis Stegi-observing Papaioannou and his collaborators at close range as they strive to give the piece form and breath. Filmed over two years-from rehearsals at Stegi during the pandemic to performances in Paris, London, Vilnius, and other international venues, through the final show in San Francisco-the film is driven by the question “why do we do what we do?”, presenting art as resistance to futility and as a way to make sense of life.

Decades after first meeting, Papaioannou and Stefani reunite for a different kind of documentary. With boundless curiosity and a singular gaze, Papaioannou renders the human body on stage, seeking to capture every movement and feeling; Stefani, in turn, captures him-his creative process-in her cinematic lens.

The film explores the dynamics sparked by a work of art, revealing moments of anxiety, uncertainty, and absolute trust that define the world of rehearsal; hope during times of crisis; and loss transformed into creation. Through Stefani’s eye, Papaioannou reveals his joys, fears, and desires. More than a documentary about a show or an artist, it is a study on the nature of creation. As Papaioannou says in one scene: “The joy of art is that it gives you the feeling there is something beyond the life you live.”

CINEMA

Gorgonà
Director: Evi Kalogiropoulou
2026 (TBA) | Main Stage

Following her Cannes-awarded short On Xerxes’ Throne, Onassis Culture supports Kalogiropoulou’s first feature. Gorgonà unfolds in a timeless dystopian future, in a patriarchal city-state plagued by violence and environmental degradation. Two women rebel and fight for freedom and identity, becoming symbols of resistance and transformation.

The film extends Kalogiropoulou’s body of work—probing exclusion and inclusion, multicultural identity, the feminine within ancient Greek myth, and post-apocalyptic landscapes. Produced by Neda Film, it is a co-production of Onassis Culture, Blonde, Blue Monday Productions, Kidam, ERT, EKOMEΔ, and Authorwave, with Playtime handling international sales.
Cast includes Melissanthi Mahut, Aurora Marion, Christos Loulis, Kostas Nikouli, Stavros Svigkos, Errika Mpiyou, Niki Vakali, Xenia Dania, Erifili Kitzoglou, Myrto Kontoni, Nayla Gougni, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Heracles Tsuzinov, and Vasilis Michas. Gorgonà premiered in Venice Critics’ Week.

DANCE

ODD – Onassis Dance Days 2026
February 5–8, 2026 | Main Stage, Small Stage, Level -1

This year’s festival invites us into the familiar fields of ancestral homelands and the unfamiliar terrains of darker dreams-embracing the paradox as second nature. Because there are many family secrets that never make it to the Sunday table.

Onassis Dance Days 2026 focuses on the “familiar and the unfamiliar”-on origin, family, knowns and unknowns, and elective kinships. How is choreographic identity shaped by blood, memory, or imagination? What new forms of “kin” emerge in a world of fluid bonds? Can choreography become a meeting ground for relatives by blood, by choice—even by surprise?

The festival’s centerpiece is an international Stegi co-production: NÔT by Portugal’s Marlene Monteiro Freitas-a ritual that shatters form and reassembles shared experience in the ecstatic bodies of eight performers. Also featured are works born from the research of last season’s Onassis AiR Fellows Efthymis Moschopoulos and Katerina Foti.

Some pieces resemble family albums-at times tender, at times uncanny; sometimes true, sometimes entirely fabricated-seeking cracks, imprints, and subconscious traces of family (biological or invented) and places of origin (real and imagined). ODD invites audiences into a transformative experience, where intimacy meets paradox and the body remembers, forgets, and invents new kin.

Credits
Curatorial Direction: Afroditi Panagiotakou / Program Design & Curation: Ileiana Dimadi, Konstantinos Tzathas / Commission & Production (Greek works): Onassis Stegi
Greek productions supported by the Onassis Stegi Touring Program.

DANCE

NÔT
Choreography: Marlene Monteiro Freitas
February 6–8, 2026 | Main Stage
Part of Onassis Dance Days

NÔT means “night” in Cape Verdean Creole. The piece that stunned audiences at the 79th Avignon Festival unleashes a ritual outburst of everything we hold inside: the irrational, the repressed, the irreconcilable. Inspired by One Thousand and One Nights and drenched in ecstasy, this is ODD’s international production for 2026.

A night like no other: bacchic, orgiastic, ritualistic, uncanny, unforgettable—teeming with acts of violence, pleasure, and survival. Drawing on the carnivalesque ceremonies of her homeland, the sacred and the grotesque, the tragic and the sardonic, Marlene Monteiro Freitas—one of today’s most explosive creators (Silver Lion, Venice Biennale 2018; honored artist at Festival d’Automne, Paris 2022; Brandhaarden, Amsterdam 2025; Onassis AiR Fellow 2024–25)—brings to ODD her much-discussed new work that opened Avignon in 2025. Ecstatic dances and charged bodies in magical masks occupy a barred-in set that becomes the enchanted valley of a dream—white beds, blood-stained linens, knives transfigured into percussion. Here, chaos is not disorder but a path toward a new order.

A transcendent, hypnotic choreographic narrative, NÔT is threaded with shards of dreams and nightmares—like a memory of One Thousand and One Nights and Scheherazade’s nightly act of survival. With this implicit reference, Freitas offers NÔT as an irrational hymn to freedom—less to explain than to inscribe impressions, like dreams.

Credits
Choreography: Marlene Monteiro Freitas / Assistant Choreographer: Francisco Rolo / Performers: Ben Green, Henri “Cookie” Lesguillier, Joãozinho da Costa, Mariana Tembe, Marie Albert, Miguel Filipe, Rui Paixão, Tomás Moital / Set: Yannick Fouassier, Marlene Monteiro Freitas / Lighting & Technical Direction: Yannick Fouassier / Costumes: Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Marisa Escaleira / Sound: Rui Antunes / Stage Manager: Ana Luísa Novais / Special Set Objects: Cláudio Silva / Scenography Intern: Emma Ait-Kaci / Artistic Advisors: João Figueira, Martin Valdés-Stauber / Production: P.OR.K. / Distribution: Key Performance / Co-producers: Festival d’Avignon (France), Berliner Festspiele (Germany), International Summer Festival Kampnagel (Germany), Culturgest – Lisboa (Portugal), MC2: Maison de la Culture de Grenoble – Scène nationale (France), Le Quartz – Scène Nationale de Brest (France), La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand – Scène nationale (France), Maison de la danse, Lyon – Pôle européen de création (France), La Villette – Paris (France), La Comédie de Genève & La Bâtie – Festival de Genève (Switzerland), Onassis Stegi (Greece), Teatro Municipal do Porto (Portugal), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Belgium), PACT Zollverein (Germany) / With residency support from: O Espaço do Tempo, Alkantara, OPART E.P.E./Estúdios Victor Córdon, Onassis AiR, MC2: Maison de la Culture de Grenoble – Scène nationale, International Summer Festival Kampnagel / Institutional support: Dançando com a Diferença / Thanks: Carlos Duarte, Atelier MC2 Grenoble / Dramaturgical research for NÔT supported by Onassis AiR (2025).

MUSIC

STEGI.RADIO Takeover 2026
February 13 & 14, 2026 | Throughout Stegi

For the third year, Stegi’s web radio takes over the entire building with two explosive nights devoted to desire, inclusion, and the liberating force of clubbing. Contemporary electronic music, rising DJs from Greece and abroad—intensity. One community on the same dancefloor.

Desire becomes rhythm, and Stegi a site of imagination, rupture, and reunion. The festival that changed how Athens experiences electronic music returns to deconstruct and rebuild everything we think we know. STEGI.RADIO occupies Stegi and transforms it into a musical stage of new, unexpected encounters. On February 13–14, STEGI.RADIO Takeover 2026 becomes an ode to openness, desire, and emancipatory, inclusive forms of clubbing. From Detroit techno ambassador Carl Craig and the iconic Moodymann to the subversive MC Yallah and the ecstatic Omar Souleyman, the Takeover returns with local and international artists from across the global electronic scene—promising to fill every space at Stegi with bold energy and unpredictable musical meetings.

Credits
Artistic Direction: Voltnoi & Quetempo (STEGI.RADIO), Akis Chontasis
Part of STEGI.RADIO Takeover 2026 is delivered within the European program TMLAB, co-funded by the EU’s Creative Europe.

THEATER

AN INSATIABLE SHADOW
Mariano Pensotti
March 5 – April 26, 2026 | Small Stage

Award-winning next-generation actors Giannis Niarros and Kostas Nikouli as mountaineers, actors, and sons living under the “insatiable shadow” of a mountain, a career, and a father. The new play by the internationally acclaimed Argentine director-playwright, in its Greek version—about memory, identity, and fatherhood.

One experience, two versions. A mountaineer who survived an incredible ordeal on the mountain. And an actor who portrayed his story on film. Mariano Pensotti directs at Stegi for the third time, delivering a tale charged with intensity and tenderness, relentless suspense, and cascading sarcasm.
Fathers and sons. Ascents and falls. Icebergs, ghosts, truth—and its filmed version. Shattering revelations and comic reversals in a tour-de-force duet—Giannis Niarros and Kostas Nikouli in their first stage pairing.

After premiering at Avignon in 2024 and subsequent versions in Austria and Argentina, two actors in Greece take the baton to speak, among other things, as Pensotti says, “of absent fathers mythologized by their children, and present fathers despised by them. As climate change melts the world’s ice, so time seems to dissolve the myths families forge around themselves.” The experiences that divided us; the shared paths that united us; our desires and obsessions; truth and fiction—against a story binding lives with an unbreakable thread. Drawing on Stendhal, Balzac, and Tolstoy, Pensotti set out to write a play like an impossible novel: a story containing a palimpsest of other stories—cracks that open passages into forgotten lives and unspoken truths. Because climbing a mountain and shooting a film finally become an existential challenge: to face height and listen to depth.

Credits
Text & Direction: Mariano Pensotti / Translation: Maria Chatziemmanouil / Cast: Giannis Niarros, Kostas Nikouli / Set & Costume Design: Mariana Tirantte / Music & Sound: Diego Vainer / Artistic Advisor & Producer: Florencia Wasser / Lighting: David Seldes / Dramaturgy: Aljoscha Begrich / Associate Director: Yolanda Markopoulou / Production Execution: POLYPLANITY Productions / Original production: Festival d’Avignon / In co-production with Wiener Festwochen | Free Republic of Vienna / Commission & Production (Greek version): Onassis Stegi / Supported by the Onassis Stegi Touring Program

English surtitles on Sundays: March 15 & 29 and April 19, 2026.

EXHIBITION

Photographs
Yorgos Lanthimos
March 7 – May 17, 2026 | Level -1, Stegi
Curator: Michael Mack

The first photography exhibition by the internationally acclaimed director, producer, and screenwriter ever presented in Greece.
Yorgos Lanthimos, one of world cinema’s most distinctive auteurs, is renowned for crafting fantastical worlds and boldly, paradoxically exploring human relationships—traits that have established him as one of contemporary film’s most singular voices. Yorgos Lanthimos: Photographs at Stegi’s Level -1 is a rare artistic event.

For the first time, Greek audiences encounter four photographic suites Lanthimos created over the past five years—a rare window into his eye and visual language that opens new perspectives for understanding this unique visionary.
The exhibition includes three series made within the environments of his films—shot on the margins of production in locations such as New Orleans and Atlanta, as well as studio builds in Budapest where entire cities were constructed as sets. Many images appear in his recent books: Dear God, the Parthenon Is Still Broken (2024), from the making of Poor Things (2023), and i shall sing these songs beautifully (2024), created alongside Kinds of Kindness (2024). Also on view are unpublished photographs from Bugonia (2025), his latest and much-anticipated film.

The exhibition’s fourth body of work—presented worldwide for the first time—features images from an ongoing personal series created in Greece, born of solitary wanderings in Athens and visits to the Aegean islands.
Across Lanthimos’s photographic practice runs a contemplative engagement with the ordinary and the familiar. He presents subjects with striking directness, clarity, and intimacy, rendering a world both unique and intricate. As in his cinema, a language emerges that doubles as an archive of its own making—a luminous depiction of phenomena.
Curated by Michael Mack, one of the most influential publishers and curators in contemporary photography, known for defining collaborations in the photobook and visual storytelling.

European Premiere: Onassis Stegi / Commission & Production: Onassis Stegi

MUSIC – THEATER

The Little Prince Blues
Concept, Music Composition & Artistic Direction: Giannis Aggelakas
Directorial Supervision: Giorgos Gousis
March 12 – April 26, 2026 | Main Stage

A leading force in Greek rock returns after Nekyia with a new experience-show: an electrified ode to the prince we all once loved-staged by the award-winning creator of Magnetic Fields.
Nekyia began as a friendly conversation between Giannis Aggelakas and Olia Lazaridou and, in 2023-directed by Christos Papadopoulos-played at Stegi to sold-out houses, was published as a book, and traveled to Amsterdam and Thessaloniki.

The Little Prince Blues began even earlier: in Aggelakas’s adolescence, when he first discovered Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince-a book he kept in his library with its cover always facing outward. To remember. To never forget that “all grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it.” Or, as he puts it: “A world displaced from its childlikeness is lifeless, terrifying, and ominous.”

Conceived like a blues-a long pulse, sometimes melancholic, sometimes jubilant—paying homage to Pavlos Sidiropoulos and his emblematic album Prince’s Blues, Aggelakas imagines a stage version of the famous 1943 book as an electromagnetic wave of words, music, and songs that passes through soul and body, earthly wars and interplanetary journeys, the Pilot and the Little Prince, musicians and performers on stage, and the audience. With Aggelakas himself as lead and award-winning filmmaker Giorgos Gousis (of Magnetic Fields) overseeing direction, the stage becomes a cosmos of words and thoughts flashing with light—a performance that affirms life, love, and friendship. Because we all know: “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

Credits
Translation: Stratis Tsirkas / Concept, Music, Artistic Direction: Giannis Aggelakas / Directorial Supervision: Giorgos Gousis / Free Adaptation & Original Lyrics: Giannis Aggelakas, Theodora Kapralou / Orchestration: Giannis Aggelakas, Coti K. / Dramaturgy: Giorgos Gousis, Antonis Tsio tsiopoulos / Sets: Loukas Bakas / Lighting Design: Eliza Alexandropoulou / Visuals & Animation: Aristotelis Maragkos / Movement: Alexandra Kazazou / Costumes: Katerina Zoura / Assistant Director: Anna Nikolaou / Production Management: Kassi Kafetsi / Musicians: Coti K. (sound production, bass & electronics), Nikos Yousef (musical saw), Periklis Tsoukalas (“Medusa” custom electric baritone string instrument inspired by the Cümbüş; alternate tunings with effects), Konstantinos Zambos (percussion, synths), Dimitris Salepakis (sound design, pre-recorded modular synth) / Narration & Vocals: Giannis Aggelakas, Nadia Katsoura, Nadia Baïba, Eirini Boundali / Production Execution: PLANKTON – Konstantinos Koukoulis, Wild Rose Productions – Giorgis Dragatakis, Evangelia Petraki / Premiere: Onassis Stegi / Commission & Production: Onassis Stegi / Supported by the Onassis Stegi Touring Program

English surtitles on Sundays: March 22; April 5 & 19, 2026
Accessible performances: March 26, 27 & 28, 2026
Surtitles for Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing (SDH) / Audio Description (AD) / Tactile Stage Tour (TT) in collaboration with liminal.
Accessibility services supported by Europe Beyond Access, co-funded by the EU’s Creative Europe program.

MUSIC

Borderline Festival 2026
April 3 & 4, 2026

Stegi’s electronic music festival returns for a second year to Onassis Ready. Nothing can prepare you for what’s about to happen.
The definitive talk of the town is back: a volatile mix of the unexpected and the explosive once again occupies Onassis Ready’s industrial space, as STEGI.RADIO’s festival dives deeper into tempestuous sonic landscapes—testing the limits between experimentation and new club forms.

Two days, dozens of DJ sets and live acts, and a venue throbbing like a living organism. Borderline Festival 2026 reaffirms its mission: to change how Athens experiences electronic music.

Credits
Artistic Direction: Voltnoi & Quetempo (STEGI.RADIO), Akis Chontasis
Part of Borderline Festival 2026 is delivered within the European programs TMLAB and 25AV, co-funded by the EU’s Creative Europe.

WORDS & THOUGHTS

Miranda July
April 30, 2026 | Main Stage

Filmmaker, writer, visual artist, performer-one of the boldest voices of our time. On the occasion of her new novel All Fours, Miranda July comes from Los Angeles to Stegi to challenge us to rethink marriage and family.

July makes work that defies categorization and embraces multiple media—from film and literature to visual art and performance. Her projects have been presented at MoMA, the Guggenheim, and the Whitney Biennial. She chose the surname “July” from a fictional character at 15 and adopted it officially at 20. Today she writes and lives unapologetically—dancing at home or on screens, questioning social conventions, encouraging women to discover their authentic selves. The New Yorker has written: “Miranda July is sensational at plot. Stories come to her as if by gift from the gods, and all she has to do is unwrap them.” In the 1990s she experimented within the riot grrrl scene across theater, performance, and film, appearing at independent festivals and alternative art spaces.

Her directorial debut Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance and four awards at Cannes, including the Camera d’Or. In literature she has shown a knack for capturing-sometimes with humor, sometimes with tenderness—the on- and offline conversations of our lives, in books such as No One Belongs Here More Than You (2007) and her first novel The First Bad Man (2015). This May she comes to Stegi to present selections from her film work and her latest novel All Fours (2024)-an ode to love in all its forms, resonant with many American women 40+ who experience desire without age limits.

THEATER

THE DISTANCE (LA DISTANCE)
Text & Direction: Tiago Rodrigues
May 7 – 10, 2026 | Main Stage

Year 2077. A father. A daughter. He on Earth. She on Mars. Humanity at the brink; their relationship, too. How many miles can love travel? The Avignon-acclaimed production arrives on Stegi’s Main Stage.

A master storyteller of contemporary theater, Tiago Rodrigues offers, in his latest play, a love letter to family. A bond that spans planets, environmental collapse, and entire lives. A voice message that crosses infinity—and then another, and another. Each exchange stronger than memory, vaster than distance. Two lives in orbit on a revolving stage—far apart, yet closer than ever.
Half a century from now, humanity struggles to survive. Life on Earth grows precarious as part of the population settles on the Red Planet, attempting to found new forms of organization and coexistence. Rodrigues tells of a father who chooses to remain on Earth, reluctant to renounce what is vanishing, and a daughter who chooses Mars, embracing an unimaginable future. 225 million kilometers apart—and yet, as he says, “speaking of distance, we also discover closeness… The mismatch between collective aims and the realities of political and economic power is one of our era’s paradoxes. How do we explain this to the next generations? Perhaps it is the symptom of what we are as a species: a deep contradiction between immense creative capacity and our tendency toward destruction.” La Distance contemplates the titanic task ahead over the next fifty years—like someone who, after reading an encyclopedia, finally writes a sonnet: magnification through miniaturization.

A rotating interplanetary stage; two relatives in parallel orbit; an invisible thread binding generations. A moving elegy to memory, existential conflict, parenthood, and children’s emancipation. A deeply human work that celebrates the vastness of the universe—and of love. Two worlds that finally become one.

Credits
With Alison Dechamps and Adama Diop / Text & Direction: Tiago Rodrigues / Translation: Thomas Resendes / English surtitles translation: Daniel Hahn / Set: Fernando Ribeiro / Costumes: José António Tenente / Lighting: Rui Monteiro / Music & Sound: Pedro Costa / Artistic Collaboration: Sophie Bricaire / Assistant Director: André Pato / Directing Intern: Thomas Medioni / Production: Festival d’Avignon / Co-producers: Teatro Stabile di Napoli – Teatro Nazionale (Naples); Onassis Stegi (Athens); La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand – Scène nationale; Divadlo International Theatre Festival (Pilsen); Le Volcan – Scène nationale du Havre; Teatre Lliure (Barcelona); Centro Dramatico Nacional (Madrid); Malakoff – Théâtre 71; Culturgest (Lisbon); De Singel (Antwerp); Équinoxe – Scène nationale de Châteauroux; Points communs – Nouvelle scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise / Val d’Oise; Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa; Maillon – Théâtre de Strasbourg – Scène européenne; NTCH Taiwan – National Theater and Concert Hall (Taipei); Les Célestins – Théâtre de Lyon; Théâtre du Bois de l’Aune (Aix-en-Provence); Théâtre de Grasse – Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national – Art & Création; Scènes et Cinés – Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national – Art en territoire (Istres); Le Bateau Feu – Scène nationale de Dunkerque; Plovdiv Drama Theatre; Malta Festival (Poznań); Espace 1789 (Saint-Ouen) / With support from the École du TNB integration program (Théâtre national de Bretagne) and, for the 79th Festival d’Avignon, Spedidam / Sets by the Festival d’Avignon workshops / Artistic residency: La FabricA, Festival d’Avignon / Thanks to Marie Azevedo, planetary scientist at the University of Bern (CaSSIS – ExoMars mission); Magda Bizarro; Beatriz Rodrigues; the teams of the Festival d’Avignon; Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe (Paris)
Duration: approx. 1h 45m / Year: 2025

THEATER

By Heart
Text, Direction & Performance: Tiago Rodrigues
May 11 – 12, 2026 | Main Stage

In a world where we mostly memorize passwords and PINs, what place is there for a performance built around ten people learning a Shakespeare sonnet by heart? A moving monologue by the Portuguese creator, with ten volunteer audience members sharing the stage.

“When ten people memorize a poem, there is nothing the KGB, the CIA, or the Gestapo can do. The poem will survive,” said George Steiner. Rodrigues reminds us of this in the disarmingly simple By Heart, the final piece in Stegi’s Tiago Rodrigues focus. The stage is bare: ten chairs and crates of books, waiting for ten volunteers whom Rodrigues invites up at the start. A decade after its first presentation at Stegi, By Heart returns with the author-director himself as actor-narrator, weaving a chronicle of personal and collective stories while teaching—in Greek—a sonnet by William Shakespeare. The adventures of the 20th century; the lives and words of Boris Pasternak, Ray Bradbury, George Steiner, and Joseph Brodsky interlace with personal tales—foremost that of Rodrigues’s grandmother as she was losing her sight. A heartfelt (“by heart”) defense of mind and soul—the safest refuge for free thought, banned texts, and the words and stories we want to shape our world. A guarantee of culture, even in the hardest times.
An ode to the power of poetry, memory, and freedom.

Credits
Text, Direction & Performance: Tiago Rodrigues / English translation: Tiago Rodrigues, edited by Joana Frazão / With excerpts and quotations from William Shakespeare, Ray Bradbury, George Steiner, Joseph Brodsky / Translation of Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 30”: Charles-Marie Garnier / Set, Costumes & Props: Magda Bizarro / General Management: André Pato / Sound: Pedro Costa / Executive Producer: Festival d’Avignon / Based on an original creation by Mundo Perfeito / Co-production: O Espaço do Tempo, Maria Matos Teatro Municipal / With support from Camões Centre culturel portugais à Paris for the 77th Festival d’Avignon / Created with the support of Governo de Portugal — DGArtes / Original executive production: Magda Bizarro, Rita Mendes
Duration: 1h 45m / Year: 2013

EXHIBITION

Ongoing
Tilda Swinton
May 2 – June 14, 2026 | Onassis Ready

Tilda Swinton—iconic, daring performer and boundary-pushing visual artist—is the focus of a personal exhibition featuring new and earlier works by eight close artistic collaborators and friends: Pedro Almodóvar, Luca Guadagnino, Joanna Hogg, Derek Jarman, Jim Jarmusch, Olivier Saillard, Tim Walker, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

A performer, visual artist, and fashion icon, Swinton engages her collaborators and friends in a unique personal exhibition at the Onassis Foundation’s new venue, Onassis Ready. Director Luca Guadagnino creates an intimate new portrait in the form of a short film and a sculpture. With new editing, soundtrack, and image processing, Jim Jarmusch transforms footage from his surreal zombie film The Dead Don’t Die (2019) into a new installation. Together with acclaimed fashion historian Olivier Saillard, Swinton presents a multi-day performance animating a singular wardrobe: pieces from her personal collection, film costumes, red-carpet garments, and family heirlooms. Photographer Tim Walker visits Swinton at her family home for a series focusing on ancestry and place.

Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul creates an immersive, contemplative installation. Pedro Almodóvar presents The Human Voice (2020) for the first time as an installation. With longtime friend and filmmaker Joanna Hogg, Swinton presents Flat 19, a multimedia reconstruction of her 1980s London apartment—an exploration of memory, space, and personal history. Finally, Swinton pays tribute to one of her greatest artistic influences, director Derek Jarman (1942–1994), with whom she collaborated on seven feature films.
The exhibition is a production of the Eye Filmmuseum in co-production with Onassis Culture.

WORDS & THOUGHTS

Gabor Maté
May 23, 2026 | Main Stage

The leading speaker and author of five international bestsellers in a therapeutic conversation about trauma, parenting, and the power of human will.
How does anxiety become embodied? How are childhood wounds healed? And why have we normalized the wrong values? Gabor Maté comes to Stegi to address what we often dare not touch: anxiety turning into illness, childhood traumas carried for life, values that make us sick without our noticing.

The Main Stage becomes a space of care and candor in a conversation between Gabor Maté and Stegi’s Artistic Director Afroditi Panagiotakou. A physician, bestselling author, and sought-after speaker, Maté has devoted his life to understanding trauma, childhood, parenting, addiction, chronic stress, and ADHD. Through his method Compassionate Inquiry, he has inspired thousands of mental-health professionals to help people reconnect with their bodies and emotions. His appearance at Stegi is framed by a screening of The Wisdom of Trauma (2022) and the workshop “Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture.”

MUSIC

I’ve Never Traveled to Australia
Alexandros Voulgaris (The Boy)
June 5–6, 2026 | Throughout Stegi

The Boy’s Australia is not a country—it’s a crack in reality and an uncanny takeover of Stegi: an immersive spectacle like a chase scene from an ’80s ozploitation film. Not Australia, but a reading of it. A fictive country born in The Boy’s mind after a cinematic moment in the red desert—a hangover in a beige Ford Fairlane 500, the dream of the green ants, an unfulfilled journey. Since 2013, that country has lived inside him: ultra-violent, free, and strangely familiar. In the outback of his mind.

“I’ve never traveled to Australia,” he says—then unfolds, in every corner of Stegi and with actor Flomaria Papadaki as connective thread, his own Australia.
It becomes a concert, a theater piece, a film retrospective, a video installation, a photo exhibition—a journey across stages, corridors, and foyers. A schoolroom in the middle of the Tanami Desert; desks and textbooks covered in sand. David Gulpilil explains a dream in Yolngu language.

On the Main Stage, an eco-horror concert by The Boy turns into a multilayered construction by visual artist Konstantinos Lampridis and animator Eirini Vianelli, with still dancers, storytellers who have traveled to Australia, and a cappella interventions by musician friends-collaborators. On the Small Stage, a farewell to the Skyline Matraville Dead End Drive-In (closed 1984) screens masterpieces of the Australian New Wave—the first Greek tribute of its kind. On Level -1, a new feature film by The Boy connects with a photo exhibition by Myrto Tzima: nine monologues for a contemporary bushranger crime-drama fairy tale set against 1981 Australia. In corridors and foyers, emotionally charged objects—evidence of a life that never was—extend the experience through space and time.

Sounds from imaginary isolated outbacks; childhood nightmares with the Hobyahs; Mulkurul stones from the rising sun; Everett De Roche’s typewriter; remnants of Betty Crabtree’s curious violin; scents of burnt rubber and radio signals from nowhere. A music by Despoinis Trichromi courses like a vein, uniting all spaces and actions. Australia here is not a place—it’s a mirror: it returns a distorted version of yourself. A soft pillow of wool from Carriewerloo.

The Boy makes worlds. Ask him what this “Australia” is, and he’ll answer:
“A concert, or perhaps a play, or maybe a scrawl.
A film retrospective.
A feature film.
A welcoming dream.
A music that rings a bell.
A portrait of Judy Davis and Jack Thompson.
I’ve never traveled to Australia.”

Credits
Direction, Text & Music: The Boy / Performance & Movement: Flomaria Papadaki / Music & Costumes: Despoinis Trichromi / Sets: Konstantinos Lampridis / Lighting: Simos Sarketzi s / Animation: Eirini Vianelli / Still Photography: Myrto Tzima / Production Management: Eleni Berdé / Production: Onassis Stegi

FILMS IN THE WORKS…

Forthcoming film productions by Onassis Culture include projects by Aristotelis Maragkos (T[he] Last D[ays] of My Fat[her]), Tasos Langis (The Public Private House: 9 Turns for Athens), and Giorgos Teltzidis (on the life, work, and collection of Yiannis Petridis). Co-productions include films by Argyris Papadimitropoulos (Oh how fun), Konstantina Kotzamani (Titanic Ocean), and Dominikos Ignatiadis (Mairy).

Onassis Culture embraces creation, research, and artistic development through fellowships; collaborates with major institutions such as the Hellenic Film Academy, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Drama Short Film Festival, and Athens International Film Festival – Premiere Nights; and has established the Onassis Film Awards to bolster Greek cinema at home and abroad. It issues an Open Call – Big Short Films for Greek short-form projects; curates film tributes at Stegi to reframe classics; and streams award-winning shorts on the Onassis Channel, widening access to independent productions.

Onassis AiR, Onassis ONX, Masterclasses & more

Onassis AiR, the Onassis Foundation’s research and residency program, again welcomes audiences to Onassis AiR Open Days—showcasing works-in-progress by Fellows three times a year. Each event is tailored to participants’ practices, focusing on process rather than a “final” work. Artists from around the world transform Onassis AiR into a field of experimentation.
Open Days: Nov 7–8, 2025 | Mar 20–21, 2026 | Jun 19–20, 2026 (Neos Kosmos, behind Stegi).

44 Onassis AiR Fellows (2025–26): Miriam Hillawi Abraham, Gouled Ahmed, Alqumit Alhamad, Ioannis Aposkitis, Sophie Ataya, Alba Cros, Adam Cole, Theodoros Gennitsakis (Pressure), Efi Gousi, Rachel Cusk, GeoVanna Gonzalez, J Neve Harrington, Tora Hsu, Vasileia Kanga, Christiana Kosiari, Aristidis Kreatsoulas, Thanasis Kritsakis, Chrysa Kotoula, Ladele, Eirini Lampiri, Liu I-Ling, Leslie Mannès, Natalia Manda, Pavle Mijuca, Wura Oirana Moraes, Eleni Bagaki, Tania Bizoumi, Stratos Bichakis, Maria Bregianni, Louiza Ntourou, Marina Xenofontos, Odydoze, Eliana Otta, Ludovico Paladini, Vasilis Papageorgiou, Konstantinos Papanikolaou, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou, Anna Pasparaki, Irene Ragusini, Camellia Rashidi, Foiy Scamell-Katz, Siemon Scamell-Katz, Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou, Alexis Fidetzi s.

Onassis Digital & Innovation (ODiN): Stegi’s Digital Development & Innovation programs support creators experimenting with new technologies, audiences, and sustainable artistic/entrepreneurial models. Core tools include the international incubation & acceleration program Onassis ONX and Plásmata, a multifaceted public-space intervention redefining our relationship to the urban realm. With hubs in New York and Athens, Onassis ONX supports advanced-technology creative processes and has featured at Cannes, Venice, Tribeca, CPH:DOX, SXSW, Miami Film Gate. It provides infrastructure, curatorial/production support, and funding tools with partners such as Rhizome, MIT, NYU, Tribeca Festival, Agog, Museum of the Moving Image, Lincoln Center, Factory International, M+, PHI, and The Lumen Prize.

ONX New York: moving the lab to a new Midtown Manhattan space; presenting a co-production with Ayoung Kim at Performa (Nov 2025); launching TECHNE Program #2 (Jan 2026) with new installations by ONX Fellows; and, for a third year, participating in Under the Radar.
ONX Athens (Onassis Ready): hosts ONX Showcase (May 2026)—four days of creativity, technological innovation, and new artistic forms.

Digital development initiatives: ONX Seeds (six-month early-stage PoC program), ONX Futures (hybrid three-month community-building program; 2026 theme: AI & Mixed Realities—bootcamp + online masterclasses for screen professionals; part of Smart Attica EDIH, EU-co-funded), and Summer School: Innovation, Tech & Culture (intensive two-week studio/lab for professionals; art/tech/creative entrepreneurship; co-organized by Onassis ONX, ACEin, and NYU Tandon).

Onassis Masterclasses: How does Tiago Rodrigues begin a play, and how does Julien Gosselin build complex stage worlds? How does Romain Gavras cast, and how does Giannis Oikonomidis direct actors on set? What images ignite Marlene Monteiro Freitas’ explosive choreography? How do you enter Charlie Kaufman’s mind? Stegi opens dialogue between visiting international creators and Greece’s theater/dance/film communities through unique encounters that foreground creative exchange.

Touring Program: Since 2011, Stegi’s touring has driven recognition of contemporary Greek artists: 110+ productions/co-productions have appeared at leading venues and festivals worldwide. With Onassis Stegi Touring Program support, over 20 Greek groups traveled last season to 24 countries and 44 cities, in 59 festivals/venues. In 2025–26, new alliances and targeted support continue—strengthening Greek creators’ presence at key festivals and forums (from New York to Copenhagen, Rome, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Bogotá). Upcoming stops include RomaEuropa, Powerhouse: International NY, Dance Umbrella, Espoo, December Dance, Festival de Otoño, Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, Théâtre de la Ville, among others, with works by Christos Papadopoulos, Mario Banushi, Dimitris Karantzas, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou, Hara Kotsali, Xenia Konhylaki, Elena Antoniou, Christiana Kosiari, and more.

European networks & projects (2025–26): Stegi collaborates with 100+ partners in 34 countries across six active EU projects: Transnational Music Lab (TMLAB); Europe Beyond Access; 25AV; Prospero; Smart Attica EDIH; European Digital Deal—activating commissions and empowerment actions at the intersection of human rights, technology, and democracy.

Digital Channels: Tune in to STEGI.RADIO (24/7), which curates Stegi’s music events and extends into the city with talks and workshops while researching Mediterranean music/culture across a “fictional archipelago.” Follow the Onassis Channel for new Society Uncensored content, conversations, screenings, Stages A/LIVE, and more. Award-winning shorts from AIFF – Premiere Nights and Drama Short Film Festival stream on the Onassis Channel (Nov 24 – Dec 3, 2025). Stages A/LIVE (dir. Christos Saris) returns for a fifth year—opening with The Last Drive at Gagarin and followed by a special episode on Stegi’s festival “Why Are the Mountains Black 2025” (Konitsa).

From New York, the award-winning Onassis Foundation podcast Live from Mount Olympus—a dramatic audio adventure for all ages with 2M+ downloads—continues to reimagine Greek myths. Season 7 focuses on the twin gods Apollo and Artemis; produced by the Onassis Foundation with Brooklyn-based THE TEAM, distributed by PRX.

Accessibility: At Stegi, accessibility isn’t an add-on; it defines culture as open and polyphonic. In 2025–26, The Little Prince Blues and Oedipus are designed as accessible experiences (SDH, AD, tactile tours) with communities engaged as co-creators. Artists with disabilities receive further training, networking, and exposure through workshops and residencies. For the first time, Stegi’s Block Party is designed accessibly from the ground up.

Europe Beyond Access (2018– ): the largest European program advancing disabled artists’ participation in the performing arts—now in its second cycle (2024–27)—continues to shape a shared space of inclusion, creativity, and professional empowerment.

Onassis Publications: distinctive book titles available at selected bookstores and at Stegi’s Onassis Shop (ground-floor foyer), alongside reference editions, smart/useful memorabilia from Stegi productions, vinyl, CDs, and objects that wink at pop art, beauty, and humor.

NEW INITIATIVES OF THE ONASSIS FOUNDATION

Onassis Ready

In the heart of Agios Ioannis Rentis, a former plastics factory has been transformed into something entirely new: Onassis Ready. An authentic and generous space where artists are invited to dream, rehearse, and take risks. Spanning 3,760 square meters, it is the most recent creative hub in the ever-expanding Onassis ecosystem.

Onassis Ready is not just a building—it is a space that listens, adapts, and welcomes. A place ready to embrace artistic creation and the work of Onassis AiR/ONX Fellows, building a bridge between the physical and the post-digital. Where Athens meets New York and the rest of the world, and where the post-digital intersects with the deeply human. A site where the ideas of tomorrow can be tested—loudly, quietly, freely.

The Yiannis Petridis Collection

Yiannis Petridis shaped us even as he was shaping one of the most remarkable and holistic private music collections ever assembled in Greece. His collection is not just a music archive—it is a cultural universe. A condensed memory that records, reconstructs, and interprets over five decades of music, society, and aesthetics.

The acquisition of this invaluable collection by the Onassis Foundation is paired with the creation of a new, specially designed space for listening, research, and enjoyment. A documentary on Petridis and his collection is also in the works, directed by Giorgos Teltzidis.

The Spyros Staveris Archive

In collaboration with the influential photographer Spyros Staveris and a specialized team of archivists, curators, and digitization experts, the Onassis Foundation has catalogued and digitized the Staveris Archive-a visual record of daily life, of the worlds of labor, entertainment, and politics, of Athens itself. The archive also contains images from across Greece and abroad, through the photographer’s travels and assignments.

Following the research project Spyros Staveris 1980–today: A Visual History of Contemporary Greece, the Onassis Foundation is now finalizing and making available the complete Staveris Photographic Archive.

Onassis Collection

Building bridges across different forms of art, the hybrid Onassis Collection ranges from Doménikos Theotokópoulos (El Greco) and Auguste Rodin to Yiannis Varelas and Robert Wilson. Greek and international artists of diverse periods and styles form an open narrative defined by multiplicity, inclusivity, and non-linearity.

Here, Chryssa meets Etel Adnan, Rena Papaspirou converses with Teo Triantafyllidis, Salvatore Emblema with Jannis Kounellis, and Andreas Angelidakis with Wael Shawky. The Onassis Collection enters our everyday lives, transforming the spaces where we live and work: from the Onassis Library and Stegi to the Foundation’s offices and the Onassis Hospital. Its works unfold in public space, cross borders, and feature in international exhibitions at major museums in Greece and abroad.

This year, Yiannis Moralis’s The Girl Painting will appear in the forthcoming exhibition Protóleia at the Benaki Museum (October 2025 – January 2026), while The Crucifixion by Ioannis Permeniatis and Our Lady of Perpetual Help traveled to the Palazzo Ducale in Venice for the exhibition Painted Gold. Meanwhile, Teo Triantafyllidis’s digital work That Feeling of Not Knowing is on view at the AEGEAN Business Lounge at Athens International Airport until November 2025, part of the action The Art of Waiting.

The Onassis Collection highlights the non-negotiable necessity of art in contemporary times—art that is daring, consoling, and redemptive.

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NEW FOUNDATIONAL INITIATIVES

Public Onassis Schools (DHM.OS.)

Open to students who dare to dream and to teachers who never stop inspiring. The Public Onassis Schools (DHM.OS.) will, over the next twelve years, offer more than 22,000 students across Greece the experience of the public school of the future: high-quality, innovative, and inclusive.

From the signing of the agreement between the Hellenic Republic and the Onassis Foundation in January 2025 to the start of the current school year, DHM.OS. is developing a new network of model public schools with a strong social mission. With the goal of upgrading public education—especially in socially and economically challenged areas-22 junior and senior high schools across the country are being gradually transformed into modern, creative, and open learning environments, adopting innovative pedagogical and operational models.

Renovated facilities, upgraded equipment, laboratories, innovative curricula, and afternoon Clubs and Ensembles encourage creativity, innovation, and free thought. Emphasis is placed on STEAM, the humanities, the arts, and digital technologies, cultivating the skills students need in the 21st century. All schools operate under the supervision of the Ministry of Education, Religion, and Sports, while their implementation is overseen by a special nine-member Governing Committee (D.E.DHM.OS.), which ensures the reliability and quality of the educational work.

With the start of this school year, the first 12 Public Onassis Schools have already opened in four regions of Greece. In Attica: the 52nd Gymnasium and the 52nd General Lyceum of Athens (Kolonos), the 3rd Gymnasium and 7th General Lyceum of Acharnes (Menidi), and the 5th Gymnasium and 5th General Lyceum of Peristeri “Odysseas Elytis.” In Thessaloniki: the 12th Gymnasium and 16th General Lyceum “Periklis Stefanidis” (Xirokrini). In Kozani: the 3rd Gymnasium and 3rd General Lyceum. In Xanthi: the 1st Gymnasium and 2nd General Lyceum.

The Public Onassis Schools are not simply a new school model-they are a promise of a future where public education becomes the firm foundation of equal opportunity, creativity, and growth for every child.

Onassis Transplant Center

The Onassis Hospital in its renewed form now includes:

• a modernized Cardiac Surgery Center, utilizing the latest in interventional and diagnostic health technologies,
• the National Transplant Center, a reference point for the development of organ donation and transplantation in Greece, and
• the new Onassis Children’s Unit, specializing in pediatric cardiology, cardiac surgery, and pediatric transplants.

With digital health at its forefront, the Onassis Hospital combines advanced medical care with personalized therapeutic approaches, placing people at its core: patients, healthcare professionals, and staff. At the new Onassis Hospital, every heartbeat is a story of protecting health and a reminder of the value of life.

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CONTINUING INITIATIVES

OnATHENS

Through its OnATHENS initiative, the Onassis Foundation aims to transform young people’s everyday lives in public space with a series of urban interventions. In collaboration with the Municipality of Palaio Faliro, it is renovating a playground and rebuilding basketball, volleyball, and football courts on Zephyrou Street, while also creating three new tennis courts on Aiolou Street. Two contemporary artists bring color to local courts and walls: Twenty Three Artist transforms the basketball court into a “Compass,” inspired by Palaio Faliro’s identity as the ancient port of Athens, while Kostas Theocharis stages a “Feast” along the seafront crossing-a moment of pause amid the city’s constant movement.

Scholarships

Since 1978, the Onassis Foundation has believed in the big dreams of over 8,000 people. Its Scholarship Program continues to support thousands worldwide, with an emphasis on the sciences of the future. From nanotechnology and bioinformatics to computational linguistics and data analytics, the program promotes knowledge, growth, and innovation-investing in the fields we know today and those we will discover tomorrow.

The Cavafy Archive

Located near the Onassis Foundation building in Athens, the Cavafy Archive (since 2023) houses the poet’s literary and personal archive, 966 volumes from his library, and a collection of documents and artworks referencing Cavafy. Personal objects and furniture are displayed alongside artworks highlighting his influence on artists past and present.

In December 2024, the Archive expanded with two additional rooms, presenting more items from his library, works by contemporaries inspired by him, and pieces by internationally recognized artists originally shown at the “Archive of Desire” festival in New York (2023). In October 2025, two of the festival’s most emblematic productions-Archive of Desire by Robin Coste Lewis and a new version of Constantinopoliad by Sister Sylvester-return to the stage at Brooklyn’s independent venue and incubator National Sawdust.

The Archive is continuously enriched with new exhibits, acquisitions, and connections to Cavafian collections worldwide. Its digital collection, featuring over 2,000 items, can be explored at cavafy.onassis.org.

The Cavafy House in Alexandria

In 2022, the Onassis Foundation, in collaboration with the Hellenic Foundation for Culture, undertook the restoration of the Cavafy House in Alexandria-the apartment where the poet lived most of his life and wrote many of his seminal works. Since May 2024, the house has been reopened as a cultural landmark, restoring the appearance it had in Cavafy’s time. The Cavafy House sheds light on the poet’s relationship with Alexandria, highlights the impact of his work today, and serves as a time capsule returning us to his world.

Onassis Library

At the heart of Athens, near the Cavafy Archive, stands the neoclassical Onassis Library, in dialogue with neighboring ancient monuments. Here, Homer meets Voltaire and Rigas Feraios, Cavafy meets Sappho and Jane Austen, while works by El Greco and Giorgio de Chirico converse with pieces by Yannoulis Halepas and Lucas Samaras, as well as with Maria Callas’s piano.

Home to six collections, more than 10,000 volumes, and rich archival material, the Library offers a polyphonic journey through time and hidden aspects of Greek and global history. In 2025, the Foundation completes the Library’s major digitization project, offering researchers, scholars, and the public a new digital experience via library.onassis.org.

With more than 200,000 digitized entries-from books and archival documents spanning the 15th century to the present-and a suite of digital applications, the Onassis Library is evolving into a modern, open repository: a friendly and accessible research tool that enables “journeys” through stories, sources, images, and books.