Artist Residency 2025

The Vorres Museum launches a new artist residency program, enhancing its role as a dynamic space for artistic exchange, creation, and research. The residency is addressed to artists from various disciplines, who are invited to develop their work through immersive interaction with the environment, the collections, and the unique character of the Vorres Museum.

In continuous dialogue with the local community of Paiania and the wider Mesogeia region, as well as with the “museum ecosystem” itself — including the gardens, the contemporary Greek art collection, and the folk art collection — the residency serves as a platform for connecting contemporary artistic practice with the living social and cultural reality.

The Museum offers resident artists the opportunity to use its facilities both for accommodation and for the development of their artistic projects, providing support on a research, organizational, and production level. Through collaboration and the Museum’s active engagement, artists are encouraged to reflect on their work through the lens of place and its historical layers, drawing on materials, narratives, and aesthetic approaches that emerge from the space itself.

A central element of the program is the implementation of workshops and public activities, designed and conducted by the participating artists as an organic part of their research and creative process. These actions, in reciprocal relation to the residency and the local community, promote participation, dialogue, and the exchange of experiences, enriching the overall residency experience.

The outcomes of the artists’ stay and creative process will be shared with the public through forms shaped by each artistic journey — exhibition, performance, open presentation, or other public-facing events.

In this way, the Vorres Museum aspires to become an active host site, a space of artistic fermentation and collective knowledge production, strengthening the ties between art, community, and cultural heritage.

Artist Residency

June – July 2025

The three artists participating in the Vorres Museum’s artist residency program are Fotini Gouseti, Tania Feghali, and Ula Sickle.

Design/curation of the program: Myrto Lavda

Fotini Gouseti

Fotini Gouseti is a visual artist and holds a PhD in Anthropology from the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology at the University of Thessaly. She has a degree in Painting and Printmaking from the Athens School of Fine Arts and a Master’s degree from the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) in the Netherlands. Her artistic practice and academic research focus on the role of art in society.

Her work explores how societies evolve through collective traumas, addressing themes such as parallel versions of memory, social class, and the relationship between the local and the Other. Her projects are often socially engaged, research-based, and result in multimodal artistic outputs.

Two of her representative works are The Present as a Result of the Past, which examines how the society of Kalavryta developed after the destruction of the town during World War II, and Renkonto, which investigates the tense diplomatic relations between two neighboring states. She is the coordinator of the Greek segment of the international and interdisciplinary project To Be-Named. Her work has been exhibited in Greece and abroad.

Tania Feghali

Tania Feghali is an Italo-Lebanese independent filmmaker, photo reporter, sound curator, and director. Her work spans personal documentaries and commissioned films, as well as sound curation and visual reportages. Her practice centers on documenting the genesis of artists’ and musicians’ creative worlds and journeys, with a particular focus on contemporary scenes, avant-garde movements, and improvisational practices.

With the core of her research being the relationship between image, sound, places, and evolution, her work breeds intimate connections that highlight a universal urge to uncover the why of what we do on this brief earth. 

Her past and ongoing collaborations include: Qwest.tv by Quincy Jones, New York City Winter Jazz Fest, Sahel Sounds, Ludovico Einaudi, Yasmine Hamdan, Kazu Makino & Ryuichi Sakamoto, Etran de L’Aïr, Makaya McCraven, and Pulitzer Prize recipient Tyshawn Sorey to name a few.

She has directed commercial films for Prada, Fortuny, Iguatemi, and Woolrich, among others. 

As a writer, she contributed to several publications including Intersection Magazine, Garagisme, Petrolicious, So Film, Rolling Stone and Vogue US, and she penned a column for L’Officiel Italy titled L’Air de Paris, reporting on emerging cultural trends in Paris.

She is a resident on NTS Radio and Radio alHara with her bimonthly show As I Was Moving Ahead—a meditative exploration of spiritual and contemporary jazz scenes, poetry, and music from across the globe.

She teaches film at NABA – the New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.

She has lived on multiple continents and is currently based in Barcelona.