Open Call for Emerging Art Professionals
OPEN CALL FOR EMERGING ART PROFESSIONALS
JULY 1 – OCTOBER 31, 2026
Application Deadline: 10 April 2026.
The curatorial residency supported by the Schwarz Foundation at its venue Art Space Pythagorion on the island of Samos offers emerging art professionals (including art historians, art theorists, curators, artists etc.) the opportunity to gain experience in the day-to-day running of an exhibition.
For this year, the exhibition Fragments and Futures: Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Worlds brings together 10 international contemporary artists whose work engages with the visual languages, material remains, and mythic narratives of classical archaeology. Through painting, sculpture, installation, performance, and digital media, these artists reconsider how ancient forms and artefacts continue to shape our cultural imagination. The exhibition asks: What does it mean to “unearth” the past today? How do contemporary artists reinterpret the ruins and relics of antiquity in light of present-day questions about identity, heritage, and historical narrative? Rather than treating classical archaeology as a fixed canon of beauty and order, the exhibition foregrounds it as a site of active interpretation—one marked by absence, reconstruction, and the politics of preservation. Artists in Fragments and Futures approach antiquity as both a material archive and a metaphorical field: a repository of fragments that invite speculation, reanimation, and critique.
The exhibition is curated by Katerina Gregos and ioLi Tzanetaki.
See curatorial text for further details:
Fragments and Futures - Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Worlds
GENERAL INFORMATION:
- Time Period: JULY 1 – OCTOBER 31, 2026
- Remuneration: full time 2.400 € - excl. taxes; Occurring taxes are covered by the foundation; Transportation to and from Samos are covered by the foundation
- Housing: Each curatorial resident has their own room and bathroom (no guests allowed because of security reasons), a shared kitchen (incl. washing machine), Wi-Fi, etc.
- Working hours: The residents offer guided tours at the Art Space 8h/per day (organised in shifts); additionally, they help with the installation and maintenance of the exhibition and they participate in the events organized by the curator (opening, discussions with the artists, educational program etc.). Each resident has one day off per week.
