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A closer look at the projects supported by the 2025 Phenomenon Grant.

Focus on Theo Panagopoulos’s project “And the Sea Keeps on Moving” that will be developed with the support of the grant.

“And the Sea Keeps on Moving” is a reflective essay film where a Greek-Palestinian filmmaker questions the entanglements of both of his identities around the Mediterranean. The film investigates the tension between movement in the sea and movements of solidarity by looking at dockworkers in Piraeus, a Greek trade ship in 2025 and Palestinian dockworkers of Jaffa port in 1935. The nature of complicity, solidarity and resistance are put into question by looking at the immortal jellyfish, a species that redefines the nature of time, life and death.

Photo: Portrait of Theo Panagopoulos

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A closer look at the projects supported by the 2025 Phenomenon Grant.

Focus on Forensic Architecture Initiative Athens (FAIA)’s project “Femicides in Greece: A counter-forensic toolkit” that will be developed with the support of the grant.

The project “Femicides in Greece: A counter-forensic toolkit” investigates femicides in Greece using spatial and aesthetic investigative methodologies. During this project FAIĀ will gather, archive and analyse data on femicides and gender-based violence in Greece in order to identify and forensically reconstruct a paradigmatic case. The case will be used to develop a much-needed feminist approach to spatial and
forensic research, allowing the FAIĀ team to address the traumatic dimensions of these violent incidents with the necessary care and rigour that will add force to the claims for justice and accountability. The project will result in a short video investigation and a work-in-progress open-source investigative toolkit.

More information on Forensic Architecture Initiative Athens‘ projects can be found on www.faia.space

Photo: Forensic Architecture Initiative Athens (FAIA)’s logo

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A closer look at the projects supported by the 2025 Phenomenon Grant program.

Focus on AMOQA’s project “10 Years AMOQA: What if museums were gardens?” that will be developed with the support of the grant.

For its ten-year anniversary, AMOQA proposes an exhibition based on correspondence via plantable post-cards, and the development of an online, open-access archive based on the collective’s trajectory in q***r arts and activism. The project invites people that have previously collaborated with AMOQA to re-imagine museums as gardens for the production of an immersive installation, inspired by Ntinos Christianopoulos’ verse “they tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds”. Exploring the potential of archives as seed banks, the exhibition features events on q***r ecologies, eco-sensitive forms of archiving and online feminist commons, which will contribute to AMOQA’s archive development.

📷 Image from the event “Q***r Proxenio Vol2”, credits: AMOQA archive

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✨ Announcing the 2025 Phenomenon Grantees! ✨

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We are happy to announce the three grantees of the 2025 Phenomenon Grants program, which aims to advance q***r, feminist, and anti-colonial practices in Greece and to create spaces of resistance through artistic expression.

The 2025 grantees are:
- AMOQA (Athens Museum of Q***r Arts) – 10 years AMOQA: What if museums were gardens?
- Forensic Architecture Initiative Athens (FAIĀ) – Femicides in Greece: A counter-forensic toolkit
- Theo Panagopoulos – And the Sea Keeps on Moving

The grantees were selected by an independent committee composed of Athena Athanasiou, Zoe Butt, Zoe Leonard, Kostas Stasinopoulos, and chaired by Aggelika Mitsiou. Each of the grantees will receive € 8,500.

AMOQA (Athens Museum of Q***r Arts) is a creative project run by a multidisciplinary collective of socially engaged artists, curators, and researchers committed to fostering q***r and feminist cultural production in Greece.

Forensic Architecture Initiative Athens (FAIĀ) is a new Athens-based non-profit investigative agency undertaking spatial and multimedia investigations of human rights and environmental violations.

Theo Panagopoulos is an award winning film director of Greek and Palestinian heritage and lives between Greece and Scotland. His creative and academic work explore themes of collective memory, displacement, fragmented identities and resistance often through anti-colonial, participatory and archival methodologies.

Lei (1) AMOQA, Image from the event “Q***r Proxenio Vol2”, credits: AMOQA archive (2) Forensic Architecture Initiative Athens’s (FAIA)’s logo (3) Portrait of Theo Panagopoulos


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Anafi, seen through the lens of Zoe Leonard’s “Corner House, Chora, Anafi”, 2024.

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Thank you to everyone who applied to the Phenomenon Grants!

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Applications are open until tomorrow, September 30, 2025, 12 am (midnight).
We invite all eligible applicants to submit their projects.

Apply here: kerenidispepe.art/projects/grants/application.

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Applications are open until September 30, 2025.
We invite all eligible applicants to submit their projects for consideration. Decisions will be announced in November 2025.

Apply here: kerenidispepe.art/projects/grants/application
For more information on the Phenomenon Grants, please visit the program’s webpage at kerenidispepe.art/projects/grants

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Apart from basic project details, applicants will be asked to provide a brief background, a short project summary, answers to a few questions about their project, a budget breakdown and a list of any additional sources of funding. We’ve designed the application process to be as accessible and straightforward as possible, encouraging anyone whose project aligns with the grant’s mission and meets the eligibility criteria to apply.

For more practical information, please visit our Application page at kerenidispepe.art/projects/grants/application/. We invite you to already prepare your application texts in advance and paste it into the form when it opens on Monday.

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The selection process of the Phenomenon Grant program will be conducted by an independent and periodically renewed committee, who will make decisions based on objective criteria and a process aimed at minimizing conflicts of interest. The grant funders exercise no control over the funded activities and their selection, nor receive any benefit in return.

The committee for the 2025 edition is composed of the following members:
Athena Athanasiou, Professor of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece;
Zoe Butt, Founder, Director, Curator, in-tangible institute, Chiang Mai, Thailand;
Zoe Leonard, Artist, New York, USA;
Aggelika Mitsiou (chairperson, non-voting), Collector, President of Phenomenon Association, Greece;
Kostas Stasinopoulos, Curator, Live Programmes, Serpentine, London, UK.

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The application for the Phenomenon Grant will be open from September 1 to September 30, 2025.

It is open to non-for-profit organizations and to artists, activists, curators, critics, researchers, writers, or other individuals active in organizing projects in visual arts and culture.
Non-for-profit organizations can apply for projects and art research. Projects include specific visual arts projects or other socially-engaged art initiatives (e.g. exhibitions, production of new work, development of an artist-run initiative, community projects, art education, etc.).
Individuals can apply for art research. Art research can happen within academia or as independent researchers.
Grants are not awarded for operational costs. Projects should be new or ongoing and completed within a maximum of two years. Candidates are expected to demonstrate an ethical, sustainable, and appropriate use of funds. Projects have to take place in Greece and show active engagement with the local context and communities. Connections with the global majority are encouraged. Greek residency or nationality is not a requirement.

For more practical information, please visit our Guidelines page at kerenidispepe.art/projects/grants/eligibility-selection/ and our FAQ page at kerenidispepe.art/projects/grants/faq

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