GRANTEES

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

The 2025 grantees are:
– AMOQA (Athens Museum of Queer 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 Queer Arts) is a creative project run by a multidisciplinary collective of socially engaged artists, curators, and researchers committed to fostering queer and feminist cultural production in Greece. By cultivating connections between everyday life, art, and community, it provides a safe space for Athens’ queer artistic and activist community to meet, express themselves, and collaborate.

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. Building on the pioneering work of Forensic Architecture, FAIĀ works with and from within communities affected by state and corporate violence to produce evidence supporting their claims to justice.

Theo Panagopoulos is an award winning film director of Greek and Palestinian heritage and lives between Greece and Scotland. He is currently completing a PhD at the University of the West of Scotland which explores decolonial methodologies and performance as counter-narrative to never-before-seen moving image archives of 1930s Palestine. His creative and academic work explore themes of collective memory, displacement, fragmented identities and resistance often through anti-colonial, participatory and archival methodologies.