THE GEORGE & ARISTEA MAMIDAKIS FOUNDATION invites applications from Greek and international artists for the 2025 Art Prize. Εstablished in 2019, the Art Prize is a culmination of the Foundation’s thirty-year long efforts to strengthen contemporary artistic leadership and innovation. It supports contemporary artists by offering them the opportunity to create a new site-specific artwork that will not only become part of the Foundation’s art collection but will join an important cultural heritage as well. The 2025 Art Prize invites Greek and international artists to apply. The selected proposal will stand out for its originality, creativity, and site-specificity.

The 2025 prize calls for site-specific, large-scale land art installations created to remain on permanent display outdoors, and become part of a specific, configured environment; works which narrate an internal path/route, and which can be reference points within their exhibition space. The 2025 prize is open to visual artists working in one or more of the following fields: land art, environmental art, ecological art, sculpture, sound and sculptural installation, mixed media, and artists working with natural materials, creating works that integrate art and nature with the aim of generating innovative experiences in open spaces.

The selected proposal will be awarded the amount of 30,000 euros, and the Foundation will also cover the construction of the work. The selected artist will have from January until the end of May 2025 to create their proposed work, which will be presented to the public in the summer of 2025 and remain on permanent display at Minos Palace, in Agios Nikolaos, Crete.

The G&A Mamidakis Art Collection

The G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation Art Collection comprises more than 70 artworks, the majority of which are on permanently display at the Sculpture Garden of Minos Beach art hotel, in Agios Nikolaos, Crete. A small number is exhibited at Life Gallery Athens hotel, while few have been temporarily removed for restoration purposes.

Most of the artworks were created during three pioneering Art Symposia (1988-1993). Other works were added later, following successful solo and group exhibitions, such as “The Riches of Cyprus” (1996) and “Chilean art travels to Crete” (1999). Furthermore, a few works constitute commissions from important contemporary artists, while others were screened during the Blue Nights series, which the Foundation inaugurated in 2019.

The collection is constantly growing, as every year with the awarding of the annual Art Prize it is enriched with the work of the winning artists. In order to view the amazing art collection of the Mamidakis Foundation, click here

• The deadline for submissions is Sunday 22 December, 23:59 Greek time. Applications are to be submitted exclusively through the dedicated form on the Foundation’s website.

• For inquiries, contact admin@gnamamidakisfoundation.org.

• G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation: 107 Pefkon St, 14122, Heraklion, Athens, Greece