About

Onassis ONX

Onassis ONX is the Onassis Foundation’s global platform for art and advanced technologies. As a catalyst for digital cultures, it supports genre-defying new media and immersive projects while also bolstering a network of institutions and industries ready to respond to new forms of creative expression. Onassis ONX is dedicated to elevating innovative creators across development, presentation, and distribution.

With studios in Athens and New York City, Onassis ONX provides a robust framework of technical, curatorial, and professional services. This support structure includes capacity-building programs, incubation and applied research initiatives, acceleration services, seed funding, and exhibition opportunities. Such a holistic engagement throughout the creative process enables world building at the frontiers of AI, immersive, spatial computing, gaming, and other emergent time-based media.

Active partnerships with cultural institutions on residencies, exhibitions, co-commissions, thought-leadership programming, as well as participation in cooperative European networks in the technology sector, also contribute to the sustainable evolution and diversification of the field as a whole. These networked efforts position Onassis ONX as a gateway for cross-sectoral collaboration and promote production as an innovative space within the arts and beyond.

While rooted in Athens and New York, the modular infrastructure that Onassis ONX builds enables experimentation and circulation, fostering innovative works that meaningfully engage with audiences around the world. As a platform it provides creators with the space and support to imagine new futures by questioning the systems through which digital cultures are produced, circulated, and remembered.

Onassis USA

Founded in 2000, Onassis USA was the first international affiliate of the Onassis Foundation. It is dedicated to culture, community, and education, with projects that can effectively inspire social change and justice across borders. By collaborating with Onassis Stegi in Athens and educational and cultural institutions throughout the Americas, Onassis USA presents theatrical and dance productions, art exhibits, conversations, lectures, and other initiatives, triggering discussions about democratic values, human rights, civil rights, and the ever-changing realities facing today’s citizens on a global scale. For more information, visit onassisusa.org.

Onassis Foundation

The mission of the Onassis Foundation, founded by Aristotle Onassis in 1975, will always be human-centric: to shape and shake society through new ideas, bold discussions, and unexpected connections in arts, healthcare, and education.  

Since 1975, the Onassis Foundation has supported education by unleashing the power of young people and new ideas for a better society, with over 1,800 educational programs for all ages and interests, as well as 8,000 scholarships for young people worldwide. Since January 2025, the Onassis Public Schools have been developing a new network of model public schools with a strong social focus, aiming to upgrade public education, particularly in areas facing social and economic challenges by transforming 22 middle and high schools across the country.  

Onassis Hospital, with 33 years of pioneering effort, more than 2 million visits, and tens of thousands of heart surgeries, is digitizing and expanding, continuing to change the healthcare landscape for patients across the country With the completion of the Onassis National Transplant Center and the autonomous cardiology unit exclusively for children, the Onassis Foundation is establishing the most democratic and modern conditions for providing health care to all people. 

With the Onassis Stegi (meaning “roof” and “shelter”), an emblematic venue in Athens, the Onassis Foundation encourages the talent and energy of local and international artists to thrive and starts conversations that aim to shake and shape society. Since 2010, it has showcased over 15,000 performances in theater, dance, music, and art. Onassis Stegi has grown into a global hub for contemporary culture, fostering meaningful conversations on democracy, social justice, equality, and LGBTQIA+ rights through a wide range of initiatives and works. Aiming at the visibility of Greek artists, the Touring program of Onassis Culture has presented more than 100 productions and co-productions in over 200 cities across 72 countries around the world, with more than 1,000 performances. In 2025, the Onassis Foundation introduced a new venue to the Athenian art scene: Onassis Ready, its new arts venue for people who want to research and rehearse before their productions reach the stage.  

Onassis Stegi's web radio, STEGI.RADIO, broadcasts 24/7, highlighting new music and ideas from over 200 producers, connecting audiences across borders while curating Onassis Stegi's musical activities. Onassis AiR is a program supporting artistic research and practice, offering artists a space where they can set the conditions for their work while fostering a broader ecosystem and global artistic partnerships.  

As an engine for shaping art and advanced technologies, Onassis ONX, the Onassis Foundation’s global platform for digital cultures, empowers artists producing genre-defying works through access to a robust framework of technical, curatorial, and professional services through its hubs in Athens and New York City.  

The Onassis Foundation –with over 50 years of pioneering spirit and boldness- approaches diverse initiatives in Health, Education, and Culture with a holistic strategy and acts as a catalyst in society, empowering progress with a clear vision: Being consistently innovative and creatively disruptive. 

Quotes

“At Onassis ONX, the interplay of art and technology sparks an ever-evolving dialogue. We sync with the beat of the digital age to redefine our understanding of creativity and human connection.” 

              — Afroditi Panagiotakou, Artistic Director, Onassis Foundation 

“Onassis ONX is an evolution of what we have learned and experienced at NEW INC. In New York City, bespoke space for artists who are working in extended reality is scarce. The Onassis Foundation had the vision to bridge this gap, and their commissioning expertise will be invaluable as we explore new avenues for these hybrid digital and physical experiences.”

— Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director of the New Museum

“Onassis USA is thrilled to continue elevating artists who are fostering new ways to tell important stories. New Museum has been a pioneer in developing platforms for new art and new ideas, and we have found a kindred spirit in NEW INC.”

— Karen Brooks Hopkins, Senior Advisor, Onassis USA

“One of the thrilling things around NEW INC is that extended reality has organically become a huge area of focus for the members. Extended reality is an area that’s growing by leaps and bounds but there are no bespoke spaces in New York for artists working in it."

— Karen Wong, Cofounder and Chief Creative Officer, Guilty By Association, in Architect's Newspaper

“Onassis Foundation has been an incredible partner and together we are building an extended reality community that is international, talented, diverse and value-centric. As a space for wild, artistic experimentation supported by a global community of expert advisors and a purpose-built XR production studio, Onassis ONX isn’t like anything else out there.”

— Stephanie Pereira, Former Director, NEW INC