The Artist House is a residential villa and living art space rooted in Cycladic village culture. Through carefully curated residencies, artists develop works on site in dialogue with the house, the village, and the island’s raw landscape. Art is experienced through everyday life—unfolding gradually rather than as a static exhibition. Connected to local artists and initiatives, the house moves beyond the white cube, evolving through light, season, and presence into a space where art, architecture, and place quietly converge.
OUR ART RESIDENCY
Each year, we invite artists for an art residency. If you would like to apply, please make sure to subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated on the Call for Artists and upcoming exhibitions.
Experience the beauty of Tinos in winter by joining our art residency. The artists are surrounded by the island’s landscapes, myths and architecture for 2-4 weeks. Over three years, different artist explore a theme, connecting with others and preparing for the next exhibition at the Artist House.
The Line
by Christiane Achatzi
(Current Exhibition 2026)
A native of Hamburg, Christiane Achatzi worked for several years as an international fashion model in Germany, Paris, Milan, and Zurich. She studied Design and later Costume Design at the Academy of Arts in Hamburg, and subsequently oversaw the design work of a German fashion company in Calcutta and Bombay.
Since 1985 she has moved between Germany and Greece, working for more than fifteen years in the field of architectural and artistic design on the island of Tinos. Her projects include the reconstruction of numerous Cycladic houses and, most notably, the design and revitalisation of the listed and protected village of Berdemiaros—today regarded as an important example of Cycladic architectural heritage translated into contemporary living.
In 2003 Achatzi began working as a stage and costume designer, creating work for the Landestheater Innsbruck, Theater Chemnitz, the Vienna State Opera, Finnish National Opera, Slovak National Ballet, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, the German Youth Ballet of John Neumeier, and others. In 2018 she created stage and costume designs for the Grand Théâtre de Genève and Ballett am Rhein.
Christiane Achatzi is specialised in island architecture, particularly Cycladic architecture, and in translating traditional building methods into contemporary architectural forms. She was Artist-in-Residence at The Artist House during the winters of 2024 and 2025, where she prepared the current exhibition The Line.
Schedule a Private Exhibition Tour
Arrange a private visit to The Artist House to discover the architecture, layout, and artistic concept. Whether you are considering a stay or simply wish to learn more about the project, this appointment offers space for questions and exploration.
Previous Residency’s
Αλέξανδρος Χριστοδουλόπουλος
Alexandros Christodoulopoulos was born in Athens, Greece. He was a senior executive of large companies and Banks, making a life journey that, above all, deepened and broadened his view of human relations, the development of dynamics within work groups, the burnout effects in workers and executives, the frequent absence of spontaneous creativity and all its understandably detrimental effects.
He describes photography as a tool for self-awareness and healing, both for himself and others.
Alexandros exhibits a multifaceted portfolio, where aesthetics merge with therapeutic and philosophical approaches. His work captures emotional connections to space and time, using images to evoke memory and introspection. Themes range from Travel to Urban Psychogeography (project Urban eX) and other, more introspective, projects like Pande[a]mo. Each project is visually and conceptually curated with narrative depth and existential sensitivity, with light playing a key role in exploring memory, space, and the soul.
Βασίλης Κάντας
Dr. Vassilis Kantzas has been teaching since 2010 and is currently affiliated with the University of West Attica (UNIWA) and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). His research interests focus on the reception of the photographic image, the philosophy of the implicit, and embodied co-perception.
He continues to develop his practice through ongoing training in creative methodologies drawn from diverse fields, including therapeutic arts, physical theatre, person-centred psychotherapy, creative writing, and qualitative research approaches to the measurement of experience. He integrates these methodologies into the design of experimental photographic practices. Within the field of arts-based therapeutic expression, he has proposed the method of Oblique Photography.
He has been exhibiting his photographic work since 2001. His works are held in collections such as the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts.
Μαρίνα Αγγελοπούλου
Marina Aggelopoulou was born in June 1982. She lives and works in Athens as a freelance photographer. Her relationship with photography starts in 2002,
while still studying History of Art and Communication at The American College of Greece.
She continues her studies in Photography and Video Art at Focus School of Photography & New Media and specialises in Travel Reportage.
At the same time, she starts working as a freelance set photographer
in short films and begins her first collaboration with travel magazines,
by which time it serves as a means of seeking and expressing a personal aesthetic sense.
The light of Greece, nature, and traveling are her fellow travelers throughout her photographic journey until today.
Her work has been exhibited in Greece
and published in several magazines and online.
The Cartography of the Labyrinth
(2022- 2025)
SOPHIE ULLRICH
born 1990 in Geneva, Switzerland lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany graduate of the Art Academy Düsseldorf Master Student of Eberhard Havekost. A comic-like stylised figure characterises the paintings of Sophie Ullrich. The outlines, mostly reduced to arms and hands, combine abstract pictorial elements and schematic backgrounds with accurately painted objects.
JONATHAN AUTH
Born 1984 in Canicatti, Italy. 2009- 2012, study of fine arts at the Düsseldorf academy.Studied Fine Arts with a focus on Painting at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Prof. Siegfried Anzinger. Graduated in 2019 as a master student of Prof. Siegfried Anzinger. Auth lives and works in Düsseldorf.
ALEXANDRO BÖHME
Born 1991, Brought up on the island of Tinos, Greece, Innsbruck, Austria, and Chemnitz, Germany. 2012, study of fine arts at the Düsseldorf academy in the class of Siegfried Anzinger. Graduation from the Academy as a master student of Siegfried Anzinger in February 2020. Alexandros Boehme lives and works in Düsseldorf
LAZAROS LAMERAS
Born 1913 – Athens 1998 in Athens, Greece. Lameras grew up in Athens and Tinos. His early studies were with Thomas Thomopoulos at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1932-1938). On an Academy of Athens scholarship, he continued at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris with Jean Boucher, winning the first prize in 1939. The outbreak of World War I forced him to interrupt his studies and return to Greece.
THOMAS WECZEREK
Born 1945, is a painter, graphic artist and sculptor. He studied in Munich, Vienna, London and Florence. He was a student of Toni Stadler. He works in Munich and on the island of Elb. He lived on Tinos for a year and exhibited his works from the island in various exhibitions, such as in Munich in 1981.
