The Schwarz Foundation is a private non-profit organisation aiming to foster the exchange of ideas and practices between cultures and countries. In light of the fact that Europe is experiencing significant transformations that call for new ways of thinking, the Foundation’s initiatives aspire to contribute to this process of re- evaluation and re-thinking the continent, particularly South East Europe and its relation to its surroundings within a global context.
It initiates and supports projects related to this geopolitical space, encouraging art production, research, publications and discussions relative to the cooperation between Greece, Germany and other European countries and internationally. Initiatives include residencies for visual and music artists, music concerts, fellowships for artists and researchers, exhibitions, education and community support projects. While focusing on the domain of contemporary culture, the Foundation believes that the awareness of an enduring historical tradition and environmental issues can play a vital role in understanding current problems as well as in designing the future.
The Schwarz Foundation encourages and accompanies also other institutions and individuals who are working with ideas and visions for new forms of interactions between society and sustainable development. While based in Munich, Germany, the foundation has a branch in Athens and operates an exhibition venue, Art Space Pythagorion, on the island of Samos. There, it also organises an annual international music festival at the Ancient Theatre of Pythagorion, the Samos Young Artist Festival.
Executive Director/CEO
Chiona Xanthopoulou-Schwarz
info@schwarzfoundation.com
Foundation Management and Coordination
Theresa Premauer
Adelheid Michel
Operations Manager (Athens)
Sergio Zalmas
Foundation Management (Samos)
Penny Petrakou
Founders
Dr. Kurt Schwarz and Chiona Xanthopoulou-Schwarz
Executive Director/CEO
Chiona Xanthopoulou-Schwarz
Foundation Management and Coordination
Theresa Premauer
Adelheid Michel
Office Munich
Schwarz Foundation gGmbH
Metzstr. 36
81667 Munich
GERMANY
info@schwarzfoundation.com
+49 (0) 89 442 499 05
Mo – Thu: 9am – 2pm
Operations Manager (Athens)
Sergio Zalmas
Foundation Management (Samos)
Penny Petrakou
Office Athens
Schwarz Foundation gGmbH
Solonos 102, Athens 10680
athens@schwarzfoundation.com
+30 210 36 00 786
Artistic Director Music (Samos Young Artist Festival)
Masha Ilyashov and Timotheos Gavriilidis-Petrin
info@samosfestival.com
Curator (Art Space Phytagorion)
Katerina Gregos
Greek media relations, Press Office
Zuma Communications, Athens
Chara Zuma
info@zumacom.gr
Concerts agency (Samos, Athens)
Phormigx, Yiannis Valiantzas
Editors
Adelheid Michel
Sergio Zalmas
Design Direction
Digital Design
Ollie George, Enno Pötschke
Web Development
Frontend
GatsbyJS
Backend
Sanity Studio
Search
Algolia
Production server and CDN
Netlify
Live preview server
Gatsby Cloud
Code source control
GitHub
Typeface
ABC Favorit (Dinamo)