Curator and artist Barış Seyitvan engages in conversation with AR’s Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen followed by a DJ set by Alissa Zaddi.
Come along for a chat, a drink and dance at this informal format of a “Späti” – a Berlin street-side kiosk with beer and benches.
🎤 Späti: Art, Freedom and Protection – Conversation with Artists at Risk (AR) and Barış Seyitvan
🗓 Friday, 27 March 2026
⏰ 16:30 – 19:00
📍 Mechanical Arena (Foyer), Humboldt Forum, Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin-Mitte.
🎟 Free admission
Barış Seyitvan is a former AR-Resident at AR-Safe Haven Helsinki and AR-ZKM Karlsruhe whose practice explores history, ecology, politics, migration and the transnational realities of the Kurdish experience. He was also an artist in the Artists at Risk Pavilion – UNESCO, Venice (watch the performance here: https://virtual.artistsatrisk.org)
Alissa Zaddi is a Berlin-based underground DJ known for her experimental and genre-blending approach to dance music.
Together with Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Program Curator of the Humboldt Forum, Bariş Seyitvan and AR’s directors will reflect on the Kurdish experience and the current realities of ethnic cleansing, exile and artistic freedom. Marita Muukkonen and Ivor Stodolsky will also describe Perpetuum Mobile (PM)’s ongoing quest to support artists at risk worldwide — including expanding AR’s work to new sister-programes such as Ecologists at Risk (ER).
A big thank you to the Humboldt Forum for its ongoing engagement.
Read about the event on Humboldt Forum’s website: https://www.humboldtforum.org/en/programm/termin/talk/art-freedom-and-protection-conversation-with-artists-at-risk-and-baris-seyitvan-161191/
