Author Archives: Eli
Welcoming Ali Saad to AR-Helsinki
IA Resident – Ali Saad A big welcome to Ali Saad as an Immigré Artists (IA)-Resident at AR-Safe Haven Helsinki! Saad is an Iraqi musician currently working in Finland as a musician, composer and sound designer. He has worked at … Continue reading
Welcoming Gulled Simba to AR-Helsinki
A big welcome to Gulled Simba as an Immigré Artists (IA) Resident at AR-Safe Haven Helsinki! Simba is a Somali pop musician who has been based in Finland since 2014. During his IA-residency he will be working on a new … Continue reading
IA Resident – Gulled Simba
Gulled Simba aka SIMBA is a Somali pop musician who has been based in Finland since 2014. Simba was born in 1995 in the Somali city Kismaayo, where he nurtured a passion for music from a young age. Impressively, he … Continue reading
PRESS: Kurdish artist Fatos Irwen released from Turkish prison – Rûdaw
Related: Bio Fatoş İrwen BREAKING NEWS! Fatoş İrwen has been released from Turkish prison! SOURCE: Rûdaw, Yasmine Mosimann & Shawn Carrié, March 6, 2020 PRESS TEXT: ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Fatos Irwen, a Kurdish artist from Diyarbakir, was released from a … Continue reading
AR- Safe Haven Helsinki Resident – Angela Aldebs
Angela Aldebs (1995) is a dancer and performance artist born and based in Damascus, Syria. She has collaborated with a number of Syrian artists on contemporary dance and theatrical performances in both Damascus and Beirut. After attending the Damascus Ballet … Continue reading
Welcoming Angela Aldebs to AR-Safe Haven Helsinki
We warmly welcome Angela Aldebs as an Artists at Risk (AR) Resident at AR-Safe Haven Helsinki. Aldebs is a Syrian contemporary dancer and performance artist working in the fields of contemporary dance, ballet and physical theatre. Based in Damascus, … Continue reading
Event: Panel talk at L̶a̶ ̶C̶o̶l̶o̶n̶i̶e̶ for ‘From Flood to Flight’
28 November 2019 Artists at Risk (AR) co-founders Marita Muukkonen and Ivor Stodolsky will present Artists at Risk’s (AR) work at the intersection of the arts and human rights as part of the public programme for the exhibition ‘From Flood … Continue reading
AR-Safe Haven Berlin Resident – Lil Baliil
Salad Ali, aka Lil Baliil, is a Somali musician, songwriter and performer from Nairobi, Kenya. He is a leading artist in East Africa and a key figure in Somali Afro Pop. Lil Baliil strives to empower and inspire Somali … Continue reading
PRESS: Die müssen da raus, in “art – Das Kunstmagazin”
SOURCE: art – Das Kunstmagazin, Tim Holthöfer, August 2019 PRESS TEXT: INTERVIEW Die Kuratoren von »Artists at Risk« über ihre Arbeit mit Künstlern in Not Die Organisation »Artists at Risk« verschafft bedrohten Künstlern Stipendien und Residenzen in sicheren Ländern, organisiert … Continue reading
PRESS: Chased by conflict in Ukraine, an artist finds a haven in Helsinki by The Washington Post
Related: Artists at Risk and its AR Residencies SOURCE: The Washington Post, Will Englund and Kathy Lally, Nov. 2, 2019 PRESS TEXT: HELSINKI — Let’s call them “figurines.” That’s the name their creator, Spartak Khachanov, delicately uses. He made 400 … Continue reading
