Author Archives: Seelan Palay
Issa Touma at the Artists at Risk (AR) Pavilion
Issa Touma is one of the artists featured in the ARTISTS AT RISK PAVILION—Artists. Risks. Humans. Rights. held with the support of UNESCO. Issa Touma is an award-winning Syrian photographer and cinematographer, known for documenting the resilience, ruins, beauty and … Continue reading
Barış Seyitvan at the Artists at Risk (AR) Pavilion
Barış Seyitvan is one of the artists featured in the ARTISTS AT RISK PAVILION—Artists. Risks. Humans. Rights. held with the support of UNESCO. Seyitvan is an independent Kurdish artist and curator from Diyarbakir, Turkey who currently lives in Berlin, Germany. … Continue reading
Damian Le Bas at the Artists at Risk (AR) Pavilion
Damian Le Bas (1963-2017) is one of the artists featured in the ARTISTS AT RISK PAVILION—Artists. Risks. Humans. Rights. held with the support of UNESCO. He worked closely with Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin on numerous projects including artwork for … Continue reading
Auction in aid of Embassy of Foreign Artists to support artists in danger
The Embassy of Foreign Artists is conducting an auction in support of artists at risk in their own countries. The organization has opened two embassies to welcome artists and their families for periods of up to 24 months. However, financial … Continue reading
Artists at Risk Encounters
Join us on 20 and 21 June at CCCB for Artists at Risk Encounters, an international seminar where artists and cultural professionals discuss art and human rights. On 20 June, video-essayist Hito Steyerl (a long-time supporter of AR), art historian … Continue reading
Mirwais Rekab at the Artists at Risk (AR) Pavilion
Mirwais Rekab is one of the artists featured in the ARTISTS AT RISK PAVILION—Artists. Risks. Humans. Rights. held with the support of UNESCO. Rekab is a film director and cameraman from Kabul, Afghanistan who has worked on numerous film, television … Continue reading
Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo at the Artists at Risk (AR) Pavilion
Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo is one of the artists featured in the ARTISTS AT RISK PAVILION—Artists. Risks. Humans. Rights. held with the support of UNESCO. Moyo is a human rights activist, writer and artist based in the mining town of Kwekwe … Continue reading
Suva at the Artists at Risk (AR) Pavilion
Suva’s sculptural experimental instruments in the ARTISTS AT RISK PAVILION in Venice gave a glimpse into a parallel reality. Suva, as he is known, performs at live events around Finland and Europe, often in collaboration with musicians and sound artists. … Continue reading
Artists at Risk (AR)’s 2024 Spring Gathering in Helsinki!
Joy, chatter and signs of summer filled the air at Ravintola Rytmi as we hosted our traditional Spring get-together last Tuesday in Helsinki. Thank you to everyone who attended. It was great to catch up and spend some quality time … Continue reading
UNESCO Director-General mentions AR Pavilion in World Art Day Message
When the Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay speaks of the ARTISTS AT RISK PAVILION in Venice, you sit up! We were pleasantly surprised to be informed, retrospectively, of her powerful message on World Art Day 2024, which emphasized the key … Continue reading
