AR-Artist Bios
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
AR-Resident Said Ahmed Mohamed Ali from Sudan
Artists at Risk (AR) welcomes Said Ahmed Mohamed Ali from Sudan as a new AR-ENSH Resident with ArtVeda in Tunisia! Said is renowned for his visual representations of societal changes in Sudan. Employing various mediums such as caricatures, paintings, and … Continue reading
AR-artrmx Resident Ahmad Navid Mashouf
Ahmad Navid Mashouf from Herat, Afghanistan is the second AR-artrmx studio Resident in Cologne, Germany. Mashouf is currently a Ph.D student in the Analytical and Comparative History of Islamic Art at Tehran University and previously graduated with a Masters in … Continue reading
AR-Artport Tel Aviv Resident Pavel Serdyukov
Pavel Serdyukov is an Israeli-Russian theatre and film director. He graduated from the Electrotheatre Stanislavsky Master Program in Theatre Directing and Moscow School of New Cinema in Film Directing. He also has a PhD in Computer Science and is an award … Continue reading
AR-Safe Haven Helsinki Resident Lesia Kulchynska
Lesia Kulchynska is a Kyiv-based independant curator and visual studies researcher. Kulchynska holds a Ph.D. in Film Studies from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine, and teaches cultural studies at the Kyiv Academy of Media Arts. In 2018–19 … Continue reading
AR-Safe Haven Helsinki Resident Ksenia Peretrukhina
Ksenia Peretrukhina (b.1972) is a Russian stage designer, visual artist, lecturer, contemporary theatre theorist and author of a series of workshops about stage space, ecology in theatre and social theatre. She’s a member of the independent theatre group Theatre of … Continue reading
AR-Safe Haven Helsinki Resident Mikhail Durnenkov
Mikhail Durnenkov (b.1978) is a Russian playwright, screenwriter and teacher of drama currently residing in Helsinki. Durnenkov is known for holding key roles at the oppositional Russian theatre Teatr.doc, and through his long-standing critical positions became a prominent dissident figure. His … Continue reading
AR-UNESCO Resident Sasha Denisova
Sasha Denisova is a Ukrainian playwright, director, novelist and screenwriter. Denisova graduated from the Faculty of Philology at Kyiv Shevchenko University and from the Moscow Art Theatre School and Moscow Meyerhold Centre. She also studied dramaturgy at the Royal Court … Continue reading
AR-Moosdorf Korrektiv Resident Iqbal Ahmad Tarnak
Iqbal Ahmad Tarnak (1997), an artist from Afghanistan, is currently an Artists at Risk (AR)-Resident at Moosdorf Korrektiv e.V. in Berlin, Germany. At home painting with oils, Tarnak has recently begun working on contemporary and conceptual artwork, and he is … Continue reading