AR-Artist Bios

This list is meant to be representative only, and is by no means complete. Artists at Risk (AR) has relocated hundreds of artists and cultural workers over the space of almost 10 years.

AR-Resident Mahsa Mohebali

Related PRESS: La Vanguardia: Iran, a Cultural and Feminine Revolution PRESS REPORT: RNE Audio: Iran: Culture Does Not Stay Silent. Art as a Tool of Resistance PRESS: Mahsa mohebali interviewed for Italian newspaper La Repubblica PRESS:Anatomy of the Collapse of … Continue reading

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AR-Resident Alain Bazamuka

Related: – Introducing new AR-Residents in Zanzibar! – Alain Bazamuka YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@messia_bazamuka?si=-OuZlg2YovrRM1jv Biography Alain Bazamuka, also known as Brown Messia, is a contemporary dancer, choreographer, and founder of MISISA Company. Originally from Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo, … Continue reading

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AR-Resident Bénédicte Luendo

Related:Introducing new AR-Residents in Zanzibar! Meet AR-Resident Bénédicte Luendo! Press Report: AR-Alumna Benedicte Luendo featured on Radio Universitaire ISDR-Bukavu Press Report: AR-Alumna Benedicte Luendo featured on RTNK TV Biography Bénédicte Luendo is a singer, songwriter, and performer from Goma, Democratic … Continue reading

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ER-Resident Ulises Matamoros Ascención

Related Laboratory of Imaginative Translation – Plataforma Caníbal (Barranquilla, 2026) Interview (Spanish) – Instagram Reel: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DT33-Z9DTzB/ Welcoming Ulises Matamoros Ascención to his ER-residency: https://artistsatrisk.org/2026/02/09/welcome-ulises-matamoros-ascencion/ BOGOTÁ: Inaugurating the Ecologists at Risk (ER) Latin America Residency Network (ER-RRAL) Ulises Matamoros Ascención (b. … Continue reading

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Welcome Ulises Matamoros Ascención!

Introducing Ulises Matamoros Ascención, visual artist, educator, and independent curator from Mexico, and the first ER-Resident in Colombia at Plataforma Caníbal! Born in Puebla, Mexico (1984), Ulises is a community-based, multidisciplinary artist whose practice conceives art as the creation of … Continue reading

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Introducing Alexandra Bratyshchenko, Ukrainian film producer working on new documentary Circle of Choice at AR-Helsinki !

Alexandra is a Kyiv-based producer who works across documentary and fiction. Since 2014, she has focused on documentaries, joining the #BABYLON’13 collective. There she has focused on socially engaged documentaries while also working as a line producer, executive producer, and … Continue reading

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Meet Mariia Pelishenko, Ukrainian artist and AR-Resident at Künstler:innenhaus Bremen

Artists at Risk (AR) is proud to welcome Mariia Pelishenko to Bremen, where she began her two-month residency at Künstler:innenhaus Bremen! Born in 2004 in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Pelishenko has lived and worked in Uzhhorod since 2015. Her artistic practice spans … Continue reading

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AR-resident Marwa Abu Raida

Marwa Abu Raida is a Palestinian writer and poet from Gaza. Her work addresses themes such as displacement, resistance, and the possibility of reconciliation.     She is the author of the novel Friends of Fearness – Galil and Ozile, … Continue reading

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Meet our first AR-resident Pamela Tulizo at our AR-Residence partner in Belgium Enough Room for Space (ERforS)!

Earlier this year, ERforS hosted Pamela – a photographer from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – as the first AR-resident as part of a new ongoing partnership. After initially studying journalism, Pamela graduated from the Market Photo Workshop school … Continue reading

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Meet Osée ELEKTRA, our new AR-Resident in Zanzibar

Artists at Risk (AR) is excited to announce our newest AR-Resident Osée Elektra at AR-Safe Haven Zanzibar Entertainment Foundation (AR-ZAEF).     Akonkwa Bujiriri Osée, who goes by the name Osée Elektra, is a Congolese slam artist, rapper, poet, activist … Continue reading

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