AR-Artist Bios
AR-ICORN Resident Andrei Kureichik
BREAKING NEWS AR-Resident Andrei Kureichik Receiving Direct Death Threats from Agents of Lukashenko Regime Andrei Kureichik (1980) is a prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, director and publicist from Minsk, Belarus, currently living in exile. He has written and/or directed 27 feature films, … Continue reading
AR-Resident Collen Kajokoto
Collen Kajokoto (1973) is a Zimbabwean protest poet from Domboshava village, close to the capital Harare. His work depicts daily societal struggles, fears and hopes in his native Zimbabwe. His performance work integrates poetry and the Mbira, an ancient traditional … Continue reading
PM-Resident Mohamed Sleiman Labat
Mohamed Sleiman Labat is a Saharawi Algerian visual artist and poet. He is the founder of MOTIF arts studio in Tindouf refugee camp, in the Hamda desert. Established in 2017, the studio is where the artist experiments with discarded materials … Continue reading
#RiskandRebellion Participant 48: Ganzeer
Ganzeer is the nom de plume of the graphic designer and artist from Cairo whose street images have come to epitomize the Egyptian Revolution for a global audience (take his stencil of a life-size tank near Tahrir Square, which continues … Continue reading
Immigré Artists (IA)-Resident Suva
Suva is a multi-disciplinary artist who has been based in Finland since 2009. He finished his Master of Arts degree in the Live Arts and Performance Studies Programme from Uniarts, Theatre Academy, in 2015 and holds various positions of trust … Continue reading
AR-Resident Razan Rahama
Razan Rahama is a Sudanese director and filmmaker. Her first short film, School’s Road, was shown at several local and international festivals and won a number of awards which inspired her to pursue a career in film. Her films include Green … Continue reading
AR-Resident Ibrahim Jawabreh
Ibrahim Jawabreh is a visual artist born in the refugee camp of Arroub, Palestine. After graduating in Fine Arts at Al-Quds University (Abu Dis), he started to develop his ideas in different art forms, including painting, graphic design, video art, … Continue reading
AR Resident – Rémi Sarmini
Rémi Sarmini is a Syrian theatre director, actor, educator and founder of the theatre collective Tajroubeh Troupe. Rémi graduated from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Art in Damascus in 2014. In the following years he continued to work as the … Continue reading
IA Resident – Ali Saad
Ali Saad (1996) is an Iraqi musician born into a large musical family in Baghdad. Many of his family members have been famous and respected musicians in the Arab world. He learned singing techniques from his uncles, and sings both … 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