AR-Artist Bios
AR-Resident Mai Khoi hosted at the AR-Safe Haven Helsinki
We are happy to welcome Mai Khoi, the flamboyant Vietamese pop-star, as our new short-term resident at AR-Safe Haven Helsinki. Mai Khoi gained a reputation as a singer and musician, and became internationally recognized as a human rights, LGBTI+ and … Continue reading
Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo: first AR-Safe Haven Berlin Resident
Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo is a human rights and democracy activist, writer and artist based in the mining town of Kwekwe, in central Zimbabwe. From 9 January to 8 April 2018 he will be the first AR-Safe Haven Berlin Resident. This … Continue reading
Shieko Reto – Long-term AR-Resident at Safe Haven Helsinki
We are very pleased to announce that today Shieko Reto is taking up residency as the first one-year Artist at Risk (AR) Resident at Safe Haven Helsinki. Shieko Reto is a visual artist and activist from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, whose … Continue reading
Nadezhda Tolikonnikova (Pussy Riot) and Artists at Risk (AR)
Nadezhda Tolikonnikova, one of the leading figures of the (in)famous group, Pussy Riot, has been a part of several Perpetuum Mobile (PM) projects. Related: AR-Safe Haven Panel at EU Parliamentary Conference, Berlin The Square Newspaper of TSQ2 of the RE-ALIGNED … Continue reading
Jowan Safadi, Palestinian musician extraordinaire, AR-Resident at Safe Haven Helsinki
Check out Jowan Safadi’s explosive material http://mondoweiss.net/2015/08/radical-talent-safadis/ BIO / BACKGROUND Jowan Safadi started his career as a singer, songwriter and frontman of “Lenses”, a project that he collaborated on with Israeli musicians, and which was active until late 2007 producing three … Continue reading
Erkan Özgen, AR-Resident at Safe Haven Helsinki
Erkan Özgen is an artist, teacher and ecological activist from Diyarbakir (Amed), Eastern Turkey. Related: AR PAVILION, Athens MOBILE TALK by Erkan Özgen/ Documentation The PLURIversity (faculty of PLURIecology) Erkan Özgen: Artist talk on the 19th July 2016 Erkan Özgen … Continue reading
El Haqed, AR-Resident at Safe Haven Helsinki (Nordic Fresh Air)
Mouad Belrhouate (b. 1987) is a Moroccan rapper and human rights activist who goes by the name El Haqed (Arabic: الحاقد, “The Enraged”). Related DEBT: IOU or They-O-Us? El Haqed rose to prominence when he was imprisoned for criticizing the king of … Continue reading
Vasyl Cherepanyn: AR-Resident at Safe Haven Helsinki (Nordic Fresh Air)
Vasyl Cherepanyn (b.1988) is head of the Visual Culture Research Center and an editor of the Political Critique magazine (Ukrainian edition). He works as a senior lecturer at the Cultural Studies Department of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and holds a … Continue reading
Issa Touma, AR-Resident at Safe Haven Helsinki (Nordic Fresh Air)
Issa Touma is a photographer and curator from Aleppo (Syria). His photographic work can be found in major museum collections, and his recent film “9 Days – From My Window in Aleppo” has received international accolades, including the European Short … Continue reading
Ganzeer, AR/On the Move – Resident, Helsinki
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 (including his stencil of a life-size tank near Tahrir Square, which continues … Continue reading