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FROM RISK TO RESILIENCE: Thank you 2025 ✊ … and launching the AR VIRTUAL RESIDENCY in 2026 ✨
FROM RISK TO RESILIENCE: Thank you 2025 ✊ … and launching the AR VIRTUAL RESIDENCY in 2026 ✨ With the entire post-WWII framework for peace and democracy at risk, Artists at Risk (AR) enters 2026 with both trepidation and excitement. … Continue reading
Open Studio & Artist Talk at Art Factory, Porvoo
Open Studio & Artist Talk Artists at Risk (AR) warmly invites you to an Open Studio and Artist Talk at Art Factory, Porvoo, on 29 January. 🕒 3:00–5:00 PM Open Studio with Iryna Bestchetnova 🕕 6:00 PM Artist Talk / … Continue reading
The Recovery and Support Program for Artist-Veterans at MC6
The Recovery and Support Program for Artist-Veterans is currently taking place at MC6, creating a dedicated space for artist-veterans to reconnect with their creative practice while receiving collective and psychological support. This program is part of Artists at Risk (AR) … Continue reading
Introducing Cultural Traffic and its residency Slow River House: a new hosting partner in the AR-Network!
Artists at Risk (AR) is delighted to welcome Cultural Traffic, a Kharkiv-based NGO, as a new hosting partner in our global network supporting artists at risk. Founded to support artistic and research-driven practices, Cultural Traffic has been active since 2021, … Continue reading
Introducing Viktoriia Teletien, Ukrainian visual artist currently in residence in Helsinki
Born in Donetsk and educated at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, Teletien works across painting, graphics, land art, scenography, and artistic research. Since 2012, she has worked as an artist at the Publicist Theater in Kharkiv, creating … Continue reading
AR on TV: Discover the Stories Behind the Artists Who Refuse to Be Silenced
The prime-time cultural programme “La Brama” on Barcelona’s betevé shone a spotlight on Artists at Risk (AR) last month. The wonderful Laura Sangra, who leads the programme that has its finger on the pulse of Barcelona’s cultural life, has been … Continue reading
Betevé’s “La Brama”: Artists at Risk: the global platform helping artists keep creating from exile
The prime-time cultural programme “La Brama” on Barcelona’s betevé shone a spotlight on Artists at Risk (AR) last month. You can find the full original article at this link and the English translation below: https://beteve.cat/cultura/artists-at-risk-artistes-exili/ In Barcelona, Palestinian writer Marwa … Continue reading
Screening & Festive Gathering: Fragile Memory
We are thrilled to welcome you to a screening of our Ukrainian Artists at Risk (AR)-Safe Haven Helsinki Resident Alexandra Bratyshchenko’s film Fragile Memory in the Auditorium of Lapinlahden lähde. Following the screening, we will have a Festive Season Gathering … Continue reading
AR-Alumna Polina Kuznetsova featured in Karjalainen Newspaper
Polina Kuznetsova is a Belarusian textile artist and AR-Alumna who fled Belarus in 2022 and got an Artists at Risk (AR) residency at @vartsilaresidency in Northern Karelia. Polina was interviewed for the newspaper @karjalainenfi recently. For a long time Polina … Continue reading
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
