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Open Call for Ukrainian Hosting Institutions

Ukrainian cultural institutions, art centres and artist-in-residencies! Join the AR-Network of hosting institutions in Ukraine! (For Ukrainian see below) Artists at Risk (AR) has been supporting Ukrainian artists at safe locations within Ukraine since August of last year and … 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
PRESS: Krieg und Frieden: Der Zwiespalt ukrainischer Künstler by Süddeutsche Zeitung
Source: Süddeutsche Zeitung Text: dpa 06.01.2023 PRESS TEXT Zwischen Krieg und Frieden: Der Zwiespalt ukrainischer Künstlerinnen In English (translated): On the one hand success, on the other hand pangs of conscience – Ukrainian artists abroad are torn between two worlds. … Continue reading
PRESS: Zwischen Krieg und Frieden Der Zwiespalt ukrainischer Künstlerinnen by Monopol Magazin
Source: Monopol Magazin Text: dpa 06.01.2023 PRESS TEXT Zwischen Krieg und Frieden Der Zwiespalt ukrainischer Künstlerinnen In English (translated): On the one hand success, on the other hand pangs of conscience – Ukrainian artists abroad are torn between two worlds. … Continue reading
PRESS: „Artists At Risk“ – ein internationales Netzwerk für bedrohte Künstler*innen by Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Source: Deutschlandfunk Kultur 21.12.2022 Interview in full (about 8 minutes, in German): Here is a short summary of the interview: Deutschlandfunk Kultur spoke to Artists at Risk’s (AR) Co-Founding Directors Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen at the end of 2022, … Continue reading
Gorki Theatre’s premiere of THE LAST WORD, the Creative Team

ALISA KHAZANOVA, ACTOR AND CREATOR OF THE PLAY’S IDEA Alisa Khazanova is an actor, film director and screenwriter. Alisa started her career as a Bolshoi ballet soloist and performed in a wide-ranging classical repertoire. She is also a graduate … Continue reading
AR-Production Fund launched at Gorki Theatre’s premiere of THE LAST WORD

PRESS RELEASE 30 December 2022 For Immediate Release Artists at Risk (AR) Production Fund launched at the Maxim Gorki Theatre’s premiere of THE LAST WORD A play about dissident female activists in Russian courts Artists at Risk (AR) is honoured … Continue reading