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AR-Safe Haven Helsinki Resident Lesia Kulchynska
Lesia Kulchynska is a Kyiv-based independant curator and visual studies researcher. Kulchynska holds a Ph.D. in Film Studies from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine, and teaches cultural studies at the Kyiv Academy of Media Arts. In 2018–19 … Continue reading
Lesia Kulchynska, AR-Safe Haven Helsinki Resident presents the books The Right to Truth: Conversations on Art and Feminism and Every Person is an Artist
Lesia Kulchynska, Artists at Risk (AR) Safe Haven Helsinki Resident, art curator and feminist, presents the books The Right to Truth: Conversations on Art and Feminism and Every Person is an Artist at Oodi Library in Helsinki, Finland on Friday, … Continue reading
Artists at Risk (AR) is launching a dedicated AR-Ukraine IG Channel
📢 Artists at Risk (AR) is launching a dedicated AR-Ukraine social media channel 🎉 Ever since curating the “School of the Displaced” at the Kyiv Biennial in 2015, Perpetuum Mobile (PM) has had a special connection to Ukraine. Artists at … Continue reading
Wide-spread press attention on Denisova and Yudnikov’s play in Barcelona
‘My Mother and the Total Invasion’, Sasha Denisova‘s new play performed by Aleksey Yudnikov at the CCCB’s theatre in Barcelona, attracted widespread attention in the Spanish media. The mother of the author still lives in Kyiv today, resilient and resistant … Continue reading
Mourning the passing and honouring the life of Peter Weibel
With sadness we mourn the passing, and honour the life, of Peter Weibel, the colourful, larger-than-life fixture of the European and international world of art. This is the man who was Valie Export’s famous dog-on-a-leash in the famed action-art piece … Continue reading
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
Alexey Yudnikov and Sasha Denisova rehearse for a new play, premiering at CCCB, Barcelona, in March
AR-Barcelona Residents, actor Alexei Yudnikov and screenwriter and director Sasha Denisova, were interviewed about their new play and making art in the time of war, which aired on BeTevé in Spain. Watch the programme: https://rb.gy/6dtl5m. Denisova’s play, in which Yudnikov … 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
