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Ali Mohammadi Kiyan

Ali Mohammadi Kiyan (1976) is a film director, screenwriter and editor from Afghanistan, now an Artists at Risk (AR)-Resident at Moosdorf Korrektiv e.V. in Berlin, Germany. He has made 10 short and long documentary films. Kiyan studied Cinematic Direction at … Continue reading

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Soghra Setayesh

Soghra Setayesh (1985), who also goes by the stagename Shaikhzada, is a filmmaker and actor from Afghanistan, currently an Artists at Risk (AR)-Resident at Moosdorf Korrektiv e.V. in Berlin, Germany. She graduated from Kabul University in 2014 and has written … Continue reading

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Zia Forogh

Zia Forogh (1984) is a singer, musician, visual artist, gallery owner, art teacher and activist from Afghanistan. He is currently an Artists at Risk (AR)-Resident at Moosdorf Korrektiv e.V. in Berlin, Germany. Forogh graduated with a bachelor’s degree in painting … Continue reading

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Mahsa Falah

Mahsa Falah, an artist and writer from Afghanistan, is currently an Artists at Risk (AR)-Resident at Moosdorf Korrektiv e.V. in Berlin, Germany. During her stay in Berlin, Falah is writing a novel about how an Afghan girl, whose dreams have … Continue reading

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Iqbal Ahmad Tarnak

Iqbal Ahmad Tarnak (1997), an artist from Afghanistan, is currently an Artists at Risk (AR)-Resident at Moosdorf Korrektiv e.V. in Berlin, Germany. At home painting with oils, Tarnak has recently begun working on contemporary and conceptual artwork, and he is … Continue reading

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PRESS: The art the Taliban couldn’t stop by The New European

Source: The New European Richard Holledge 16.03.2023 PRESS TEXT The art the Taliban couldn’t stop Hundreds of Afghan artists have had to flee the country since the regime closed down galleries and threatened them with prison For centuries, the Afghan … Continue reading

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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

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PRESS: Land ohne Frauen by Taz

Source: Taz By Reshma Azmi, Mahsa Falah and Soma Safi 07.03.2023 PRESS TEXT In English (translation): A country without women Since the Taliban took power in the summer of 2021, women’s rights in Afghanistan have been increasingly restricted. Three portraits. … Continue reading

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PRESS: Artistes en risc by VilaWeb

Source: VilaWeb 06.03.2023 Anna Zaera PRESS TEXT In English (translation): Artists are at risk both here and there, and the biggest threat is that we’ll be deprived of their stories This weekend, the play ‘My mother and the total invasion’ … Continue reading

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PRESS: Menschenrechte und Kunst – Ivor Stodolsky von „Artists at Risk“ im Gespräch by Deutschlandfunk

Source: Deutschlandfunk / Corso Podcast 24.02.2023 Ulrich Biermann Interview in full (9:26 minutes, in German): Deutschlandfunk / Corso Podcast Here is a short summary of the interview: On the anniversary of the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine on … Continue reading

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