Item Archive: activism
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#AlliancesforArtatRisk Participant 9. Ruangrupa (Reza ‘Asung’ Afisina & Farid Rakun)

ruangrupa is a Jakarta-based collective established in 2000. It is a non-profit organization that strives to support the idea of art within urban and cultural context by involving artists and other disciplines such as social sciences, politics, technology, media, etc, to … Continue reading
#AlliancesforArtatRisk Participant 13. Vivienne Chow

Vivienne Chow is an award-winning journalist from Hong Kong, specialising in arts, culture and cultural politics. She is currently the London Correspondent for Artnet News and a contributor to Variety. Her work has appeared in various media outlets and specialist publications including … Continue reading
#AlliancesforArtatRisk Participant 12. Timea Junghaus

Timea Junghaus is an art historian, a leader of the Roma cultural and political movement, and a contemporary art curator. She is the executive director of the Berlin-based European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture – the transnational institute for … Continue reading
PRESS: Urla dalle prigioni La voce dei torturati by Corriere della Sera
SOURCE: Corriere della Sera – La Lettura Di FEDERICA LAVARINI 9.1.2022 PRESS TEXT: Urla dalle prigioni La voce dei torturati Le fosse comuni a pochi chilometri dal centro della capitale bielorussa Minsk, nella foresta di Kurapaty, sono state disseppellite nel 1988 … Continue reading
“The 210” Rue Saint-Denis opens in Paris

Formed in the context of an initiative to turn the building on 210 Rue Saint-Denis, Paris, into a prototype house for art and unsheltered migrants, Artists at Risk (AR) has joined hands with friends and partners to create “the 210”, … Continue reading
Artists at Risk (AR) supports IRDORATH, Belarusian band arrested for performances at pro-democracy protests

The fantasy-folk band IRDORATH were among the 16 people brutally detained by unmarked soldiers with machine guns at a cottage near Minsk on August 2nd during a birthday party for the band’s frontwoman, Nadezha Kalach. The Belarusian Council for Culture … Continue reading
PRESS: Kuolemanvakavasti hauska by Suomen Kuvalehti
SOURCE: Suomen Kuvalehti Kristiina Sarasti 23.04.2021 PRESS TEXT: Kuolemanvakavasti hauska Suomeen asettunut poliittinen pilapiirtäjä Kianoush Ramezani on omistanut elämänsä sananvapauden vaalimiselle. Pilapiirtäjä Kianoush Ramezanin suosikkirutiini on kuvien luonnostelu kahviloissa. © MARJO TYNKKYNEN KUN Kianoush Ramezani viisivuotiaana istui perheensä auton … Continue reading
#RiskandRebellion Participants

Follow the links below to find out more about each #RiskandRebellion participant! 1. Steven Forti (board member of Club Tenco, Trento/Barcelona) 2. Grammo Suspect – Rainbow Ambassador Kenya (LGBTQ+ rapper, poet) 3. Angela Aldebs (dancer, performance artist, Helsinki/Damascus) 4. Carminda Mac Lorin (founder … Continue reading
Masha Alekhina & Yulia Tsvetkova on International Women’s Day 2021

Subscribe to our newletter On the occasion of International Women’s Day on the 8th of March, Artists at Risk (AR) is celebrating two prominent Russian artists, feminist activists and political dissidents, Yulia Tsvetkova and Maria (Masha) Alekhina. Alongside many friends, … Continue reading
PRESS: REPRESSIÓ Marita Muukkonen i Ivor Stodolsky, codirectores d’Artistes en Risc “Els creadors han de poder presentar obres controvertides sense que els tribunals els amenacin”, in Directa

Source: Directa.cat ENGLISH interview questions Please also use your favourite auto-translate tool to also read original text as published in Catalan below, which includes the story of Lisa Fittko’s work in the Resistance Movement against Nazism in the Second World … Continue reading