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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

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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

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Meet Mariia Pelishenko, Ukrainian artist and AR-Resident at Künstler:innenhaus Bremen

Artists at Risk (AR) is proud to welcome Mariia Pelishenko to Bremen, where she began her two-month residency at Künstler:innenhaus Bremen! Born in 2004 in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Pelishenko has lived and worked in Uzhhorod since 2015. Her artistic practice spans … Continue reading

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🎉 The finalists for the Minna Canth Award have been announced!

We’re honoured that Artists at Risk (AR) is among the nine finalists for the Minna Canth Award, to be presented on the 19th of March 2026 in connection with the Minna Canth Seminar in Kuopio. A total of 137 individuals … Continue reading

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Aws Al-Zubaïdy joins AR-Residency in Zurich with the RENA network

Aws Al-Zubaïdy was last notably seen at AR with his memorable performance at the AR Pavilion – Venice, and are delighted to welcome him to the new Artists at Risk (AR) residency in Zurich Switzerland in cooperation with RENA — … Continue reading

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Meet AR-Resident Bénédicte Luendo!

We are delighted to introduce Bénédicte Luendo, a singer, songwriter, and performer from Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, in residence at AR-Zanzibar Entertainment Foundation (ZAEF) in Zanzibar.  Bénédicte Luendo discovered music at a young age, singing in church from … Continue reading

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Artists at Risk (AR): Year in Review 2023 (Part 1)

Peace may seem hard to imagine in a year marked by unspeakable violence that batter our screens and minds. It is a difficult wish to make, but the artists we work for and with, whose lives and art are coloured … Continue reading

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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

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PRESS RELEASE: 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

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PRESS RELEASE: Artists at Risk (AR) at Frieze New York

Artists fleeing persecution and war and their fellows join Artists at Risk (AR)’s Virtual Viewing Room at Frieze New York from May 16 – 22, 2022 The eyes of the global art collectors community are locked on Manhattan, as Frieze … Continue reading

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