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ARTISTS AT RISK (AR) LAUNCHES COVID-19 EMERGENCY FUND

20 April 2020 Artists at Risk (AR) has today launched an emergency fund to support artists who face threats to their freedom or lives and are unable to reach a country of safety during the coronavirus pandemic. Pussy Riot member … Continue reading

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BREAKING NEWS! Fatoş İrwen has been released from Turkish prison!

2 March 2020 BREAKING NEWS Fatoş İrwen has been released from Turkish prison!! Congratulations! Welcome back! ——– Artists at Risk (AR) has long been advocating for the release and just treatment of Fatoş İrwen (bio page).  Since 2016, İrwen faced … Continue reading

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AR PAVILION HELSINKI – MASS MEMORY MACHINES

1 November – 15 December 2019 Galleria Rankka – Eerikinkatu 36, 00180 Helsinki Artists: Babi Badalov, Damian Le Bas, Delaine Le Bas, CABOCO (B A / Nástio Mosquito / Junior Fernadez), Chto Delat, Lusine Djanyan and Aleksey Knedlyakovsky, Juan-Pedro Fabra … Continue reading

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PRESS: Kholod Hawashin päälle heitettiin happoa, Saddam Jumailya kohti ammuttiin – Suomalainen residenssiohjelma auttaa vainottuja taiteilijoita by Silja Ylitalo

SOURCE: Maailma.net Silja Ylitalo 17.10.2019 PRESS TEXT: Kholod Hawashin päälle heitettiin happoa, Saddam Jumailya kohti ammuttiin – Suomalainen residenssiohjelma auttaa vainottuja taiteilijoita Suomessa toimii residenssiohjelma, joka auttaa taiteilijoita pääsemään turvaan vallanpitäjien ja ääriryhmien vainoa. Tarve on kova, sillä etenkään vaarassa … Continue reading

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AR-ER Resident Mohamed Jawad Husein Hameed

Mohamed Jawad Husein Hameed is a Bahraini musician, singer and human rights and environmental activist. As a resident of Ma’ameer, a village in the Kingdom of Bahrain that is surrounded by over 130 polluting factories, industrial workshops, petroleum and petrochemical … Continue reading

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Welcoming Mohamed Jawad Husein Hameed, AR’s first Ecologist at Risk (ER)

  We warmly welcome Mohamed Jawad Husein Hameed, a Bahraini musician and singer, as our first Artist and Ecologist at Risk Resident at AR-Safe Haven Helsinki on the island of Suomenlinna in Helsinki. Jawad is an activist, focused on environmental … Continue reading

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Saddam Jumaily welcomed to new AR-ICORN Residency in Helsinki

Saddam Jumaily and Kholod Hawash are currently in the final month of their AR-Residency at AR-Saari/Saastamoinen Residency. Following this, they will continue their long-term AR-ICORN Residency for the rest of 2019 at AR-Safe Haven Helsinki. Jumaily is a renowned Iraqi … Continue reading

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Welcoming Kholod Hawash to the new AR-ICORN Residency

Kholod Hawash (Iraq) is starting the second part of her Artists at Risk (AR) residency with partner Saddam Jumaily as the first AR-ICORN Safe Haven Helsinki Residents. The residency is curated by Perpetual Mobile (PM). Kholod Hawash is a self-taught textile … Continue reading

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Bio Fatoş İrwen

See Artists at Risk (AR)’s Campaign for the release and just treatment of Fatoş İrwen Related: Fatoş İrwen was a participant in: The AR Pavilion Berlin: Mutatis Mutandis Documentation: The Artists at Risk (AR) Pavilion Berlin: Mutatis Mutandis AR PAVILION … Continue reading

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IA-Gnesta Safe Haven Residency with Art Lab Gnesta

Art Lab Gnesta, an independent art hub located in Gnesta, Sweden is joining the Artists at Risk (AR) network of AR-Safe Haven Residencies as part of the Nordic network-project Immigré Artists (IA) and Artists at Risk (AR) curated by Perpetuum … Continue reading

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