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Open Letter: European Democracy Action Plan

September 14, 2020 This open letter is being submitted in response to the public consultation launched by the European Commission on the European Democracy Action Plan (EDAP). We, the undersigned, welcome the initiative to develop a European Democracy Action Plan … Continue reading →

Posted in Campaigns, NEWS | Tagged advocacy, AR, Artists at Risk (AR), arts, Campaigns, culture, democracy, eu, European Union, freedom, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, human rights, open letter, perpetuum mobile, Policy, Policy recommendations

AR MOBILE talk at HAM with Spartak Khachanov

Spartak Khachanov will give an AR MOBILE Talk will on Wednesday 3 April from 5pm to 7pm in Helsinki Art Museum’s HAM Hall (2nd floor, Eteläinen Rautatiekatu 8, 00100 Helsinki, upstairs from Finnkino). The talk will be moderated by Ivor … Continue reading →

Posted in AR-Artist Events, MOBILE TALKS, NEWS | Tagged Academy of Kiev, activism, AR, ar resident, artist, artists at risk, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, helsinki, Mobile Talk, mobile talk at ham, open letter, Pa#artistsatrisk, pacifism, perpetuum mobile, Safe Haven Helsinki, safe haven residency, Spartak Khachanov, Ukaraine, Ukraine

Free Musician Rami Sidky – Held in Egyptian prison since 2018 – Artists at Risk

Rami Sidky, a 33-year old guitarist and musician from Cairo (Egypt) has been languishing in jail since May 2018. The Egyptian judiciary continues to hold Rami without clear charges. His supposed crime? Alleged participation in a song critical of the … Continue reading →

Posted in NEWS | Tagged activism, AR, Egyptian revolution, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, human rights, open letter, Rami Sidky

Open Letter re Pussy Riot Artists in Sweden: AR and Partners Call for Political Asylum

Posted in AR-Artist Bios, Campaigns, Map, NEWS, Perpetuum, Timeline | Tagged #aralumnus, Alexey Knedlyakovsky, artists at risk, Artists at Risk (AR), Asylum, Campaigns, Lusine Dzjanyan, open letter, PEN, PEN America, PEN Finland, PEN Sweden, Pussy Riot, SafeMUSE, Suomen PEN, Svenska PEN, Sweden

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 →

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