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AR Resident – Saddam Jumaily

Saddam Jumaily (born Saddam Al Saeedi in Basra, Iraq, 1974) is a painter and sculptor with a significant following in his country, where he is known for works that use symbolism to deal with memory and nostalgia. From 1999-2000 … Continue reading →

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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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