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Erkan Özgen, AR-Resident at Safe Haven Helsinki

Erkan Özgen is an artist, teacher and ecological activist from Diyarbakir (Amed), Eastern Turkey. Related: AR PAVILION, Athens MOBILE TALK by Erkan Özgen/ Documentation The PLURIversity (faculty of PLURIecology) Erkan Özgen: Artist talk on the 19th July 2016 Erkan Özgen … Continue reading

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Helsinki – the first Safe Haven city in Finland? Symposium in Ateneum-Hall, 3 November

The Safe Haven Helsinki? Symposium is a forum to address the growing importance of Safe Havens, that is, residencies for art professionals at high risk. In the context of an increasing number of serious conflicts and crises afflicting the world, … Continue reading

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Hospitality, creativity, solidarity: Mobile Talk by Helge Lunde director of ICORN

PM MOBILE TALK at the School of the Displaced The School of Kyiv – Kyiv Biennale 2015 Lecture by Helge Lunde director of ICORN, the International Cities of Refuge Network at October 10, 19:00, Visual Culture Research Center, 44 Hlybochytska … Continue reading

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The School of the Displaced at the Kyiv Biennial

As a tragic site of conflict in Europe today, one of the main emphases of The School of the Displaced at the School of Kyiv – Kyiv Biennial 2015 will be the current situation in Ukraine. Kiev in particular faces … Continue reading

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El Haqed, AR-Resident at Safe Haven Helsinki (Nordic Fresh Air)

Mouad Belrhouate (b. 1987) is a Moroccan rapper and human rights activist who goes by the name El Haqed (Arabic: الحاقد, “The Enraged”). Related DEBT: IOU or They-O-Us?  El Haqed rose to prominence when he was imprisoned for criticizing the king of … Continue reading

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Memories of Dead Cities / Syria: exhibition by Issa Touma

The exhibition Memories of Dead Cities / Syria takes us to the streets of Aleppo both before the war and in the midst of a war zone. Opening on Friday, 21 November, 6–8 pm at TR1 Kunsthalle, Tampere. Issa Touma from … Continue reading

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Issa Touma – Syrian Lecture Series

Photographer and curator Issa Touma will give three talks during October at the University of Helsinki. Held at the city centre campus, the talks are open to public. Art in a War Zone Tuesday, 14 October, 4–6 pm University of … Continue reading

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Ganzeer, AR/On the Move – Resident, Helsinki

Ganzeer is the nom de plume of the graphic designer and artist from Cairo whose street images have come to epitomize the Egyptian Revolution for a global audience (including his stencil of a life-size tank near Tahrir Square, which continues … Continue reading

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ON THE MOVE: programme 2013-2016

On the Move: Political Strategies in Art addresses the ongoing global political and economical shifts reflected in the works of artists and their chosen working strategies in the real world. The Western (art)world often romanticizes the waves of activist art, … Continue reading

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