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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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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 →

Posted in Map, NEWS, School of the Displaced / Kyiv Biennial, Timeline | Tagged artist, IDP, internally displaced persons, Kiev, Kyiv, perpetuum mobile, refugees, School of the Displaced, Ukraine, war

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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