Author Archives: Artists At Risk
ARTISTS at RISK (AR)
Apply for an Artists at Risk (AR)-Residency here: artistsatrisk.org/apply
PRESS: Artists at Risk: Wysing offers residency to artists facing persecution in their home country
PRESS TEXT By Jack Hutchinson As part of the Artists at Risk network, the Cambridge-based organisation has launched a three-month residency for visual artists who are the target of politically motivated threats in their home country. Wysing Arts Centre has announced an open … Continue reading
PRESS: A new space for Artists At Risk
PRESS TEXT BY Katrina Kufer April 5, 2017 The launch of a new kind of global institution for artists under threat AR digital presence Artists at Risk (AR) is a new organisation for artists facing persecution. A unique format that has … Continue reading
PRESS: Cultural Diplomacy and Artwashing at Documenta in Athens
PRESS TEXT By Dorian Batycka June 12, 2017 It remains a question whether Learning from Athens actually manages to learn anything from Greece and its financial crisis. Thierry Geoffrey, “Is Documenta the botox of late capitalism?” (2017), (image courtesy of the artist) ATHENS … Continue reading
AR PAVILION – EXHIBITION BOOKLET
Co-Funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union
AR PAVILION – MADRID: Collateral II
The AR PAVILION – Madrid: COLLATERAL II An exhibition at MATADERO Madrid by Perpetuum Mobilε (PM) in the context of Transeuropa, with the artists Erkan Özgen (Diyarbakir), Issa Touma (Aleppo), Chto Delat (St. Petersburg) and Shieko Reto (Kuala Lumpur). Curated … Continue reading
Instituent Communitas: Artists at Risk (AR) at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
Join us in Warsaw for Instituent Communitas at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art on the 25th of January at 7 pm. Artists at Risk (AR)’s Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen will share a panel with the artist and former AR-Safe … Continue reading
Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo: AR’s first AR-Safe Haven Berlin Resident
Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo is a human rights and democracy activist, writer and artist based in the mining town of Kwekwe, in central Zimbabwe. From 9th of January to 8th of April he will be the first AR-Safe Haven Berlin Resident. … Continue reading
Erkan Özgen, AR-Resident at Safe Haven Helsinki
Erkan Özgen is an artist from Diyarbakir, Eastern Turkey (Amed in Kurdish). 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 coming to … Continue reading