Artists at Risk (AR)

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Assisting artists whose freedom and lives are at risk.

ARTISTS at RISK (AR) is a non-profit organisation active at the intersection of human rights and the arts. Over the last 10 years, AR has become a mondial network of 500+ artistic institutions, non-profits, municipalities, state institutions and international organisations to assist, relocate and fund artists who are at risk of persecution or oppression, or are fleeing war or terror.

Websitehttps://artistsatrisk.org/
Georg Schöllhammer - Head of tranzit.at, author, curator and editor-in-chief of the magazine Springerin
Moderated by
Sebastian Frenzel - Deputy Editor-in-Chief at Monopol.
Thanks to Kathrin Luz for the excellent conversation with great friends and colleagues!

🎤 ART DÜSSELDORF Talks

“Art versus politics: a renewed old power struggle?”
with
Ivor Stodolsky - Artists at Risk (AR) Co-Founder and Co-Director
Lars Hendrik Beger - Editor magazine Corso at Deutschlandfunk.

ArteSumapaz Foundation with Peppa Herrera and Ric Dragon, shared their vision of an intentional community and sculpture park in Cundinamarca.

Stay tuned as ER-RRAL continues to grow!

#ArtistsatRisk #EcologistsatRisk #perpetuum #perpetualmobile

R.A.R.O. shared its cross-border residency model through a visit to its studios in Bogotá, a site once marked by privatization and now reclaimed by artists;
Casa Sanacion Montana Mujeres with Bertha Neris, a safe haven for women in La Calera Mountains;
ER-RRAL’s first ER-Resident at Plataforma Caníbal, Ulises Matamoros, presented his work on the preservation of the Ngiba language through community digital repositories in Mexico;
Plataforma Caníbal, with Jaider Orsini, a community-based platform in Barranquilla, on Colombia's Caribbean coast;
Kibii Foundation, with researcher Nicholaas Pinas, which works to preserve Maroon cultural heritage in Suriname;
Pukañawi association, with by Humberto Mancilla, which uses film to defend human rights in Bolivia;
💬 Hosting organisations from across the region participated, including the Wuasikamas project, with the Inga indigenous leader Hernando Chindoy, which transformed illicit poppy cultivation into sustainable agriculture in Colombia;
Co-Directors Marita Muukkonen and Ivor Stodolsky introduced the work of Perpetuum Mobile (PM), including Artists at Risk (AR) and the new Ecologists at Risk (ER) network, a long-term initiative supported by grants from the Nordic Culture Fund’s Globus and Globus Forward Programmes.