Item Archive: Artists at Risk (AR)
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Welcoming Gulled Simba to AR-Helsinki

A big welcome to Gulled Simba as an ImmigrĂ© Artists (IA) Resident at AR-Safe Haven Helsinki! Simba is a Somali pop musician who has been based in Finland since 2014. During his IA-residency he will be working on a new … Continue reading
IA Resident – Gulled Simba

Gulled Simba aka SIMBA is a Somali pop musician who has been based in Finland since 2014. Simba was born in 1995 in the Somali city Kismaayo, where he nurtured a passion for music from a young age. Impressively, he … Continue reading
PRESS: Kurdish artist Fatos Irwen released from Turkish prison – RĂ»daw
Related: Bio FatoĹź İrwen BREAKING NEWS! FatoĹź İrwen has been released from Turkish prison! SOURCE: RĂ»daw, Yasmine Mosimann & Shawn CarriĂ©, March 6, 2020 PRESS TEXT: ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Fatos Irwen, a Kurdish artist from Diyarbakir, was released from a … Continue reading
AR-Safe Haven Berlin Resident – Lil Baliil

Salad Ali, aka Lil Baliil, is a Somali musician, songwriter and performer from Nairobi, Kenya. He is a leading artist in East Africa and a key figure in Somali Afro Pop. Lil Baliil strives to empower and inspire Somali … Continue reading
PRESS: Die mĂĽssen da raus, in “art – Das Kunstmagazin”
SOURCE: art – Das Kunstmagazin, Tim Holthöfer, August 2019 PRESS TEXT: INTERVIEW Die Kuratoren von »Artists at Risk« ĂĽber ihre Arbeit mit KĂĽnstlern in Not Die Organisation »Artists at Risk« verschafft bedrohten KĂĽnstlern Stipendien und Residenzen in sicheren Ländern, organisiert … Continue reading
PRESS: Euroopan muusikkojen liitot kokoontuivat Madridissa by Muusikkojen liitto
SOURCE: Muusikkojen liitto Muusikkojen liitto 18.11.2019 PRESS TEXT: Euroopan muusikkojen liitot kokoontuivat Madridissa Kansainvälinen muusikkojen liitto (FIM) järjesti Madridissa 14.–15. marraskuuta 2019 yhteistyössä Espanjan muusikkojen liiton (AMPOS) kanssa muusikkojen terveyttä käsittelevän konferenssin, joka oli neljäs laatuaan. Erikoislääkäri Miikka Peltomaan esitys unenlaadun … Continue reading
PRESS: Chased by conflict in Ukraine, an artist finds a haven in Helsinki by The Washington Post
Related: Artists at Risk and its AR Residencies SOURCE: The Washington Post, Will Englund and Kathy Lally, Nov. 2, 2019 PRESS TEXT: HELSINKI — Let’s call them “figurines.” That’s the name their creator, Spartak Khachanov, delicately uses. He made 400 … Continue reading
WELCOMING LIL BALIIL TO AR-SAFE HAVEN BERLIN

We warmly welcome Lil Baliil, the Somali Afro-Pop musician from Nairobi, Kenya, to a year-long AR-residency at AR-Safe Haven Berlin. A greatly loved artist among East African youth, Lil Baliil recently won the “East African Song of the Year, … Continue reading
Welcoming AR-ENSH Partner ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
We are pleased to welcome ZKM | Center for Art and Media as an “Artists at Risk (AR) – A European Network of Safe Havens (AR-ENSH)” partner. ZKM | Center for Art and Media combines research and production, exhibitions and … Continue reading
