Peace may seem hard to imagine in a year marked by unspeakable violence that batters our bodies, screens and minds. It is a difficult wish to make, but the artists and cultural professionals we work for and with - whose lives and art are coloured by these harsh struggles - want exactly that. Peace!

At the turn of 2023-2024, catching our breath from a hyper-intensive period of work, we are finally initiating celebrations of the 10th anniversary since AR’s founding in 2013!

So much has happened, and there are so many stories to tell. So we have decided to take it in parts. We’ll start with the past two years, which have been extremely challenging and significant in our development. These first slides are dedicated to the most general picture of the results of our work, globally.

AR relocated 767 AR-Residents in 2022-2023. This volume of support could only have been possible thanks to partnerships with over 300 hosting organisations; dozens of regional, national and international networks and funders; and of course our hardworking AR-Solidarity Teams. That’s quite a bit for a grassroots NGO in the arts! Read the full Year in Review on our website
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Artists at Risk (AR) wishes you a Peaceful and Happy New Year in 2024!

Image Credit: ArtVeda, Tunis

Holding a Ph.D. in Film Studies from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine, Kulchynska has worked as a curator at the Visual Culture Research Center / VCRC (2011–2019) and Set Independent Art Space (2019–2020). She’s the author of Meaning Production in Cinema: Genre Mechanisms (Kyiv 2017).

Read more about Lesia Kulchynska on the AR website: https://artistsatrisk.org/2023/06/16/ar-safe-haven-helsinki-resident-lesia-kulchynska/?lang=en

?: 1. Lesia Kulchynska 2. Lesia Kulchynska and Boris Kashapov (and baby) 3. Boris Kashapov’s event ‘Only for Men’ at Myymälä2 gallery, Helsinki, Finland

Lesia Kulchynska is an Artists at Risk (AR) Safe Haven Helsinki Resident, organised and curated by Perpetuum Mobile ry (PM). This residency is co-funded by the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture, the City of Helsinki Department of Culture and Leisure and TAIKE.