Statement on our dismissal from the WIENER FESTWOCHEN (Vienna, Austria)
Eleven days after the end of the FESTWOCHEN festival, and one day before the start of our vacation, director Wolfgang Wais ordered us, the co-curators of the WIENER FESTWOCHEN under the artistic...
View ArticleOpen Letter on the Resignation of Laura Raicovich from the Queens Museum (New...
Laura Raicovich, as president and executive director of the Queens Museum, has galvanized the museum field: she has demonstrated how cultural institutions can responsibly and creatively embrace...
View ArticleJoint Statement Promoting Safe Spaces Within the South Asian Arts Community
As active stakeholders in the South Asian arts community, we are concerned by the growing number of allegations of sexual harassment and reports of hostile work environments. These are serious concerns...
View ArticleOpen letter of the art milieu of Poland concerning launching a competition...
/EN Dear Mr. Minister, As an art milieu taking an active part in the workings of the Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art in Krakow, we feel compelled to communicate our concern regarding plans...
View ArticleA Letter from Artists in the Whitney Biennial (New York, US)
Dear Ru and Jane, We respectfully ask you to withdraw our work from the Whitney Biennial for the remainder of the show. This request is intended as condemnation of Warren Kanders’ continued presence as...
View ArticleAshkal Alwan / On the Indefinite Postponement of Home Works 8 (Beirut, Lebanon)
STATEMENT ON THE INDEFINITE POSTPONEMENT OF HOME WORKS 8 We do not regret to inform you that Ashkal Alwan is indefinitely postponing all programmes and events scheduled to take place from October...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Museums and Galleries in support of education and other...
We the undersigned write with grave concern about a growing trend of layoffs targeting education staff at major global museums in the name of COVID-19. Museums including MoMA, LA MOCA, Mass MoCA,...
View ArticlePetition: “Open Letter Calling on Museums to Retain Staff During COVID-19...
To art museum directors, trustees, board members, and upper management: We ask that you do everything in your power to retain all staff members during the COVID-19 crisis. Barely three weeks after the...
View ArticleArtists protesting against the early closure of the show “Women Make History,...
May 8, 2020 To: Yotam Yakir Director of Haifa Museums Re: Letter from the Museum on May 7th, 2020 concerning the exhibit “Women Make History” Dear M. Yakir, We would like to turn to you personally, as...
View ArticleArtists protesting against the early closure of the show “Women Make History,...
Public Statement May 17.2020 Dear friends and colleagues, We are pleased to inform you that thanks to our letters, our protests on social media and in the press (radio as well), the Haifa Museum of Art...
View ArticleRussian artists detained and arrested in St. Petersburg / Solidarity Campaign
On June 22nd two longtime collaborators of Chto Delat?, Anna Tereshkina and Nadezhda Kalyamina were taken by the police while they were peacefully protesting the sentence against Viktor Filinkovand...
View ArticlePetrit Halilaj: GIVE US BACK OUR STARS
Petrit Halilaj’s withdrawal from The Dreamers, 58th Salon – Belgrade Biennial In 2019 I was invited by Ilaria Marotta and Andrea Baccin to take part in the 58th October Salon I Belgrade Biennial,...
View ArticleOpen Letter from Cultural Workers in Belarus
//EN We, cultural workers of Belarus, are deeply shocked and outraged by the events of the last days in our country related to the elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus, and by the...
View ArticleCancelled Collective Actions: Open Letter
To the curators, directors, and board members of the Whitney Museum: We are living through a moment marked by well-intentioned, but all too often hollow, gestures of support for Black Lives and racial...
View ArticleManifesta and the Minorities of Marseille: Answer the Accusations of...
[i] Lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender and plus. [ii] Consider that some are less worthy of being respected by their work, with regard to their body, in their identity. [iii] In particular, the...
View ArticleNothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced
As artists, academics, writers and cultural workers who live in Germany and/or work with German cultural institutions, we welcome the joint initiative “GG 5.3. Weltoffenheit,” announced by a broad...
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