Artists for Artists (AfA)

Artists for Artists is an online pedagogical program that facilitates a direct connection between internationally established artists and those in their early career stages. Artists for Artists editions take on diverse themes that each consider the role of art in relation to urgent political, social, and cultural issues. Artists for Artists is characterized by experimentation, inclusivity, and global outreach. Its modalities and praxis are informed by an ethos of solidarity and an equitable peer-to-peer principle. Artists for Artists describes this principle as a form of radical care – one of many crucial yet often overlooked strategies for enduring immediate crises, precarious lifeworks, and unstable futures.

More news about the upcoming 2025 program will be announced soon. Stay tuned!

To learn more about our previous editions, click here.

*Images by AfA Alumni Artists: 1. Engy Mohsen and Omar Kassab, Coworking On Coworking, 2020. Courtesy the artists; 2. Alkisti Efthymiou (dir.) and Karin Cuyul (prod.), No nos soltemos más/ Let’s Not Let Go Anymore, 2021, Video Still. Courtesy the artist; 3. Hagar Ezzeldin, Domestic Fantasies, 2019, Archival Footage. Courtesy the artist; 4. Myriam Amri & Malek Lakhal, The Invisible Female - Notes from Tunis, 2021, Video still. Courtesy the artists; 5. Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson, Face To Face, 2020, Video still. Courtesy the artist.

Artists for Artists stands in solidarity with Palestinians confronting 77 years of settler-colonial occupation. We recognise the ongoing crisis in Palestine as genocide, and urge that it be addressed accordingly. AfA understands the vital role of artists, cultural workers, students and educators around the world in confronting this occupation, and for imagining new futures. We stand unequivocally for artistic and academic freedom and condemn all attempts to silence or constrain an open debate about the past, present and future of Palestine. Our full statement, here.