Cultural resistance
from around
the world...
ABOUT
ARTISTS ON THE FRONTLINE is a creative force for radical artists using culture as a form of resistance.
Led by those on the frontlines of change, we wield stories as weapons and carry knowledge forged in lived experience.
Our artists take enormous risks to share urgent realities, from which bold ideas ignite action, and imagination becomes the spark for radical transformation.
In 2025 alone, we exhibited, performed, and collaborated in 18 countries across 47 cities worldwide, creating space for groundbreaking, revolutionary, and uncensored exchange.
Our projects don’t fit into boxes.
We love the stage - but we also create in unexpected places: the streets, cafés, parks, a bombed-out church, even a metro station.
We’ve won awards for exploring how digital technology can circumnavigate censorship—crafting virtual reality experiences, immersive audio journeys, and mixed-reality mobile adventures.
We’ve launched initiatives that move across checkpoints, borders, and continents - creating projects that use storytelling to mobilise, developing global solidarity networks, and building digital activist archives.
We’ve participated in inventing new prototypes that rethink systems of collaboration and created our citizen journalist platform to provide updates from artists during invasions.
When gathering in person is impossible or forbidden, we refuse to comply: contributing to creative protest, engaging in civil disobedience, and collaborating in occupied spaces.
Projects are driven by radical change-makers, the outsiders, agitators, and imposters, who harness lived experiences to create, interrogate, and disrupt.
We believe art takes many forms and that freedom, equality, and justice are won through a diversity of tactics.
Therefore, projects are led by those whose creativity intersects with activism, armed resistance, human rights law, community organising, civic journalism and everything in between.
TRAINING AND EDUCATION
Each project is a journey of learning - building power through cultural exchange, sharing experiences, and discovering different methodologies in the fight for change.
We commissioned talks and articles from those tackling the urgent issues of our time.
We share the ideas that inspire us and the knowledge that drives us through curated resources.
We lead training, workshops and talks sharing our own practice of cultural resistance - online and in person.
ARTISTS RIGHTS
Many of our team and those we collaborate with face extreme consequences for their work.
Projects often explore cultural genocide and the censorship of those involved, including arrest, imprisonment, torture and forced displacement.
We fight back against attacks on artists and attempts of cultural eradication by joining or leading our own campaigns, protests and initiatives.
We collate and share tools and training to protect artists’ rights and write our own research, articles and responses.
