Cases
Here you can find links to collected case-files
- #SaveGoldsmiths Open Letter to Professor Frances Corner, OBE, Warden of Goldsmiths, Council & Senior Management Team (London, UK), October 2021
- A Statement Against the Planned Funding Cuts by the Nordic Council of Ministers , August 2021
- Open letter from Arts for Afghanistan , August 2021
- YouTube suspends filmmaker Oliver Ressler’s account without warning , Oliver Ressler // YouTube Channel online again , August 2021
- To whom do exhibitions belong? , July 2021
- Institute of Radical Imagination/ Art for UBI (Manifesto) , January 2021
- The Coalition of Cultural Workers Against the Humboldt Forum / Dead on Arrival , December 2020
- Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced, December 2020
- Art Workers Speak out Against Wave of Violence in Serbia , October 2020
- Manifesta and the Minorities of Marseille: Answer the Accusations of Discrimination and Migrants Exploitation , October 2020
- Cancelled Collective Actions: Open Letter , September 2020
- Exciting Opportunities or the Ever Present Potential of Exploitation? Academia Unveiled, November 2015
- Artists, writers and critics’ Open Letter: No Real Estate Summit at the Brooklyn Museum! (NY), November 2015
- BDZ Group // Boycott the Zabludowicz Foundation, November 2015
- Distribute and Act to Save the Life of El Sexto (Cuba) #FreeElSexto, September 2015
- Acting Politically as a Cultural Worker in Russia, September 2015
- Vadim Sidur’s art smashed by Russian Orthodox activists at the Manege exhibition center (Moscow, Russia), August 2015
- Suzana Milevska // VIS VERITAS OBSES (Truth Is the Hostage of Force), April 2015; Suzana Milevska // VIS VERITAS OBSES (2); Suzana Milevska // Disobedient (Reasons for Resignation), May 2015;
- Turkish Government Censors Film about the Kurdistan Workers’ Party at the IKSV Istanbul Film Festival, April 2015
- Artists Respond to MACBA’s Executive Committee (Barcelona, Spain), Pei (Independent Studies Program) MACBA Students Open Letter, The Exhibition “The Beast and the Sovereign” That Should Have Opened Today at MACBA Has Been Censored (Barcelona, Spain), March-April 2015
- Challenging Double Standards (CDS) respond to Artists for Palestine’s letter, Challenging Double Standards: A Call Against the Boycott of Israeli Art and Society, February 2015
- Artist Threatened with Censorship for Critiquing Contemporary Art Organization’s Practices, December 2014
- Police Censors Exhibition “Diorthosi” (Correction) by Artist Paola Reveniotis (Nicosia, Cyprus), November 2014
- Atelier 35 Evacuated by the Romanian Artists’ Union to Make Room for Pavilion (Bucharest, Romania), The Case of Atelier 35 (Bucharest Romania), November 2014, The Romanian Artists Union launches an open call for exhibition spaces. Transparency or just a front? (Bucharest, Romania), January 2015
- Support Manuel Borja-Villel, Director of Museo Reina Sofía, and the team at the Museo Reina Sofía in their opposition to the attempted censorship of a work of art in the exhibition “Really Useful Knowledge” (Madrid, Spain), L’Internationale statement in support of Museo Reina Sofia, November 2014
- Stop The October Salon “Massacre!” (Belgrade, Serbia), October 2014
- São Paulo Biennale Artists Urge Organizers to Refuse Israeli State Funding, São Paulo Biennale Curators Respond to Artists’ Demands to Refuse Israeli State Funding, São Paulo Bienal Artists Disassociate from Israeli Funds, September 2014
- Invisible Labor Inquiry (San Francisco, USA), July 2014
- Starving Artists Fed Up; Seek To Establish Industry Standards With Teamsters Local 705 (Chicago, IL), April 2014
- Tbilisi In/Sights: Collective Statement, March 2014
- Precarious Workers Brigade// Open letter of solidarity with those who have withdrawn their labour from the Sydney Biennale and with detainees, March 2014; Open Letter to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, March 2014; Artists Withdraw from the 19th Sydney Biennale over Transfield Sponsorship, February 2014; The Sydney Biennale Case: Open Letters, February 2014; Should artists boycott the Sydney Biennale over Transfield links? February 2014
- Appeal to the International Art Community (Kiev, Ukraine), February 2014
- Protest Action Erupts Inside Guggenheim Museum (NYC), February 2014; G.U.L.F. v.s. Guggenheim (NYC), February 2014
- Marsiale 2012: Volodymyr Kuznetsov (Kyiv, Ukraine), January 2014
- PWB + Future Interns + Ragpickers // All We Want for X-Mas is Pay (Serpentine Gallery, London), December 2013
- Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle: Workers’ Protest Letters (Warsaw, Poland) and Open Letter to the Workers and Publics of CCA Ujazdowski Castle from the Winter Holiday Camp Working Group (Warsaw, Poland), October 2013
- Open Letters to Suzanne Lacy, Nato Thompson, Catherine J. Morris, Brooklyn Museum, Creative Time, October 2013
- Open Letter to Boris Groys and Maria Lind, Invited Curators of ARSENALE 2014 (Kyiv, Ukraine) and Open Letter from the Art Workers’ Self-defense Initiative to the Ukrainian and International Art Community, September 2013
- Boycott Manifesta 2014 in St. Petersburg?, August 2013; Chto Delat withdraws from Manifesta 10 (St. Petersburg, Russia), March 2014
- Side by Side LGBT Film Festival: Guilty and Fined 12,500 Euros for Violating “Foreign Agents” Law, Russia, June 2013
- QR Codes for Syria, May 2013
- Call to Action: Frieze New York, May 2013
- Unite for Contemporary Art (Budapest, Hungary) and Enough is Enough! (Ludwig Museum, Budapest), May 2013
- Marika Schmiedt’s Exhibition at Construction Site in Linz, Austria – Posters Ripped Down, the Artist Threatened and Attacked at Opening by Outraged Hungarian Nationalist and her Austrian Husband, April 2013
- “A Roma Model/ The Cosmopolitan Other?” (Berlin, Germany), March 2013
- Zampa di Leone: Former Friends, March 2013
- Victoria Lomasko’s Pussy Riot Drawings Censored (Moscow, Russia) and What Happened at the exhibition “International Women’s Day. Feminism from the Avant-Garde to the Present”?, March 2013
- “Political Propaganda” banned from the A.L. Stieglitz Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia), February 2013
- santralistanbul Museum Moves to Auction Off Its Collection (Istanbul, Turkey), January 2013
- Artist Carlos Celdran convicted for offending religious beliefs, January 2013
- Around and About Curating: Our Bad Experience with the Cultural Center of Belgrade (KCB), January 2013
- The antidemocratic makeover of the cultural scene in Hungary, December 2012, Does the Ludwig Museum Have a Contemporary Future?, March 2013
- Open Letter from Copenhagen Art Workers Coalition, November 2012
- Hindsight is always 20/20: Jakarta Biennale 2011, November 2012
- The Voice of the Streets Shouts Against Censorship, November 2012
- US artwork that angered energy industry pulled, November 2012
- Barbad Golshiri: Shanghai Biennial 2012 Open Letter, November 2012
- Welcome to the Third World Art World, October 2012
- Open Statement on the Censorship of Arkadiy Kots’ Concert in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), October 2012
- Ukrainian Museums: Between Two Evils and Art Workers’ Self-Defense Initiative: Open Statement Regarding the National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU), October 2012
- Secret Contracts Hide the Costs of Skopje Makeover, October 2012
- The Boyar’s Life is a Miracle, September 2012
- Homophobic Censorship at the MAMM Museum, September 2012
- Yuri Albert: “I am not going to Shanghai because of censorship,” September 2012
- Open Letter to Black Umbrella Board of Trustees, Taylor & Francis Group, and Arts Council England, August 2012
- Artists Occupy the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR), August 2012
- A Taxi Moving to the Edge of Disaster, August 2012
- Apocalypse Not Likely: Oleg Kulik’s Parallel Project to Kyiv Arsenale Shut Down for Pornography, June 2012
- Demand Justice for Takeshi Miyakawa!, May 2012
- Foundation Campaign Teatro Valle Bene Comune/ Valle Foundation of the Commons: Save Teatro Valle!, April 2012
- Censorship Cases at Art Dubai International Contemporary Art Fair, March 2012
- The Unknown Artists: Protest Action against the Ace Museum in Los Angeles, CA: Open Letter to Artists, March 2012
- Russian feminist punk group Pussy Riot face trial for cathedral protest, One More Pussy Riot Member Detained in Moscow, March 2012, Pussy Riot Members Ordered Held While Their Supporters Arrested Outside Court Hearing, April 2012, Persecution of Pussy Riot is Illegal, June 2012, Open Letter in Support of Pussy Riot (Rodchenko School for Photography and Media Art), August 2012
- Censorship of Canadian artist Franke James whose work on climate change provoked the ire of Canadian officials and withdrawal of her funding, February-March 2012
- Censorship of the exhibition The Ukrainian Body at the Visual Culture Research Center(VCRC), National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine), Slavoj Žižek writes in support of the VCRC, February 2012, Global Solidarity Action with the VCRC and The Ukrainian Body, March 2012
- ROMA_INDUSTRIE? “The link will remain on it. File a lawsuit or help us!,” February 2012
- Elections are a Con : The censorship of Oliver Ressler’s work by the Provincial Government of Tyrol, January 2012 and At the End of the Tyrolean Way, July 2012
- Aseem Trivedi’s anti-corruption cartoon website suspended in India and the artist’s continued struggle against censorship, January 2012
- Censorship claims at the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, December 2011
- Lacoste: No Room For Palestinian Artist, Bethlehem artist Larissa Sansour removed from Lacoste Elysée Prize and Lacoste Elysée Prize 2011 Suspended, December 2011
- We Demand A General Assembly! Open Statement To The President Of The VBKÖ and Open Statements Regarding the VBKÖ, December 2011; Epilogue to the conflict, January 2012
- “Without Limits”: “Anti-Putin” Installation Censored at Petersburg Contemporary Art Forum, December 2011
- LA MOCA Gala Performances & Marina Abramović: Sarah Wookey’s Open Letter To Artists & Three Reperformers from “Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present” Respond to the MOCA Gala Performances, November 2011
- Stop The War on Art Workers! Sotheby’s Teamsters (Professional Art Handlers Local 814), November 2011
- An Artist Suspected of Terrorism, October 2011
- Pavilion UniCredit, September 2011
- Just Another Case of Toxic Leadership, September 2011
- The Kandinsky Prize, December 2008
- The First Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, February 2005
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