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.
Born from the urgent need to create, think, and mobilise on our own terms, we create from within the centre of struggles we are part of, at the intersection of arts, activism and politics.
Led by those on the frontlines of change, we wield stories as weapons and carry knowledge forged in lived experience.
Artists take enormous risks to share urgent realities, from which bold ideas ignite action, and imagination becomes the spark for radical transformation.
Unrelenting and award-winning, 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 — spanning every art form, from theatre, virtual reality, and immersive audio, to mixed-reality mobile experiences, artist-led citizen journalism, and more.
They begin in the heart of communities, led by those on the sharpest edge of oppression. Moving across countries and continents, we shatter distance and make the abstract real.
From intimate underground spaces to major national theatres, the stage has always been a home — but the work does not stop there. Projects unfold wherever people are: in streets, cafés, parks, metro stations, and the ruins of destroyed buildings.
When silenced or shut out, we disrupt, reclaim space, and engage in civil disobedience. When borders, checkpoints, and censorship make meeting impossible, we use new technologies to connect artists, audiences, and different realities across a virtual world.
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.
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.
