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CEC ArtsLink supports transnational cultural mobility and collaboration, empowering artists and arts

10/17/2026

Announcing the ArtsLink Assembly 2026, in New York!

Our annual action-oriented platform curated to shift paradigms in transcultural practice.

𝗔𝗿𝘁𝘀𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝘆: 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲, 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱
𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟰, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲
𝗡𝗬𝗨 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘁

The Artslink Assembly 2026 aims to build resilient transnational collaborative networks capable of countering isolationism and the impacts of authoritarianism. The gathering will examine how existing U.S. cultural infrastructures, particularly within major metropolitan centers like New York City, can best adapt to host displaced, recently arrived, and transnational artists within the broader need to defend and foster cultural diversity in the U.S.

📅 𝗡𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥 𝟰, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 | 𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲!
🔗 Full program and registration request via link in our bio.

ArtsLink Assembly Curatorial intentions:
✦ Rethinking arts residency models: shifting away from the standard pay-to-play structures toward sustainable, localized hosting models for recently arrived and displaced artists across disciplines.
✦ Advocating for transnational dialogue. Counter growing U.S. parochialism by reinforcing transnational cultural exchange as a vital, non-negotiable public good.
✦ Elevating and expanding the traditionally visual-arts-heavy residency discourse to explicitly integrate performing arts, social practice, and live performance networks.
✦ Weaving ArtsLink Fellow’s transnational experiences directly into the dialogue.

Curated by CEC ArtsLink in dialogue with Artist Communities Alliance (ACA), Artistic Freedom Initiative (AFI), Artists at Risk Connection (ARC), Tamizdat, and City of Asylum Detroit.
Support is provided by the Trust for Mutual Understanding, NYU Steinhardt, and the Kirby Family Foundation.

This catalytic gathering is creating the conditions for reflections, new collaborations and action.
We look forward to seeing you there!

10/16/2026

Want to follow along the 2026 ArtsLink Fellowships?

Dive into 𝑫𝑰𝑺𝑷𝑨𝑻𝑪𝑯𝑬𝑺, a live journal where the ArtsLink Fellows from Palestine, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Hungary, and Uzbekistan share their experiences in their own words and photos.

Updated weekly, it is a collective chronicle of weeks of residencies with their Fellowships host organizations in the US and Europe.

👉 Read 𝑫𝑰𝑺𝑷𝑨𝑻𝑪𝑯𝑬𝑺: https://www.cecartslink.org/dispatches-a-2026-fellowships-journal/

10/13/2026

𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 is opening this week in Warsaw!

In her latest works presented at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, ArtsLink Fellowship alumna Karolina Grzywnowicz() addresses the political aspect of the senses. This first survey exhibition of hers looks at how the authorities may target the body, including both our sensory experiences of reality and our basic physiological processes.

The video works, objects and installations presented in the exhibition - including a scented one - treat the senses as a political field that can be shaped, disrupted and controlled.
Curated by Katarzyna Kolodziej-Podsiadło()

📍 Warsaw, Poland
📅 October 16 – January 10, 2027
🎟️ Opening: Thursday, October 15, 6:00pm
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10/06/2026

Wishing this year's ArtsLink Fellows an excellent start to their in-person residencies!

After months of connecting from afar, six artists from Palestine, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Hungary, and Uzbekistan begin their Fellowships at their host organizations in the US and Europe.

We can't wait to see what the coming weeks bring: new ideas, creative partnerships, and relationships that last.

Then, to close out the Fellowships, the Fellows will come together in New York this November for the 2026 ArtsLink Assembly.

ArtsLink Fellows & Hosts:
♦️ Kseniia Opria, Ukraine, curator, editor, and filmmaker specializing in documentary and experimental cinema.
📍 Hosted by Charlotte Mangin and Dara Messinger at DCTV, a nonprofit media arts center in New York City’s Chinatown. In partnership with Razom for Ukraine.

♦️ Areej Ashhab, Palestine, artist, architect, and researcher engaging in community land practices and material ecologies
📍 Co-hosted in Amsterdam by Mariela Acuña, Director of Exhibitions and Residency at Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago
and Jiyoung Kim at Framer Framed, a Dutch platform for contemporary art, visual culture, and critical theory.

♦️ Mátyás Tóth, Hungary, a puppet and theater artist working with issues of social impact and responsibility
📍 Hosted by of S.Y. Lim, Director of Programming, Public Media Institute, an independent media & cultural nonprofit in Chicago

♦️ Nabila Horakhsh, Afghanistan/Germany, artist and curator working with the topics of oppression, religious extremism and gender discrimination
📍 Co-hosted by Lila Nazemian, Programs Director at New York based ArteEast and Silva Jährling, Academic Affairs/International Cooperations, at HFBK Hamburg Artists in Residence, in Germany.

♦️ Zumrad Mirzalieva, Uzbekistan, photographer and filmmaker focusing on the issues of agency, migration and identity
📍 Hosted by independent curator and researcher, Tamara Khasanova in Brooklyn

♦️ Altynai Osmo, Kyrgyzstan, artist with a practice rooted in Central Asian nomadic heritage and politically driven by social awareness and women's empowerment
📍 Hosted by Sheila A. Rocha, at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe

09/16/2026

Puppeteer and interdisciplinary artist Mátyás Tóth works across puppet experiments, new-media installations, and performances. What can that practice bring to the topic of digital manipulation and propaganda, and to how these shape reality and mindsets in society, especially within autocratic systems?

Read our conversation with 2026 ArtsLink Fellow Mátyás Tóth at the link in our bio.

And don't miss the chance to see his latest performance, RENO_ATION, if you are near Zurich on September 25th (See last image for details)

07/29/2026

Fellowships begin well before the moment Fellows arrive for their residencies. For the 2026 ArtsLink Fellows, the work started across screens months earlier: in conversations with their hosts, in the gradual shaping of projects, in the kind of slow mutual familiarity that comes from time spent together.

That groundwork is now done, and the Fellows are getting ready for what comes next in person.

Mátyás Tóth and Kseniia Opria reflect on this first chapter.

07/09/2026

Today we are wrapping up our 2026 ArtsLink Fellows and hosts spotlights with Zumrad Mirzalieva who has started her Fellowship collaboration with Tamara Khasanova.

Zumrad is a visual artist, researcher and cultural programmer working with photography and moving image. Her research explores themes of agency, solidarity, ecology and extraction. She is one of the Directors of the Davra research group founded by artist and 2007 and 2018 ArtsLink Fellow Saodat Ismailova, a recent resident at Fabrica Research Centre, Delfina Foundation and a Magnum Foundations Fellow. Zumrad’s debut short film “Autonomy” was screened at documenta fifteen and the GoEast film festival symposium in Wiesbaden.

Based in Brooklyn, NY, and originally from Ukraine and Uzbekistan, Tamara is an independent curator, researcher, and writer. Tamara's research and curatorial work center emergent aesthetics, pedagogical and discursive practices, and forms of collective knowledge production, oriented toward questions of language, ecology, nuclear legacies, and colonial histories. She was a 2024–25 Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (ISP). Tamara has curated exhibitions, organized screenings, lectured, and contributed to projects across cultural, publishing, and educational institutions including e-flux, Protocinema, Davra Curatorial Lab, White Columns, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, The Clark Art Institute, the Queens Museum, and TransitoryWhite, among others.

We wish them a fruitful Fellowship!

07/01/2026

We continue our presentation of the 2026 ArtsLink International Fellows and their host organizations with Mátyás Tóth from Hungary.

Mátyás is a puppeteer and interdisciplinary artist whose practice combines puppet experiments, new-media installations, and performances. His research focuses on digital manipulation and propaganda, and on how these shape reality and mindsets in society, especially within autocratic systems. While living in Berlin he recently created multiple works addressing anti-LGBTQ+ propaganda.

Mátyás' host is the independent media & cultural nonprofit Public Media Institute in Chicago. PMI is a community-based organization, it builds and takes care of shared infrastructure like free magazines, community radio stations, artist shops, regional coalitions, cultural centers and festivals. PMI is part of the Buddy System, a network of nonprofit and for profit platforms helping each other out in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood and beyond.

A new Fellowships partner for 2026, PMI's hosting activities are under the stewardship of S.Y. Lim, Director of Programming.
S.Y. Lim, an artist and arts administrator based in Chicago and Seoul, is a founder and Director of 062, a 501(c)(3) artist-run space, where she has organized exhibitions with local and international artists.She also co-directs the Chicago Art Book Fair.

We are looking forward to the new ideas and collaborations to be forged during this Fellowship.

06/26/2026

Today's 2026 Artslink Fellow spotlight is on Altynai Osmo and her host in Santa Fe, Sheila A. Rocha, PhD, at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

Altynai is a cultural researcher and multimedia artist from Kyrgyzstan.
Her research investigates how traditional and contemporary societies intersect, and how shifting cultural norms shape identity, community, and social change.

At IAIA in Sante Fe, New Mexico, Altynai will conduct her Fellowship research under the mentorship of Shelia A. Rocha.
Founded in 1962, IAIA is widely recognized as the birthplace of contemporary Native arts and the only institution in the country dedicated to higher education grounded in Indigenous arts and cultures.“IAIA exists because Native artists, Native communities, and Congress recognized that Indigenous creativity and cultural knowledge are vital to this country,” said IAIA President Dr. Shelly C. Lowe.

Altynai's inquiry into intergenerational connections, matriarchy, memories of ancestors, and women’s empowerment will find many connections within IAIA’s scholars and Indigenous knowledge-holders. We look forward to the findings and exchanges that emerge from this Fellowship.

06/19/2026

We continue our presentation of the 2026 ArtsLink International Fellows and their host organizations with Nabila Horakhsh from Afghanistan.

To ensure that current US Government travel restrictions do not prevent us from supporting key International artists, we have developed a new Fellowship format for those who are currently barred from travel to the US: Fellows who are unable to travel to the US are now paired with both a US host and an international host. The residency in the fall will take place in international locations with the US host joining in-person as well — creating an enriched, tripartite collaboration that benefits everyone involved.

Nabila is an artist and curator from Afghanistan based in Germany. She has developed a multidisciplinary art practice working with the topics of oppression, religious extremism and gender discrimination, with her work been exhibited internationally.

Founded in 2003, Nabila's US host ArteEast amplifies the arts related to the South West Asia North Africa (SWANA) region and its diaspora engaging with New York, U.S. and international audiences. Lila Nazemian, the Programs Director overseeing the hosting activities, has focused her research and curatorial practice on reimagining approaches to histories from the SWANA and Central Asia regions in an effort to counter narrative revisionism and collective amnesia.

Nabila's Fellowship will be co-hosted by the HFBK Hamburg Artists in Residence, in Hamburg, Germany - a program focusing on the Global South and protective residencies for artists at risk. In 2026 HFBK (Hochschule für bildende Künste - University of Fine Arts) Hamburg became a CEC ArtsLink host and partner - Silva Jährling, Academic Affairs/International Cooperations, oversees the hosting activities.

We're thrilled about the cross-cultural exchanges and community connections Nabila's Fellowship will create!

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