antiwarcoalition.art
antiwarcoalition.art began its work in 2022 as a cultural and political response to the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, which also implicated Belarus as a platform for military aggression. Born in the context of war, repression, and displacement, the initiative emerged as an urgent call for solidarity, using art as a space of resistance, reflection, and transnational connection.
Over the course of three years, antiwarcoalition.art evolved into a growing transnational network that brought together artists, researchers, and cultural practitioners committed to confronting war, authoritarianism, and systemic violence. Through its online platform, discursive projects, exhibitions, and representational work, the coalition developed a distinctive voice and presence at the intersection of art and activism.
In 2025, the initiative established Stichting antiwarcoalition.art as a non-profit foundation. This legal status enables the platform to expand its activities and deepen its impact—building a global network of artists committed to creative resistance. It builds upon the experiences and practices of the past three years, strengthening our commitment to creating spaces for artistic experimentation, critical dialogue, and collective action.
antiwarcoalition.art: the International Coalition of Cultural Workers in Solidarity with Ukraine was initiated in February 2022 in response to russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The initiative was founded by a group of Belarusian cultural workers: Anna Chistoserdova, Oxana Gourinovitch, Valentina Kiselyova, Lena Prents, Antonina Stebur, and Maxim Tyminko, who left Belarus between 1994 and 2021 due to their dissent with the political regime.
Prior to the invasion, this group had been working on the development of an Alternative Belarusian Pavilion for the Venice Biennale. However, the outbreak of the full-scale invasion prompted a critical shift: the team redirected its efforts to express solidarity with cultural workers in Ukraine and to reflect on the complex and controversial position of Belarus within the context of the war. This shift fundamentally shaped the structure, values, and long-term direction of Antiwarcoalition.art.
In March 2022, Ukrainian curators Natasha Chychasova and Tatiana Kochubinska joined the initiative, further strengthening its transnational and collaborative character.
From its inception, the initiative was managed and legally hosted by Ambasada Kultury, whose support, care, and collaboration were essential to the development of the project in its early stages. We remain deeply grateful for this partnership.
Antiwarcoalition.art has been made possible through the financial support of the European Cultural Foundation, the Barys Zvozskau Belarusian Human Rights House, Goethe-Institut, Swedish Institute, Danish Cultural Institute, and Belarusian Human Rights House.
In May 2025, the initiative entered a new phase by establishing Stichting antiwarcoalition.art as a non-profit foundation in the Netherlands. This transition enables the platform to expand its activities, strengthen its international network, and further develop spaces for artistic experimentation, critical dialogue, and collective action.
Structure
- Viktoriya Kharitonova
- Tatiana Kochubinska
- Maxim Tyminko
Board
- Anna Chistoserdova
- Valentina Kiselyova
- Antonina Stebur
Advisory Council
Statutory Objectives
- to produce, and support and facilitate the development, creation and dissemination of and experimentation and public engagement with, works of art and cultural practice —across digital and physical formats—that critically address war, armed conflict, systemic violence, and other urgent global conditions;
- to provide support of the makers of such works through exhibitions, hybrid platforms, and experimental methods;
- to cooperate with other persons, legal entities and organisations that pursue the same or similar objectives as the Foundation;
- to do anything which, in the widest sense of the words is connected with and/or may be conductive to the attainment of the above.
Organisation details
Stichting antiwarcoalition.art
RSIN: 867965472
Postal address: Beemsterstraat 316, 1024 BM Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Email: board@antiwarcoaltion.art
Website: https://antiwarcoalition.art/
Activities Report 2025 PDF, 173KB
Policy Plan 2025-26 PDF, 94KB
Governance Statement PDF, 202KB
ANBI General PDF, 398KB