€50
Helps frame
one artwork
or print explanations
Our memory
is under attack.
Art keeps it alive
This August, Artists Against the Kremlin returns
to Amsterdam with its third edition —
Memory Remains — an exhibition
preserving the voices, stories, and artworks
that authoritarian power wants erased.
We are building a space for artists, archives,
and people who refuse to forget.
Our statement is simple:
there is no position outside history.
Silence is not absence, silence is a stance.
When injustice and repression are rewritten,
remembering becomes an act of resistance.
Why do we need
to act now?
In recent years, Russia has been systematically
dismantling the institutions that preserve histories
and memories that challenge the state narrative.
The Gulag History Museum in Moscow,
one of the key places documenting Soviet
political repression, was closed.
Memorial, one of Russia’s oldest organisations
dedicated to documenting state violence
and preserving historical memory,
was designated an extremist organisation.
Both were punished not for violence,
but vice versa: for remembering it.
When archives disappear,
history becomes vulnerable.
Art responds:
Artists Against the Kremlin: Memory Remains
preserves the memory of resistance
and keeps it recorded in history.
Critical artists and curators refuse to forget.
They refuse silence, sometimes at the cost
of their freedom and lives.
Instead, we create powerful projects
and artworks that preserve erased stories
and keep the evidence alive.
After each exhibition, we publish a book —
a documentary testimony that cannot be destroyed.
Now we are raising funds to make this project possible.
Memory needs
people who
will protect it
The Russian state invests billions to control historical narratives.
We cannot compete with propaganda machines alone.
But we have:
Artists | Archives | Communities | People who refuse to forget
Our goal this year is 10000 euro
Your support will help us:
- bring
artworks
to the exhibition - support artists
travelling
to Amsterdam - fund artistic
and curatorial
work - organise
public
programmes - keep
erased stories
visible
How your
contribution
affects
the exhibition
€100
Pays transportation
for one artwork
inside Europe
€200
Provides
meals
for volunteers
€500
Brings one
artist/speaker
to the opening
€1,000
Covers insurance
for
artworks
€1,500
Brings one artwork
from Russia
to Amsterdam
€2,500
Funds 1 day
of the public
programme
€5,000
Brings the complete
Erasure of Memory
section to DeBalie
Why trust us?
We have done
this before.
Twice.
Artists Against the Kremlin has become a platform
for critical artists, researchers, and communities
defending freedom of expression.
We know how to bring difficult stories into public space.
We have already created
two exhibitions
and
published two books.
Now we need
your help
to continue
About the project
Since 2024, Artists Against the Kremlin
has brought together art that authoritarian
power wants to silence
- 300+
- Original
artworks - 40+
- Countries
- 7,000
- Visitors
at De Balie - 10+ million
- People reached
through international
media
Memory
Remains
Erasing memory is not new.
It begins with renamed places, removed evidence,
rewritten stories, and disappeared names.
Memory Remains is our response.
An exhibition about active memory — protecting
the truth of the past while it is being challenged
in the present.
Exhibition
sections:
The Erasure of Memory
An exposition of
Another Russia:
35 Years of Memorial Society
Archive Section
Remembering people
who resisted repression —
past and present
Tribute Section
More than 50 new
contemporary artworks
from our contemporary
critical artists
Feminist Antiwar Resistance
Stories of women
who chose courage
over silence