Artist Against the Kremlin III: Memory Remains
14 August – 6 September 2026
- Opening hours
- 14 Aug – 6 Sept | 12.00 – 19.00 | Free entrance
This summer, Artists Against the Kremlin returns for the third time to De Balie. An ongoing art project by Prometheus Art, The Moscow Times, and De Balie. The exhibition brings together contemporary Russian-speaking artists from across the world whose practices confront the Russian invasion of Ukraine, repression, and censorship.
Video impression Artist against The Kremlin 2024
Over the past two years, Artists Against the Kremlin has presented more than 300 artworks, welcomed over 5,000 visitors, and attracted significant international media attention. This year, Artists Against the Kremlin exhibits more then 70 art works from amonst other Pussy Riot, Linor Goralik, Masha Trebukova, Artem Loskutov, Pavel Krisevich, Sasha Skochilenko, Aya Demina, Milada Kopeliovich, Vladlena Sandu, Ivan Dubyaga, Anita Turadzhanova, Nika Nikulshina and others
The project safeguards cultural memory in a context where memory itself is contested under the Russian authoritarian regime, which actively reshapes, suppresses, and instrumentalises historical narratives. It documents the human consequences of war and authoritarianism while creating space for dialogue across borders, generations, and political realities.
Artist against The Kremlin aims to preserve truth when truth is under attack. It can protect memory when memory is being erased. And it can remind us that behind every headline are individual lives, choices, and acts of courage.
Support Artists Against the Kremlin
This year’s edition of Artists Against the Kremlin has been the most challenging to realise so far, but we are bringing an even more ambitious exhibition to De Balie. If you value the work we do and want to help preserve the memories and histories that the Kremlin seeks to erase, please consider supporting our crowdfunding campaign.
Why memory remains
The systematic erasure of memory has become a defining feature of the Russian political landscape. Histories are rewritten, archives suppressed, and individual voices removed from the public record.
The Gulag History Museum in Moscow, one of the foremost institutions 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 for the simple act of remembering.
Erasing memory is not a new tactic for the Kremlin. It is as old as the Soviet Union itself: the silenced massacres such as Novocherkassk, the countless victims of Stalinist terror and forced displacement, rewritten histories, renamed cities, redacted photographs, and disappeared names. What has changed is the speed, the scale, and the brazenness at which it is happening today.
Artists Against the Kremlin III: Memory Remains aims to be an artistic response to this reality — preserving the memory of resistance and ensuring that it remains part of history.
About Prometheus Amplifying Values & The Moscow Times
Prometheus Amplifying Values (ex All Rights Reversed) is a cultural initiative operating at the intersection of contemporary art and civil society. Our ecosystem includes an archive of political art, a research and educational program, a gallery, an exhibition project, a production team, and a community of artists united by human values and a strong anti-war stance.
Since September 2023, they have organized over 25 exhibitions of anti-war and critical art worldwide, welcoming more than 10,000 visitors and reaching over 10 million through media coverage. These exhibitions provide a dynamic platform for diverse voices and perspectives on pressing societal issues.
The Moscow Times is the oldest independent Russian media outlet, informing the world about what happens in and around Russia since 1992. The Moscow Times is not just a media outlet in English and Russian, but also a platform for exchanging opinions and acting as a bridge between the East and the West. Since 2022, The Moscow Times has been based in Amsterdam.
Curated and concept by
Prometheus Amplifying Values
supported by The Moscow Times, De Balie
Photo’s of previous exhibitions
1 & 3 by Charlotte de Condé
2 by Viktoryia Kharytonava