Speakers Forum 2025
“We invite writers and artists who tell the stories autocrats want to censor and imagine the future autocrats do not want to see”
Curator, Ianthe Mosselman
De Balie is very pleased to welcome the speakers of Forum on European Culture 2025:
Anne Applebaum
Nino Haratischwili
Marietje Schaake
Laurent Richard (Forbidden stories)
Open group
Arnon Grunberg
Adam Phillips
Bektour Iskender
Matej Drlička
Beatrix Ruf
Philipp Oehmke
Nikita Kravtsov
Azu Nwagbogu
Konvooi
Christian Guerematchi
Kateřina Tučková
Želimir Žilnik
Georgi Gospodinov
Geert Mak
Dimitra Kolliakou
Margus Lattik
Ece Temelkuran
Natalia Antelava
Caroline de Gruyter
Alicja Gescinska
Andrei Kurkov
Yousra Benfquih
Volodymyr Yemolenko
Tash Aw
Iswanto Hartono
Lauren Bastide
Olesya Khromeychuk
Gosia Wdowik
June 25 – 29
Who’s afraid of art? Now that tyrants are on the roll and more and more people in the West seem to be falling for the autocratic alternative, the Forum on European Culture brings together international artists, writers, and thinkers to celebrate the subversive power of art and literature. It is no coincidence that – alongside
