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Artists for Assange

When law, politics, and old structures seem to be failing, art emerges as a liberating force. This expanding archive presents various artists and artworks inspired by the journalistic achievements of WikiLeaks and personal struggle of Julian Assange. Explore the gallery and artists, and contribute with suggestions.

 

Chicks on Speed

Chicks on Speed are art duo Melissa Logan and Alex Murray-Leslie who met in Munich, Germany while studying at The…

Pamela Anderson

Pamela Anderson is a Canadian-American actress and model, as well as an activist for human, environmental, and animal rights. She…

Roger Waters

George Roger Waters is a songwriter, singer, bassist, and composer. In 1965, he co-founded the progressive rock band Pink Floyd…

Srećko Horvat

Srećko Horvat is a philosopher, author and political activist. The German weekly Der Freitag called him as "one of the…

Metahaven

A design and research studio based in Amsterdam, Metahaven, designed a beautiful range of WikiLeaks scarves and T-shirt, which were…

Romain Gavras 

Romain Gavras is a French–Greek filmmaker. He is best known for directing Jamie xx's video for "Gosh" and Kanye West's…

R.A. the Rugged Man

R.A. The Rugged Man is one of the most fascinating figures in hip-hop history. His career spans decades, and defies…

Nellie McKay

Nellie McKay is a singer, songwriter and comedian. Sister Orchid is Nellie’s seventh album, starting with Get Away From Me (“a tour…

Juan Passarelli

Juan Passarelli, is an award-winning filmmaker and journalist, co-founder of Guerrilla Pictures (@guerrillapix) and Infosec Bytes (@infosec_bytes). With more than…

Eugene Jarecki

Eugene Jarecki is an American filmmaker, author, and public thinker. He is a two-time winner of the Sundance Grand Jury…

Nadine Asmar 

Nadine Asmar  is a Lebanese director and screenwriter. Nadine is also a co-founder and producer at MovieTailor Pictures, a film…

Theo Jones 

Theo Jones is an award-winning architectural designer, maker, researcher, and teacher based in London. He works in architecture with Architecture…

Laibach

Laibach is a music and cross-media group from Slovenia established on the 1st of June, 1980 in Trbovlje. The name…

Alice Walker

Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she wrote the…

Miltos Manetas

Manetas painted over forty portraits of Julian Assange as a reflections on his condition resulted by imprisonment, isolation, and as…

Kokan Mladenović

"Julian Assange is Prometheus of our time, chained by the new Gods for giving us the fire of information" said…

Maja Pelević

Maja Pelević is an award winning playwright and theatre maker.  She has a PhD degree in Theory of Arts. Her…

Niels Ladefoged

Niels Ladefoged is cinematographer, cameraman and the producer. In his work he contributed a lot with protectection and support of…

Clara López Rubio

Clara López Rubio is a film historian, She studied directing at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. Her…

Frans Jacobi

Frans Jacobi works with performance, text and images. His performances and installations are often large scale scenarios with multiple participants…

Brian Eno

Brian Eno is a musician, record producer, visual artist, and theorist best known for his pioneering work in ambient music and…

Kamilya Jubran

Kamilya Jubran is a Palestinian singer, songwriter, and musician. Assange teamed up with the rap ensemble Calle 13, Kamilya Jubran and…

Line Heie Hallem

Line Heie Hallem is an actress and theater director. She is known from movies like: 22. juli (2020) and Dårlig…

Jean-Yves Ferri

Jean-Yves Ferri is a writer, designer, and colourist of comics known best for Adventures of Asterix. He features a Gallic investigative…

Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than two dozen books on world history and politics,…

Surya Mattu

Surya Mattu is a data reporter on Gizmodo's Special Projects Desk and an R&D journalism resident at Eyebeam NYC. As…

Cornelia Parker

Cornelia Parker is famous for her acts of destruction, which in turn produce ephemeral, beautiful installations out of wreckage. She…

Mahn Kloix

Mahn Kloix is a street artist from Paris, now living and working in Marseille. He grew up in a family…

Mr.Fish

Mr. Fish, also known as Dwayne Booth, is a cartoonist who primarily creates for Truthdig.com and Harpers.com. Mr. Fish's work…

Meja

Meja Anna Pernilla Kullersten is a Swedish composer, artist and singer. She is known for songs like "Private Emotion", a…

Christian Frentzen

Christian Frentzen is a pianist/keyboardist and sound engineer from Cologne, Germany. He has played and toured with many pop, rock…

Beate Passow

Beate Passow  is a German installation, photo and collage artist. With her art she works "against forgetting", but sees her…

Caitlin Johnstone

Caitlin Johnstone is an illustrator, painter and self described "Rogue journalist. Bogan socialist. Anarcho-psychonaut. Guerilla poet. Utopia prepper." You can…

Daniel Lismore

Daniel Lismore is a British fabric sculptor, designer, and campaigner. Described by Vogue Magazine as "England's Most Eccentric Dresser" he…

Ken Loach

Kenneth Loach is a film director, screenwriter, film producer and author. His socially critical directing style and socialist ideals are…

Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone is a film director, producer, and writer. Stone won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as writer…

Chrissie Hynde

ChristineHynde is a singer, songwriter, musician. She is a founding member and the guitarist, lead vocalist, and primary songwriter of…

Murray Lachlan Young

Murray Lachlan Young  is a poet, stand-up performer, broadcaster, playwright, screenwriter and children's author.   murraylachlanyoung.co.uk BBC Radio 4, Poetry Please,…

Banksy

New Banksy's artwork on the wall of a British prison draws attention to Julian's incarceration. Journalism is not a crime.  During…

Suzie Gilbert

Suzie Gilbert

Suzanne Gilbert is a filmmaker and actress. She is known for being co-producer on various Oliver Stone movies. Suzie Gilbert…

Daniela Tomé

Daniela Tomé is an art activist known for her political paintings. Daniela Tomé, art activist is also known for other…

Gabriel Shipton

Film Producer at Shipton House, Advocate for his brother imprisoned Journalist and Publisher Julian Assange. He has been involved in…

Sarah Lucas

Sarah Lucas joined NoisyLeaks exhibition in support of Assange with sculpture named "Did Someone Mention Totalitarianism?" While journalist spends years…

Lowkey

Lowkey (Kareem Dennis ), is a rapper and activist from London. He is well known for through a series of…

Matt Orfalea

Matt Orfalea is an American independent video creator, documentary producer, and journalist. He began his career in the mid-2000s, arriving…

Limbo Mask

Limbo Mask is a graphic designer, illustrator and artist from Mexico. Limbo Mask makes illustration with the collage technique, its objective is…

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel is an Argentine activist, community organizer, painter, writer and sculptor. After training as an architect and sculptor…

Angela Richter

Angela Richter is theatre director & author & Freedom of Information aficionado @Supernerds_tv Member of Advisory Panel at DiEM25  In…

Gianluca Costantini

Gianluca Costantini is an activist and artist who for years fought his battles through the drawing. Censored on the web…

Manu Chao

The brilliant Manu Chao dedicates his song Words Of Truth to Julian Assange and and asks for his freedom. Manu…

Tayo Aluko

Tayo Aluko is an actor, singer and playwright, based in Liverpool, UK, where he worked previously as an architect. His…

George Gittoes

George Noel Gittoes is an Australian artist, film producer, director and writer. In 1970, he was a founder of the…

Sarazino

Sarazino is the brainchild of Lamine Fellah, a musician, songwriter and producer whose nomadic life is reflected in the multicultural…

Pascal Boyart

Painter based in Paris isassionate about drawing since he was a child, Pascal Boyart grew up just a stone's throw…

Malvina

Malvina  one of the most influential hardcore bands in Brazil. Originally from Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro, the band is…

Manja McCade

Manja McCade is an abstract expressionist, painter form Leipzig Germany. She was trained by Klaus Oszminski, a well-known expressionist painter…