platformB is a production and discourse space for artists in exile. It serves the free development of art and offers space for individual artistic expression and interdisciplinary discourse. This hybrid art space is based on experimental digital formats of music, sound, image, text and video design.
Founded in 2023, platformB was initially aimed at artists who are threatened by the aggression and oppression of the autocratic regimes in Russia and Belarus and are currently dispersed in various European countries.
Barely networked and struggling individually for residency rights and temporary funding, artists in exile are at the same time confronted with national appropriation or collective guilt. platformB aims to counteract the tendency to instrumentalise art and force it into a tight corset of nationalist or »politically correct« restrictions. It addresses a community in virtual space that is aware of the shared context and creates a protected space for free artistic thought.
The uniqueness of the individual should be respected and contradictions, contrasts or conflicts should be accepted and reflected upon in a spirit of empathy, tolerance and respect. The reality of exile and war is thus contrasted with the vision of a free, humane, unrestricted, solidary, collectively designed space.
Our Team
Christine Fischer–artistic director of Musik der Jahrhunderte
Hanna M.–project management
Anton Zherebnov–SMM