Art the Arms Fair
Award winning exhibition against arms fair returns to East London with new partnership GALLERY46
On 11th September 2023 the award-winning Art the Arms Fair (ATAF) will return to London with its 4th exhibition. Running until 17 September, the exhibition will coincide with the Defense and Security International (DSEI) arms fair being held at the ExCel Centre.
11TH – 17TH SEPTEMBER
You are invited to attend our press view with drinks
Thursday 14 September
6.30 – 9pm
GALLERY46
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Dates
Exhibition Dates
11TH – 17TH SEPTEMBER 2023
Tuesday – Saturday
12.30 – 7.30 pm
Check details on Insta for opening times
Artists
Adam Broomberg
Daniel Dugan
Ed Hall
Elizabeth Eade
EPI
Gavin Turk
Jeremy Deller
Ken Nwadiogbu
Kyle Goen
Protest Stencil
Subvertiser aka Dr. D
Zedsy
Information
On 11th September 2023 the award-winning Art the Arms Fair (ATAF) will return to London with its 4th exhibition. Running until 17 September, the exhibition will coincide with the Defence and Security International (DSEI) arms fair being held at the ExCel Centre.
Art the Arms Fair continues to expose the DSEI arms fair, which is held with the support of the UK Government in London every two years. One of the world’s largest arms fairs, this year’s DSEI will have 2,800 suppliers, and more than 230 new exhibitors. Despite Sadiq Khan calling for a stop to the event, numbers of attendees are expected to surge following Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Taking place at GALLERY46 in Whitechapel, Art the Arms Fair (ATAF) will be responding to DSEI from the heart of East London.
For the first time ATAF has partnered with Demilitarise Education to present We Ain’t dED Yet, a show of internationally acclaimed artists shining a light on the human cost of war.
Curator Zayna Al-Saleh said:
“The exhibition is testament to the presence and operations of the arms trade in our daily British lives: from its staging in our capital to its discrete dealings with our universities. These dealings provide the means for major human rights violations and have resulted in millions of refugees, many of whom are not granted safety from European waters. Where politicians have failed to place accountability, artists will lead with a literal revelation in the national interest of our public.”
Jinsella, dED’s founder said: “British industry profiting from war is nothing to be proud of. We need to see the same level of investment that goes into war, being put into economic and sustainable transformation that will improve and secure the livelihoods of people in the UK and beyond. This transformation starts within universities, directing partnerships away from arms companies and towards socially useful and ecological sectors.”
Arts the Arms Fair (ATAF) is a grass-roots group of volunteers who came together in 2017, uniting around the principle of exposing the effects of the global arms trade, using art as a platform. The exhibition is hosted every two years in September to coincide with the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair in London. ATAF were the proud recipients of the 2018 Nesta & Observer’s New Radicals award and were recently included in the Designing Peace exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
Art from We Ain’t dED Yet will be sold to support Demilitarise Education as they work with students to collect research on every university in the UK. dED is planning to leverage this data to campaign for the adoption of the Demilitarise Education treaty.
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