WHAT IS FREEDOM?
HOW TO PRESERVE IT?
HOW TO CELEBRATE IT?
Our mission revolves around these questions.
WHO WE ARE?
We are Passion for Freedom. We shake and inspire the world through Art. Since 2009 we have organized an annual fearless art festival exhibiting censored artists from 60 countries. We have done it despite (sometimes radical) adversarial actions against us. After all these years we know how to do it and we even know how to do it with a smile.
OPEN NOMINATIONS
Each month, our community shines a spotlight on remarkable talent across various art forms! Know an inspiring freedom artist whose work deserves recognition? Nominate them in one of our five categories: Comedy, Books, Movies, Speech, or Artist.
Through monthly nominations, we help amplify unique voices and creative visions, building a vibrant community where artists and freedom of speech enthusiasts connect. By nominating, you bring deserving artists closer to new opportunities, audiences, and appreciation.
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Lars Vilks Memorial Wolter meant to say that if you want to know who rules you, consider whom you cannot criticise. This sentence seems to be a good motto for many contemporary artists whose activities focus on criticising various environments and entities, as well as...
Unlike the many commercially minded NYC galleries, who adorn their white walls with art that is as confused in its concept as it is in its visual aesthetic. The Passion for Freedom exhibition that is now being held at the Seven House Gallery in Brooklyn is a...
OUR PAST EVENTS
NEW YORK CITY, USA
Seven House Gallery
35 Meadow Street,
Brooklyn New York
03.05 – 31.05.2024
CATEGORIES: ART
The 15th anniversary of the festival, which was founded in London in 2009 by an idealistic international group of friends. During this time, the festival has international attention throughout London, Denmark, numerous Poland venues and is returning to New York once again.
The competition starts in January 2024 and opens the door to artists from all over the world to express their views on freedom through their chosen media of painting, photography, sculpture, performance and film.
2024
2021
27.08 – 16.01.2022
CATEGORIES: ART
London Art Festival “Passion For Freedom” goes to Warsaw in Poland.
The exhibition Political art at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art together with Passion For Freedom takes place from 27th August 2021 to 16th January 2022.
An exhibition of brave artists who tried to answer three questions through their art:
What is freedom?
How easy is it to lose?
How hard is it to get it back?
Smedievejen 2
07.06 – 06.08.2019
CATEGORIES: ART
Passion for Freedom
is partnering with the Danish curator on this important show. PFF is contributing with five Passion for Freedom artists among them Mimsy, Firoozeh Bazrafkan along with the works of Lars Vilks, Ai Weiwei and Banksy.
Apart from the PFF nominated artists, there will be British Banksy, Swedish Lars Vilks and Danish Firoozeh Bazrafkan who are among the 13 artists taking part in a 51-day exhibition at Laesoe Art Hall.
2019
2018
LONDON, UK
1.10 – 13.10 2018
CATEGORIES: ART, FILM
Passion for Freedom is the groundbreaking London art festival that celebrates freedom of expression through the arts. With the launch of this commemorative book, Passion for Freedom is coming to the United States for the first time.
“The festival works now as an indicator for the level of freedom on a given continent, nation or even city. At our exhibition you will see what is happening in Venezuela, China, Pakistan, England or Poland and we are succeeding in removing the veil from these places.
25.02.2016
CATEGORIES: ART
We like freedom, and we believe that freedom of expression is our primary goal or even mission.
We like the idea so much that – despite the fact that Metropolitan Police and New Scotland yard would like to censor it – we decided to show the forbidden art in London.
As Douglas Murray has observed in the Spectator: “The exhibition has a simple mission – which is to display the work of artists who are thinking seriously about freedom, what it means and how you lose it… but that is where Britain is now.
2016
2015
LONDON, UK
21.09 – 26.09.2015
CATEGORIES: ART, FILMS, BOOKS
7th PFF Festival and Gala Night
7th Passion for Freedom Gala Night was a tremendous success, with hundreds queuing outside Mall Galleries on a red carpet waiting impatiently to get in, the show could not go any better.The Gallery was saturated with awaiting and exasperation of visitors commenting the artwork, chatting away, discussing limits of freedom in art, yet waiting impatiently to learn who would become the Freedom Ambassador of 2015.
LONDON, UK
195- 205 Union Street, London SE1 0LN
2014
CATEGORIES: ART, FILM, BOOKS
Passion for Freedom Festival celebrates writers who passionately discuss subjects related to freedom in a politically correct or sensitive environment and who elucidate the value and fragility of freedom in our societies. Selected Books for Passion for Freedom… Passion for Freedom Festival celebrates writers who passionately discuss subjects related to freedom in a politically correct or sensitive environment and who elucidate the value and fragility of freedom in our societies.
2014
2013
LONDON, UK
195- 205 Union Street, London SE1 0LN
2013
CATEGORIES: ART, FILM
Recognizing the importance of documentary and feature films in freedom movements, the Film Section of the festival has short-listed films for its artistic values and meaningful impact on societies.
All the trailers of the nominees are being published on the festival Youtube channel inspiring thousands of concerned citizens to watch quality films.
LONDON, UK
3.11 – 10.11.2012
CATEGORIES: ART, FILM
Passion for Freedom asked artists to respond to these three questions:
1. What is freedom?
2. How easy is it to lose it?
3. How hard is it to get it back?
2012
2011
LONDON, UK
2011
CATEGORIES: ART
26 artists from 12 different countries.
Many people are waiting patiently in front of the gallery. Everybody wants to get in, the rest are watching the movie through the massive glass window. The hall is full. On the podium the winner of the public award is announced. “In more than 30 Islamic countries being a homosexual is banned,” says the winner of the public award, Steve Rosenthal.
LONDON, UK
20 Great Guildford St, London SE1 0FD, next to Tate Modern
11.11 – 21.11.2010
CATEGORIES: ART
There are regimes that are afraid of artists but artists are not afraid of regimes.
18 International Artists took part in the ‘Passion for Freedom’ competition. The group show presents artists shortlisted in the First Stage of the competition.
The winners of EQ Award which stands for Equality were announced at the 20 November private viewing at UNIT24 Gallery located next to TATE Modern.
The Gallery was packed with guests.
2010
2009
LONDON, UK
Online
CATEGORIES: ART
Passion For Freedom is pleased to announce the winners of 2009’s art competition, Passion for Freedom, which was organized to promote universal and equal rights and expose the discriminatory nature of religious laws.
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Charlie Kirkham’s work, The Four Rivers of Eden, has been put forward for the Visual Artist category in the Passion for Freedom Awards 2024. Her piece, which is on display at the at Seven House Gallery in Brooklyn, New York is an ink...
Far away in the land of Sylvania, some woodland creatures have gathered to celebrate Pride. There’s a cross-dressing fox, a PVC-clad boar, a rabbit in full drag on a float. Rainbow flags and bunting abound. But just out of sight, perched above an ice-cream...
Another bright spot in the bleak ideological hellscape is an art exhibition currently on in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Williamsburg, of course, is ground zero for an edgy hipsterdom that poses as iconoclastic, but in today’s degraded culture is more frequently a...