Activist Artists
Activist artists choose to engage with and start a conversation on a variety of topics, from the environment and politics to race, gender and sexuality. A huge element of what makes contemporary art so important is engaging with current world issues; art is an invaluable tool in providing innovative insight and fresh perspectives where words can fail.
The incredible beauty of the natural world is something that artists have represented for centuries. So when it comes under threat by humanity, it's not surprising that ecologically engaged artists such as Jérémy Gobé, Angeles Peña and Franck Seguin use their art to promote its protection.
Gender and sexuality also plays a significant role in artistic activism. Belgian photographer Charlotte Abramow's stunning shots explore gender identity, feminism and female sexuality. Meanwhile, American non-binary artist Ryan Wilks' drawings confront the difficult relationship between sexual orientation and religion.
The world of politics is also ever present in contemporary art, with political artists exploring humanitarian issues and our societal values. World famous street artists Banksy and Shepard Fairey both explore a range of political subjects, from war crime to the disadvantages of consumerism.
Expand your horizons and discover Artsper's curated selection of activist artists!
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Family sleeping – with Grandmother
Karine Giboulo
Sculpture - 4 x 30 x 13 cm Sculpture - 1.6 x 11.8 x 5.1 inch
€3,200
Family – pink Blanket
Karine Giboulo
Sculpture - 7 x 18 x 16 cm Sculpture - 2.8 x 7.1 x 6.3 inch
€3,000
Family of eight – blue sleeping bags
Karine Giboulo
Sculpture - 14 x 30 x 16 cm Sculpture - 5.5 x 11.8 x 6.3 inch
€4,400
Family – safety blankets silver
Karine Giboulo
Sculpture - 13 x 13 x 12 cm Sculpture - 5.1 x 5.1 x 4.7 inch
€3,000
Family sleeping with Pampers
Karine Giboulo
Sculpture - 4 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 1.6 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
€3,960
Parents hugging, children sleeping
Karine Giboulo
Sculpture - 14 x 16 x 6 cm Sculpture - 5.5 x 6.3 x 2.4 inch
€3,000
Broken Circle
Karine Giboulo
Sculpture - 170 x 270 x 244 cm Sculpture - 66.9 x 106.3 x 96.1 inch
€36,142
Ma maison ; Conserve 15
Karine Giboulo
Sculpture - 25.4 x 16.5 x 10.2 cm Sculpture - 10 x 6.5 x 4 inch
€3,200
Ma maison ; Conserve 13
Karine Giboulo
Sculpture - 25.4 x 16.5 x 10.2 cm Sculpture - 10 x 6.5 x 4 inch
€3,200
Ma maison ; Conserve 11
Karine Giboulo
Sculpture - 25.4 x 16.5 x 10.2 cm Sculpture - 10 x 6.5 x 4 inch
€3,200
Ma maison ; Conserve 21
Karine Giboulo
Sculpture - 25.4 x 16.5 x 10.2 cm Sculpture - 10 x 6.5 x 4 inch
€3,200
Ma maison ; Conserve 20
Karine Giboulo
Sculpture - 25.4 x 16.5 x 10.2 cm Sculpture - 10 x 6.5 x 4 inch
€3,200
Ma maison ; Conserve 22
Karine Giboulo
Sculpture - 25.4 x 16.5 x 10.2 cm Sculpture - 10 x 6.5 x 4 inch
€3,200
À travers mes yeux comme à travers une fenêtre (1)
Karine Giboulo
Sculpture - 11.4 x 11.4 x 5.6 cm Sculpture - 4.5 x 4.5 x 2.2 inch
€3,800
À travers mes yeux comme à travers une fenêtre (11)
Karine Giboulo
Sculpture - 25.4 x 16 x 10.2 cm Sculpture - 10 x 6.3 x 4 inch
€2,800
Ma maison ; Conserve 6
Karine Giboulo
Sculpture - 25.4 x 16.5 x 10.2 cm Sculpture - 10 x 6.5 x 4 inch
€3,200
The First Post Black
Felandus Thames
Sculpture - 99 x 61 x 2.5 cm Sculpture - 39 x 24 x 1 inch
€10,000
African King of Dubious Origines #2 (Green)
Felandus Thames
Sculpture - 99 x 61 x 2.5 cm Sculpture - 39 x 24 x 1 inch
€10,000
À travers mes yeux comme à travers une fenêtre (2)
Karine Giboulo
Sculpture - 11.4 x 11.4 x 5.1 cm Sculpture - 4.5 x 4.5 x 2 inch
€3,400
Mary cherche ses repères
Karine Giboulo
Sculpture - 17.8 x 22.9 x 22.9 cm Sculpture - 7 x 9 x 9 inch
€5,200
À travers mes yeux comme à travers une fenêtre (3)
Karine Giboulo
Sculpture - 11.4 x 11.4 x 5.1 cm Sculpture - 4.5 x 4.5 x 2 inch
€9,500
Chichin Seahore (Vision of Taiwan)
Cheng Chang Wu
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
€2,441
T-Bar and Rice Field (Vision of Taiwan)
Cheng Chang Wu
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
€2,441
Jia Dong (Vision of Taiwan)
Cheng Chang Wu
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
€2,441
Vision of Taiwan- Taihsi
Cheng Chang Wu
Photography - 100 x 150 x 0.1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0 inch
€2,441
It's a crime to live with the person you don't love
Tracey Emin
Print - 41.9 x 29 cm Print - 16.5 x 11.4 inch
€2,347
Citoyen du monde
Enfant Précoce / Francis Essoua Kalu
Painting - 200 x 230 x 3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 90.6 x 1.2 inch
€20,300
Paranoïd #12
David De Beyter
Photography - 30 x 41 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.8 x 16.1 x 0.1 inch
€350
Paranoïd #5
David De Beyter
Photography - 30 x 41 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.8 x 16.1 x 0.1 inch
€350
The Battle for Berlin 1945
Thomas Dellert
Painting - 200 x 200 x 20 cm Painting - 78.7 x 78.7 x 7.9 inch
€6,500
Che Guevara the ultimate Revolutionary Hero
Thomas Dellert
Painting - 190 x 160 x 5 cm Painting - 74.8 x 63 x 2 inch
€6,500
Richard Wagner Tristan
Thomas Dellert
Painting - 200 x 200 x 10 cm Painting - 78.7 x 78.7 x 3.9 inch
€6,000
Jackson Pollock and Charlie Parker
Thomas Dellert
Painting - 110 x 80 x 10 cm Painting - 43.3 x 31.5 x 3.9 inch
€3,000
August Strindberg
Thomas Dellert
Painting - 148 x 115 x 40 cm Painting - 58.3 x 45.3 x 15.7 inch
€6,500
Paranoïd #9
David De Beyter
Photography - 30 x 41 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.8 x 16.1 x 0.1 inch
€350
Into The MMXXI (black on white)
Cleon Peterson
Print - 82 x 82 x 0.1 cm Print - 32.3 x 32.3 x 0 inch
€900
Orientations of the night II
Cleon Peterson
Print - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Print - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€390
Orientations of the night III
Cleon Peterson
Print - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Print - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€390
Orientations of the night I
Cleon Peterson
Print - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Print - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€390
The return (black and gold)
Cleon Peterson
Print - 51 x 51 x 0.1 cm Print - 20.1 x 20.1 x 0 inch
€390
Between the sun and moon II (White)
Cleon Peterson
Print - 30.5 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Print - 12 x 16 x 0.1 inch
€450
Pain Killer (rouge)
Karine Giboulo
Sculpture - 23 x 23 x 18 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 9.1 x 7.1 inch
€2,685
Urban Landscape Series - Up And Down
Zhao De-Wei
Painting - 150 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
€31,150
Pain killer (bleu)
Karine Giboulo
Sculpture - 23 x 23 x 18 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 9.1 x 7.1 inch
€3,098
Pain killer (jaune)
Karine Giboulo
Sculpture - 23 x 23 x 18 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 9.1 x 7.1 inch
€3,098
Pain killer (vert)
Karine Giboulo
Sculpture - 23 x 23 x 18 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 9.1 x 7.1 inch
€3,098
Swimming Pool, Intercontinental Hotel, Verticale, Monrovia, Liberia, 2008
JR
Print - 100 x 70 x 0.2 cm Print - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
Sold
28 Millimètres, Women Are Heroes - Swimming Pool, Intercontinental Hotel, Verticale, Monrovia, Liberia
JR
Print - 98 x 72 cm Print - 38.6 x 28.3 inch
Sold
The Ballerina Jumping in Containers Le Havre France 2014
JR
Print - 34 x 46 cm Print - 13.4 x 18.1 inch
Sold
28 Millimetres, Women are Heroes Action in Phnom Penh, Peng Panh
JR
Print - 72.5 x 102.5 cm Print - 28.5 x 40.4 inch
Sold
New York city ballet, paper interactions 13, 2014
JR
Print - 100 x 70 cm Print - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
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La Ferita, 25 Mars 2021, 19h07, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italie, 2021
JR
Print - 100 x 70 cm Print - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
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Migrants, Mayra, Picnic Across The Border. Tecate, Mexico–USA (2017)
JR
Design - 20 x 80 x 1 cm Design - 7.9 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
Sold
Flowers Of Evil: There Is An End To Everything (White)
Cleon Peterson
Print - 81 x 81 cm Print - 31.9 x 31.9 inch
Sold
Giants, Miguel, Casa Amarela, Morro da Providência, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2018,
JR
Print - 46 x 36 cm Print - 18.1 x 14.2 inch
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Giants, Kikito, September 6, 2017, 7.27 p.m., Tecate, Mexico - U.S.A., 2017
JR
Print - 36 x 46 x 0.1 cm Print - 14.2 x 18.1 x 0 inch
Sold
Migrants, Walking New York City. New York, USA
JR
Print - 100 x 80 x 1 cm Print - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
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Ballet, Ballerina In Crate, East Village, New York City
JR
Print - 46 x 36 cm Print - 18.1 x 14.2 inch
Sold
Unframed, Charlie Chaplin revu par JR, The Kid, Charlie Chaplin & Jackie Coogan, USA, 1923, de jour Paris
JR
Print - 70 x 50 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 inch
Sold
Action in Kibera Slum, Train Passage 1 , Kenya, 2009
JR
Print - 73 x 104 x 0.2 cm Print - 28.7 x 40.9 x 0.1 inch
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28 Millimètres: Face 2 Face, Nuns In Action, Separation Wall; Security Fence, Palestinian Side, Bethlehem, 2007
JR
Print - 60 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
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JR au Louvre, 29 Mars 2019, Paris, France (19h45)
JR
Print - 35 x 46 cm Print - 13.8 x 18.1 inch
Sold
Ballet, Regard surplombant la façade du Palais Garnier, Opéra de Paris, France, 2014
JR
Print - 100 x 70 x 0.2 cm Print - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
Sold