Many organizations either help connect artists with residencies where they can find at least temporary safety or offer such residencies themselves or through their networks. Some of these organizations also contribute funds to relocation, help an artist settle into a new environment and offer a platform for their art.

The Agency for Artists in Exile is a French organization, which seeks to connect artists in exile with European and French networks that could support the artist in continuing their artistic work. The agency also arranges several platforms such as festivals for the artists to exhibit their work.

Aid for Artists in Exile based in Germany, supports artists who are persecuted in their home countries and prevented from continuing their creative work. They offer financial support, an exhibition platform for artists, and an award for activist artists advocating for democracy and free expression in their home countries.

The Artistic Freedom Initiative, headquartered in the USA, focuses on assisting and supporting artists at risk on a global scale. AFI’s main focus is on providing legal support. This includes immigration representation in the United States as well. Their work also extends beyond obtaining legal status as they directly work with relocation efforts and support the specific artist settling in their new environment. The AFI also offers a residency program for up to two years in cooperation with a coalition of organizations.

Artists at Risk (AR) is focused on providing artists with residency opportunities.

City of Asylum is an NGO based in the US, which offers short and long-term residencies to persecuted writers and artists. It offers also legal, social and financial support for the the continued work of the artists as they ‘’transition into a life in exile’.

Coculture is a cultural organization, based in Germany, which seeks to provide a platform for

displaced artists (mainly Syrian) where they can continue and exhibit their creative work. The organization also provides training and connections to wider cultural environments.

Ettijahat is a civil society cultural organization based in Lebanon working to promote independent culture across the Arab world. They promote freedom of expression for all artists and cultural practitioners, and the safety of artists subjected to marginalization. They provide legal advice, direct assistance in averting danger, a safe haven for a six-month period and assistance in relocation.

Hammerl Arts Rights Transfer (HART) is a human and artistic rights non-profit organization based in South Africa.’ HART offers a 6–12-month residency in Johannesburg to all creative disciplines at risk as a result of their efforts relating to human rights.

ICORN is a network organization, consisting of cities and municipalities, focused on providing artists at risk with temporary but potentially long-term relocation and the opportunity to continue their artistic work with residencies.

Institute of International Education Artist Protection Fund The IIE-APF is part of the ‘Institute for International Education’ (IIE), a broader constellation of assistance programs, including one of which covers scholars. The APF supports artists at risk from any field of practice by offering fellowships at host institutions in safe countries.

PEN International is a registered charity which works to protect, shelter and resettle writers at risk. This includes international campaigns, monitoring, direct assistance to writers at risk, research & reports, and advocacy. PEN consists of 147 autonomous centers across 100 countries working in their respective regions, networked from London and PEN International.

Safemuse is a Norwegian non-profit organization which provides short and long-term residencies for artists at risk or artists who have limited artistic freedom, in collaboration with the ICORN network. They also advocate and promote artistic freedom.

Shelter City is an organization, based in the Netherlands, which operates a global network of 21 cities supporting human rights defenders, including artists. It offers temporary relocation of three months to those HRDs at risk. It also supports artists during the relocation, providing training and networking.

The Martin Roth Initiative of ‘Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen’ and the ‘Goethe Institute’, focuses on the relocation of at-risk artists and cultural workers. The organisation runs two programs. The first, which works with and supports host institutions, offers temporary residence in Germany where the artist can continue their artistic work through a host institution. The second program focuses on in-regional relocation meant to provide the artist at risk with ‘rest and respite’ for a shorter period.