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ke— na— artists’ initiative is an international arts initiative and network that empowers and supports artistic research and practice, while creating sustained opportunities for learning, exchange, and self-guided growth for cultural practitioners and leaders. Founded in 2024, ke-na-emerged from a collective desire to reimagine and build alternative infrastructures with artists and cultural workers.

ke— na— operates primarily as a mobile/web platform and digital institution governed in dialogue with an artist council, to experiment with institutional and programmatic typologies. The initiative reimagines how cultural institutions can function beyond built structures and national boundaries, developing new models for artistic collaboration, knowledge production, and community building. Through sustained research networks, fellowships, publications, professional development programs, and artist editions, ke— na— creates pathways for artists and cultural workers to develop new work, nurture economic relations, and engage audiences in innovative ways.

ke— na—'s artist council and advisors: Azra Akšamija, Antonia Alampi, Nimmi Gowrinathan, Martin Heller, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Nidhi Mahajan, Francesco Manocorda, Christian Nyampeta, Marian Pastor-Roces, Andrea Torreblanca, Yesomi Umolu, Françoise Vergès, Ilze Wolfe