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Myanmar's military junta has been abducting, torturing and murdering its own population for two years. Politically active artists usually have no choice but to flee; now their works can be seen in Berlin.
The Artists Fighting for a Different Future in Myanmar From re-interpreting protest symbols to selling work to support striking civil servants, how artists are responding to the military coup In the early hours of 1 February 2021, the Burmese military, known as the Tatmawdaw, arrested Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy (NLD) leadership in the Myanmar capital of Naypyitaw. On that morning, whatever future the people of Myanmar imagined for themselves was gone. As historian and political commentator Thant Myint U has observed, the coup was supposed to b...