As part of our work with safer spaces, HAUT participates in a learning network of cultural organizations, local businesses and artistic platforms, which systematically reviews and gradually severs our connections to companies that profit from Apartheid, settler colonialism and genocide.
These APARTHEID FREE ZONES are a principled and pragmatic work to put our values of social justice and sustainability into practice.
In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that there are too many connections between our organizational and administrative infrastructures and the world's ongoing and systemic violence. Among other things, we have learned how art funding sometimes casts long shadows by artwashing problematic investments in the destruction of nature and human rights violations.
That is why HAUT is part of the Not Just Art initiative. Together, we are forming Apartheid Free Zones in Copenhagen and across Denmark by publicly committing to a systematic review of our own organizational infrastructure. For example, we are already in the process of switching banks, and we are deleting our Airbnb account to instead use subletting from travelling artists to house our visiting artists. In 2026, we look forward to learning more about online drive and mail servers that are not complicit in crude data harvesting and exploitative mining in the Global South.
You can read HAUT’s declaration to become an Apartheid Free Zone here. If you have questions or would like to join the initiative, please contact our artistic leader Alex Blum at alex@hautscene.dk.