BBK events


Digital information event on 06.02.2025 on the call for proposals We can do art

The project office is offering a digital information event on the application process on the following date: 06.02.2025, 15:00-17:00 (registration by e-mail by 05.02., 14:00) The information event will take place via Zoom; you will receive the link with which you can dial into the event after you have registered. If you are interested, please […]


Save the date: Open studios on September 20 & 21, 2025

On the third weekend in September, i.e. September 20 and 21, 2025, the “Open Studios” will once again take place in Saxony-Anhalt. We hope that many artists from the various trades will once again open their doors to visitors, as they do every year, and invite you to save the date in your diary. Further […]


Foto: Matthias Ritzmann

Reminder: Admission of new members to the BBK Sachsen-Anhalt e.V.

The next recording session will take place on April 8, 2025 in Halle (Saale) at Galerie Paul Scherzer. If you are interested in becoming a member of the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Sachsen-Anhalt e.V., we look forward to receiving your application by March 15, 2025. If you have any questions, please contact us by e-mail or […]


Anja Wolf

In February, our newcomer Anja Wolf will be presenting her work in the window of the workshop café. The exhibition will be on display around the clock until February 28. On display in the exhibition are collages from the year 2024, which show an artistic examination of the “Potsdam Memorandum 2005”. This is a manifesto […]


Meeting of the Cultural Education Working Group on February 17, 2025

On Monday, February 17, 2025 at 1 p.m., the Cultural Education Working Group will meet at the BBK office (Gr. Klausstr. 6, 06108 Halle). We would be delighted to hear of your interest in the working group and cordially invite you to attend. Please register by February 12 at .


Foto: Ruth Heftrig

Network meeting “Art and Parenthood” on February 3 in Halle (Saale)

An open network meeting on the topic of “Art and Parenthood” will take place on February 3, 2025 from 1:00 to 3:00 pm. We would like to think together about how to proceed with our concerns. At the workshop with MATERNAL FANTASIES in November 2024, some ideas were raised in the open final round that […]


Future Vision Free Culture Part II on January 30

We would like to remind you of two dates right at the beginning of the year. A lot has been happening behind the scenes again. On the occasion of the Lord Mayor election on February 2, 2025, we have planned a second event format “Future Vision Free Culture” together with the Alliance, very similar to […]


Foto: Juliane Naumann Photography

Network meeting BBKarien Saxony-Anhalt in Dessau on February 4, 2025

The aim of the meeting could be to develop a common strategy/concept for all BBKarien or to consider which criteria the BBKarien have or should have in common. How could a rotation of artists be organized? An exchange of experiences between the regional groups would also be great and motivating. Participation without prior registration is […]


Group exhibition

Happy New Year and a group exhibition in January with art by Anja Wolf, Elfi Nitze, Elena Kiseleva-Arendt, Sabine Brauns, Veronika Kaiping, 6y_anhalt, Juliane Naumann, Benjamin Kerwien and Jakob Wolf. New Year’s vernissage | January 1 | 4.30 p.m. Further information: https://www.instagram.com/bbkarium_dessau/ Visible from outside around the clock! The project is funded by the NeuSTADT […]


Foto:

Korvin Reich

Several levels come together in his “flying objects”: Force fields, maps, elements from mathematics and physics. The perception of the spiritual world materializes. Free, intuitively set forms are surprisingly combined with fixed processes. Reich’s hand drawings are often mistaken for prints of computer graphics – calling his own perception into question. Further information about the […]


Foto: Grit Wendelberger

Diemitz makes the puppets dance

Head: Grit WendelbergerProject partners: Bürgerstiftung Halle, Diemitz/Freiimfelde elementary school, Kulturwerk des BBK Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. In November 2024, the art project “Tell me something. A journey through stage sets and favorite stories” came to an end. In two plays, the children presented elaborately designed stage sets that told the story of the clever farmer’s daughter and […]


Save the Dates: BBK Events 2025

To make it easier for our members and cooperation partners to plan the dates for 2025, we would like to announce the following dates of our projects in advance:


First birthday BBKarium Dessau with Wilfried Meinarth

The BBKarium in Dessau has been around for a year now. We want to celebrate this birthday with you on December 1, 2024, from 5 p.m. at the shop window in Ferdinand-von-Schill-Str.3. There will be mulled wine, snacks and a short review of the past year. We also want to present the exhibition program for […]


© Jakob Wolf

Gert Burkard Büttner

Title of the exhibition: Bild-Hauerei Gert Burkard Büttner, qualified sculptor/metal designer In my works, I use the various creative means of the visual arts to process paradoxical and strange inspirations from reality that occur to me. The motifs can then be seen in the fields of sculpture and plastic art as well as graphics and […]


Foto: Matthias Behne, lautwieleise.de

Manuela Homm

Manuela Homm works with a wide variety of materials such as glass, ceramics, wood and concrete. Melting, casting and firing are her favorite processing techniques. She explores the inner life, the core of the material in detail and expresses it in her objects through form and light. Approximation usually occurs through a structure, the meeting […]


Foto: Angela Dolgner

Admission meeting in October: BBK Saxony-Anhalt welcomes 19 new members

On October 22, 2024, the BBK Saxony-Anhalt hosted the admission meeting with the artist Elvira Franz in the Blauer Stern exhibition barn in Quedlinburg. Here, interested artists from Saxony-Anhalt were able to introduce themselves to the admissions committee in order to become members of our association. The following 19 artists are new: Ammar Assali | […]


Wiebke Kirchner: „I NURSED“, 2022 (Detail)

Workshop MATERNAL FANTASIES in Halle

Participatory performance and regional network meeting on art and parenthoodon 13. November 2024 von 10:00 bis 16:00 Uhr A hybrid event organized by the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. and Dornrosa e.V. Halle. For artists who have children, the art world is full of structural hurdles. Parenthood and freelancing are difficult to reconcile and this […]


Screenshot BBK-Homepage, Künstler*innendatenbank, Beispiel „Buchkunst“, Stand 25.09.2024

BBK workshop “Artist profiles on the BBK homepage” on October 22 and 29, 2024

The new BBK Saxony-Anhalt website was launched in April 2024. The site is optimally geared towards our uses. The design is appealing, the usability is flexible and the new tools bring it to life. One shortcoming of the new site is the extensive lack of artist profiles in the “Artist database” menu item(www.bbk-sachsenanhalt.de/kuenstlerinnen). All BBK […]


Bild von Andreas Breitling auf Pixabay

BBK Saxony-Anhalt conducts survey on artists’ estates

The Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. is calling on all visual artists and estate holders (institutions and private individuals) to take part in an anonymous survey. You have until November 15 to take part. The survey is the first part of a study that the BBK Saxony-Anhalt is conducting from summer 2024 to the end […]


Zeitgleich-Zeitzeichen: Experimental printing art from Saxony-Anhalt now also in Dresden

Printmaking experiments from Dresden and Dessau have already been on show for two weeks this early summer at the Anhaltischer Kunstverein Dessau. Now the BBK portfolio project is also coming to Dresden. In the spirit of contemporary experimental printmaking, works will be exhibited by: Künstlerbund Dresden e.V. Thomas Bachler | Heike Berl | Gudrun Brückel […]