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BBK Summer Reception in Halle (Saale)

You are cordially invited to the BBK Saxony-Anhalt Summer Reception Date: September 1, 2026, starting at 4:00 p.m. Location: in front of our office, Große Klausstraße 6, 06108 Halle (Saale) We look forward to welcoming you to our fourth summer reception, which will feature the following program items. Please let us know by August 20 […]


CANCELED: “Stark mit Kunst” in Halle (Saale)

“Strong Through Art” Information and Networking Event on the Federal Funding Program “Culture Makes You Strong” Monday, July 6, 2026 | 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Small Ballroom, City Hall, Marktplatz 2, 06108 Halle (Saale) The event has been canceled! Are you planning a cultural education project for children and young people? Do you already […]


“Culture Makes You Strong” Project with Andrea Flemming and Mareen Alburg Duncker in Sangerhausen

Absolutely fantastic Children’s Art Projects at the Spengler Museum in Sangerhausen At the exhibition opening on July 10, 2026, at 1:00 p.m., the participants will present their works. Everyone is cordially invited! “Tierisch gut” is a collaborative project between MUSAIQ e.V., the cultural department of the BBK Saxony-Anhalt, the after-school program at the Freie Grundschule […]


Foto Martin Nielebock

Anne Pruy

Anne Pruys’ series *White Clouds in the River* consists of large-format, three-dimensional collages made of enamel and steel, assembled into irregular wall objects. With their vivid colors, they project a symbolic presence into the rooms, while at the same time appearing ephemeral and loose in their application of paint. This appearance of transience and painterly […]


Melanie Kuna-Drechsler

In her artistic work, Melanie Kuna-Drechsler focuses on special moments and the traces of change. Inspired by nature, memories, and moments of everyday life, she creates multi-layered and vividly colored visual worlds and spaces. Using acrylic, oil pastels, and beeswax, she explores the tension between the visible and the hidden, between “what remains” and constant […]


Foto: Daniel K. Schweitzer

Roswitha Bühler

Roswitha Bühler, an artist from Jerichow, focuses primarily on figurative art. In her sculptures and ceramic works, she explores the human form, its postures, and forms of expression. With clear forms and great sensitivity, she creates works that reveal the human being in all its presence and individuality. In her drawings as well, she focuses […]


Alexandra Liakhavets

Exhibition: “Where Do Our Roots Begin—and Where Do They End?” A café with birch trees, a birch bottle, everything birch… In this project, I take the birch tree as my starting point. It becomes a space for negotiation between my experiences and the changes I’ve undergone since moving from Belarus to Germany. Through everyday objects, […]


visible – art & design market on 13. & June 14, 2026

This year, the “sichtbar – Kunst- & Designmarkt” will once again take place during the Handel Festival in the moat of Moritzburg Castle in Halle. Come along and look forward to a new market weekend with more than 50 artists and designers who will be showcasing their fantastic range at the 13th sichtbar market. Experience […]


Foto: Alexandra Liakhavets

Ondine Frochaux

Ondine Frochaux, born in Lausanne in French-speaking Switzerland, studied painting in Otto Möhwald’s class at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle. In her artistic work, she deals with the phenomenon of beauty and the question of how beauty is perceived and experienced. For her, it is both astonishing and wonderful that […]


Here is somewhere else – BBK members in Kiel

Group exhibition “Here is there somewhere else – views of society” Exhibiting artists: Anne Martin, Desiree Sander, Marion Münzberg, Sibylle Mundt, Tobias Nerger (members of BBK Saxony-Anhalt), Andreas Trabitzsch, Arturo Sayan, Heidi Krautwald, janKB, Kai Zimmer, Naiwei Tian, Patrick Wüst (members of BBK Schleswig-Holstein) A group of 12 BBK members working with the media of […]


Online workshop artist profiles BBK homepage

Online workshop on August 5, 2026, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. via Zoom To become visible on the homepage of BBK Sachsen-Anhalt e.V., we would like to encourage you to design your profile. For the first steps, we will be offering an introductory workshop from March 2026. In this workshop, we will show you […]


New BBKarium shop window in Wittenberg

The BBK Saxony-Anhalt is delighted to open the third of a total of five BBKarium showcases in Saxony-Anhalt in Lutherstadt Wittenberg. After a long search, a new place for art, encounters and visibility has been found with the Stadtlabor – Stadtwohnzimmer. The opening will take place on Friday, May 15, at 6:00 pm. In the […]


© Daniel K. Schweitzer - Begegnung durch Fotografie
© Daniel K. Schweitzer – Begegnung durch Fotografie

Johann Spengler

“May 1 – International Workers’ Day of Struggle” by Johann Spengler The series “May 1st – International Workers’ Day” by Johann Spengler (*1995 in Berlin) is dedicated to women in various professional fields in the GDR in eight pennants. While the obedience paragraph was still in force in the FRG until 1957 and the employment […]


Invitation to tender “Summer 2026 plant database course”

The BBK Saxony-Anhalt has been operating the “Visual Arts Database Saxony-Anhalt” since 2017. It publishes catalogs of works and estates of visual artists with a connection to Saxony-Anhalt. The work database informs the public – including curators and researchers, for example – about the life’s work of individual artists and reflects the diversity of artistic […]


Foto: Sebastian Kaps
Foto: Sebastian Kaps

Sebastian Kaps

On April 1, 2026 at 17:00, the BBK Saxony-Anhalt will open a new exhibition at the BBKarium in Dessau-Roßlau. The guest is Dessau photographer Sebastian Kaps, who will be presenting his current photographic work. Sebastian Kaps dedicates his artistic work to landscape photography. The exhibition focuses on the oak tree as part of the Dessau-Wörlitz […]


Talk & open work meeting: Work and seesaw – family friendliness in the art world

14.04.2026, 5 pm – duration approx. 2 hoursFree of charge – registration required by 07.04.2026Location: Gallery Café of the Cranach Museum The Halle-based Werk und Wippe initiative will present its work and discuss obstacles, opportunities and concrete approaches for a more family-friendly art industry in a moderated talk – with a particular focus on residency […]


Talk “Works of art from the GDR: a look at the collections”

Tue 28.4. / 18:00 / RADIO CORAX event room Works of art from the GDRA look at the collections How are works of art created in the GDR preserved, processed and exhibited today? How large is the proportion of works by women artists in the collections? How did the collections come about? Who has what? […]


Call for proposals “Artists in schools in Saxony-Anhalt” 2026/27

This year, the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. is once again inviting tenders for the implementation of cultural education projects, which are primarily open to the artists of the BBK Sachsen-Anhalt and all general education schools. The projects of approx. 20 hours can take place between August 17, 2026 and March 19, 2027. The “Artists […]


Foto: Daniel K. Schweitzer

Laura Baginski

Making female* experience visible, questioning stereotypical images of nature, the body and roles and working towards a lively, diverse perception of gender, sexuality and desire – this is what drives Laura Baginski in her artistic work. In the video work “Lustsubjekte”, she merges the plaster relief of a vulva with images of nature from her […]


Foto: Matthias Ritzmann

Next admission meeting in April 2026

Interested visual artists can still apply for membership in the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler e.V. until March 15, 2026. On April 21, 2026, the BBK will host the next admission meeting, which, in addition to reviewing the admission criteria, will primarily serve to get to know the new members, the board, the admission committee and the […]