BBK events


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BBK at the Magdeburger Kunst/Mitte

At this year’s Magdeburg Art/Mitte fair from August 28 to 31, 2025, we will be providing information about our projects and concerns. Formats such as “Generally Fresh”, “Artists in Schools” and “Visual Arts Database” increase the visibility of professional contemporary art, communicate it to young people and draw attention to the impending loss of cultural […]


BBK summer reception at Thomas Leu’s studio

The third BBK summer reception will take place on August 22, 2025. The board of the BBK Saxony-Anhalt has invited network partners from politics and culture, active members and members from this year’s “Focus” region Altmark to exchange ideas, look back on joint initiatives and make new plans. This year’s co-host is BBK member Thomas […]


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Open studios in Saxony-Anhalt on September 20/21, 2025

Art needs space – for creation and for encounters. On this special weekend, Saxony-Anhalt opens its studio doors and becomes a living map of creative work. Where there is usually silence, rooms are filled with voices. Whether painting, photography, sculpture, graphics, ceramics or sound – each studio is a small world of its own: surprising, […]


Taha Bader

Taha Bader, born in Karachi (Pakistan) in 1991, has lived in Saxony-Anhalt since 2016. After completing his Bachelor’s degree in Communication Design at the Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture and a Master’s degree in Integrated Design in Dessau, he has dedicated himself to painting since childhood, which he rediscovered during the pandemic in […]


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Workshop “Tax issues of artists and designers” on May 26, 2025

Which income and expenses belong in the surplus income statement? How can freelance and commercial activities be distinguished from each other? Is the small business regulation suitable for me? These and other questions are the focus of a workshop with tax consultant Ronald Ebersbach on May 26 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Designhaus […]



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Admission meeting in April: 8 new members in BBK Saxony-Anhalt

On April 8, 2025, the BBK Saxony-Anhalt hosted its spring admission meeting at the Paul Scherzer Gallery in Halle. Here, interested artists from Saxony-Anhalt were able to present themselves to the admissions committee in order to become members of our association. We are delighted that 8 artists are now new members and have conjured up […]


Veronika Kaiping

“INTERIOR VIEWS” In April, the BBKarium Dessau is all about our inner life. Artist Veronika Kaiping makes visible what we don’t normally see – the organs that work inside us and the emotions that move us. Body maps and emotional beings provide humorous insights in which the physical and the spiritual exist side by side. […]


Foyer des Arts – The art salon with Roman Pliske on “estates”

What remains of an artist’s inner life? And what happens to an artistic legacy if no descendants preserve it or archives reach their limits? These questions are on the minds of many artists – because the concern that works will be lost contrasts with the growing importance of documenting and making visible one’s own artistic […]


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Call for proposals “Artists in schools in Saxony-Anhalt” 2025/26

This year, the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. is once again inviting applications 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 11, 2025 and March 27, 2026. The “Artists […]


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Marie Mandalka

Mandalka’s garbage reliefs attract attention with their organic aesthetics and haptics. Memories of skin and anthropological traces unfold a fascinating effect. By using recycled, cut-up packaging waste that shimmers through under layers of latex in kilim structures, these works focus on themes such as the use of resources, political communication, interaction and effectiveness. Further information […]


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Astrid Salewski

In the March edition of the BBKarium’s showcase exhibition, Dessau artist Astrid Salewski invites you to explore the sometimes disturbing beauty of quiet moments with her small selection of images. On display are works that were created as part of a work scholarship on the subject of “Under the Ice” and for the exhibition “” […]


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 […]


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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 […]


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 […]


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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 […]


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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 […]


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 […]


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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 […]


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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 […]