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Course plant database spring 2025

In spring 2025, the BBK Saxony-Anhalt is offering a new fee-based course for artists, heirs and estate administrators under the direction of art historian Katharina Lorenz M.A., which consists of three dates. The following documents must be submitted for the application: Letter of motivation, short biography, list of exhibitions, list of publications, digital image of […]


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 […]


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 […]


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 […]


© 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 […]


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 […]


© Matthias Behne, lautwieleise.de

Friedrich Hensen

Friedrich Hensen works intermedially. He works in social, artistic and non-material spaces, which he summarizes with the socio-philosophical term “traversing the spheres”. This results in site-specific installations, performances and multimedia works consisting of texts, sounds and poetry or socio-cultural projects, such as the Bürgertheater Zeitz. Friedrich Hensen:


Gestaltung: Marcus-Andreas Mohr und Friederike Nottrott

BBK summer reception at Q.Hof

The second BBK Summer Reception will take place on August 15, 2024. The board of the BBK Saxony-Anhalt invited network partners from politics and culture, active members and members from the “focus” regions of Magdeburg and Harz to exchange ideas, look back on joint initiatives and make new plans. This year’s co-host is the Q.Hof […]


Gestaltung von: Helen Schneider | www.helensdesign.de

Generally fresh in Ilsenburg Monastery 2024

From fall 2024, the Kulturwerk of the BBK Saxony-Anhalt in Ilsenburg Monastery will be showing the exhibition “generell frisch. New members of the BBK Saxony-Anhalt”. We are looking forward to cooperating with the Ilsenburg Monastery Foundation in a fantastic location with the best conditions for the numerous works of art. Participants are 30 artists who […]



Gestaltung: Friedrich Hensen / www.friedrichhensen.art , Titelmotiv: Früheres Atelier von Martin Möhwald, Foto: Sibylle Mania © VG Bild-Kunst

Open studios in Saxony-Anhalt 2024

On 21. and September 22, 2024 the “Open Studios” will take place again in Saxony-Anhalt. Around 150 artists open their doors to visitors. Look forward to open doors in Barleben, Derenburg, Dessau-Roßlau, Halle (Saale), Havelberg, Jessen, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Magdeburg, Nebra, Quedlinburg, the Saale district, Salzwedel, Schlanstedt and Wernigerode!


© Julienne Jattiot

Symposium Experimental Printmaking

In September 2024, eight members of the BBK Saxony-Anhalt will come together at Posa Monastery in Zeitz to work together for a week. The artists are at home in the art of printing and look forward to experimenting. Not only does a well-equipped screen printing workshop await them, but also plenty of space to try […]


Claudius Förster in the Merche+Thies showroom in Halle (Saale)

Ungewisse Allianz Personal Exhibition Vernissage – Performance “Spoken Picture” Marcus-Andreas Mohr


Short-term call for tenders Course work database for BBK members (14.04.2024)

We recently advertised a course on work databases for heirs and estate administrators. As we have not received enough registrations from this group of interested parties, we would now like to open the course to BBK members at short notice. The dates have already been set and two participants have already confirmed their attendance. If […]


“Self-positioning in the art field” on 19. and April 20

What is my artistic work about? How do I communicate my request precisely? Where should the development of my work lead and, above all, how can I make it publicly visible? Who would I like to talk to? Art demands attention. But where can I find the right environment for my artistic work? How do […]


Workshop art business and parenthood

Expert lecture and workshop on May 15, 2024 from 09:00 to 14:00. A hybrid event organized by the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. and Dornrosa e.V. Halle. The initiators are the visual artists Wiebke Kirchner and Daniela Schönemann. For artists who have children, the art world is full of structural hurdles. Parenthood and freelancing are […]


© Thomas Kober

ilka Leukefeld

Visually guided to the day before ‘becoming conscious’, we see wild creatures. a nature untouched by man with clear air, unsealed landscapes and waters without plastic particles. This place of idyllic thoughts harbors carefully guarded hopes like seeds that have become rare. The work is on display: “I/II There used to be a paradise (with […]