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Survey on artists’ estates completed
From mid-September to mid-November 2024, the BBK Saxony-Anhalt conducted a survey on artists’ estates. Visual artists and estate holders (institutions and private individuals) were invited to take part. The response was great. The Museum and Archive Association, the Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation and other partners forwarded our appeal, articles about the project appeared in the press […]
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 […]
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:
Study Center for Artists’ Legacies Saxony-Anhalt 2024-2026
The BBK Saxony-Anhalt has been observing the problems of dealing with artistic bequests and estates for many years. He is committed to keeping this topic in the political discourse and finding solutions. He will now examine whether a center for artists’ estates could be expedient. The state government also attaches great importance to this idea […]
Open letter “A brewery for our city”
The site of the ex. Schultheiß brewery, where the Kulturwerk des BBK Sachsen-Anhalt showed its 2021/22 exhibition “generell frisch” and where the next BrauArt exhibition will soon begin, is still in a worrying state. Now newkid e.V. from Dessau has written an open letter calling on the city’s stakeholders to take action and expressing its […]
Request: Job in the cultural and art sector for residence permit
Our member Eileen Almarales Noy is in the last weeks of her master student studies and I would love to stay in Germany to develop her future. In order to get another visa, she needs a qualified job in the cultural sector. Otherwise she will unfortunately have to leave Germany. She therefore asks for help. […]
Community Fund Future Paths East (without deadline)
Fast, uncomplicated and without own funds: The micro-project funding of the Zukunftswege Ost joint fund starts on July 1, 2024. At least 100 projects are to be supported with up to 5,000 euros. Applications are possible on an ongoing basis. The first payments are planned for September. In the long term, the fund is to […]
Eighth Gabriele Münter Prize 2025 (29.09.2024)
The Gabriele Münter Prize aims to make the outstanding achievements of contemporary female visual artists visible and is in the context of equality with artists. The prize is named after the painter Gabriele Münter (1877 Berlin – 1962 Murnau), one of the most important artists of modernism. Her example is still an encouragement for female […]
Eye of history in Magdeburg (31.08.2024)
The open-space installation is a concentrated, vivid and tangible representation of the city’s more than one thousand years of significant history up to the present day, which cannot be found anywhere else in this form. The aim is to bring Magdeburg’s 1,200-year history to life, not only for tourists but also for us Magdeburgers. The […]
Exile Visual Arts Award (15.08.2024)
Freedom of art and artistic expression are fundamental rights in democratic societies. If these rights are suspended and artists are persecuted, they are forced to flee and seek protection in exile. The experiences of persecution, flight and exile can find artistic expression in very different forms. The Exile Visual Arts Award honors works that deal […]
ifa – Exhibition funding (15.08.2024)
The exhibition funding program supports international exhibition projects in public museums, cultural institutions and galleries abroad. The program is open to contemporary visual artists who are from Germany or have lived in Germany for at least five years. Funding is available for solo and group exhibitions, participation in an international exhibition project or a biennial […]
Kallmann Prize of the Kreissparkasse Ismaning 2024 (19.07.2024)
The competition is open to artists who live and work in the Federal Republic of Germany and who have completed their studies at a recognized art academy or academy or who regularly and successfully exhibit their work. Artists who have had a solo exhibition at the Kallmann Museum in the past five years are not […]
Art-in-architecture competition: New Langenhagen Town Hall (07.07.2024)
Preliminary application procedure for the non-open art-in-architecture competition The city of Langenhagen writes above. Art-in-Building competition and invites professional artists to apply to take part in the competition with their relevant portfolio. The art-in-architecture competition will be held as a non-open competition with a preliminary application procedure based on RPW 2013 and the Federal Government’s […]
Höchster Porzellan-Manufaktur Residency Program 2.0 (07.07.2024)
“RESIDENCY 2.0 exploring porcelain” (from October 14, 2024 to February 14, 2025) promotes international artists and designers and offers them a free space to research, experiment and develop innovative concepts in working with porcelain and ceramics. Scholarship holders receive the following funding There is no legal entitlement to the scholarship. Requirements for applicants Combination with […]
Art in architecture: EZMW Bonn (05.09.2024)
Open anonymous two-phase art-in-architecture competition The competition procedure is carried out in accordance with the Guidelines for Art in Architecture (2012) and based on the Guidelines for Planning Competitions (RPW 2013). The competition language is German. Around 20 artists and artist groups will be selected for the 2nd phase. The competition is open to professional […]
René Schäffer at the Galerie Nord in Halle
Group exhibition “The Female Face” with René Schäffer and other artists
Mareen Alburg Duncker in Bingen
Group exhibition “Crossing Borders” of the “Polit Art Zone”
Dana Laszlo Da Costa at the Long Night of Science in Halle (Saale)
Long Night of Science 2024 at the BURG 18.00 to 22.00Intercultural KitchenSpace between consumption and librarySmall participation format on the topic of “Smell and taste”by Dana Laszlo Da Costa, Aleksandra Ivanina and Katja LehmannLocation: Neuwerk outdoor area Admission: Admission is free of charge, registration is not required.
Assistant Professorship for Graphic and Information Design
New Design University, St. Pölten (Austria)Application deadline: 21.07.2024
13th Nordhausen Graphic Arts Prize of the Ilsetraut Glock-Grabe Foundation (31.10.2024)
In 2024, the Ilsetraut Glock-Grabe Foundation will award the Nordhausen Graphic Design Prize, endowed with €1,500, for the 13th time. The award ceremony will take place as part of the special exhibition, which will take place from February 2 to March 16, 2025 at the Kunsthaus Meyenburg in Nordhausen and will present the works of […]