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Curating certificate course
Course from May 16 – July 19, 2025 Exhibitions on art, culture or socially and scientifically relevant topics inspire a large audience and provide impetus for current discourse. The venues, formats and professional fields of curating have expanded considerably in recent years. The Curating course picks up on this development and offers a comprehensive introduction […]
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 […]
Glossary for fair pay in the visual arts
New publication from the IG Bildende Kunst in Austria Pay The Artist Now! | Glossary for fair payment in the visual arts | Publication of IG Bildende Kunst The IG Bildende Kunst, artists’ association and national committee of the IAA in Austria, published a glossary for fair pay in the visual arts in September 2024, […]
Appeal for the 2025 federal election by the BBK federal association
Strengthen the interests of artists at federal level! In the face of major social and economic challenges, the visual arts need a cultural policy at federal level that strengthens the potential of art and culture and creates the conditions for good framework conditions for artistic work. In the run-up to the 2025 federal elections, the […]
Marlen Tennigkeit in Donzdorf
Exhibition in the castle – Gray zone. Marlen Tennigkeit MARLEN TENNIGKEIT2022 – 2023 Master student with Prof. Caroline Achaintre, Textile Arts, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle 2022Diploma in Fine Arts/ Sculpture with Prof. Andrea Zaumseil, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle2019 – 2020 Study of Sculpture with Prof. Dominik Lang, […]
Information event “Culture makes you strong” program
First call for proposals 2025Application period January 1 to February 28, 2025 24.1.2025, 1 – 3 p.m.: Digital information event on submitting applications (registration by e-mail to by 23.1.2025) Apply for project funding from “Kultur macht stark. We can do art”, funding period 2025. Apply with your concept for an extracurricular cultural education project […]
Profession artist with child #2 in Leipzig
Workshop and network meeting on the topic: “Career artist with child” #2 The birth of a child changes the lives of artists.and their everyday working life often change abruptly. Self-employment is particularly difficult, as many artists The employees are living in financially precarious situations or are no longer able to work due to a lack […]
BBK members in Magdeburg’s Himmelreich Gallery
SCHÖNE AUSSICHT – Painting, graphics, drawing, objectPhotography, glass design With BBK members Ingrid Müller-Kuberski, Cathleen Meier, Jens Elgner, Frank Borisch, Annedore Policek, Benjamin Borisch, Reinhard Rex, Helga Borisch and other artists. Outlook is what you allow yourself.And outlook is the “what” and “how” things will continue. I have great respect for artists who stimulate the […]
Julienne Jattiot in Leipzig
Group exhibition “Transfer” Students and teachers of the HGB Leipzig, AdBK Munich and AdBK Nuremberg After stops at the Akademie Galerie Nürnberg and the Radierverein München, the exhibition “Transfer” can now also be seen in Leipzig. For the first time, the exhibition “Transfer” presents printmaking works by students and teachers from the renowned workshops for […]
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 […]
Exhibition “The Far Country”
Following the open call / call for participation in the joint exhibition, exclusively for BBK artists outside of Halle/Saale, we received numerous applications. 10 artists were selected to present their works in the exhibition. The exhibition “Das ferne Land” is more than just an exhibition – it is a platform for exchange, networking and the […]
“Civil and tax law for non-profit organizations”
Invitation from the Saxony-Anhalt regional office of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung to a skills training course entitled: “Civil and tax law for non-profit organizations”, which will take place on 09.01.2025 (09-16.30) at the Hotel Kaiserhof, Bahnhofstr. 1-2, 06749 Bitterfeld-Wolfen takes place. The participation fee for this event includes the program and catering. It amounts to € 10.00 […]
Turn of the year 2024/25 at BBK Saxony-Anhalt
An eventful year with many trips to the Harz mountains is (almost) behind us. There wasn’t enough time for a hike, but there was enough time for in-depth discussions with art associations, museums, city councils and artists. Next year we will be visiting the Altmark and are already looking forward to new encounters. Many of […]
ZEITGLEICH ZEITZEICHEN postcard set
This publication is part of the BBK annual project ZEITGLEICH ZEITZEICHEN – Im Zeichen der zeitgenössischen experimentellen Druckkunst: This set of postcards highlights the diversity and creativity in the art of printing and draws attention to an art form rich in tradition that is characterized by craftsmanship and artistic expression. The print motifs show how […]
Further training and advice for the Alliance for Cultural Education
Cultural education is added value! Our nationwide survey at the beginning of 2023 revealed that freelance work in cultural education is highly underpaid across all sectors. 46.8% of those we surveyed earned below the poverty line for a single-person household (€1250 per month threshold 2023 D). The average net earnings of those surveyed here were […]
State capital workshop on art in public spaces
Together with citizens, city councillors and administrative staff, the workshop will look at different perspectives and provide space for wishes, suggestions and ideas. Registration is open until January 26 at www.magdeburg.de/beteiligung.
BBK members receive funding from the Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation
On December 4, 2024, the Board of Trustees of the Art Foundation of the State of Saxony-Anhalt decided to support 33 artists and art projects. Important catalogs raisonnés, exciting films, a wide variety of visual arts, interesting literature projects – all of these projects were considered and can now be implemented. A total of 374,302.96 […]
Information on the introduction of eInvoicing
The EU Commission has set itself the goal of modernizing VAT law and combating VAT fraud in the EU more effectively. To this end, the structure of invoices is to be standardized across Europe in accordance with CEN standard EN 16931. Corresponding regulations are contained in the Growth Opportunities Act, which was approved by the […]
What remains empty when art funding comes to nothing?
The parties are currently forging their election programs in a hurry. It is urgently necessary to campaign now for the promotion of the visual arts and against the cuts to the Art Fund Foundation planned before the government crisis.For this reason, we have launched a social media campaign together with the Deutscher Künstlerbund, GEDOK, IKG […]
Introduction of mandatory electronic invoicing from January 1, 2025
What is an e-invoice? An e-invoice (short for electronic invoice) is an invoice that can be transmitted, received and processed electronically in a so-called structured electronic format. PDF invoices are not invoices in this sense (although they are sent electronically); basically, an e-invoice is a data record that contains the usual mandatory information of a […]