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Music and Visual Arts Residency 2025
Each September, Pioneer Works selects residents through an open call. Aided by a jury of experts and Alumni Residents, Pioneer Works welcomes residents who work outside existing models and ‘norms’ of their field and will benefit from the unique facilities and culture of the residency. As such, Pioneer Works shifts and evolves to reflect the […]
Residency for Visual Artists from Central Asia
With support from Delfina Foundation’s Network of Central Asia Patrons, the foundation is welcoming applications from contemporary visual artists from Central Asia for a residency in London. This 12-week residency will take place from March 31 to June 22, 2025, during Delfina Foundation’s spring residency season. Applicants must be a national of and/or currently living […]
Into the Fields: Residency for Artists from Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland
Denk-und Produktionsort Libken grants five two-month residency scholarships to artists from Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland who live and work in the countryside or mainly engage with rural environments in their artistic practice. The residency will take place from 1 March to 30 April 2025 in Libken, on the outskirts of the 80-inhabitant village […]
Residency Scholarship Audiovisual Art
The 13th INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL SCHLOSSMEDIALE FÜR ALTE UND NEUE MUSIK UND AUDIOVISUELLE KUNST will take place from June 19 to 28, 2025.A five-week residency grant gives three individual artists the opportunity to develop new art in a place steeped in history and to realize it in a creative and open approach in the special rooms […]
Marion Ermer Prize 2025
The Marion Ermer Foundation in cooperation with the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig awards the Marion Ermer Prize, endowed with EUR 5,000 each, to four young visual artists. The prizewinners’ works will be presented in a joint exhibition and accompanying publication at the MdbK in 2025. The call is aimed exclusively at young artists who […]
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 […]
Open pop-up store at Halle (Saale) main station
A store in Halle (Saale) main station will be vacant from 2025. As the owner, Deutsche Bahn would like to establish this store as a pop-up store with changing tenants from the creative industries. The store’s opening hours are not tied to the station’s core opening hours (Mon – Sun from 9:00 to 20:00) and […]
ilka Leukefeld, Sabine Riemenschneider, Kornelia Thümmel in Halberstadt
V.MKH-Biennale – PĂDURE ȘI BINE | COȚOFANĂ ȘI ELAN | COPAC ȘI TUFĂ | WALD UND WOHL | BAUM UND BUSCH | ELSTER UND ELCH
Annegrete Riebesel on glass art podium in Magdeburg
Lecture and panel discussion “Preserving cultural heritage. Architectural glass art yesterday – today – tomorrow” on September 10, 2024, 6 to 8 p.m. In July 2024, the state capital of Magdeburg published “Painting with Light and Glass – Architectural Glass Art in and from Magdeburg”. The volume is the result of intensive research and is […]
Franca Bartholomäi at the Operncafé Halle
Exhibition “WE CHILDREN AND WE ANIMALS” From September 7, 2024 – February 2, 2025 Exhibition opening on 7 September 2024, 7 p.m.with a greeting from Dr. Judith Marquardt, Councillor for Culture and Sport of the City of Halle and a laudatory speech in the presence of the artist Midissage on November 7, 2024, 7 pmReading […]
Ulrike Basner, Elena Kiseleva-Arendt, Petra Reichenbach and Valeria Sivtsova in Halle (Saale)
HofKunstNacht of the Lions Club Halle an der Saale with art auction This year, the 3rd HofKunstNacht of the Lions Club Halle an der Saale will take place in the Moritzburg courtyard in September 2024. This is a charity event during which an auction will be held for the purposes of the Lions organization in […]
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 […]
Free web seminars of the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK)
Information on online forms for artists who are already insured In this live web seminar, we will introduce you to the new online forms of the Künstlersozialkasse. This allows you to handle your social security matters for artists easily, quickly and securely digitally. We will guide you through the online forms by way of example: […]
Visible Art & Design Market on 07. and September 8, 2024
Soon the time will come – on 7. and September 8, 2024, the moat of Moritzburg Castle will become a meeting place for art and culture! More than 50 artists and designers will be showing their extraordinary range. Experience colors, shapes and materials in various forms and get to know the creative people behind them. […]
REVIERPIONIER Audience Award – online voting until August 26
Online voting for the five LOKALGESTALTEN public prizes in the REVIERPIONIER ideas competition has started. Until August 26, 2024, 11:59 p.m., citizens can vote once at www.revierpionier.de for a total of 15 previously unawarded projects from the REVIERGESTALTEN and ZUKUNFTGESTALTEN categories and cast up to five votes for the Audience Award. Voting runs until August […]
BBK Rhineland-Palatinate presents fee calculator for visual artists, exhibitors and event organizers
The majority of visual artists continue to work under precarious fee conditions. Although the publication of the Guideline on Fees by the Federal Association of Visual Artists in December 2022 created the basis for the joint demand and enforcement of minimum fees for visual artists, the lower fee limits are not implemented everywhere – even […]
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 […]
The BBK Federal Association calls for the cuts to the Federal Cultural Fund to be reversed
The Stiftung Kunstfonds is Germany’s most important grant-making foundation for the promotion of the visual arts. It is financed by funds from the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Cultural Council Foundation of VG Bild-Kunst. The Stiftung Kunstfonds makes a significant contribution to strengthening art by supporting innovative, “bulky” positions in ambitious […]
“Kultur macht stark III” funding secured for 2026/2027
The 27 program partners of “Kultur macht stark” are calling for the program to be continued until at least 2027. The background to this are planned cuts in the federal budget. Read the position paper of all program partners on the impending cuts here.
Photo competition of the Alexander Koenig Society
Our theme for the Alexander Koenig Society’s photo competition is: Coastal habitat This year’s photo competition of the Alexander-Koenig-Gesellschaft (AKG) e.V. will be dedicated to the topic “Coastal habitat”. We are sure that the vast majority of inland dwellers have also visited coastal habitats, whether in our temperate zones or on tropical shores. This dynamic […]