Projects
“Culture Makes You Strong” Project with Andrea Flemming and Mareen Alburg Duncker in Sangerhausen
Absolutely fantastic Children’s Art Projects at the Spengler Museum in Sangerhausen At the exhibition opening on July 10, 2026, at 1:00 p.m., the participants will present their works. Everyone is cordially invited! “Tierisch gut” is a collaborative project between MUSAIQ e.V., the cultural department of the BBK Saxony-Anhalt, the after-school program at the Freie Grundschule […]
Alexandra Liakhavets
Exhibition: “Where Do Our Roots Begin—and Where Do They End?” A café with birch trees, a birch bottle, everything birch… In this project, I take the birch tree as my starting point. It becomes a space for negotiation between my experiences and the changes I’ve undergone since moving from Belarus to Germany. Through everyday objects, […]
The Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation Supports BBK and Its Members
The eagerly awaited decisions of the Art Foundation’s Board of Trustees have been announced. Of those who submitted their applications in December 2025, the following BBK members, as well as the Cultural Office of the BBK Saxony-Anhalt, have reason to celebrate: From the press release issued by the Saxony-Anhalt State Art Foundation: On June 17, […]
A Look Back at the “sichtbar” Market 2026
We’ve had a wonderful and varied market weekend in 2026, with rain, sun, wind, and plenty of joy. Thank you to all of the approximately 2,100 visitors to the market, and thank you to all of the more than 50 exhibiting artists and designers! The Audience Award and the workshop fair were once again well […]
New BBKarium shop window in Wittenberg
The BBK Saxony-Anhalt is delighted to open the third of a total of five BBKarium showcases in Saxony-Anhalt in Lutherstadt Wittenberg. After a long search, a new place for art, encounters and visibility has been found with the Stadtlabor – Stadtwohnzimmer. The opening will take place on Friday, May 15, at 6:00 pm. In the […]
2027: visible market on Halle’s market square?
Dear former and potential exhibitors of the visible market, Moritzburg Castle in Halle will be a major construction site from 2027 (roof, walls and bridge will be renovated), meaning that the visible market will not be able to take place there for several years. The BBK is therefore currently looking for an alternative location. Our […]
Open Call: Goldstücke 2025 – Light art festival in Gelsenkirchen
The Open Call for the Goldstücke 2025 light art festival is open! The motto of this year’s edition is “Active Positive”, inspired by the concept of “Open Form” by architect Oskar Hansen. We want to promote a shared, optimistic commitment to our built environment and encourage participation and dialog through light art. Whether individual light […]
Open studios in Saxony-Anhalt on September 19/20, 2026
The Kulturwerk of the BBK Saxony-Anhalt is once again organizing the “Open Studios in Saxony-Anhalt” in 2026. They will take place on 19. and September 20 in all parts of the country. You can find the invitation here.
Hermann Beneke in Mansfeld-Südharz
The Werkleitz-Gesellschaft provides information: The Robota 500 artistic landmark has been erected in Stolberg (Harz), Osterhausen and Emseloh – selected places of remembrance of the Peasants’ War events (around 1525) in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz. It will preserve the memory of the victims beyond the commemorative year Gerechtigkeyt 2025. Robota 500 by Stine Albrecht and […]
Federal Cross of Merit for Christina Simon
The Weißenfels artist Christina Simon was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in November 2025. Minister President Dr. Reiner Haseloff presented the award in the Magdeburg State Chancellery. A total of eight orders of merit were presented on the day. Christina Simon is an impressive example of how culture can grow from the bottom up […]
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, […]
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 […]
New publications in the work database
The Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. (BBK) published new works in its “Werkdatenbank Bildende Kunst Sachsen-Anhalt” at the beginning of February 2025. The focus is on the catalog raisonné of the Magdeburg artist Walter Bischof (1919-1968) and the catalog raisonné of the Halle artist Sabine Kunz (1962). In addition, numerous artists have completed the catalogs […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]