Artists at schools


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Call for artists at schools in Saxony-Anhalt 2024/25

This year, the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. is once again inviting tenders for the implementation of cultural education projects, which are primarily open to the artists of the BBK Sachsen-Anhalt and all general education schools. The projects of approx. 20 hours can take place between August 5, 2024 and March 31, 2025. The “Artists […]


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Insights from the 2022/23 school year

Artistic director: Mareen Alburg-DunckerSpecial school “Astrid Lindgren” in Halle SEA MOSAIC: Year 8 pupils created a sea mosaic, with the theme of marine life being illuminated from all sides. In addition to the creative approach and implementation, it was important to me to make the children aware of the topic of environmental protection. Our aim […]


Project practice

In order to shed some light on the field of concrete collaboration, qualitative interviews were conducted with several school representatives and artists at the end of the study. The interviewees selected the questions relevant to them from a given list of questions and answered them in free speech. Interviews with school representatives Elvira Gorisch and […]


Project cooperations

Only very limited reliable statements can be derived from the available database on the topic of establishing and promoting long-term collaborations. One of the reasons for this is that it is not possible to clarify the extent to which schools or artists have reapplied with further individual project ideas following an initial collaboration, but were […]


Project history

Nowadays, everyone is talking about cultural education and it is impossible to imagine inclusion, better educational opportunities and equal participation in the school context without it. However, few people are aware that the state of Saxony-Anhalt has been continuously supporting this area of education and work in cooperation with the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler (BBK) Sachsen-Anhalt […]


Data basis

This research covers a total of 803 individual projects by 140 artists at 252 schools between 1996 and 2015. As key data from a total of five years (1996, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003) are no longer available for the Magdeburg regional office due to the expiry of the ten-year retention obligation for project documents, these […]


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Insights from the 2021/22 school year

Artistic director: Mareen Alburg-DunckerSpecial school “Astrid Lindgren” in Halle The joy of seeing the 6th grade again was great and motivation was high. Our theme this year was to create our own little oasis. The first question was – what is (my) oasis? And then we figured it out – they are feel-good places or […]


Review 1996-2015

Colophon The study was commissioned by the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler (BBK) Sachsen-Anhalt between May 2016 and December 2017 and was financially supported by the Ministry of Education of the State of Saxony-Anhalt. Special thanks are due in particular to Beáta Maria Hinz as head and coordinator of the “Artists in Schools” project (since its launch […]