{"id":38007,"date":"2026-05-18T15:52:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bbk-sachsenanhalt.de\/art-needs-freedom-democracy-needs-art\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T15:58:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:58:48","slug":"art-needs-freedom-democracy-needs-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bbk-sachsenanhalt.de\/en\/art-needs-freedom-democracy-needs-art\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Art needs freedom &#8211; democracy needs art&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a joint statement entitled &#8220;Art needs freedom &#8211; democracy needs art&#8221;, we, the nationwide artists&#8217; associations, clearly position ourselves against the cultural policy demands of the AfD Saxony-Anhalt for the upcoming state elections (subsumed under the term &#8220;new, patriotic cultural policy&#8221;) and reaffirm the importance of the fundamental principles of artistic freedom and cultural promotion in Germany.  <\/p>\n\n<p>As associations representing visual artists in Germany, we are therefore calling for this:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The freedom of art must be guaranteed without restriction and must not be relativized by cultural policy control instruments.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The non-state nature of public cultural funding and the independence of professional juries are key protective mechanisms and must be safeguarded.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Public cultural institutions are places of pluralistic, open discourse that enable our democratic coexistence; 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