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 and IGBK that shows the void that would be created by cuts to cultural budgets: What all remains empty when arts funding goes empty? You can find today’s post on the topic here.
We invite you to take part in the campaign and to forward this invitation to your members. With the social media campaign, we are demonstrating for art funding and against cuts to the Art Fund Foundation. Post your pictures of empty exhibition spaces, orphaned studios, unused toolboxes, abandoned media workshops, unused paint boxes and drawing materials, dry brush containers, empty canvases, empty … .
The hashtags and links would be the following: #keinekürzung #kunstschafftzusammenhalt #kunstfoerderung #bundeskultur #investment @spdbt @gruenebundestag @dielinkebt @fdpbt #cducsubt @kerstin_radomski @dennis_rohde @metin.hakverdi @svenchristiankindler @andreasaudretsch @otto_fricke @erhard.grundl @katrin_budde @kosssimona @hacker_thomas @bbk.bundesverband
Your creativity is called for: we look forward to your pictures and depictions of the immense emptiness that the impending cuts mean for us all! Together with the other visual arts associations and with your help, we urge the federal government to refrain from funding cuts that threaten our existence and the arts.