BBK events


Save the Dates: BBK Events 2025

To make it easier for our members and cooperation partners to plan the dates for 2025, we would like to announce the following dates of our projects in advance:


First birthday BBKarium Dessau with Wilfried Meinarth

The BBKarium in Dessau has been around for a year now. We want to celebrate this birthday with you on December 1, 2024, from 5 p.m. at the shop window in Ferdinand-von-Schill-Str.3. There will be mulled wine, snacks and a short review of the past year. We also want to present the exhibition program for […]


© Jakob Wolf

Gert Burkard Büttner

Title of the exhibition: Bild-Hauerei Gert Burkard Büttner, qualified sculptor/metal designer In my works, I use the various creative means of the visual arts to process paradoxical and strange inspirations from reality that occur to me. The motifs can then be seen in the fields of sculpture and plastic art as well as graphics and […]


Foto: Matthias Behne, lautwieleise.de

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 […]


Foto: Angela Dolgner

Admission meeting in October: BBK Saxony-Anhalt welcomes 19 new members

On October 22, 2024, the BBK Saxony-Anhalt hosted the admission meeting with the artist Elvira Franz in the Blauer Stern exhibition barn in Quedlinburg. Here, interested artists from Saxony-Anhalt were able to introduce themselves to the admissions committee in order to become members of our association. The following 19 artists are new: Ammar Assali | […]


Wiebke Kirchner: „I NURSED“, 2022 (Detail)

Workshop MATERNAL FANTASIES in Halle

Participatory performance and regional network meeting on art and parenthoodon 13. November 2024 von 10:00 bis 16:00 Uhr A hybrid event organized by the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. and Dornrosa e.V. Halle. For artists who have children, the art world is full of structural hurdles. Parenthood and freelancing are difficult to reconcile and this […]


Screenshot BBK-Homepage, Künstler*innendatenbank, Beispiel „Buchkunst“, Stand 25.09.2024

BBK workshop “Artist profiles on the BBK homepage” on October 22 and 29, 2024

The new BBK Saxony-Anhalt website was launched in April 2024. The site is optimally geared towards our uses. The design is appealing, the usability is flexible and the new tools bring it to life. One shortcoming of the new site is the extensive lack of artist profiles in the “Artist database” menu item(www.bbk-sachsenanhalt.de/kuenstlerinnen). All BBK […]


Bild von Andreas Breitling auf Pixabay

BBK Saxony-Anhalt conducts survey on artists’ estates

The Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. is calling on all visual artists and estate holders (institutions and private individuals) to take part in an anonymous survey. You have until November 15 to take part. The survey is the first part of a study that the BBK Saxony-Anhalt is conducting from summer 2024 to the end […]


Zeitgleich-Zeitzeichen: Experimental printing art from Saxony-Anhalt now also in Dresden

Printmaking experiments from Dresden and Dessau have already been on display 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 […]


Cover Deutscher Kunstverlag

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 […]


© Matthias Behne, lautwieleise.de

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:


Gestaltung: Marcus-Andreas Mohr und Friederike Nottrott

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 […]


Gestaltung von: Helen Schneider | www.helensdesign.de

Generally fresh in Ilsenburg Monastery 2024

From fall 2024, the Kulturwerk of the BBK Saxony-Anhalt in Ilsenburg Monastery will be showing the exhibition “generell frisch. New members of the BBK Saxony-Anhalt”. We are looking forward to cooperating with the Ilsenburg Monastery Foundation in a fantastic location with the best conditions for the numerous works of art. Participants are 30 artists who […]



Gestaltung: Friedrich Hensen / www.friedrichhensen.art , Titelmotiv: Früheres Atelier von Martin Möhwald, Foto: Sibylle Mania © VG Bild-Kunst

Open studios in Saxony-Anhalt 2024

On 21. and September 22, 2024 the “Open Studios” will take place again in Saxony-Anhalt. Around 150 artists open their doors to visitors. Look forward to open doors in Barleben, Derenburg, Dessau-Roßlau, Halle (Saale), Havelberg, Jessen, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Magdeburg, Nebra, Quedlinburg, the Saale district, Salzwedel, Schlanstedt and Wernigerode!


© Julienne Jattiot

Symposium Experimental Printmaking

In September 2024, eight members of the BBK Saxony-Anhalt will come together at Posa Monastery in Zeitz to work together for a week. The artists are at home in the art of printing and look forward to experimenting. Not only does a well-equipped screen printing workshop await them, but also plenty of space to try […]



BBK Saxony-Anhalt welcomes 19 new members

On April 9, 2024, the BBK Saxony-Anhalt was a guest at the Lichthaus in Halle for the recording session. Almost all of the registered artists from Saxony-Anhalt were able to present themselves to the admissions committee in order to become members of our association. The following 19 artists are new: Taha Bader | Hagen Bäcker […]


Allianz Freie Kultur Halle (Saale) – “Vision for the future of Halle’s independent cultural scene”

Only a lively, strong and colorful art scene makes Halle a city worth living in. The Halle Free Culture Alliance has therefore devised a campaign together for the first time and we are now delighted to invite you. Welcome to the discussion event on the future of Halle’s independent cultural scene on 25.4.2024 17:00 – […]


Short-term call for tenders Course work database for BBK members (14.04.2024)

We recently advertised a course on work databases for heirs and estate administrators. As we have not received enough registrations from this group of interested parties, we would now like to open the course to BBK members at short notice. The dates have already been set and two participants have already confirmed their attendance. If […]