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Project grant Atelier Schwarzweiß Fotolabor (ongoing possible)

Every year, the Schwarzweiß Fotolabor initiates a project grant in cooperation with Art in the museum, which is explicitly aimed at young artists. The scholarship includes the use of the laboratory for a period of up to six weeks in July / August outside of laboratory operations and the material used during this time. The […]


Open Call Residency “Cruce, Space for Transformation” in Spain (possible on an ongoing basis)

This initiative is intended for professionals who need to disconnect from their daily rhythms, those who need a space to create, hold workshops, events or exhibitions, focus on analysis and dissemination of their work; or just make a temporary withdrawal. Surrounded by nature, the rural environment of Blanca allows one to enter the traditions and […]


Project funding from werkleitz (without deadline)

Project funding supports up to four film and media projects per year. Werkleitz provides them with technology free of charge (excluding insurance) for a maximum of 14 days. Requests for project funding can be submitted at any time by e-mail to info(at)werkleitz.de. In addition to the obligatory application form with technical data, the planned project […]


Promotion by the ifa Institute of work-related stays and networks in Germany or abroad

The CCP – CrossCulture Program offers scholarships for transnational cooperation between professionals or institutions from the fields of culture, education, science, art and media. CCP’s funding helps to sustainably strengthen civil society networks between Germany and the rest of the world. Further information: https://www.ifa.de/foerderungen


Foto: Christine Rammelt-Hadelich

Call for open studios in Saxony-Anhalt 2024

Open studios in Saxony-AnhaltSeptember 21/22, 2024, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. We cordially invite all artists and designers in Saxony-Anhalt to apply for the “Open Studios in Saxony-Anhalt” event. As always, on the third weekend in September, people interested in art will have the opportunity to look over your shoulder as you work. The event, […]


Competition 100 Saxon Graphics 2024

The tender for the 100 Saxon Graphics 2024 will be thematically focused: Fire, Fire! With Fire, Fire!, this year’s Biennale of Graphic Arts also aims to draw attention to increasingly inflammatory and aggressively escalating social processes. Parallel to the fatal treatment of nature, social disputes in the present are increasingly leading to ever harsher confrontations. […]


Recycling Design Award 2024

A competition to design new products from waste and residual materials. We are looking for innovative upcycling ideas, new developments in the fields of materials research and the circular economy, social design or transformation design – sustainable, visionary, imaginative, original. Application deadline: May 31, 2024. Prices: 1st prize: 2,500 euros. 2nd prize: 1,500 euros. 3rd […]


Desideria Prize for Photography / Seeing dementia anew

Professional photographers, up-and-coming talents and amateurs are cordially invited to take pictures of people with dementia in a positively charged situation. With new, surprising perspectives, Desideria wants to change the visual language of a highly relevant social issue and bring about a change in awareness in society. Most people associate the topic of dementia with […]


DA! Art Award 2024

Düsseldorf’s secular art prize – the DA! Art Award – is presented every two years by the Düsseldorf Reconnaissance Service on a different theme each time. He wants to inspire artists to take a critical look at religion and irrationalism. Two years ago, the theme was “The power of myth”. More than 1,300 applications were […]


Video Art Award Bremen (ongoing possible)

With prize money totaling 10,000 euros, the Filmbüro Bremen enables the production and presentation of at least two video art projects every two years. All facets are welcome: classical, (non)linear, audio-visual project ideas, those with an installation character as well as all those that move at the boundaries of media art. Funding is provided for […]


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General Meeting BBK Saxony-Anhalt e.V.

All BBK members are cordially invited to Halberstadt this year. Before the meeting, there is the opportunity to take part in a guided tour of the museum. The focus is on the current special exhibition “Alexander Kluge – Enlightenment. An exhibition for my home town”. This year, the Board of Directors is due to be […]


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ilka Leukefeld

Visually guided to the day before ‘becoming conscious’, we see wild creatures. a nature untouched by man with clear air, unsealed landscapes and waters without plastic particles. This place of idyllic thoughts harbors carefully guarded hopes like seeds that have become rare. The work is on display: “I/II There used to be a paradise (with […]


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Till Neuenfeldt

“Perspectives 2024 Ha_Neu Dream of togetherness” People, machines, fiction and laughter await you in March. Carved in acrylic and chiseled out of chemistry, the work of Till Neuenfeldt shines in the BBKarium Dessau. Conformities with reality are never excluded in free art and must be accepted by the viewer. Further information: https://www.instagram.com/bbkarium_dessau/


Course work database 2024

The BBK Saxony-Anhalt has been operating the “Visual Arts Database Saxony-Anhalt” since 2017. It publishes catalogs raisonnés and lists of estates of female visual artists with a connection to Saxony-Anhalt. The work database informs the public – including curators and researchers, for example – about the life’s work of individual female artists and reflects the […]


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Katharina Stark

The “Sunset” group of works tells of the loss of lightness, of contaminated paradises and unsuccessful displacement. Destruction is immanent in the newly created – decay permeates the material. Kitschy elements are reminiscent of untroubled dreams of times gone by.


Benjamin Kerwien

Works by Benjamin Kerwien can be seen at the BBKarium Dessau until February 29. He is showing new works: Insect portraits with slightly iconographic features on copper, gold leaf and cardboard, oriented towards reality and without spatial reference. When greatly enlarged, the insects become impressive works of art thanks to the power of color and […]


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Katharina Günther

For me as a sculptor, the body/body as an emotional, physical and metaphysical space of experience is a central theme. How do we experience our body? Our skin provides us with protection, demarcation and at the same time an exchange with our surroundings. We are touchable and vulnerable. I work with wax. The material has […]


Foto: Matthias Ritzmann

Isabella Sissis

As the second exhibitor in our BBKarium 2021 series, Isabella Sissis is showing a group of porcelain and ceramics, which was created, among other things, as part of the 2020 “Kultur ans Netz” work grant from the state of Saxony-Anhalt. The tiger, the child, the apple, the halo and the Madonna. What was she like, […]


Katrin Zickler

The next exhibition at the BBKarium Dessau will open on January 1, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. with live music. The exhibitor is the Dessau artist Katrin Zickler. Everyone is cordially invited! Location: Ferdinand-von-Schill-Straße 3 in Dessau. Further information: https://www.instagram.com/bbkarium_dessau/