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We remember our members who passed away in 2024
Sadly, four members of the BBK Saxony-Anhalt passed away in 2024. We would like to commemorate them here. They will continue to be listed in our artist database; instead of their main areas of work, we will list the dates of their lives. If we receive obituaries, we will be happy to publish them in […]
Further training and advice for the Alliance for Cultural Education
Cultural education is added value! Our nationwide survey at the beginning of 2023 revealed that freelance work in cultural education is highly underpaid across all sectors. 46.8% of those we surveyed earned below the poverty line for a single-person household (€1250 per month threshold 2023 D). The average net earnings of those surveyed here were […]
Evaluation of BBK transparency survey 2023
Before we start the new round of our survey next week, we would like to take a look back – albeit very belatedly – at the previous survey. 40 members took part in the 2023 transparency survey, i.e. around 10% of our membership – thank you very much! The “award lists” (commitment / services) that […]
Information on the introduction of eInvoicing
The EU Commission has set itself the goal of modernizing VAT law and combating VAT fraud in the EU more effectively. To this end, the structure of invoices is to be standardized across Europe in accordance with CEN standard EN 16931. Corresponding regulations are contained in the Growth Opportunities Act, which was approved by the […]
Transparency survey 2024/25
Dear members of the BBK Saxony-Anhalt, The annual transparency survey among our members will run for the fourth time until the end of January 2025. The lists generated from the survey will be continuously updated and used to appoint BBK representatives to juries and other committees or to prepare the awarding of services. Specifically, the […]
Survey on artists’ estates completed
From mid-September to mid-November 2024, the BBK Saxony-Anhalt conducted a survey on artists’ estates. Visual artists and estate holders (institutions and private individuals) were invited to take part. The response was great. The Museum and Archive Association, the Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation and other partners forwarded our appeal, articles about the project appeared in the press […]
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 […]
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:
Study Center for Artists’ Legacies Saxony-Anhalt 2024-2026
The BBK Saxony-Anhalt has been observing the problems of dealing with artistic bequests and estates for many years. He is committed to keeping this topic in the political discourse and finding solutions. He will now examine whether a center for artists’ estates could be expedient. The state government also attaches great importance to this idea […]
Open letter “A brewery for our city”
The site of the ex. Schultheiß brewery, where the Kulturwerk des BBK Sachsen-Anhalt showed its 2021/22 exhibition “generell frisch” and where the next BrauArt exhibition will soon begin, is still in a worrying state. Now newkid e.V. from Dessau has written an open letter calling on the city’s stakeholders to take action and expressing its […]
REVIERPIONIER Audience Award – online voting until August 26
Online voting for the five LOKALGESTALTEN public prizes in the REVIERPIONIER ideas competition has started. Until August 26, 2024, 11:59 p.m., citizens can vote once at www.revierpionier.de for a total of 15 previously unawarded projects from the REVIERGESTALTEN and ZUKUNFTGESTALTEN categories and cast up to five votes for the Audience Award. Voting runs until August […]
“Kultur macht stark III” funding secured for 2026/2027
The 27 program partners of “Kultur macht stark” are calling for the program to be continued until at least 2027. The background to this are planned cuts in the federal budget. Read the position paper of all program partners on the impending cuts here.
Request: Job in the cultural and art sector for residence permit
Our member Eileen Almarales Noy is in the last weeks of her master student studies and I would love to stay in Germany to develop her future. In order to get another visa, she needs a qualified job in the cultural sector. Otherwise she will unfortunately have to leave Germany. She therefore asks for help. […]
Call for BBK members: Industrial landscape photography
Dear members of the BBK Saxony-Anhalt, As part of a research project on the visualization of industrial culture in the 20th century, we – the Institute for Regional History of the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archaeology – are looking for relevant photo collections. We are particularly interested in photographic images (of a documentary […]
Ulrike Kirchner in Leipzig
Annual exhibition “blickwechsel” of the GEDOK Central Germanyin cooperation with GEDOK Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e.V. and GEDOK Brandenburg e.V. Vernissage: 04.07.2024, 19:30 h Finissage: 29.08.2024, 7:30 pm Guided tours – art talks: 18.07. & 15.08.2024, 4 p.m.
Community Fund Future Paths East (without deadline)
Fast, uncomplicated and without own funds: The micro-project funding of the Zukunftswege Ost joint fund starts on July 1, 2024. At least 100 projects are to be supported with up to 5,000 euros. Applications are possible on an ongoing basis. The first payments are planned for September. In the long term, the fund is to […]
Eighth Gabriele Münter Prize 2025 (29.09.2024)
The Gabriele Münter Prize aims to make the outstanding achievements of contemporary female visual artists visible and is in the context of equality with artists. The prize is named after the painter Gabriele Münter (1877 Berlin – 1962 Murnau), one of the most important artists of modernism. Her example is still an encouragement for female […]
show building. international summer school of design dessau (without deadline)
“schaubau” is the international summer school that has been taking place in the heart of the Bauhaus city of Dessau since 2018. The Design Camp is aimed at designers from all disciplines. This year we are offering you three different workshops over three days. You can take part in one, two or all three workshops. […]
Eye of history in Magdeburg (31.08.2024)
The open-space installation is a concentrated, vivid and tangible representation of the city’s more than one thousand years of significant history up to the present day, which cannot be found anywhere else in this form. The aim is to bring Magdeburg’s 1,200-year history to life, not only for tourists but also for us Magdeburgers. The […]
Exile Visual Arts Award (15.08.2024)
Freedom of art and artistic expression are fundamental rights in democratic societies. If these rights are suspended and artists are persecuted, they are forced to flee and seek protection in exile. The experiences of persecution, flight and exile can find artistic expression in very different forms. The Exile Visual Arts Award honors works that deal […]