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Gestaltung: Friedrich Lux

Franca Bartholomäi at the Operncafé Halle

Exhibition “WE CHILDREN AND WE ANIMALS” From September 7, 2024 – February 2, 2025 Exhibition opening on 7 September 2024, 7 p.m.with a greeting from Dr. Judith Marquardt, Councillor for Culture and Sport of the City of Halle and a laudatory speech in the presence of the artist Midissage on November 7, 2024, 7 pmReading […]


Heinrich Herbrügger, Barbara Hoeft, Björn Kahle, Wolfram Schubert and Anke Späth at “Wagen & Winnen” in Altmark, Wendland and beyond

Duration: September 6 to 8, 2024 Opening event on Friday, September 6, at 7 p.m. in the historic town hall of the Hanseatic city of Salzwedel The Wagen & Winnen-Verein invites you on a journey of discovery through Altmark, Wendland and beyond. On the weekend of September 6, 7 and 8, 2024, you can visit […]


Friedrich Hensen, Julienne Jattiot and Silvia Kirchhof at the Zeitz Art Festival

For 3 days from 6 to 8 September 2024, the Kunstverein Zeitz e.V. is organizing the Zeitz Art Festival for the second time in cooperation with the city of Zeitz. Local and invited artists from the surrounding area show their works. Other local art projects and venues in the city will also be taking part. […]


Anja Nürnberg at the POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair

At the stand of the Schindler Gallery from Potsdam


Gestaltung: Joachim Dimanski

Ulrike Basner, Elena Kiseleva-Arendt, Petra Reichenbach and Valeria Sivtsova in Halle (Saale)

HofKunstNacht of the Lions Club Halle an der Saale with art auction This year, the 3rd HofKunstNacht of the Lions Club Halle an der Saale will take place in the Moritzburg courtyard in September 2024. This is a charity event during which an auction will be held for the purposes of the Lions organization in […]


Christina Simon: Unterm Nussbaum

Christina Simon in Langen

Exhibition “See You!” dedicated to Hort and Gudrun Hermann. Pictures by Christina Simon Through her thirty-year friendship with Horst and GudrunHermann, the printmaker Christina Simon has long felt connected to the city of Langen. In the SEE YOU! exhibition, she is primarily showing works that were created during her “traveling years” as an artist in […]


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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 […]


Free web seminars of the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK)

Information on online forms for artists who are already insured In this live web seminar, we will introduce you to the new online forms of the Künstlersozialkasse. This allows you to handle your social security matters for artists easily, quickly and securely digitally. We will guide you through the online forms by way of example: […]


Visible Art & Design Market on 07. and September 8, 2024

Soon the time will come – on 7. and September 8, 2024, the moat of Moritzburg Castle will become a meeting place for art and culture! More than 50 artists and designers will be showing their extraordinary range. Experience colors, shapes and materials in various forms and get to know the creative people behind them. […]



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 […]


BBK Rhineland-Palatinate presents fee calculator for visual artists, exhibitors and event organizers

The majority of visual artists continue to work under precarious fee conditions. Although the publication of the Guideline on Fees by the Federal Association of Visual Artists in December 2022 created the basis for the joint demand and enforcement of minimum fees for visual artists, the lower fee limits are not implemented everywhere – even […]


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 […]


The BBK Federal Association calls for the cuts to the Federal Cultural Fund to be reversed

The Stiftung Kunstfonds is Germany’s most important grant-making foundation for the promotion of the visual arts. It is financed by funds from the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Cultural Council Foundation of VG Bild-Kunst. The Stiftung Kunstfonds makes a significant contribution to strengthening art by supporting innovative, “bulky” positions in ambitious […]


“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.


Photo competition of the Alexander Koenig Society

Our theme for the Alexander Koenig Society’s photo competition is: Coastal habitat This year’s photo competition of the Alexander-Koenig-Gesellschaft (AKG) e.V. will be dedicated to the topic “Coastal habitat”. We are sure that the vast majority of inland dwellers have also visited coastal habitats, whether in our temperate zones or on tropical shores. This dynamic […]


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 […]


Research assistant in art didactics

Institute of Performative Practice, Art and Education at the Braunschweig University of Art Application deadline: July 19, 2024


Workshop manager screen printing

Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle Application deadline: July 17, 2024