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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


Germany’s first study on the impact of AI on the visual arts

The study “KI UND BILDENDE KUNST” is the first to examine the opportunities and risks of generative artificial intelligence (AI) for the visual arts. There are clear demands for remuneration, transparency and media competence. The study commissioned by Stiftung Kunstfonds and Initiative Urheberrecht and conducted by Goldmedia GmbH shows that many visual artists are already […]


Looking for workshop or workshop space in Halle (Saale)

Creative woman of mature age is looking for a suitable workplace at the window, approx. 4 m², with use of the sanitary facilities, for the production of her window pictures/glass design. Preferred location: Mühlweg/ Giebichensteinviertel, near the university campus Price negotiable For offers please call: 0151 560 120 64


Open Call: Urban Dance Festival Magdeburg

The state capital of Magdeburg is still looking for creative ideas from the city’s artists and cultural workers for the supporting program of the Urban Dance World Championships! A total of around €30,000 is available for this purpose, which has been taken or reserved from the municipal funding pot for the independent cultural scene and […]


Autumn program of the Media Competence Center Saxony-Anhalt

For 25 years, the Media Competence Center (MKZ) of the Saxony-Anhalt Media Authority has been offering the citizens of Saxony-Anhalt the opportunity to acquire knowledge about the content and technical basics of media production and media education. With a live studio for TV and radio as well as computer workstations for audio, video, internet and […]



© Foto: Marcus-Andreas Mohr

New board of the BBK Saxony-Anhalt e.V.

At the general meeting on May 4, 2024 at the Gleimhaus in Halberstadt, the board of BBK Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. was newly elected for the legislative period until 2027. The former 1st Chairman Marcus-Andreas Mohr did not stand for re-election for personal reasons. All other members of the Board of Directors were ready for a further […]


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Save the Date! BBK events in September

Things will get intense in September 2024. The Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Sachsen-Anhalt presents itself to the art-interested public with numerous projects. It starts with the “Visible – Art & Design Market” in the moat of the Moritzburg Art Museum in Halle (Saale) on September 7/8. Two weekends later – on September 21 and 22 – […]