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Anna Zeitler in Dresden
Fadentrieb – Embroidery exhibition by Anna Zeitler | The black yarn makes its way without a preliminary drawing, without a plan.A graphic, sketch-like image grows on white textile. Stitch by stitch, shapes emerge.Growing forms, structures and landscapes only take on a true form in the eye of the beholder.Let yourself drift – the process itself […]
Sabine Riemenschneider at the Waldgasthaus Armeleuteberg (Harz)
Reading & vernissage Experience a literary evening that makes the 17 Brocken poets audible, visible and drinkable! Catharina Karn (author)reads from her book “Berg der Poeten” and tells how the Brocken poets have changed her view of the Hexenberg. Sabine Riemenschneider (graphic artist)shows the original portrait drawings of the Brocken poets for the first time […]
Brochure: Toolbox for communication and group processes
A handbook by KOMMA Mediationskollektiv Leipzig on behalf of Input Consulting gGmbH for the “Haus der Selbstständigen” project
Appeal for the 2025 federal election by the BBK federal association
Strengthen the interests of artists at federal level! In the face of major social and economic challenges, the visual arts need a cultural policy at federal level that strengthens the potential of art and culture and creates the conditions for good framework conditions for artistic work. In the run-up to the 2025 federal elections, the […]
Day of the Printing Arts 2025
Dear colleagues, dear artists, dear people interested in the Day of Printmaking,With almost 400 events on the Day of Printmaking, this year’s program was bigger than ever before. In addition, the BBK annual project ZEITGLEICH ZEITZEICHEN was dedicated to contemporary and experimental printmaking. Here, 30 BBK associations participated with over 300 artists. We can therefore […]
Exhibition “The Far Country”
Following the open call / call for participation in the joint exhibition, exclusively for BBK artists outside of Halle/Saale, we received numerous applications. 10 artists were selected to present their works in the exhibition. The exhibition “Das ferne Land” is more than just an exhibition – it is a platform for exchange, networking and the […]
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. […]