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21.05.2025 | Sarah Wedl-Wilson is appointed Berlin Senator for Culture and Cerstin Richter-Kotowski joins her as the new State Secretary for Culture

Tomorrow, on May 22, 2025, Sarah Wedl-Wilson will be officially appointed to the position of Senator for Culture. Her place will be taken by the former district councillor Cerstin Richter-Kotowski (CDU) from Steglitz-Zehlendorf.

21.05.2025 | Course program for the third quarter of 2025 from bildungswerk des bbk berlin

The bildungswerk des bbk berlin presents its course program for the third quarter of 2025: This comprehensive and unique advanced and continuing education offer is available to visual artists.

CALLING ALL CULTURAL WORKERS OF BERLIN: THERE IS WORK TO DO AT THE KULTURVERWALTUNG

Pressemitteilung des bbk berlin

#KulturBrauchtRaum — for the preservation of subsidized work and rehearsal spaces! We invite you to work, rehearse, make music, write, paint, draw or sculpt with us in front of the Senate Department of Culture of Berlin. Together we are strong!

Culture needs spaces 2025 network meeting

Flyer Kultur Braucht Räume

Network meeting of Berlin's actors on the topic of work, rehearsal, performance and production spaces for art and culture. In terms of cultural and urban development policy, Berlin currently seems toothless and risks losing art and culture. We believe that the state of Berlin and the districts have a responsibility when it comes to state-owned real estate and would like to see clever models of

13.05.2025: The bildungswerk introduces: René Staebler

We would like to introduce you to our lecturers here and thus also show the range of topics available for courses and workshops.

UNFORTUNATELY HAS TO BE POSTPONED!!! - FIXTURES #5 – AnniKa von Trier / Audio Montage: Search for traces of Hannah Höch on May 26th, 2025

AnniKa von Trier, Kleiner Sendesaal Musikaufnahmen - Foto © Thomas Ernst rbb

AnniKa von Trier, Kleiner Sendesaal Musikaufnahmen

UNFORTUNATELY WE HAVE TO CANCEL THE PLANNED EVENT WITH ANNIKA VON TRIER ON 26.5.2025. WE APOLOGIZE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE. THE EVENT WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR ONE OF THE UPCOMING MONTHLY JOUR FIXE DATES.

At the fifth Jour Fixe event of the Media Workshop we are very delighted to welcome: AnniKa von Trier. At FIXTURES #5 she will present and speak about her radio play "Search for traces of Hannah

05.05.2025 | Sarah Wedl-Wilson becomes the new Senator for Culture in Berlin

Sarah Wedl-Wilson auf der Jubiläumsfeier der Druckwerkstatt am 17.01.2025

In recent months, the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Kai Wegner, has repeatedly publicly acknowledged the importance of culture for the state of Berlin and has now appointed the former State Secretary for Culture, Sarah Wedl-Wilson, as the new Senator for Culture in Berlin.

05.05.2025 | Open Letter of the Creators for Europe United to the EU-Commission: For a fair, transparent and legally compliant development of AI

Open Letter

The bbk berlin supports the call of “Creators for Europe United” and asks all artists and their supporters to sign and share it. Only by using all of our creative work can AI generate meaningful content and be further developed with the works we create. We demand a system of fair participation and fair remuneration for all artists and the enforcement of existing copyright laws against tech

04.04.2025 | bbk berlin informs about the planned deportation of four international activists

We feel compelled to inform our members about recent reports that the Berlin immigration authority (Landesamt für Einwanderung, LEA) has threatened several individuals – including artists and cultural workers – with revoking their residency rights. According to current information, these measures appear to be connected to investigations related to the individuals’ participation in Palestine

FIXTURES #4 – Cornelia Sollfrank and Felix Stalder in conversation with Kevin Rittberger / Embodied data and planetary thinking on April 28th, 2025

Pranayama-Praktizierende mit Smart Ring | Fotocredits: © Cornelia Sollfrank/Felix Stalder

Pranayama-Praktizierende mit Smart Ring | © Cornelia Sollfrank & Felix Stalder

At the fourth Jour Fixe event of the Media Workshop we are delighted to welcome three guests: Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder and Kevin Rittberger. At FIXTURES #4 they will speak about the contemporary in embodied data practices and its relation to the planetary.

CALLING ALL CULTURAL WORKERS OF BERLIN: THERE IS WORK TO DO AT THE KULTURVERWALTUNG

#KunstBrauchtRaum Aufruf

#KulturBrauchtRaum — for the preservation of subsidized work and rehearsal spaces!

Wibke Behrens assumes the position of the managing director of the bbk berlin

Pressemitteilung des bbk berlin

On March 19, 2025, Wibke Behrens was appointed Managing Director by the Board of the bbk berlin with a large majority of the members.

FIXTURES #3 - Martin Sulzer feat. Farhad Farzali / Artificial Art on March 17th, 2025

Videostill Problem Property - chapter I, 2024, © Johannes Büttner & Martin Sulzer

Videostill Problem Property - chapter I, 2024, © Johannes Büttner & Martin Sulzer

For the third FIXTURES event on March, 17th, 2025 Martin Sulzer is our guest and will talk about artificiality as a central element in his artistic work, be it 3D rendering, synthesizers or artificial intelligence.

Spring plenary session 2025

Spring Plenum: Wednesday, April 2, beginning at 6pm Medienlabor des bbk kulturwerk im Kesselhaus (Südflügel) Kunstquartier Bethanien

Invitation to the extraordinary General meeting of the bbk berlin

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The Board of the bbk berlin invites to the extraordinary general meeting on 19 March 2025 at 6 pm in the Sculpture workshop in the kulturwerk of the bbk berlin, Osloer Str. 102, 13359 Berlin

FIXTURES #2 - Henning Christiansen Archive / Rachel Dagnall & Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen on February 24th, 2025

Fixtures 02 Henning Christiansen Archiv Medienwerkstatt

Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen digitalisiert Videos von Henning Christiansen in der Medienwerkstatt | Fotocredits: © Rachel Dagnall

For the second FIXTURES event on February, 24, 2025 Rachel Dagnall & Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen are our guests. They will present a selection of video and sound recordings from the archive of the Danish FLUXUS artist and composer Henning Christiansen (1932-2008) that have just been digitized since beginning of February in the Media Workshop.

FIXTURES #1 - Sérgio Taborda / Sequence 22 on January 27th, 2025

Videostill Sérgio Taborda Toquio Grua Sequence 22

Videostill: Toquio Grua aus Sequences 22 (2021-2022) | Fotocredits: © Sérgio Taborda

With the start of the new year 2025, we are glad to launch the FIXTURES event series in the Media Lab of the Medienwerkstatt. For the first event on January, 27th, we have invited the Portuguese artist and researcher Sérgio Taborda.

Save the Date: 50 years of Druckwerkstatt anniversary celebrations at Bethanien

The Druckwerkstatt cordially invites you to celebrate this great anniversary with all employees, users and friends of the workshops and facilities in the Kulturwerk of the bbk berlin!

Funeral March: Demonstration from the Neptune Fountain to the Brandenburg Gate starts at 3 pm

Berlin sold out _ Trauermarsch _ 29.11.2024

Announcement for the Funeral March against cuts in the Berlin cultural budget. Please take part!

Attention change of location: due to the Christmas market at the Neptunbrunnen, the meeting point has been moved to Rathausstr. at the corner of Spandauer Str.

Demonstration at Brandenburg Gate at 10 a.m.: WE NEED TO TALK!

16.10.24 Aktionstag #BerlinIstKultur  Kulturabbau verhindern!

The #BerlinIsCulture action alliance is calling for a standing demonstration in front of the Brandenburger Tor at Platz des 18. März on November 13, 2024. This is our response to the main committee meeting, which will negotiate planned cuts in the cultural budget of the Berlin budget. A large number of Berlin cultural institutions, associations and personalities have joined this call to make the