The integration of the paper workshop into the print workshop broadens the spectrum of artistic techniques and professional opportunities available. Politically advocated for and promoted since 2024, the project was implemented by the Senate at the last minute before the end of 2025, in close cooperation with the management of bbk berlin, Wibke Behrens, and the workshop.

For bbk berlin and its subsidiaries kulturwerk and bildungswerk, 2025 was a year like no other. We take a look back at the achievements, structures, and prospects.

With the survey ‘Living and working as a visual artist in Berlin’, we want to paint a nuanced picture of the professional, social, and financial situation of visual artists in Berlin.

Aus dem Strategischen Herbst der Solidaritäten

© Anja Teske

In 2025, the 'bbk berlin bildungswerk' held a total of 161 events as part of its in-person seminars and workshops, the Digital Campus, and the Strategic Autumn program, in which 1,360 visual artists participated.

The Co-Studio Representative for Berlin, Julia Brodauf, on the current status of commitment authorizations (VEs) and the preservation of endangered studios

The bildungswerk des bbk berlin presents its course program for the first quarter of 2026: This comprehensive and unique advanced and continuing education offer is available to visual artists.

Around 300 studio leases will expire in the next two fiscal years. The political will to secure them is there, and financial security does not seem to be a problem either.

STORMY NIGHT, Interactive Video Game, 2022, iOS/Android, About 60 minutes

© Sharon Paz

We are delighted to welcome our next guest in the FIXTURES event series: Sharon Paz. The artist uses technology both as a medium and as a metaphor for the construction of non-linear narratives. In her lecture, she will present several of her interactive projects in which the audience can participate.

© Tama Ruß

On Friday, November 7, 2025, the artists of the Schokoladenfabrik Studios invited guests to a joint breakfast at their group exhibition on the third floor of the former Sarotti chocolate factory. The format brought together representatives from politics, administration, ownership, and other threatened studio buildings in Berlin for the first time in this form.

Berlin is currently experiencing a threatening escalation in the political handling of art
and culture. The bbk berlin observes with great concern how culture is threatening to become a pawn between political power and commercialization. Especially in the context of the renewed disproportionately high cuts, artists' demands for securing the infrastructure seem to fall completely on deaf ears.

Night Walks – Tiergarten Berlin, 2025 beim Festival of Future Nows 2025. Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin | Susanne Bosch

© Susanne Bosch

At FIXTURES #8 we are very happy about our interesting guest: Susanne Bosch. Susanne Bosch will show several own works and some new projects, which are developped in her collaboration with Ulrike Zimmermann in their joint Studio Bosch.
The central question in her lecture is: But what does the translation of a process-based artistic work into another art form suitable for exhibition and the

In September, Monopol magazine published an article calling Berlin “post-cool.” The band Tocotronic joined in the swan song with their track “Bye-Bye Berlin.” Now, the German news program tagesschau is also picking up on the topic and talking to an artist about the existential significance of her studio: “My artistic existence is based on the fact that I have cheap rent.”

Berlin artists have sent an open letter to the Senator of Finance demanding the immediate release of commitment appropriations in the cultural sector.

A few weeks ago, it seemed as if a key cultural policy instrument in Berlin was about to disappear: FABiK – the fund for exhibition fees for visual artists. There was widespread outrage in Berlin's independent scene, as the abolition would have affected many who already work under precarious conditions. But now there has been a turnaround: the decision has been reversed, FABiK will remain!

On the occasion of bbk berlin's 75th anniversary, we celebrate historic successes and, with our newly elected board members Alex Lebus and Benjamin Zuber, look to the future with great motivation.

We are delighted to welcome our new board members Alex Lebus and Benjamin Zuber, our new KiöR expert commission in public space, and the new admissions commission of bbk berlin.

This year, we have received an increasing number of concerned voices from the field. In this interview, our bbk berlin member Andrej Wolff shares insights into his professional reality as a visual artist in Berlin.

Screening 2025, Foto: Paul Groebel

Documentation and Infos about Film screening with 34 contributions from international artists and users of the media workshop on two evenings: 14./15.10.2025.

During the 2025 German Acting Awards ceremony, the #BerlinIstKultur action alliance was awarded the German Fairness Prize by the BFFS acting union and ver.di FilmUnion. As part of the alliance and sponsor of the Berlin Culture Conference, we at bbk berlin are delighted to receive this special recognition.

The planned cuts in the Senator for Culture's draft literally go to the heart of the matter and have far-reaching consequences. It is now up to politicians to signal that they want to preserve the cultural infrastructure and the independent scene.