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06.05.2024 | MATERIAL TURN - PRETENDING YOU ARE UNSEEN. MEDIA WORKSHOP Opening 16. May 5pm

Medeinwerkstatt - ausstellung Material turn Unseen

The MEDIA WORKSHOP / kulturwerk bbk berlin / invites you to an exhibition dedicated to the material aspects of media art. Opening // 16.05.2024 // 5 pm in the Rooms of Druckwerkstatt, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin, 1st floor

Invitation to the digital Spring Plenum on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 6pm

Dear Independent Arts Community, Please join us for a digital plenum!

18.04.2024 | The bbk berlin new membership card

bbk berlin Mitgliederausweismuster 2024

The new membership card will be issued at the start of membership. The previous bbk berlin membership card remains valid and will be extended as usual.

15.03.2024 | In 2025, we will celebrate 50 years of the print workshop at the kulturwerk of the bbk berlin! An appeal!

Druckwerkstatt im Kunstquatier Bethanien

In 2025, the print workshop at the bbk berlin's kulturwerk will be celebrating its 50th anniversary. It has been a vibrant place of artistic productio for half a century. We call for participation in the preparations for this great anniversary!

Performance - International Women’s Day - Museum of Women Artists Berlin (MdK*B)

Aktionskarte fair share

Be there on March 8, 2024 - invite your friends, colleagues and interested parties! On the occasion of International Women's Day, fair share! Visibility for Women Artists invites you to the rededication of berlin modern, which is currently under construction, as a Museum of Women Artists* Berlin (MdK*B). The program includes speeches, an augmented reality experience, music and performances.

Finissage „35 Jahre Grafikedition“ and talk on March 15, 2024 6 - 9 pm

Ausstellung 12-12-35_Druckwerkstatt im Bethanien

The Day of Printmaking on March 15 will be celebrated at the exhibition finissage with the participating artists: Viola Bendzko, Carsten Borck, Christoph Damm, Helmut Gutbrod, Claudia Hartwig, Jase Kala, Patrick Kaufmann, Carmen McPherson, Helga Ntephe, Deborah S. Phillips, Matthias Taube und Ila Wingen. Please join us!

Invitation to the Winter Plenum on Tuesday, February 13, 2023, 6:00 pm

Dear Independent Arts Community, Please join us for a digital plenum!

08.01.2024 | Regarding the Introduction of the New Antidiscrimination Clause by the Berlin Senate

An appeal by Rat für die Künste, Koalition der Freien Szene, bbk berlin, LAFT Berlin, inm berlin and festiwelt - Netzwerk Berliner Filmfestivals.

08.01.2024 | Open letter to the Berlin Senate Cultural Administration and to Joe Chialo, State Minister for Culture and Social Cohesion

Open Letter

We inform about an open letter from Berlin-based cultural producers of various disciplines "For the preservation of freedom of art and freedom of expression"

13.12.2023 | Einladung

On 13.12. we are celebrating a party in the stone hall of the sculptor's workshop (Osloer Straße 102, 13359 Berlin). It starts at 6 pm!

Invitation to found the working group Antifascism

bbk berlin logo mv 2022

We invite you to the meeting of the bbk berlin to found the working group Antifascism on 28.11.2023 at 6 pm in the Academie Lounge, Köthener Str. 44, 10963 Berlin.

Koalition der Freien Szene: Fall plenary of the Coalition of the Independent Arts Berlin

Koalition der Freien Szene Logo

Invitation to the Fall Plenum on Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 6:00 pm at Savvy Contemporary Reinickendorfer Str. 17, 13347 Berlin

31.10.2023 | About the situation

In the last two weeks, we have received numerous thoughts and messages of concern from our members. All are united by fear and horror about the escalations of violence in Israel and Palestine and their effects on Germany, Berlin, culture and politics. Extreme uncertainty exists. The attack of Hamas and the killing of civilians cannot be justified by anything. Our full sympathy and mourning go out

20.10.2023 | SHIELD & SHINE | NO NORMALIZATION OF EXTREME RIGHT-WING POLITICS IN DEMOCRATIC PARLIAMENTS!

DieVIELEN Shield & Shine

Let’s plan new campaigns – locally, regionally and throughout the entire nation! With banners, choirs and shields, we will resolutely and visibly take to the streets to protect democracy and the rights for minorities anchored within it. We will realize days of action and a major demonstration in 2025.

Decolonial Memorial: Symposium | 4p.m-2p.m.

DDZ

The Team of Global Village would like to invite you to the first public event of the project Decolonial Memorial at the Berlin Global Village on October 31st 2023 at 4pm: a large thematic symposium around decolonization and art. There will be exciting discussion panels, live painting, performances and much more. We hope you will come by!

09.10.2023 | bbk berlin as guest: Art Workers’Summit

arts of the working class

Art Workers’ Summit, October 13–14, 2023: A two day hybrid online and in-person initiative of Arts of the Working Class in cooperation with Kunstmuseum Stuttgart in the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Reuchlinstraße 4b, 70178 Stuttgart. Saturday, October 14, 2023 2–7:30pm: Discussion with Zoë Claire Miller (bbk berlin), Alice Pedroletti (AWI), and Eric Golo Stone (Künstlerhaus Stuttgart) on “The Joy and

Save the date: Mitgliederversammlung in der Academie Lounge, Köthener Str. 44

Mitgliederversammlung des bbk berlin 2023-2

The Board of the bbk berlin invites to the second general meeting this year on 8 November 2023 at 6 pm in the Academie Lounge, Köthner Str. 44 in Kreuzberg. With best regards, the Board

22.09.2023 | New attorney - new legal advice hours at the bbk berlin

On behalf of the members of the bbk berlin, the board, the management and the colleagues of the office would like to thank attorney Klaus Blancke for his competent consulting work, his dedicated support of artists seeking advice and for the very good cooperation over all the years! As his successor, we were able to win attorney Achim Bedenk, an experienced lawyer with great expertise in artists'

12.09.2023 | Studio1Labor at DeutschlandRadioKultur: Zoë Claire Miller in conversation about womens’ advancement in art

10.09.2023 | DeutschlandRadioKultur, Thorsten Jantschek at Podcast Stunde 1 Labor interviewing Zoë Claire Miller, among others: excerpt: "There is definitely a need for women's advancement in the arts. The gender pay gap and gender show gap is worse in the visual arts than it is on average (the case) in other professions."

07.09.2023 | KdFS: Our questions and demands on the draft budget 24/25

On July 11, 2023, the Berlin Senate passed the double budget for the years 2024 and 2025. Relevant to us are sections 08 (contains the budget titles for culture) and 10 (contains the budget titles for cultural education). We have looked at the individual plans in detail and collected our questions and demands in a document.