Visual Arts

Over the last 20 years, Berlin has become a protagonist for generating contemporary art, boasting the highest concentration of practicing artists in the world next to cities like New York. About 5.832 artists live - depending on definition - in the city. The 'Berufsverband für Bildende Künstler Berlin' (bbk) organizes nearly 2.000 visual artists of all disciplines and arts. Accommodating more than 200 museums and other exhibition venues, Berlin is also residence to 500 galleries with various specializations. More than 3.400 companies exist in the art market in Berlin with a total revenue of 720 million Euro (2017).

For years now, Berlin’s numerous fairs and exhibitions have attracted a diverse national and international audience. Art "made in Berlin" has a good reputation and holds weight as an important image factor for the international collector. The art fair Artforum was a focal event for the industry together with the Preview and the Berliner Kunstsalon. Since 2012, the new format of Berlin Art Week seeks to underscore the importance of the city as a centre for contemporary art with a platform that presents Berlin's artists, galleries and institutions in a unique way.

Creative City Berlin cooperates with numerous networks and initiatives like Berlinerpool or C/O Berlin, through which important information is collected and presented on the website. In our CCB Magazine we introduce the various networks and initiatives and ask about the conditions for artists who work and produce in Berlin.

 

Facts & Figures

FACTS AND NUMBERS (REPORT CREATIVE INDUSTRIES IN BERLIN (2014)

Publisher: Projekt Zukunft
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STUDY ABOUT THE PROFESSONAL SITUATION OF BERLIN ARTISTS "STUDION BERLIN II" (2011)

Publisher: IFSE
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BERLIN CALLING - EXHIBITIONS OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS (2007)

Publisher: Projekt Zukunft
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General Facts & Figures on Berlin´s cultural industry can be found here .

 

Questions & Answers

 

Contacts & Networks

Berlin’s cultural affairs department | Fine arts and studio grants

Contact for galeries and the artsector at the Senate Department for Economics, Technology and Research | Tel: 030 / 9013 7404

 

Organizations, associations, networks

Bundesverband Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler e.V. (BBK) | Umbrella organisation for fine arts in Germany

Berufsverband bildender künstler*innen berlin e.V. (bbk berlin) | Professional Association of Visual Artists Berlin

Deutscher Kulturrat e.V. | Contact the policies and administration of the Federation, the Länder and the European Union in matters of cultural policy

www.projektraeume-berlin.net | Network of independent artistic project spaces

Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst | Association of 850 artist members

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein | Portal for contemporary art

Kunst-Werke Berlin | Exhibition space for contemporary art

Deutscher Künstlerbund | 'Künstlerbund' with 550 visual artists

Internationale Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst | council visual artists on the possibilities of working opportunities and grants, both in Germany and abroad

Gedok Berlin | Community of artists and cultur funding 

Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen | Association and archive for artists

Verein Berliner Künstler (VBK) | Germany’s oldest association of artists in Germany

EUNIC Berlin | The European Cultural Institutes in Berlin

Kulturstiftung des Bundes | promotes art and culture within the scope of federal competence

Contemporary Arts Alliance Berlin (CAA) | Support for contemporary art and culture in Berlin

Stiftung Kunstfonds | Support for art projects

Schering Stiftung | aims to promote science and art

ResArtis | worldwide network

Career Center UDK Berlin | workshops, advive and coaching

Verwertungsgesellschaft BILD-KUNST | Association founded of copyright-holders (artists, photographers and film authors) for the exercise of their rights

Kulturgilde e.V. | Association for the cultureal and creative industries in Germany

sculpture network | a European non-profit organisation for the support, encouragement and promotion of contemporary, three-dimensional art

 

Art fairs, events

www.berlinartweek.de | Berlins format to unite and strengthen art location in Berlin

Berliner Liste | contemporary art fair

www.berlinbiennale.de | Berlin Biennale for contemporary art

 

Art trade associations

Landesverband Berliner Galerien | professional interest group for art galleries in Berlin

Bundesverband Deutscher Galerien und Editionen | Lobby group of galleries and art dealers

Federation of European Art Galleries Associations (FEAGA)  | The Federation represents the political interests of over 2000 modern and contemporary art galleries in the EU and Switzerland.

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