As we reported in our News Update in early June, EARights were invited by the Swiss Art Council, Pro Helvetia, to ‘Living Room – Focus on the Artists’, a panel discussion event in Basel, held in connection with Art Basel 2019, focusing around the issue of Artist Fees. Guðrún Gísladóttir, who represented EARights, was joined by…
Category: Ongoing EPR projects / symposia
An open letter for the remuneration of Artists in Geneva – Groupe d’Action pour la Rémunération des Artistes a Genève
‘Garage’ (Groupe d’Action pour la Rémunération des Artistes a Genève) are a working group that mobilise events around “concrete actions for a better regulation of artistic works in Geneva”. The group includes visual artists, performers, curators, critics and researchers. There are considerable differences between the cantons in Switzerland when it comes to artist remuneration rights – having local groups…
Living Room – Focus on artist fees at Art Basel 2019
EARights will be taking part in an invited open discussion event at the ‘Living Room – Focus on the Artists’ as part of Art Basel in Switzerland on June 13th 2019. Living Room is a temporary space – that acts as an open platform for discussions and encounters during the Art Basel week. It is…
Rådet for Visuel Kunst i København stiller krav om kunstnerhonorar
Rådet for Visuel Kunst i København (erstatter det tidligere Københavns Kommunes Billedkunstudvalg) har foreslået, at enhver institution, der ansøger om støtte til udstillingsprojekter, skal indeholde kunstnerhonorar i ansøgningsbudgettet. Som en nyetableret organisation i februar 2019, er dette Rådets første formelle forslag. Tidligere i år foreslog Franciska Rosenkilde (Kulturborgmester i Københavns Kommune), at man forpligter kommunens…
New Copenhagen Visual Arts Council demands artists fees
The Council for Visual Artists for the City of Copenhagen (replacing the former Copenhagen Municipality´s Visual Arts Committee) has proposed that any institution applying for exhibition funds will have to include remuneration for artists in all new application budgets. As a newly established organisation in February 2019, this is the Councils’s first formal proposal. Earlier…
W.A.G.E.
A steady stream of good news from WAGE. We receive a regular update from Working Artists and the Greater Economy in New York with information about organisations that are being W.A.G.E. certified across the U.S.
Exhibition Remuneration Right in Europe – 2018 Symposium
We are pleased to report the discussions regarding exhibition payment rights continue on a European level and a number of our original collaborators continue to move forward with the current issues. This symposium ‘Exhibition Remuneration Right in Europe’ took place on 22nd November, 2018 in Brussels.
Borgarráð Reykjavíkur samþykkir viðbótarframlag til Listasafns Reykjavíkur
2016 hóf SÍM, Samband íslenskra myndlistarmanna, herferðina Við borgum myndlistarmönnum. Kjarninn í herferðinni var að fá framlagssamning um greiðslur til listamanna fyrir sýningar sem íslenskar menningarstofnanir setja upp.
Reykjavík City Council approve additional payments to Reykjavík Art Museum
Back in 2016 artists in Iceland launched a campaign to promote fair payment for their creative work. The We Pay Visual Artists Campaign was set up through the Association of Icelandic Artists (Samband íslenskra myndlistarmanna, SÍM). At the core of the campaign is the Contribution Contract outlining the participation and support of artists in exhibitions…
Reform for Exhibition Fees in Norway – Pilot Project 2014-2018
The Norwegian government is currently investigating a reform that aims at paying artists for their work with exhibitions and has the potential to become the biggest investment in the artist economy in the country since the 1970s. The state pilot project is now under review and it will be decided whether exhibition fees will be…