Welcome friends in these unsettling times. The artist, usually living in a state of uncertainty, is now further perched on a slippery edge. While many people across the world have lost their jobs, artists continue to create where they can, but income streams have ceased. We have now been in lock-down for a number of…
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COVID-19 – Links to a collection of cultural responses
We remain vigilant and ready to share working ideas with the wider creative community. Over the last turbulent months we have watched and gathered responses – we will share some key topics, that you may like to cross-reference with your own knowledge of how different cultural communities are considering the situation and reacting. This is not…
Social welfare scheme for self-employed artists in Ireland
From September 2019, self-employed artists in Ireland in receipt of Jobseekers Allowance for the first year that they are out of work will be able to focus on their artistic work and develop their portfolio, rather than having to participate in the normal labour market job search activities. As an initiative of the Creative Ireland Programme, the…
A useful conversation – Focus on artist fees at The Living Room, Art Basel 2019
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…
A guideline to artist fees – Platform Beeldende Kunst Netherlands (PBK)
Platform Beeldende Kunst (PBK) is “a strategic coalition that mobilises existing networks and maps out new connections in order to develop a foundation for joint action and spokesmanship”. The core aims of this platform for visual arts is to both influence political decision making aligned to the desires of existing cultural groups, and to positively…
Artist exhibition fee guidelines – Visarte (Visual Arts Association Switzerland)
Visarte represents the interests of professional visual artists in Switzerland, playing a decisive role in the development of cultural strategies and fighting for their implementation. Visarte Switzerland is the successor organization of the GSMBA (Society of Swiss Painters, Sculptors and Architects) active since 1866 and was founded in 2001. Visarte Schweiz initiated visual artists remuneration guidelines…
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…
Flemish government launches interest free loans to purchase contemporary art
Under the name “Kunst Aan Zet” (Art To Move), the Flemish government is launching an interest-free loan scheme to purchase contemporary art from Flemish and Brussels artists. The interest-free art loan, will enable the public to purchase a work from an artist or designer who lives and works in Flanders or Brussels. An amount of…
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…