Visual artists' financial conditions mapped
The Visual Arts Economic Space, a research project on the economic working conditions of visual artists, was published by Copenhagen Business School (CBS) on 22 November 2018. It is the first research-based study in the field in 20 years.
Read about the main results and find BKF's comments on the study:
Pay the artists for their work, BKF's chairman Nis Rømer in the Alting 22 November...
We need a more sustainable art life, BKF chairman Nis Rømer in Kunsten.nu, 28 November...
"Despite our high level of education, strong personal drive and the many working hours we put into the practice of the profession we love, we constitute an absolute low-income group. That image can and must be changed. But it requires that both politicians and decision-makers in the art world think new things and act on it.”
– Nis Rømer, chairman of the Association of Visual Artists (BKF)
Get an overview of the research project The Economic Space of the Visual Arts:
New study: Few artists can make a living from art, click here...
New study: The visual arts market is growing, click here...
Read the three partial reports in CBS's research project The Economic Space of the Visual Arts:
The Economic Space of the Visual Arts – Pixie Edition (pdf)
The economic space of the visual arts – The total size of the market (pdf)
More about artists' working conditions:
Watch BKF film about visual artists' working conditions, here…
"We need to strengthen the opportunities to make a living from art, not only for the sake of the artists, but because we as a society can benefit far more from art's potential for life-enhancing realizations, value creation and new communities than we do today. "
– Nis Rømer, chairman of the Association of Visual Artists (BKF).
Top: BKF's stand at the Kulturmødet 2018 - debate with the title: What will the artists do for a living in the future? The decoration of the stand was created by visual artist Billie Maya Johansen. Photo: Jakob Dall.