Un/gleich/zeitig: Next Steps – Challenges and Strategies for a Cultural Landscape of the Future

The cultural landscape is in motion: People working in the fields of art, culture, politics and administration are navigating between budget cuts, considerations regarding funding guidelines and state budget policies, debates about artistic freedom, antisemitism and antimuslim racism, the strengthen of antidemocratic movements, laws regarding non-profit organizations and the principle of neutrality as well as artificial intelligence and its framework conditions – as well as many additional topics that determine their daily business. In doing so, the opinions are often strongly divergent debates ranging from passionate to heated determine our spaces for conversation. But how do things continue from here?

Even though opinions within the scene are increasingly diverging, what does this mean for the quality of our collaboration in addressing shared challenges? How do our differences of opinion impact our understanding of art and culture as democratic spaces, as well as the visibility and effectiveness of (independent) arts concerning societal developments?

Experts from the cultural scene exchange ideas on strategies for the future of the independent arts at the state, federal, and European levels, and reflect on the (cultural) policy steps that cultural actors must take.

In German spoken language.

Moderation: Moritz von Rappard (Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft)

Moritz von Rappard works, amongst other practices, as a curator, moderator and mediator and engages intensely with the topics of diversity development as well as the opening up of and participation within cultural institutions. He has been active in Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft in the team of speakers of the regional group of Berlin-Brandenburg since 2021.

Conceived in cooperation with the Cultural Policy Society Berlin-Brandenburg and the speakers Cerstin Gerecht, Moritz von Rappard, Sarah Zalfen, and Wibke Behrens.