German Arts Council

The Deutscher Kunstrat is a coalition of currently 26 nationwide associations of visual artists, art mediation, art trade and art exploitation, representing over 300,000 art actors and more than 1,600 institutions. It advocates for the interests of art actors, aims to give visual art its due standing, and helps shape cultural policy framework conditions. It comments on art and cultural policy topics and represents the interests of visual art vis-à-vis the political level of the federal and state governments. The Deutscher Kunstrat is the visual arts section of the Deutscher Kulturrat. Its speakers bring the perspective of visual art into the political work of the Cultural Council, and representatives of its member associations contribute expertise in all specialist committees and ad hoc working groups of the Cultural Council. Its members generally hold two general meetings per year to discuss culturally politically relevant questions and develop joint initiatives.

The Deutscher Kunstrat is the visual arts section of the Deutscher Kulturrat. It is a coalition of currently 26 nationwide associations of visual artists, art mediation, art trade and art exploitation, representing over 300,000 art actors and more than 1,600 institutions. It advocates for the interests of art actors and aims to give visual art its due standing by helping shape cultural policy framework conditions. It comments on art and cultural policy topics and represents the interests of visual art vis-à-vis the political level of the federal and state governments. Its speakers bring the perspective of visual art into the political work of the Cultural Council, and representatives of its member associations contribute expertise in all specialist committees and ad hoc working groups of the Cultural Council. Its members generally hold two general meetings per year to discuss culturally politically relevant questions and develop joint initiatives. In March 2025 it publicly expressed great concern over the federal government's plans to nearly halve the Kunstfonds budget in 2025. The Deutscher Kunstrat is not to be confused with the art organisation of the same name that emerged in 1954 from the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Kunst, was financed by the Federal Foreign Office from 1960, and whose tasks were taken over in 1970 by the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen.

Sektion für Bildende Kunst im Deutschen Kulturrat (visual arts section of the German Cultural Council)

1. 1Aktuell | Deutscher Kunstratdeutscher-kunstrat.de
2. 2Über uns | Deutscher Kunstratdeutscher-kunstrat.de
3. 3Deutscher Kunstratwikidata.org