Platform BK researches the role of art in society and takes action for a better art policy. We represent artists, curators, designers, critics and other cultural producers.
Platform BK has been committed to fair fees for artists since its inception. We are the advocate and co-initiator of the guideline for artists’ fees, which BKNL introduced in 2017 on behalf of the visual arts sector. The guideline aims to professionalise the contractual practice between institutions and artists and contributes to improving the income position of artists.
If no action is taken by State Secretaries Uslu and Van der Burg, in the next year and a half to two years, dozens or hundreds of self-employed workers in the cultural sector would be forced to leave the country for economic reasons, thereby disregarding their cultural value, which is the basis of their residence […]
21/03/2022
A short documentary by Mathilde Hjelle on the motivations of artists in The Netherlands and their attitudes toward money.
14/03/2022
At the seminar ‘Midstream’, organized by Het Resort in Groningen, Sepp Eckenhaussen gave a lecture entitled ‘The Rise and Fall of Social Art Policy’ and Koen Bartijn led a workshop on the ‘artistic biotope’. Watch the lecture and subsequent panel discussion here.
04/03/2022
Below is an overview of joint solidarity actions in the Dutch, Ukrainian and Russian art communities for the victims of war in Ukraine and all people who are diaspora. This is a document in the making.
01/03/2022
We invite artists and cultural workers, whose application to renew their residence visa has been rejected, to get in touch with us. The main reason for the IND to reject the application seems to be that the income as a freelancer was too low in the last two years, as TOZO is not considered to […]
18/02/2022
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