Statement by the Visual Arts Section on the proposal for the Berlin Senate's new anti-discrimination clause

We, the signatories of this letter, members of the Visual Arts Section of the Akademie der Künste, strongly share the concerns and misgivings that the Berliner Rat für die Künste, die Koalition der Freien Szene, der bbk Berlin, inm berlin, LAFT Berlin, und das Netzwerk Berliner Filmfestivals have already expressed against the plans of the Berlin Senate for Culture to intervene administratively and massively in the freedom of the arts and especially future art funding with a so-called anti-discrimination clause. We therefore emphatically endorse the appeal of the aforementioned groups and initiatives.

Rosa Barba, Monica Bonvicini, Richard Deacon, Arnold Dreyblatt, Bogomir Ecker, Olafur Eliasson, Heinz Emigholz, Ayşe Erkmen, Ute Eskildsen, VALIE EXPORT, Thomas Florschuetz, Matthias Flügge, Katharina Fritsch, Jochen Gerz, Ulrike Grossarth, Katharina Grosse, Wulf Herzogenrath, Robert Kudielka, Raimund Kummer, Bjørn Melhus, Nanne Meyer, Marcel Odenbach, Ulrike Rosenbach, Karin Sander, Gregor Schneider, Hito Steyerl, Wolfgang Tillmans, Hubertus von Amelunxen, Dorothee von Windheim, Corinne Wasmuht, Siegfried Zielinski

Signatories of other Sections:

Peter Ablinger, Carola Bauckholt, Nikolaus Brass, Ulrike Draesner, Thomas Flierl, Erhard Grosskopf, Peter Michael Hamel, Hanna Hartman, York Höller, Clara Iannotta, Detlef Karg, Helmut Lachenmann, Eva Menasse, HG Merz, Iris ter Schiphorst, Kathrin Schmidt, Simon Steen-Andersen, Jennifer Walshe, Wilfried Wang, Walter Zimmermann

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