IG Fine Arts
The interest group Visual Arts is a representation of the visual artists in Austria .
Visual artists founded the IG Bildende Kunst - formerly the Federal Association of Visual Artists Austria (BVÖ) - as a self-organized interest group ( association ) in 1956 in order to actively shape political decision-making processes that have an impact on visual artists and to work to improve the structural framework conditions for artistic creation . The main area of responsibility is to safeguard and represent the cultural, political, social, legal, economic and other professional interests of visual artists as well as promoting the (public) interest in their work.
Members also benefit from free service and advice. Advocacy and gallery are run by a team of active artists. The artists' association has its seat in Vienna. The main topics are: social and economic security ( basic income ), settlement law, tax legislation , copyright and resale rights .
Exhibitions
The artists' association runs a gallery . The program of the exhibition space reflects and complements the political work of the lobby group. The focus of the exhibition projects is on current cultural-political, art-political and socio-political content, which is communicated in curated group exhibitions using the means and methods of fine arts. Through contemporary design concepts, the place becomes a performative display. Marginalized positions and topics are also given the floor for experiments. In the sense of an expanded concept of art, radical questions inherent in art, subversive strategies, transdisciplinary and participatory thinking and working are promoted.
Publications
The artists' association publishes the magazine Bildpunkt four times a year . Each issue is dedicated to a particular topic. Aesthetic, activist and theoretical strategies with their mutual entanglements and overlaps are central. Three artistic positions each break the text monopoly. Further texts on cultural policy, a service section for artists and information on lobbying activities fill the booklet. The pixel is available at various locations in contemporary art and culture for free removal, members receive the pixel free of charge.