Hannah Toticki, RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE, installation view, Work It Out på Kunsten, 2021 Photo: Niels Fabæk.

Organization

Danish Visual Artists has a secretariat in Copenhagen and nine regional branches, distributed throughout the country. The association is managed by a board of directors.

In addition, BKF represents visual artists in a large number of copyright, cultural policy and professional councils and boards. Among other things. in the Statens Kunstfond, Copydan Bilder (VISDA), municipal visual arts council and others.

Here you can get an overview of the organization.

The Board

The board of Danish Visual Artists consists of a president, a deputy president and nine board members.

The board handles BKF's political work as an interest organization for professional visual artists in Denmark. 

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The Secretariat

BKF's secretariat is led by a manager who reports to the board, and has approx. 5 employees. 

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Representative for the Culture Committee

Selection

Danish Visual Artists has a number of working committees. Here you will find an overview. 

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Regions

BKF has nine regional committees spread across the country. Here you can find contact persons and committee members.

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Curious about BKF's history?

BKF was founded in 1969 by a merger between Malende Kunstneres Samfund, Dansk Bledhuggersamfund and Grafisk Kunstnersamfund. Here you can read more about BKF's history and development in the 50th anniversary publication from 2019.

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Annual Assemblies

The Association of Visual Artists holds an annual general meeting. At the meeting, the association's policy is discussed and we elect a chairman, deputy chairman and new members to the association's board. 

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Arts organizations

Here you will find overviews of Danish and foreign arts organizations, collaboration partners, rights organizations and many other actors in Danish and foreign art life.

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Network

The Union of Visual Artists works broadly for the conditions and rights of visual artists. The association is active in councils and boards, as well as when it comes to individual professional questions that concern individual members. The Visual Artists' Association is part of the visual arts organizational network. We are helping to initiate initiatives that improve members' working lives as well as copyright and rights-related matters.

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From intention to everyday life. About the work of a Visual Arts Council

Comment: In municipal visual arts councils we often talk about quality, community and education. But all too often we lose sight of when the work is revealed. It is in everyday life – not at the opening – that art should work, writes visual artist and member of the visual arts council in Middelfart Municipality, Cecilia de Jong.

New member: Peter Ringgaard

Fortunately, the Danish Association of Visual Artists is constantly gaining new members. Each issue of the Danish Association of Visual Artists presents one of them. This time Peter Ringgaard, who works from Copenhagen, Thailand and Tisvilde.

A cyclical approach to the artist's life

“We never find ourselves in situations where we have to discuss whether one or the other's practice should be prioritized,” say artist couple Kirsten Astrup & Maria Bordorff. They also point out that there are different phases in life, and that no one can or should be expected to be able to do it all at once.

The Artist's Workshop: Visiting Thilo Frank

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Art as a lifeline 

In a time of crises and imminent war, art and culture can also play an important role. Because by creating or engaging in art and culture, communities can sprout, and this often helps people to hold on to life. At the same time, art can bring out the middle tones when polarization is imminent, finds Kathrin Maurer, professor at SDU and Fellow at the Nordic Humanities Center.

New issue of Fagbladet Biledkunstneren

The new issue focuses on, among other things, artist-run exhibition spaces, art in a time of crisis, and the work of an arts council, which focuses on quality, community, and education, but often loses sight of when the work is revealed.

Visual artists' exhibition fees get an important and much-needed boost

Artists, museums and art galleries are now joining forces to significantly improve artists' conditions. In a joint agreement that will come into effect on April 1, 2026, the recommended minimum rate for exhibition fees will be increased by 40 percent over the next four years.

Board seminar with focus on artist economics

The Democracy Rally in Copenhagen NV hosted a board seminar on Thursday last week, where the Irish scheme Basic Income for the Arts (BIA) was a central item on the agenda. The seminar ended with the artist duo Hesselholdt & Mejlvang presenting their upcoming work - NV-Circle.

Gallery sales and artist VAT

The art media I DO ART has asked the head of the secretariat at BKF, Klaus Pedersen, and board member at Danske Gallerier, Nils Stærk, how they each believe that artists and gallerists should distribute the money from gallery sales.

The foundations should invest directly in the liberal arts in 2026

If the foundations want a strong and vibrant art scene throughout the country, it requires courage to invest directly in those who create art, writes Marie Thams, representative of the Danish Association of Visual Artists, in a debate contribution in Altinget Kultur today.

Municipal conference with a focus on nature, well-being and community

On Thursday, February 5, 2026, BKF gathered artists and municipal stakeholders at Kunstmuseum Brandts in Odense for this year's Art in the Municipality conference.

The art of the future is made of sugar, gold nuggets and oyster shells

Visual artists have a responsibility to use less plastic, acrylic and other CO2-polluting and toxic materials, says visual artist Malene Bang. She is an associate professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and heads the academy's laboratory for plastics and sustainable materials. Here, she teaches visual arts students and conducts research into sponges as a supporting material.