THE ACADEMY AND THE SOCIETY OF ARTISTS
www.akademiraadet.dk
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts works to promote the arts and is the state's adviser on artistic matters within the fields of architecture and visual arts as well as related arts. The Academy's activities are carried out through the Academy Council, which is also available to advise municipal authorities, etc., as well as by the Academy Council and the Artists' Association Jury, which admits new members to the Artists' Association. The Academy Council annually awards medals in recognition of i.a. artists, art historians and architects, and awards grants upon application.

ASSOCIATION OF ARTISTS (BKF)
www.bkf.dk
The Visual Artists Association (BKF) is Denmark's professional organization for visual artists with approx. 1.500 members. The association's main purpose is to look after the artists' professional, financial, social and legal interests and to promote the use of art everywhere in society. BKF protects the artistic freedom of the individual artist and respect for the visual arts in general. BKF represents visual artists in a large number of copyright, cultural policy and professional councils and boards. Among other things. in the Statens Kunstfond, VISDA, municipal visual arts council and others.

DENMARK'S ART TEACHERS
www.danmarksbilledkunstlaerere.dk
Danmarks Biledkunstlærere is a nationwide association that consists of a national board and 11 regional circles. The association has approx. 1800 members and works to increase understanding of the importance of visual arts in and outside primary school and to provide the best possible conditions for the teaching of visual arts.

DANISH SCULPTURE SOCIETY
www.skulptur.dk
The Danish Sculptors Association consists of approx. 90 active, professional sculptors and is Denmark's largest association of sculptors. Visual artists who can document a professional work and a high artistic level, with a focus on the three-dimensional expression, are accepted as members.

DANISH ARTISTS' TRADE UNION (DBF)
www.danskebilledkunstnere.dk
Danske Billedkunstneres Fagforening is a trade union that organizes approx. 500 members. The criteria for admission is an approved artistic education or that you have visual arts as your main profession. Dansk Biledkunstneres Fagforening owns and operates KK Art, which is the artists' own company.

DANISH GRAPHIC ARTISTS
www.danskegrafikere.dk
Danish Graphic Designers, which includes approx. 160 professional graphic artists, aims to promote interest in and knowledge of graphic art, i.a. when holding exhibitions, meetings, lectures, symposia, publications etc. Danske Grafikere Hus in Sølvgade 14, Copenhagen, forms the framework for exhibitions with graphics and functions as an information centre.

DANISH ARTISTS & DESIGNERS
www.danskekunsthaandvaerkere.dk
Danske Kunsthåndværkere & Designere is the interest organization for the professional, creative craftsmen and designers, with just over 500 members. The association is the initiator of, among other things, The Biennale for Crafts and Design and coordinator for participation in exhibitions and competitions at home and abroad.

DANISH GALLERY CONNECTION (DGS)
www.danskgalleri.dk
Dansk Galleri Sammenslutning is an interest organization for galleries in Denmark with approx. 50 members.

DANISH ARTS COUNCIL
www.dansk-kunstnerraad.dk
The Danish Artists' Council is the umbrella organization for the professional artists' organizations in Denmark, with a view to cooperation in the field of art and cultural policy. In total, the Danish Council of Artists has 24 member organisations, including the Association of Visual Artists.

THE ASSOCIATION OF DANISH ART CRITICS
www.aica.dk
The Association of Danish Art Critics has around 70 members and is the Danish section of the international association AICA (Association Internationale des Critiques d'art). Danish AICA organizes and holds various open seminars and debate events throughout the year, just as they award the art critic award every year.

THE ASSOCIATION OF ART HALLS IN DENMARK (FKD)
www.kunsthaller.dk
The Association of Art Galleries in Denmark, FKD, was established at the end of 1992 and today numbers approx. 16 art institutions. Art galleries are all exhibition venues that organize art exhibitions but do not have permanent collections. FKD sees it as their special task to present international contemporary art, to be a platform for new experiments and to create
dialogue between Danish and foreign art.

THE COUNCIL OF ARTISTS' ASSOCIATIONS
c/o Visual Artists Association
The Artists' Associations' Council is the umbrella organization for the artists' associations
in Denmark.

SOCIETY OF FEMALE ARTISTS (KKS)
www.kks-kunst.dk
Kvindelige Kunstneres Samfund (KKS) is one of the world's oldest professional associations for female visual artists. The association, which was founded in 1916, has approx. 200 members. Its purpose is to safeguard the professional interests of women artists.

THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHILDREN, ART AND PICTURES
www.bornkunstogbilleder.dk
Membership association for the country's approx. 100 municipal art schools, where children and young people are taught art after school. Many of the art school's teachers are professional visual artists.

COMPETENCE CENTER FOR CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND FINE ARTS
www.kbub.dk
Competence center for children, young people and the visual arts is a nationwide project which brings together actors across the visual arts food chain who work to create a good framework for working with children, young people and the visual arts. The steering group is represented by: The art schools, the elementary school area, the talent development area, professional visual artists (BKF), museum mediators and the art academies. The project is housed by the National Association of Children, Art and Pictures.

THE ORGANIZATION OF DANISH MUSEUMS (ODM)
www.dkmuseer.dk
The organization Danske Museer is an interest organization of which 172 of all the country's museums and conservation centers are members. ODM is the museum world's forum for professional networks, continuing education and museum policy matters.

THE MERGER OF DANISH ART ASSOCIATIONS (SDK)
www.sdkunst.dk
The association of Danish Art Associations' main activity is to organize traveling exhibitions offered to the member associations. The exhibitions are put together by the board. They are selected from among professional artists, who can exhibit alone or as a group, depending on the subject and wish. In addition, SDK handles tasks of mutual interest
the affiliated art associations.

THE UNION
www.theunionbipoc.com
The Union was established in 2018 by a group of racialized artists and cultural workers who see a need to organize to articulate various forms of racial discrimination and working conditions in the arts and culture industries. The Union's purpose is to facilitate a network where members can share knowledge and start conversations about professional problems with the ambition that The Union can in the long term enter into specific cases about racism, as well as engage in dialogue with the institutions and industries we belong to responsibility.

UKK – ORGANIZATION FOR ARTISTS, CURATORS AND ART MEDIATORS
www.ukk.dk
Independent, professional association which aims to create democratic, sustainable and equal conditions for contemporary art and its practitioners. The association was founded in 2002 and has over 2021 members in 400.

VISDA – VISUAL RIGHTS IN DENMARK (FORMERLY COPYDAN IMAGES)
www.visda.dk
Represents more than 2.500 Danish, and through cooperation with foreign sister companies, 160.000 foreign artists. VISDA has a wide-ranging national and international customer network, which uses art in teaching, books, films, in museums, TV, the internet as well as in companies and much more. VISDA is authorized by the Ministry of Culture to negotiate image licenses that cover all artists and photographers. In addition, VISDA distributes money to artists for the use of works in various contexts and for commercial resale of works of art. VISDA is a non-profit organization. The money goes back to the artists – and thereby ensures fertile ground for the creation of new art.

AARHUS FINE ARTS CENTER (AABKC)
www.aabkc.dk
Aarhus Visual Arts Center is an independent institution that works to bring together and make visible the visual art environment in Aarhus as well as initiate development and collaboration – locally, nationally and internationally – within the visual arts. AABKC is housed in the Kulturproduktionscentret Godsbanen and advises visual artists in relation to e.g. applications, fundraising and further training. AABKC also holds professional events and establishes networks.