Visual Artists Between Cultural Demand and Economic Subsistence. Empirical Findings From Berlin.



According to the demographic structure to the “scene” districts the most significant
empirical result is the predictor “Age group until 40 years” for both groups “Scene”
and “Central”. This concentration of almost young visual artists in the inner-city
districts correlates to the other mostly younger inhabitants
13. In contrast to this,
visual artists over 40 years seem to prefer more periphery districts of Berlin (see
column 1).

And in the end there are empirical evidences for different strategies of visual artists in
finding their living and working places (refers to hypothesis 2).

In each case 40 per cent of visual artists working in their flat or have a studio, 13 per
cent working in a studio flat, 7 per cent have no working facility.

Table 1 : Results of the OLS regression for reasons of districts preferences of visual artists in
Berlin

[1]

Rest Berlin

[2]

Scene

[3]

Central

Constant

0.616

0.507

0.686

(10.87)***

(15.91)***

(23.81)***

Age group until 40 years

-0.086

0.169

0.084

(-2.34)**

(4.21)***

(2.32)**

Cultural offering

-0.019

0.106

0.008

-0.39

(2.06)**

0.17

Image as creative site

-0.393

0.097

0.071

-1.20

(1.89)*

1.54

Transport connection

-0.004

-0.028

0.008

-0.10

-0.61

0.2

Proximity to customers

-0.044

0.069

0.024

-0.81

1.17

0.45

Proximity to supplier

0.010

0.052

0.028

0.17

0.84

0.5

Proximity to colleagues

-0.065

0.032

0.078

-1.36

0.61

1.64

Low real estate market prices in

districts

0.024

-0.047

-0.038

-0.55

-1.1

-0.99

Observations

589

589

589

R-squared_____________________

0.03________

________0.08________

________0.04_______

Constant

0.616

(10.87)***

0.507

(15.91)***

0.686

(23.81)***

Absolute value of t statistics in parentheses

* significant at 10 per cent; ** significant at 5 per cent; *** significant at 1 per cent

13 See Senatsverwaltung für Gesundheit, Soziales und Verbraucherschutz (Ed.) (2004: 250).

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