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

3.6 Artistic Co-operation Relationships

It should be shown in this consideration, to what extent an increasing co-operation in
content and organization with other artists and other creative industries is observed.
For artists as well as actors in other creative industries the challenge exists, to offer,
to an extremely high degree, innovative and original creations in times of excess
supply on the market of art and cultural production in order to stay competitive. To
do both, temporary, project-based work is often suitable as a freelancer, wherein the
artists newly define their work spheres as well as personal development paths.
Exactly in this position, in which artists are situated, it is essential to reach a trusting
and reliable co-operation.

In the survey, a third of the artists specified that they worked on cultural production
with co-operation partners within their profession.

The most important co-operation partners for visual artists are architects (12.6 per
cent), graphic designers (10.0 per cent), and film, broadcast and video producers (9.9
per cent).

3.7 Income of Visual Artists in Berlin

Many artists operate at their economic subsistence level. Income is generated
through the most different of sources.

At least 40 per cent of the surveyed can live off the proceeds from their artwork. A
third, however, must substitute their income shortfall through an additional activity.
Now, one could think that there is not much to develop considering 90 per cent of the
surveyed artists stated that on average they earn no more than 18,000 euro a year¹⁴.
The same share, however, only earns 11,000 euro exclusively from artistic activities
(see illustration 3).

For age groups up to 40 years no relevant sex-specific differences can be found. But
then male artists have an advantage in the higher income segments over their female
counterparts.

The discrepancy between the investment in education (over 60 per cent have a higher
education) and the expected income is noticeably high.

Teaching was named most often as a side job. Moreover, due to their varied
capabilities, artists work in the entertainment industry or in the fields of health and
social work. Arts, craft and service relevant jobs were named less frequently.

¹⁴ 93 per cent answered this question.

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