For a holistic and fulfilling life, people need access to their own creative potential. It is therefore our aim to enable children and young people, particularly those at risk, to participate in art and culture as early as possible. This should enable them to experience their own sensual and aesthetic experiences and creative self-expression, but also to convey creativity as a problem-solving skill. In this way, we want to promote and strengthen the potential and personality of children and young people. We achieve this goal together with our funding partners by establishing and expanding structures and programs that integrate art directly into their everyday lives and allow them to actively participate in culture. They create points of contact with artists in order to promote both children and young people as well as artists in their competence in art as a social practice.

Artists need more than just creativity on their way to becoming professionals. Stipends and scholarships are a key element of being able to work freely. Our aim is to support artists with their professional development, ranging from their initial training through to continuing education and advanced studies. That’s why we fund settings where artists can learn about and produce art. And this also means we have a responsibility to provide spaces for both young and more established artists where they can present themselves and their art to the general public. After all, they should be able to do more than merely produce works of art: the idea is that they can also live with and from their art. At the same time, they play an important role in teaching culture at schools and other educational facilities.