As part of its partnership with the Volkswagen Group, the Neue Nationalgalerie invites you to a panel discussion on the future of cultural funding.

Today, support for art and culture faces multiple challenges: shrinking public budgets, rising institutional costs, increasing expectations of cultural work, and growing competition for attention and visibility. At the same time, institutions require more support than ever in order to continue fulfilling their societal role in the years to come.

Against this backdrop, international experts from the fields of art, culture, and politics will discuss new approaches, conditions, and models for contemporary cultural funding. The focus will be on questions of responsibility and collaboration between the public sector and private sponsors, as well as transferable best-practice examples from an international context.

The discussion is conceived as an open conversation and invites the audience to participate with questions.

The event will be held in English. Admission is free.

Participants

Marion Ackermann, President of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
Klaus Biesenbach, Director of the Neue Nationalgalerie / berlin modern
Norbert Lammert, former President of the Deutscher Bundestag
Glenn D. Lowry, former Director of MoMA, New York (1995–2025)
Benita von Maltzahn, Head of Society and Culture, Volkswagen Group

Moderation: Korbinian Frenzel, Deutschlandfunk Kultur