On September 6–7, 2025, the meeting of the Baltic-Nordic Artists and Art workers’ Initiatives Network took place at the Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius, Lithuania. The Network’s activities and the meeting are organised by the Art Workers’ Union Lithuania and funded by Nordic Culture Point.
The Network aims to establish a working dialogue between initiatives that address the precarity of material, social, and political conditions of artists and art workers in Baltic and Nordic countries. The Network aims to understand the complex reasons for precarity in the visual arts sector and to tackle this problem on shared practical grounds.
In the meeting, the Network’s partners shared knowledges and experiences on topics such as: precarious work conditions in the cultural sector, the economy of visual arts today and tomorrow, the actionable climate strategies for artists’ unions, the uniting of art workers with political movements, and the commoning of diversity.
The partners are artists and art workers’ unions, associations, networks, and grassroots initiatives: the Art Workers’ Union in Lithuania, the Lithuanian Artists’ Association, the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association, the Council of the Creative Unions of Latvia, grassroots organisers from Estonia and Finland, Kiila ry in Finland, the Artists’ Association of Finland, International Association of Art (IAA) Europe, the Artists’ Association of Sweden, Young Artists’ Society in Norway, Verdensrommet in Norway, UKK in Denmark, and BFK Danish Visual Artists.
