The Artist and the Others

22/06/2026

Dealing with uncertainty? An artistic career is one of the most rewarding paths you can choose. It is also one of the most uncertain.

The unpredictability of opportunities, the budget cuts, the pressure to constantly reinvent and prove yourself, the competitions; these are not small things.
For many artists, this uncertainty quietly accumulates over time, showing up as anxiety, self-doubt, or the thought of quitting for a more financially sustainable career. 

Sometimes it leads to bigger questions: Am I on the right path? Can I keep doing this? Is this sustainable?
These feelings are real, and they are far more common than we talk about.
But what if uncertainty didn’t have to feel like something to survive? What if we could learn to move through it with steadiness, with clarity, and even with confidence?
That is exactly what this workshop is about.

On July 3rd, join us for a 2-hour online workshop with Amayah Pelegrin, designed specifically for artists navigating uncertainty.
Together you’ll explore how to stop fighting uncertainty and start building an inner framework to navigate your career on your own terms.

You’ll cover:
→ Why uncertainty is difficult and how to process it healthily
→ How to create inner safety even when circumstances are uncertain
→ Uncovering resources within you that work specifically for you
→ Practical steps to take away
🗓 July 3 · 10:00–12:00
💻 Online · English
💶 €40 members / €55 non-members
Facing financial difficulties? Write to us at [email protected]

About Amayah Pelegrin
Amayah Pelegrin is a certified Executive Coach (ILM Level 7), facilitator and researcher working at the intersection of culture, leadership and systems change.

For over 15 years, she has designed leadership programmes, facilitated organisational development processes and coached leaders across the cultural, creative, social and research sectors. Her work focuses on helping individuals and organisations navigate complexity, strengthen collective capacity to create change and shape cultures in which people can thrive. She is an expert in creativity, climate leadership, and regenerative systems change.

She has a particular focus on supporti

16/06/2026

Dogeared Rubrica | Book of the Week

The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence
by The Care Collective
This one has been sitting on our shelf for a while, and we kept coming back to it, because it speaks directly to something we should think about every day. Coming back from Genalguacil, we had to share this book.

The Care Manifesto is not a book written especially for artists. But it might be one of the most important books an artist, curators and all of us can read right now.
At its heart, it asks a simple but radical question: what if care, not productivity, not competition, not individual ambition, were the organising principle of everything? Of our work, our communities, our economies, our relationship to the natural world?

For artists, this hits close to home. So much of what exhausts us in this field comes from a world built around carelessness: the pressure to always be visible, always be producing, always be available ( yes, does this resonate? ) while the invisible labour of sustaining a practice, a studio, a family, a self, goes completely unacknowledged.

The Care Manifesto names that. And it goes further. It asks us to reimagine interdependence not as a vulnerability but as a source of strength. We are all dependent on each other and only by nurturing those connections can we build something that lasts. Not just for ourselves, but for everyone.

For us, this connects directly to how we think about our work with artist-parents, with artists navigating care responsibilities, and with building a more sustainable and inclusive art world. Burnout is not a personal failure. It is what happens when care is missing, from institutions, from structures, from the way we relate to one another.
This book is a call to put care back at the centre. Of the state, of the economy, of public space; and yes, of artistic practice too.

Because a practice built on care for yourself and for others is one that can actually sustain you over time.
One of those rare books that gives language to something you already feel. 🤍

31/05/2026

In the arts, we often focus on individual practice — but the truth is, none of us navigate this path alone. Building meaningful relationships with other artists is one of the most powerful things you can invest in.

Be welcome to join the June Networking event at UNTITLED POP UP.
Meet likeminded artists, curators and professionals in the arts. Kids are also welcome.

We look forward to meeting you, Monday the 8th of June from 5 pm till 7 pm. Join us!

About UNTITLED POP UP.:

A space for the undefined. It is a multidisciplinary project dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion within Munich’s art scene.

When? Monday, June 8, 2026 | 17:00
Where? Ruffinihaus, Sendlinger Str. 1, 80331 Munich

Open to all, bring your smile and share few hours with us, while discovering .munich

27/05/2026

🤖✨ Be part of something we’re building — together.
We’re inviting artists to join a free testing session of our upcoming Your.Ai online course — developed in cooperation with our wonderful partners across Europe.

Taato has been responsible for developing Module 3
The Module takes one central question — what does it mean to integrate AI into your life as an artist? — and breaks it down into practical, honest, and thought-provoking chapters:

Chapter 1 — AI Integration in Career Development How can AI support the way you develop and navigate your career as an artist? This chapter looks at practical tools and critical questions around using AI not as a shortcut, but as a genuine support.

Chapter 2 — Building a Sustainable Career: The Three Pillars A deep dive into the three foundations of a sustainable artistic career — Network, Exhibitions, and Artist Residencies — with concrete guidance on how to approach each one strategically and authentically.

Chapter 3 — Funding Opportunities for AI Art Project
This chapter maps the funding landscape for artists working with or around AI, from grants to open calls to European programmes.

Chapter 4 — How to Use AI While Writing Proposals One of the most practical chapters in the course: how to use AI tools ethically and effectively when writing applications, residency proposals, and grant requests — without losing your voice.

By the end of the module, you will have a clearer sense of how AI can support your career without replacing what makes your work yours, practical tools for funding, applications, and professional development, and a framework for thinking critically and intentionally about technology in your practice.

This is your chance to gain real, meaningful knowledge and help shape a resource that is being built with artists, for artists. Your feedback matters more than you know. 🙏

Register via the link in the comments or on our website!

25/05/2026

📚 Dogeared Rubrica | Book of the Week

Start With Why — Simon Sinek (2009)
Yes, it’s a business book. And yes, it belongs on every artist’s shelf. ✨

This book asks a question that sounds simple: why do some people inspire while others don’t? but the answer will make you rethink how you talk about your work, your practice, and yourself.

Sinek introduces the Golden Circle: most people and organizations communicate from the outside in — what they do, how they do it, and rarely why. The ones who truly connect and inspire? They start from the centre. They start with why.
For artists, this hits differently.

During our Summer Training & workshops and with artists in the Currents exhibition working on Presentation Skills, we kept hearing the same thing: “It’s hard to focus. I don’t know where to start, “especially when artists have a multimedia practice and different research themes. This book is a wonderful companion for exactly that moment.

Because here’s the thing: your artist statement is not a description of your work. It’s an invitation into your thinking. And if you start with “my practice explores identity, immigration, and memory”... you’ve already lost us. 😅 Thousands of statements open exactly like this. They say everything and nothing at the same time.

Start With Why will push you to ask:
👉What do I actually believe?
👉What is the real reason I make what I make?
👉What is the driving force, the red threat that connect my practice.
👉Why do you do what you do :)

This is not just about presentations. It’s about structuring your voice — your statement, your pitches, your conversations with curators, gallerists, and collaborators — starting from what truly matters to you.
Concrete. Specific. Yours. 🤍
Not the usual. Not the generic. You.

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Dogeared Books by TAATO is our rubrica born from that question: “Is there a book you’d recommend to me?” Because sharing is caring — we’re opening our bookshelf. 📚
Some books don’t just sit on the shelf. They travel with you, full of highlights and notes — and we’re happy to share them with our wonderful community of artists.

18/05/2026

📚 Dogeared Rubrica | Book of the Week

Why Are Artists Poor? The Exceptional Economy of the Arts — Hans Abbing (2002)
Yes, it’s from 2002. And yes, it still hits. ✨

This book asks one of the most honest questions in the art world — one that we rarely give ourselves the space to sit with. Why do so many artists earn so little, and yet the art world keeps attracting more and more of them?

What makes this book so valuable for visual artists is the clarity it offers. Just reading the chapter titles, you start to feel the system around you take shape:

Who has the power to define art?
Why are gifts to the arts praised while market incomes remain suspect?
Are artists just ill-informed gamblers?

Each chapter names something you have probably felt — and finally gives you the language for it.

Abbing — himself both an economist and a practicing artist — maps the art world with precision and care. Once you have seen the map, everything starts to make sense: the role of prestige over payment, the myth of the selfless devoted artist, the complex relationship between art, the state, and money.

Published over ‼️twenty years ago ‼️, this book is arguably more relevant today than ever. The precarity exists for a reason — and understanding it is one of the most powerful things an artist can do, also to change this! ( we keep repeating this over and over again in all our program, if we want to change this, we need to act together)

This is an honest book. And for artists who want to navigate the contemporary art world with clarity and intention, this is a wonderful place to start. 🤍
Free to read on JSTOR 🔗 (link in stories)

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Dogeared Books by TAATO is our rubrica born from that questions: “Is there a book you’d recommend to me?” Because sharing is caring — we’re opening our bookshelf. 📚

Some books don’t just sit on the shelf. They travel with you, full of highlights and notes, we are happy to share them with our wonderful community of artists.

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15/05/2026

In the arts, we often focus on individual practice — but the truth is, none of us navigate this path alone. Building meaningful relationships with other artists is one of the most powerful things you can invest in.

Yesterday we had one of those afternoons that reminds you why community matters. We gathered a diverse group of artists from TAATO’s network at EarEAR in Munich, for a visit to Folding Time — a beautiful exhibition where two of our Summer Training alumni are showing their work.

The theme of the exhibition — Time — gave us so much to talk about. And isn’t that what a good network does? It creates space for real conversations, unexpected connections, and the kind of support that no grant or opportunity can replace.

So grateful for afternoons like this one. 🙏

📍 Folding Time is still on at EAREAR, Munich

🗓 Until May 24 | Thu–Sun, 3–7pm

Featuring work by Anastasiia Batishcheva, Jisu Kim, Sunghee Lee, Naho Matsuda, Min Shin & ZINADA Curated by Tinatin Ghughunishvili-Brück and Jisu Kim

Go see it — and bring a friend 🤍

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04/05/2026

📖 DOGEARED RUBRICA
“Is there a book you’d recommend to me?”

Dogeared Books by TAATO is our rubrica born from that question: Because sharing is caring — we’re opening our bookshelf. 📚

Some books don’t just sit on the shelf. They travel with you, full of highlights and notes, we are haypp to share them with our wonderful community of artists.

“ How to Be an Artist” by Jerry Saltz is one of them!

What does it actually take to become an artist?

, one of the art world’s most celebrated voices, goes straight to the heart of it, with honesty, warmth, and a deep belief that making art is something worth fighting for.

This is a handbook for creative people of all kinds. Brimming with rules, prompts, and practical tips, it goes straight to what really matters: originality, persistence, the balance between knowledge and intuition and above all, self-belief. (Yes, trust yourself and what you are making)

Saltz shows you how to follow the first sparks of inspiration, how to get the most from your materials, how to navigate the challenges ( & fears) of pursuing a creative career, and how to find joy in the work itself — which, in the end, is the whole point.

Full of full-color artwork from artists ancient and modern, it is as beautiful as it is useful. Whether you are a painter, photographer, writer, or performer, or someone who has always felt the pull of making something — this book meets you where you are.

As Steve Martin put it: “This book is for the artist or non-artist, for the person who gets plain English, for the person who understands that practical talk can coax out the mystical messages that lie underneath.”

✦ The essential companion for anyone who makes, or wants to make ✦ Published by

What is the one thing that most fuels your creative practice? Let us know!