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The Austrian Music Fund, founded in 2005, is an initiative for the support of professional Austrian music production in Austria and the dissemination and marketing of Austrian music at home and abroad. The Music Fund, which is funded with a budget of EUR 950 000 annually, is open to all music-creating authors, interpreters, music producers, music publishing houses and labels and is jointly financed by the Arts and Culture Division of the BMKOES and institutions of Austrian musical life (AKM / GFÖM, Austro-Mechana / SKE, IFPI Austria, OESTIG, WKÖ / trade association of the audiovisual and film industry FAMA, and the... read more →

In addition to direct public support for the arts and culture, Austrian legislation provides a number of important instruments of indirect support for the arts. These include grants, awards and scholarships as well as various legal provisions of social policy and fiscal policy, the system of social insurance for artists, measures taken in the field of labour market management, copyright legislation (both direct and indirect payments such as library royalties), the encouragement of private sector support for the arts by means of tax exemptions, tax deductions for private donations and for arts sponsorship, incentives to purchase artworks as well as... read more →

Table 6. Direct state cultural expenditure and transfers (federal, regional and municipal level*: by sector, according to the LIKUS system, 2018 Field/Domain/Sub-domain TOTAL Federal Bundesländer Municipalities m. EUR % m. EUR in % m. EUR % m. EUR % I. Cultural HeritageHistorical Monuments/ Building Heritage193.847.265.767.631.603.296.4911.6Museums, Archives, Science345.3312.8126.7214.6141.4314.377.189.3Libraries112.404.232.583.838.223.941.615.0Intangible Heritage / Folk Culture40.421.50.510.17.480.832.443.9II. Visual Arts 32.051.29.551.115.301.57.200.9Fine Arts / Plastic Arts----Photography----Architecture----Design / Applied Arts----III. Performing ArtsMusic118.024.410.081.238.423.969.518.4Theatre, Music Theatre, Dance464.7917.3179.3620.6211.6821.473.758.9Multidisciplinary----IV. Books and PressBooks / Literature17.570.710.581.24.290.42.700.3Press10.250.410.191.2--0.060.0V. Audiovisual and Multimedia(in Austria: Film, Cinema, Video)43.021.634.023.96.460.72.540.3Cinema----Television----Sound recordings----Radio----Multimedia----VI. InterdisciplinarySocio-culture/ Cultural Initiatives192.257.16.790.825.852.6159.6219.2Cultural Relations Abroad27.291.027.293.1--Major events56.072.115.111.720.902.120.062.4AdministrationCultural Educationlifelong learning/adult education797.31/0.7229.7/0.0304.89/0.1135.1/0.0271.37/-27.4/-221.04/0.6126.6/0.1VII. Not covered bydomain I-VI237.478.835.084.0175.8017.826.593.2TOTAL2,688.99100868.61100988.80100831.59100 Source(s): STATISTIK AUSTRIA, Kulturstatistik 2018 (table F1, p.167) Data... read more →

Table 5. Public cultural expenditure by level of government, 2018 (excluding intergovernmental transfer payments) Level of governmentTotal expenditure in m. EUR*% of totalState (central, federal)868.6132.30Regional (provincial, Länder, etc.)988.8936.78Local (municipal, incl. counties)831.5930.93TOTAL2,688.99100% Source: STATISTIK AUSTRIA, Kulturstatistik 2018 (table F1, p.167)Note: * At the date of expenditure Compared to 2017, cultural expenditures increased slightly on average by +1.3%, in the Bundesländer by +1.4% and in municipalities by +1.5%. Federal cultural expenditure remained almost unchanged (+0.8%).

All public cultural expenditures together (federal, regional and municipal) amounted to EUR 2.69 billion in 2018, the share of GDP was 0.7%. Federal expenditures amounted to EUR 893 million, the Bundesländer including Vienna spent EUR 1,052 million and the municipalities (without Vienna) EUR 863 million EUR (in each case before deduction of intergovernmental transfer payment). After deducting intergovernmental transfer payments, the share of GDP for the state was 0.23%, for the Bundesländer 0.26% and for the municipalities (except Vienna) 0.22%.  In 2018, cultural expenditure per capita in Austria amounted to EUR 304. 

The legal basis of arts promotion at federal level is the Federal Arts Promotion Act, adopted in 1988. Decisions on subsidies for the arts are made upon the (non-binding) recommendations of advisory boards and juries, consisting of experts from the various branches of the arts. In order to create as much transparency as possible, the Arts and Culture Division of the BMKOES publishes the annual Federal Art and Culture Report. It provides information on state expenditure for the arts and cultural activities and for the main cultural institutions, heritage protection, foundations, cultural education and cooperation between cultural institutions and schools,... read more →

Cultural initiatives are an important part of Austria’s art and cultural landscape. As cultural providers are also active outside of the urban centres, their programmes enable numerous people to participate in art and culture. Within the framework of their events, they offer opportunities for artists to perform and present their work, but they also form creative stimuli through their own art and cultural projects and thus form a popular experimental field for new young trends. In this way, they contribute to a lively and diverse image of Austria as a cultural country. Above all, innovative, time-related and experimental cultural forms... read more →

Table 4: Household cultural expenditure by expenditure purpose, 2009/10 and 2014/15 Items (Field/Domain) Household expenditure per month (in EUR)   Average per capita expenditure (EUR) (equivalents)   2009/10 % 2014/15 % 2009/10 2014/15 I. Books and Press             Books 13.40   8.60   9.10 5.70 Press 20.10   14.90   13.80 10.20 other printed matter 2.10   1.70   1.40 1.20 paper, office supplies 6.20   5.50     3.70 3.10 II. Cultural Services             Cinema, theatre and others 14.20   11.50   9.80 7.40 Museums, libraries, parks and similar... read more →

Data concerning cultural participation are not collected on a regular basis in Austria. It is therefore not possible to provide the share of population in cultural activities, but merely the absolute visitor numbers provided by STATISTIK AUSTRIA. The last time-use survey by STATISTIK AUSTRIA was carried out in 2008/2009. This source does not provide the share of population but shows how much time is averagely spent on various cultural activities. It shows that people over the age of ten have on average 3 hours and 19 minutes of leisure time in an average day (5 hours at weekends). In this... read more →

The aim of the involvement and participation of as many citizens as possible in art and culture is shared on many sides; political declarations of intent, laws, strategies and mission statements affirm this across all the bodies responsible for cultural policy. In order to reach more and broader strata of the population, different provisions and formats for audience development and art and cultural mediation have been initiated by cultural policy. Individual institutions also developed provisions and formats to open up new target groups and to lower barriers and enable participation for all. The event Long Night of Museums was created... read more →