Culture
07:56 08/02/2021
In an open letter to minister Sophie Wilmès, more than 170 Bozar employees and artists have asked for the process for appointing the Centre for Fine Arts’ new CEO to be reviewed.
The signatories of the letter to the federal minister of cultural institutions, who is only responsible for the composition of the new board of directors, not for the appointment of the new general manager, want the well-being of the staff to be put first in any decision and for diversity to be considered. It is necessary for Bozar s hierarchical policies to become more democratic, they wrote.
The initiative for the open letter came at the request of individual staff. It started very spontaneously, but was well organised, said one Bozar employee who wished to remain anonymous. At the end of January, we started discussing with a lot of people about what we thought was necessary when it came to our new director. A smaller group was formed to write the text. We finally decid