EL CULTURAL magazine, based on its experience of 30 years of history, launches the first A guide to culture. There is a description on these pages Concierge and Systematic Analysis of Culture Industry Power and creativity in Spain. We are talking about an ecosystem that as a whole contributes less than 3.4% of the gross domestic product (GDP) and employs around 800,000 people, and also above all the reputational value that Spain has, a global power in this field.
A truncated sector, key to supporting the Spanish economy and which does not live on subsidies, as some would like to create. Culture only the income in public money of the state, autonomous communities and ayuntamientos is 0.53% of GDP. There is also a lovely B, apparently related to structural problems that have been going on for a long time, such as job insecurity and territorial imbalance.
In all this, we provide good information in a full report that describes exactly how it is, how it pays and how it funds the sector that guarantees access to citizenship to one of its fundamental rights. A period piece that is presented very clearly. In 2024 the state cost culture 1,248.5 million2.9% less than the previous year. In the same year, live popular music saw spectacular growth, reaching 77.1% more than before the pandemic, thanks mainly to macro festivals. Culture from work to 781,400 people in Spain it is a slightly younger and more masculine workforce than average, and with double the number of self-employed people, 30.5%.
Culture works for 781,400 people in Spain, a slightly younger and more masculine workforce than average, and with twice the self-sufficiency
En la Guide Let’s not forget the very important private initiative: the entrepreneurs who work independently to realize an idea proven by artistic creativity, and the entities that support and promote it. Among these latest, he is particularly appreciable generous patron of foundations.
The four mentioned above that we focused on (Telefónica, Banco Santander, Mapfre and “la Caixa”) invest at least 170 million euros in cultural projects. And if we include all those active in Spain to calculate the gross added value they offer, the result will match them 10,340 million euros (0.7% of GDP). They are determinants of the configuration of the Spanish cultural landscape. We spoke with our managers: Isabel Salazar, Borja Baselga, Elvira Vega and Rafael Chueca.
And alongside the demand for much more ambitious regulation for patrons, bringing greater legal certainty and encouraging inversion in culture through fiscal headwinds, more than a dozen influential cultural figuresI return the word to explain what laws or legal reforms are absolutely necessary to develop your work in the best possible conditions.
We would like to be both cause of expression of the sector and its grievances and here it is from writer Lorenzo Silva to artist Dora García; from Alfredo Sanzola, director of the Centro Dramático Nacional, to Seix Barral editor Elena Ramírez; from theater manager Jesús Cimarra to ARCOmadrid director Maribel López; from the director of the Instituto Cervantes Luis García Montero to the collector Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.
More than a dozen influential cultural figures stay on the floor to explain what reforms are necessary to advance your work
Deep reflection on the insecurities that AI has planted in culture could not waver. The intelligence that aims to surpass humanity and therefore can be exploited in the future is that it doesn’t happen to you. Contact us for it two philosophers of the age of Adela Cortina and Jose Antonio Marinawhich helps us locate ourselves and calibrate the depth of the paradigm shift changes.
Different forms of understanding culture, which are also patented in this Guide which you open reflection of Minister Ernest Urtasunfor those “caring for culture is not only about improving its infrastructure. It means primarily protecting those who make it”.
Further articles by Javier Gomá (Tetralogía de la exemplaridad), philosopher and director of the Juan March Fundación and writers Remedios Zafra (El enthusiasm) and Lucía Solla Sobral, author of the editorial report Comerás flowers.
All politicians and people responsible for the cultural enterprises of this country should be treated well in this country Guidea map of what you have and a beacon that illuminates what is to come.
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