{"id":26914,"date":"2026-10-21T14:08:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T12:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/motovila.si\/?p=26914"},"modified":"2026-10-21T14:08:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T12:08:44","slug":"state-of-culture-2026-cultures-growing-recognition-shrinking-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motovila.si\/en\/state-of-culture-2026-cultures-growing-recognition-shrinking-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Culture 2026: culture\u2019s growing recognition, shrinking agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><strong>Culture Action Europe has launched the second edition of its <em>State of Culture<\/em> report, titled <em>A Demand for Agency<\/em>, at an online event on 21 October 2026; the Motovila team also joined the event. Written by Elena Polivtseva, the 135-page report offers a biennial overview of cultural policies across Europe and examines how culture\u2019s role and value are understood in European and national policy. Its central concern is agency: whether cultural and creative sectors are able not only to be recognised, but to actively shape the decisions that affect them.<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>The report builds on the first State of Culture edition from 2024, which focused on the instrumentalisation of culture and informed Culture Action Europe\u2019s contribution to the EU Cultural Compass. The new edition asks what has changed since then. Its answer is ambivalent: culture is now more frequently acknowledged in political discourse, yet the cultural and creative sectors remain fragile, under-resourced and exposed to competing pressures; from funding cuts and precarious working conditions to technological change and polarised public debate.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cover photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/cultureactioneurope.org\/knowledge\/state-of-culture-report-second-edition\/\">Culture Action Europe<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Culture Action Europe has launched the second edition of its State of Culture report, titled A Demand for Agency, at an online event on 21 October 2026; the Motovila team also joined the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":26915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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