1. Art cannot depend on luck
Chronic precarity forces people to quit or self-censor. A stable income buys creative time.
Arts Basic Income · RBA-E
Arts BasicIncome for Spain
A public, structural tool to guarantee creative time and reduce structural precarity in the cultural sector.
Fact of the Day
Each euro invested in culture returns an estimated €1.39 in social value.
Source: Alma Economics (BIA 2025)
Podcast · Episode 1
Arts Basic Income — evidence from Ireland, CRNY, Germany.
“Art cannot flourish where life is mere survival.”
Manifesto2025-10-21 · #programme #manifesto
Arts Basic Income in Spain (RBA-E): Freedom, Dignity and Cultural Justice
Political and cultural framework to guarantee creative time and material rights in the arts sector. Foundational document of the RBA-E programme.
Three reasons for an Arts Basic Income
2. Art produces public value
Cohesion, identity, wellbeing: positive externalities the market does not pay without public intervention.
3. Culture is a right
Protecting creation strengthens democracy and diversity; ABI protects processes, not just outputs.
The Problem
Precarity as the Structural Norm
The economic situation of artists in Spain shows an unsustainable reality that calls for intervention. Precarity is not the exception, it is the rule for the majority.
Proposal for Spain
A viable, integrated Arts Basic Income
The missing income pillar in the Artist Statute. We propose an evidence-based pilot adapted to the Spanish context.
Featured news
Recent coverage on Arts Basic Income and the Irish programme turning permanent.
El Salto · ES
Basic income for artists and cultural workers: the Irish experience
Read articleThe Guardian · EN
Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent
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View all →International Evidence — overview & impact
2025-11-06
What pilots show: creative time, wellbeing, reinvestment, community.
Why a Basic Income for the Arts and not a Universal Basic Income?
2025-11-01
The Basic Income for the Arts does not fragment the universal sense of Basic Income; it anticipates it—acting as a political laboratory and a test field for structural redistribution of wealth.
Arts Basic Income in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
2025-11-01
The Arts Basic Income is not a welfare measure but an infrastructure of freedom and resistance against automation and the structural precarity of cultural labour.