NEWS
Here you will find news and information on current projects, tenders and topics that we are working on...
New Logos
We have new logos! A logo for our umbrella organization KUBO e.V. and one for each of our main pillars - the Galerie Mitte in KUBO and the Atelier in KUBO.
Many thanks for the design to CHCA!
Logo Galerie Mitte (PNG, 33 KB)
Internships
At KUBO, you can gain an insight into the field of artistic education in the studio and the exhibitions in the Galerie Mitte. Our house offers a varied program with regular art courses, weekend workshops, vacation programs, projects and exhibitions. We are a small team and work in a very informal environment. We are looking for people who want to get involved, enjoy art and aesthetic education, have good communication skills, are independent and have the capacity to work afternoons/evenings and weekends. You can get to know different activities and set individual priorities depending on your time capacities and personal interests.
Internships can currently only be completed as part of a mandatory internship. For those interested who are not in educational training, we offer the opportunity to volunteer, for example in our vacation programs, art workshops and regular art courses or projects with children and young people. We even offer internships for school students. Our work is very project-based and it is important to us that school students can gain an insight into our work. School internships are therefore only possible if they include a vacation week (Easter/summer/autumn art vacation).
Next available internship period:
From January 2026
PREVENT CUTS IN THE FEDERAL CULTURAL FUND 2025!
Producing, exhibiting, and communicating art is a social and democratic task. It addresses the challenges of the present, explores new approaches and future perspectives, creates narratives for our society, and promotes active citizenship. It is therefore part of social freedom and democratic values. Participation must be possible on many levels and from multiple perspectives, as must free production.
Bremen's stakeholders are also dedicated to this. However, it is precisely the federal funds that make this work possible to a considerable extent, both within and for Bremen's urban society. We believe that the diversity and freedom associated with this is in acute danger, which is worrying, not least against the backdrop of increasing polarization and right-wing tendencies in society.
We expressly appeal to you, Sarah Ryglewski (SPD), Uwe Schmidt (SDP), Thomas Röwekamp (CDU), Kirsten Kappert Gonther (Greens), Dr. Volker Redder (FDP), to reconsider the current planning of the federal cultural budget and would like to urge you to support free artistic production and its value for a democratic society.
Y*A*C - generation swap and change
Galerie Mitte in KUBO has been an integral part of the gallery scene in Bremen for 14 years. A recognised exhibition programme of contemporary art profiles Galerie Mitte as an innovative art venue, curated by Ele Hermel. From 2024, Ele Hermel and Rebekka Kronsteiner will be jointly responsible for artistic direction and curation. This will create a cross-generational framework that will raise the gallery's profile for the future. E. Hermel and R. Kronsteiner have developed a joint exhibition concept for the years 2024 and 2025. The Y*A*C (young artist curating) format is based on the idea of allowing artistic positions to participate in the development of exhibition concepts. In addition to a curatorial-scientific approach, the artistic perspective is thus placed at the centre of the exhibitions. The two-year programme Y*A*C - generation swap and change aims to expand Galerie Mitte's programme as an independent, non-commercial venue for encounters with art and to reposition it across generations.
Rebekka Kronsteiner has lived and worked in Bremen since 2016. In 2023, she completed her master student year at the Hochschule für Künste with Prof. S. Baumkötter in the class for abstract painting. In various projects in recent years, she has worked at the interface between artistic and curatorial activities.
DIVERSITY TOP ON
At the beginning of 2022, we joined forces with Kulturzentrum Schlachthof e.V. to initiate a process for more diversity in our institutions (funded by Neustart Kultur / Profil Soziokultur). With many questions we started a self-organized workshop programm. What does diversity mean in our contexts? How can a cultural institution become more diverse? How diverse are we already? How diverse can we actually be? We have discussed these and other questions in detail in various formats throughout the year. Taking ourselves as a starting point, it is important to us to openly shape a process of critical reflection. This includes questioning our organization, its structures and our beliefs. The aim is to develop an attitude with which we can have an impact on the public.
As initial measures, we have implemented a solidarity pricing system to make it easier for people on lower incomes to participate in our offerings and we have developed a new, accessible website. The exhibition space at Galerie Mitte is already largely barrier-free. We are currently working on an inclusion analysis for the field of artistic education to determine which barriers we can still remove. The implementation of our goals is proving very difficult. There are many challenges along the way due to a lack of resources. There is too little state support in this field and hardly any funding programs for art and cultural institutions. Although it is difficult, we remain determined. In our perspective, diversity should not be an add-on, but an integral part of the day-to-day work of a cultural institution. After all, diversity is not just about overcoming steps and cobblestones, but much more fundamentally about social positions and the associated power structures.