Kulturprojekte Berlin

What Kulturprojekte Berlin does

Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH is a non-profit limited liability company wholly owned by the federal state of Berlin (Land Berlin), founded in 2006 and headquartered in the historic Podewil building at Klosterstraße 68 in Berlin-Mitte. It functions as the state's designated coordinator for major cultural projects, operating four interlocking lines of activity: (1) city-wide events and commemorations (Lange Nacht der Museen, Berlin Art Week, Silvester am Brandenburger Tor, 35 Jahre Mauerfall, UEFA EURO 2024 Festival, 80 Jahre Kriegsende); (2) digital cultural platforms aggregating Berlin's cultural ecosystem (Museumsportal Berlin covering 80+ museums, Berlin Bühnen integrating ~100 theatres/opera/concert halls, Creative City Berlin, Datenhub data platform); (3) cultural education and advisory services (Museumsdienst Berlin, Kreativ Kultur Berlin consulting center, JUGENDKULTURKARTE); and (4) venue operations at Podewil and publication sales through a Jimdo-powered web shop.

The company's funding model is institutional: it receives a basic grant from the Senate Department for Culture and Europe (now Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion), supplemented by third-party project funds and modest commercial income from venue rental and publications. It operates on a not-for-profit basis with no equity funding or external investors. The supervisory board is chaired by the responsible Senatorin, formalizing a tightly coupled principal-agent relationship with the state. Notable programs co-initiated by Kulturprojekte Berlin — Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung, Diversity Arts Culture, Kubinaut, and the transmediale festival — were transferred to other entities (SKWK foundation, transmediale e.V.) between 2020 and 2024, and Museum Sunday was discontinued due to Berlin cultural budget cuts, indicating active portfolio rebalancing under fiscal pressure.

Technology stack is conventional non-profit SaaS: Jimdo (e-commerce), rexx Systems (HR/ATS), Brevo/Sendinblue (email), Typeform (forms), Issuu (publications), Google Analytics, and DeepL for translation. The organization aggregates very large cultural audiences (500,000+ for the 35th Wall Fall anniversary, 600,000 for Day of German Unity 2018, 70,000 monthly at Museum Sunday, 2.2 million cumulative Museum Sunday visits) but does not disclose revenue, headcount beyond the 11-50 band, or detailed financials. Customer segments span Berlin residents and visitors (audience), 80+ museums and 100+ theatres (institutional partners), artists and creative professionals (advisory recipients), and the Berlin Senate (funder and commissioning principal).

Name

Kulturprojekte Berlin

Legal name

Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH

Website

https://kulturprojekte.berlin

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH is a Berlin state-owned non-profit founded in 2006 that coordinates city-wide cultural events, digital platforms (Museumsportal Berlin, Berlin Bühnen), and advisory services for the city's museums, theatres, and creative professionals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cultural Services

NAICS

Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions (712), Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (71), Historical Sites (712120)

SIC

Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990), Miscellaneous Publishing (2741)

akta.pro primary industry

Cultural Festivals & Events Organizations (BPAGAHAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Cultural Centers & Multidisciplinary Arts Institutions (THAJADAJ), Performing Arts & Cultural Event Venues (Theaters, Museums) (THAHAAAG)

Keywords

• Cultural event management
• Digital cultural platforms
• Museum education services
• Public cultural programs
• Creative sector consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Berlin

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Institutional Funding: Basic institutional backing from the federal state of Berlin, providing foundational operational funding
2. Third-Party Project Funding: Project-based financing acquired through attracting additional financial support and third-party funds for specific cultural projects
3. Web Shop Sales: Sale of publications through web shop (shop.kulturprojekte.berlin)
4. Venue Rental: Rental of event spaces at Podewil building for conferences, theatre festivals, panel discussions, dance rehearsals, corporate events and more

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Kulturprojekte Berlin organizes and coordinates large-scale cultural events (Lange Nacht der Museen, Berlin Art Week, Silvester am Brandenburger Tor), operates digital cultural portals aggregating Berlin's museums, theatres and creative industries (Museumsportal Berlin, Berlin Bühnen, Creative City Berlin), and provides advisory and educational services (Kreativ Kultur Berlin, Museumsdienst Berlin, Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung) for the city's cultural ecosystem.

Product overview

Kulturprojekte Berlin operates as a cultural projects organization managing a diverse portfolio of events, digital platforms, and advisory services for Berlin's cultural sector. The core offerings include large-scale festivals (Lange Nacht der Museen, Berlin Art Week, EMOP Berlin, Silvester am Brandenburger Tor), digital platforms (Museumsportal Berlin, Museumsjournal, Berlin Bühnen, Creative City Berlin, Datenhub), museum services (Museumsdienst Berlin), cultural education initiatives (Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung, Kubinaut, Diversity Arts Culture), and venue management (Podewil cultural center). The organization also manages commemorative events for historical anniversaries and operates advisory services (Kreativ Kultur Berlin) for cultural professionals. Key digital products include web shops, job portals, and newsletters. As a Berlin state-owned organization, it serves as a central coordinator connecting museums, theatres, cultural institutions, and the public.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Lange Nacht der Museen (Long Night of Museums) Annual August museum night event — the original Long Night of Museums held worldwide — serving as the highlight of Berlin's museum summer season for the general public.

Quantifiable outcome

• 2.2 million+ visits through Museum Sunday over 3.5 years with 5,000 events
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration8 records

AI capability2 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

15 partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• Stiftung Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall Foundation)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Collaborative partnership for city-wide events commemorating Berlin Wall anniversaries, including 65th anniversary of Wall construction. Joint programming connecting historically significant sites under shared commemorative themes.
• Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-creation of major exhibition 'Zerstörte Vielfalt' (Diversity Destroyed) on Nazi persecution and cultural diversity in Berlin 1933-1938. DHM hosted the primary indoor exhibition while Kulturprojekte coordinated the broader theme year with 170+ partners.
• Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung (Federal Foundation for Study of Communist Dictatorship)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for June 17, 1953 uprising exhibition commemorating the 70th anniversary. Shared exhibition sites throughout Berlin including Unter den Linden, Karl-Marx-Allee, Potsdamer Platz.
• Berliner Beauftragter zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur (Berlin Commissioner for Study of SED Dictatorship)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCooperation partner for commemorative projects on East German history, including June 17, 1953 uprising exhibition.
• GRIPS Theater, TanzZeit, ErzählZeit, TUSCH, TUKIcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner organizations co-located at Podewil building, jointly establishing the venue as a central location for cultural education in Berlin. Includes national and international festivals like FRATZ and AUGENBLICK MAL! for young audiences.
• visitBerlinmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerClose cooperation on Berlin 365/24 cultural marketing initiative, combining measures under strategic communication umbrella to promote Berlin's cultural offerings internationally.
• Zentral- und Landesbibliothek (ZLB)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-organizer of NEXT LIBRARY Conference 2018, one of the world's most innovative library sector conferences. Shared vision for libraries as platforms for knowledge exchange.
• Kulturstiftung des Bundes (Federal Cultural Foundation)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in organizing NEXT LIBRARY Conference 2018, bringing international library innovation to Berlin.
• Aarhus Public Libraries (Denmark)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational partner for NEXT LIBRARY Conference 2018, extending the conference's global reach and exchange.
• Robert-Havemann-GesellschaftminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in mauerfall30.berlin project for 30th anniversary of Peaceful Revolution and Wall Fall.
• Patrick Shearn, Poetic KineticsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerArtist creating Skynet art installation 'Deine Vision im Himmel über Berlin' for Mauerfall 30th anniversary, featuring 30,000 message ribbons at Brandenburg Gate.
• Landesvereinigung Kulturelle Jugendbildung (LKJ)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint development of 'Kubinaut' community platform for cultural education networking in Berlin. Platform showcases work and enables partner exchanges.
• Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und EuropacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrimary institutional partner providing basic funding and commissioning cultural projects including COVID-19 stipend program distributing 2,000 stipends of €9,000 each to Berlin artists.
• International Sister Cities (Paris, Warsaw, Istanbul, Moscow, Los Angeles, Windhoek, Wrocław)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCultural programs for international city partnership anniversaries, including joint exhibitions, festivals, workshops, and exchanges. Culture Train Berlin-Wrocław operating since partnership initiation.
• Stiftung für Kulturelle Weiterbildung und Kulturberatung (SKWK)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFoundation now hosting Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung and Diversity Arts Culture (DAC) after successful establishment under Kulturprojekte Berlin's management.

Scale indicators15 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Regional players

• Berlinische Galerie: Berlin's museum of modern art, photography and architecture, listed in Museumsportal Berlin and a frequent KPB partner. Direct regional peer operating within the same museum aggregation ecosystem.
• Creative Scotland: Scotland's publicly funded cultural agency that distributes public funding, runs portfolio events and supports cultural infrastructure. Operates a structurally similar model of public-mandate cultural coordination in a different national jurisdiction.
• Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council: Switzerland's federal cultural promotion foundation with a near-identical mandate of coordinating, funding, and promoting national cultural projects, international exchange, and digital cultural platforms — directly comparable in structure but operating in a different country.
• KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin: Berlin-based contemporary art institution and co-participant in Berlin Art Week. Comparable as a Berlin cultural-sector player involved in the same festival ecosystem, though narrower in scope (single venue, contemporary art focus).

Broad incumbents

• Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz: Large German federal foundation operating 17 museums, libraries and archives. A far larger, national-scale incumbent that overlaps with KPB's museum coordination role but extends into direct collection management rather than coordination-only.
• Arts Council England: National public-sector arts funding and development agency for England. Shares the public-mandate model of distributing cultural funding, supporting festivals, and partnering with heritage bodies, but at national scale and across a much larger portfolio.

Direct peers

• Kulturstiftung des Bundes: Germany's federal cultural foundation; co-organized NEXT LIBRARY 2018 with KPB. Operates as a national-level cultural-project coordinator and funder with a directly analogous model of project commissioning, partner aggregation, and large-scale cultural programming.
• Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur: Federal foundation with which KPB co-organized the June 17, 1953 uprising exhibition. Both are publicly funded, project-driven organizations commissioning citywide historical commemorative events with overlapping partner networks in Berlin's memorial landscape.
• visitBerlin: Berlin's tourism marketing organization and Kulturprojekte Berlin's strategic partner on the BERLIN 365/24 initiative. Both are state-linked promotional bodies converging on Berlin cultural marketing with comparable distribution channels and audience development mandates.
• Stiftung für Kulturelle Weiterbildung und Kulturberatung (SKWK): Berlin cultural foundation that absorbed KPB's Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung and Diversity Arts Culture in 2020. Operates an identical cultural-education funding and diversity-development mandate within Berlin, making it both a programmatic successor and the closest parallel organization.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/kulturprojekteb
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCxXrCfFBqG5H7B0H5yKzqBw
• Facebookfacebook.com/kulturprojekteberlin
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/kulturprojekte-berlin
• Instagraminstagram.com/kulturprojekteberlin
• TikToktiktok.com/@kulturprojekteb

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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