The art collective METE CHEER, founded in spring 2020 by Katharina Melissa Chelmis (painting) and myself, is dedicated to cross-disciplinary artistic collaboration, networking and making female artists visible. Since then, we have been consistently implementing this, for example, within the framework of the ATELIER_DINNER, which takes place every two months, and the #KULTUR_HAPPEN, which takes place once a year.
ATELIER_DINNER (STUDIO_DINNER) The ATELIER-DINNER format developed by us serves the purpose of networking and the exchange of ideas between artists and cultural practitioners while dining together in an artistically influenced environment. What is important to us here is to bring people from different fields together and to encourage them to think outside the box. If you are an artist and would like to network at one of our ATELIER_DINNER events, please send us an email.
#KULTUR_HAPPEN (BITES OF CULTURE) makes the work of female artists from Bremen and the surrounding area visible across all genres. The format offers exciting insights into the diverse current work focuses of the participating women. Performing or dance performances, singing, music, literature, film or works of visual art are presented. The focus is on showing work in progress, i.e. it is not exclusively about performing and showing finished productions. Rather, it is intended to offer the artists a stage for experimentation and the opportunity to use reactions and feedback from the audience as inspiration for further work. An important element of #KULTUR_HAPPEN is the dialogue between the artists and the audience. Art should be experienced up close and the artists behind the "works of art" should become visible. In 2023, a group of seven women from the ATELIER_DINNER network founded an association of the same name (KULTUR_HAPPEN e.V.) in order to put the format on a broader footing. Since then, they have been organising the events together. KULTUR_HAPPEN 2025 @miniaturen_festival | v.l.n.r.: Sabine Chelmis | Svenja Sisypha Wetzenstein | Raphaelle Mellet | Beate C. Koehler | Katharina Melissa Chelmis | Anke Bär | Anna Lott In our joint project "rooted locals and urban vibes" we explored in 2020/21 Bremen's neighborhoods in search of special places and locally rooted people. We process our impressions in multi-layered digital and analog collages and gradually let a personal image of the city emerge with the artworks that are then created. Published at Zeitschrift der Straße volume #104 LEERSTAND In the summer of 2025, we began work on our new joint project, TAUCHEN | DIVING. Here, we focus on Japanese fish prints. We create both joint and individual works. The first exhibition will take place in November 2025. Levi Hepp | 2025 | Fischdruck (METE CHEER) Follow us on Instagram @mete_cheer
