Kit Schulte
(Barbara Schulte-Huermann)
Dec 17 – now
KIT SCHULTE ART CONSULTING
  • corporate art consulting and art placement, private and public collections and corporations
  • management/ business administration/sales
  • publishing art catalogs
  • content creation/idea development
  • artist assistance and supervision, PR

May 2016 – now
SCHÖNE HEIMAT – A CULINARY EXPLORATION OF BERLIN & BEYOND
  • author of cookbook (modern german food from a berlin kitchen, 280 p, 2021, self-published)
  • hosting market tour, cooking class and lunch experience for English speaking tourists visiting Berlin to explore culinary culture
  • corporate culinary events (planning/ management/ execution)
  • marketing and sales
 
Dec 14 – 2019
SATELLITE BERLIN – ART IN COLLABORATION  gGMBH
  • produced short film series: Contouring A Mind
  • programming/curating
  • executive management/shareholding/business administration
  • public and private fundraising
  • sales, financing, PR
  • collaborations: Max Planck Institute for Genetics, Berlin, Max Planck Institute for Human History
  • Berlin, FU Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin, biomimicry Berlin.

CIRCLE OF FRIENDS SATELLITE BERLIN
  • non-profit membership corporation
  • membership and event management and production
  • fundraising

Sept 09 – 2013
GALLERY KIT SCHULTE CONTEMPORARY ART BERLIN
  • programming/curating
  • management/administration
  • sales to museum collections, + corporate and private collections
  • served as Board member LVBG, Berlin
  • initiation of Schöneberger Art walk
  • collaborative travelling group exihibitions
  • art fair participation: Monaco 2010, Scope Basel 2010 and 2012, Art Karlsruhe, CONTEXT Miami
2012, VOLTA NY 2013.

Nov 06 – July 09
GALLERY CAIN SCHULTE CONTEMPORARY ART SAN FRANCISCO
  • programming/curating
  • management/administration
  • sales to museum collections, + corporate and private collections
  • initiation of SOMA Art walk
  • art fair participation: Red Dot Miami 07, Red Dot New York 08, Bridge Berlin 08.

Jan 03-06
Berlin & Beyond, the largest annual festival of German language films in the US, presented by the Goethe-Institute, San Francisco together with the Castro Theatre and the Consulates General of Germany in San Francisco
  • annual fundraiser and event coordinator
  • sales and advertisement
  • event sponsorships ($5000 +), acquisition
  •  in-kind donations for opening and closing receptions
 
Jan 03-Oct 07
Other Words, San Francisco International Poetry Festival
  • bi-annual project manager/coordinator
  • editor and web producer
  • design and content management of 85-page publication
  • project coordination: scheduling, leading and facilitating board meetings

Apr 04
be-space
founder of online platform dedicated to the presentation of various forms of art, literature and international cultural events. Be-space provided an online forum for artists, collectors, curators and the public to participate in a multi-level artistic exchange
 
Sep 02-Jan 04
VTS (Visual Thinking Strategies), San Francisco
  • project management and fundraising
  • developement of business plan for nonprofit organization
  • implementation of organizational structures
  • event coordination
 
Sep 02-Jan 03
Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco
  • consultancy
  • project management
  • program development, sales, PR
  • implementation of organizational structures and new business development efforts
 
99 –03
CultureLounge
  • executive director, founder of a nonprofit arts organization
  • curated, produced and developed collaborative art exhibitions and web projects
  • managed and developed overall business
  • fundraising and PR
 
96-97
Illuminated Media, San Francisco
  • assistant producer
  • produced and developed multimedia applications (ads and product presentations)
  • produced and developed websites for Neopost, web TV, Pacific Union, EFS.
 
95-96
Fritsch & Friends MediaGroup GmbH, Babelsberg.
  • executive producer for “Scall/Cityruf”, an interactive CD- ROM, featuring products of the Deutsche Telecom AG
  • multimedia product manager
  • interaction designer
  • product team management
  • budget management
  • client liaison
85-87 Atlanta College of Arts and California College of Arts and Crafts
Two years of course work in Fine Arts and Art History
 
91 Diploma (Bachelor of Fine Arts), Die Etage (German Art College), Berlin
Major in painting, studied with Andrej Woron, Poland and Pauline Disonn, England
 
93-96 Hochschule Film und Fernsehen Konrad Wolf (College for Film and
Television), Babelsberg, Germany. Major in set design
 
95 Multimedia Study Program, SF State University and California
College of Arts and Crafts
 
02 Facilitator Training for VTS (Visual Thinking Strategies), New York, NY
  • Fluent in German and English, excellent organizational, administrative and writing skills.
  • Very good computer, communications and research skills, fast learner.
  • Superb net worker.
  • Able to work within an unstructured environment and manage several small-to-mid sized projects
  • in parallel.
  • Strong interpersonal, communication and problem-solving skills.
  • Detail oriented.
  • Strong entrepreneurship.