Meeting of the Young Friends Federation from Germany

Twice a year, the young friends club of the German Federation of Friends of museum come together to discuss problems, ideas and anything in between. For the last meeting, they were invited by the friends of the Kunsthalle Mannheim to host our conference on the 17th and 18th November 2023. As per usual the days were filled with workshops on several subjects such as digitalisation, volunteering work or the European day of Friends of Museum. 

Another big topic was Social Media and how to best use it for your own initiatives. Two members of the Young Friend’s Federation were asked to present their Instagram- accounts and strategies. Marlene Liebermann from the young friends of the Kunstpalast and NRW-Forum (Düsseldorf) and Hannah Dietze from the young circle of the Sprengel-Museum (Hannover) shared their experiences and talked about what works, what doesn’t and how to deal with the fickle algorithm of Instagram. 

This time the Young Friends also held a vote on the speaker of the young friend’s federation. As is tradition, one of the speakers is elected for two years to participate in the organisation of our meetings and in other projects of the young friend’s federation. Thank you, to Sandra Gunzelmann for her help the last two years and welcome to Hannah Dietze, who is their newly elected speaker for the young friend’s federation!

Apart from the workshops they also were guided through the exhibition “Hoover, Hager, Lassnig” at the Kunsthalle, which gives insight into the works of these three female artists. They also used their evenings to discover other Museums, Galleries or Off-Spaces the respective city has to offer. This time they visited the well-established Gallery Sebastian Fath Contemporary who showed the collection of Nan Hoover as a pendant to the exhibition at the Mannheimer Kunsthalle.