WHITE CUBE

WHITE CUBE in Hamburg-Bergedorf is a club-gallery with a capacity of 75, bringing concerts and visual art together in a first-floor industrial loft. Its sound system has a practical origin: the venue serves as a live testing room for BenkCube PA equipment. That gives its compact shows a close-range, listening-focused scale, with a stage below and gallery space above.

A loft made for listening

WHITE CUBE opened in 2016, following artist, drummer and room designer Jörn Möller’s conversion of a sparse Bergedorf loft into a cultural venue. A contemporary April 2016 report places the project after 33 years in which Möller ran a rehearsal room and jam sessions in a St. Georg backyard factory building. Rising rents ended that chapter, and he designed and partly built the new room himself, shaping it around a bar, stage and gallery. The early purpose was clear: an open platform for younger and established bands. On June 6, 2026, Möller died. The club’s memorial named him its founder and described the loft conversion as his initiative, begun roughly a decade earlier. His absence now forms a defining part of the room’s story.

The setup on show night

Programming centers on jazz, blues, improvised music, funk, R&B and soul, with monthly open-stage jam sessions alongside visiting acts. WHITE CUBE operates as a registered art-and-culture association, giving the calendar a musician-facing character as well as a conventional concert-club role. The physical arrangement stays purposeful: Block B’s first-floor room has a stage, an upstairs gallery and a dedicated PA, monitors and digital mixing desk. For listeners, the 75-person limit means a direct view and an unusually close relationship with the players.