Our Vision
Halle Marzahn Berlin is a place for artistic creation, encounter, and experimentation. Located in a historic building and surrounded by a rare openness in the density of the city, it offers space to artists - across contemporary art, sound art, social sculpture, and connective practice - to develop their ideas, exchange with others, and co-create new projects. Sometimes this happens in quiet conversation, sometimes in the sparks of dialogue around a fire. At its heart, the Halle is committed to the crossroads where art meets politics, everyday life, and the urgent questions of our time. We welcome artists who engage with these spaces of possibility, who ask difficult questions, search for answers, and dare to imagine the world differently.
Esther Moises, at Halle Marzahn Berlin, 2021
About
The old power station that is now home to Halle Marzahn was built in 1902 and is under heritage protection. Its two main halls, each around 200 m², originally contained coal-fired furnaces used to produce electricity. After the Second World War, the furnaces were dismantled, and the spaces were converted into a repair shop for lorries.
The area around the power station later became an assembly point for the annual 1st of May demonstrations, where crowds would march to Alexanderplatz waving red flags in front of the representatives of East Germany’s communist regime. After the Peaceful Revolution in 1989, the building stood empty, sold to developers, and slowly fell into ruin—trees even began growing through the roof.
We first rented the space in 2014 and, after years of care and dedication, fully acquired it in 2025. Since then, the old power station has been transformed into a vibrant studio house. Today, it hosts 12 studios for artists working across contemporary art, music, sound art, and social sculpture, welcoming creators from around the world. There is also an exhibition space of 120 m² with a soaring 6-meter ceiling, a caretaker’s flat, commercially rented spaces, and an outdoor area of about 3,000 m².
Halle Marzahn is run by Klaus Roewer, former principal director of the collections of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha at Schloss Friedenstein and longtime business consultant—a combination of curatorial knowledge and practical experience that keeps the space alive and thriving.
Note: This section is in progress. We will slowly add all our artists over the next months.
Old Powerstation, Berlin, 2018,
Freya Reynisdottir
Nests, at Halle Marzahn Berlin, 2020, Esther Moises
Greetings from Mars, at Halle Marzahn Berlin, 2024, Sandor Barics,
10 Uhr, 11 B nach London I, 2018
Pigment, oil, pastel pencil on silk,
Alex Roberts, Image credit: Laurin Gutwin
