FAHRBEREITSCHAFT in Berlin-Lichtenberg is a well-preserved industrial yard with buildings mostly originating from the 1950s, an authentic GDR bar as well as a historic bowling alley. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, it was the SED Central Committee’s hub of the “Department of Transportation”; high-level passenger transport in and out of the former GDR was coordinated and carried out from here.
Today, the site is a vivid arts and industrial yard. Among others, picture frame manufactories, a car paint and repair shop, a boat builder and sound studios are located on the premises. On top, about 35 visual artists, dancers, and musicians have found their studios and rehearsal rooms here. In changing exhibition spaces, the haubrok foundation shows works from its own collection and from artists on site regularly – while also inviting external artists to partake in exhibitions.

The Haubrok collection is mostly dedicated to conceptual and minimal art. Here, I have to say that watching art with such a strong American origins in a traditional building of the German people’s republic cannot be ignored. In some rooms time seems to have stopped – a bowling alley and a bar are preserved originally. You may find yourself starring at a wardrobe thinking of it as a piece of art, as the conceptual art are on show just next to it.

In Haubrock collection you can find works by Edgar Arceneaux, Carol Bove, Martin Boyce, Stanley Brouwn, Martin Creed, Willem de Rooij, Olafur Eliasson, Elmgreen & Dragset, Cerith Wyn Evans, Félix Gonzales-Torres, Rodney Graham, Georg Herold, Judith Hopf, Emily Jacir, Imi Knoebel, Bruce Nauman, Andreas Slominski, Wolfgang Tillmans, Franz West, Heimo Zobernig and many others.

Let you know, specialy to you all creative readers out there, that in case you want to rent a studio, a space for a cultural event in Berlin or as a good shooting location please write to: info@haubrok.org.