Welcome to the
Studio House
With 86 studios, the Quartier am Hafen in Poll on the right bank of the Rhine is home to over 100 artists from all artistic disciplines.
Poller Kirchweg 78-90
51105 Cologne
News from QUARTIER AM HAFEN
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Currently in the DANCE RESIDENCY
From 08.12.2025 – 04.01.2026 Kim Gorol and Salome Kehlenbach will be in residence with us. Kim Gorol Woman Eden: The “Woman Eden” project deals with the question of the existence,
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Episode 3: Literary Residency in Cologne for Turkish Authors
Literary residency for authors from Istanbul in Cologne. Application deadline: December 31, 2025
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Audition – Collaboration with Compagnia Bellanda
Compagnia Bellanda is looking for two to three dancers for the research phase of the new production “CARNE” in the TANZRESIDENZ at Quartier am Hafen. Application deadline: December 15, 2025
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Seyir Quartier Literary Residency – Episode 2: Fellow Luisa Ringel
We are pleased to announce that Luisa Ringel has been selected as the fellow for the second episode of the Seyir Quartier project. With the residency in Istanbul, Ringel will
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Omer Halperin – Residency Kunststiftung NRW
Omer Halperin will be a guest as an artist-in-residence at Quartier am Hafen until the end of 2025. The figures in Omer Halperin’s works arise from an ongoing interest in
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Open Call: Seyir Quartier 2025 – Episode 2
Quartier am Hafen (Cologne) and istanbulberlin invite literature mediators from Cologne to be guests at the “Atelier Galata” (Istanbul) of the City of Cologne as part of the “Seyir Quartier” Episode 2 residency from December 6, 2025, for approximately six weeks.
STUDIOS
Insight into the architecture of the house. This is what our studios look like.
- Size of 45–230 sqm
- Room height of 2.45–6.50 m
- different lighting situations
- with garden
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The exhibition space in the Quartier am Hafen
- Exhibitions
- Curator program
- Painting, sculpture, photography, performance, video art, etc.
- Visitor program
- Member of AIC
DANCE
Our residency programs and other offers for the performing arts including dance in Cologne
- Dance studios / rehearsal rooms
- Dance residency program
- Showings
- Workshop series Dancing Thursday for amateurs and professionals
RESIDENCY
PROGRAM
Our residency programs for artists of all kinds
- national and international residency programs
- Visual Arts
- Dance
About us
Painters, sculptors, media artists, musicians, designers, dancers, restorers, universities and other creative people in 86 studios. This is the Quartier am Hafen. Learn more
The Quartier am Hafen – a house of the arts
Painters, sculptors, media artists, musicians, designers, dancers, restorers, universities and other creative people in 86 studios. This is the Quartier am Hafen.
The first artists moved into their studios in the summer of 2010, when the former industrial hall in Cologne-Poll was converted into a professional workplace. The project was initiated by Andreas Schmitz (Westwerk Immobilien), who financed the purchase of the hall and the extensive renovation. As a public partner, the city of Cologne subsidizes almost half of the studios.
The Quartier am Hafen aims to sustainably ease the studio situation in Cologne and to establish itself as a pioneering creative center in the long term.