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, acceptance and appreciation of different forms of femininity within the art and culture landscape and the theater world. It examines the extent to which feminine…
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OPEN CALL: Residence Exchange Program – Kyoto Art Center and Quartier am Hafen 2026/2027
Since 2016, the collaboration between the Kyoto Art Center (Kyoto, Japan) and Quartier am Hafen has run an artist-in-residence program. The cooperation partners Quartier am Hafen (QaH) and Kyoto Art Center (KAC) jointly offer an annual residency program. It gives artists from Cologne and Kyoto the opportunity to apply for a 4–8 week residency in…
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Review: Zelal Dicle Baz
Zelal Dicle Baz was the first fellow of the Seyir Quartier literature residency and spent six weeks in Cologne. In addition to visiting various literature networks and events, Baz gave a workshop at the Kulturbunker Köln-Mülheim and was a guest in the Contemporary Literature seminar with Professor Yasemin Dayıoğlu-Yücel at the University of Duisburg Essen…
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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 Compania Bellanda is looking for dancers who: Important notes Work period:January 12–23, 2026, with regular weekly days off.The artists must be available for the entire…
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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 continue her artistic and theoretical exploration of the practice of reparative reading – a reading developed by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick that focuses on care, community…
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
Q18
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.