Kühlhaus Berlin rents out raw industrial floors for conferences, trade shows, exhibitions, concerts and festivals: a raised ground floor of about 530 square meters, an upper floor of about 650 square meters under skylights, a fourth floor, a space called KUBUS and an inner courtyard. The building is a listed former cold store at Luckenwalder Straße 3 in Berlin-Kreuzberg, beside the Gleisdreieck rail junction, with more than 5,000 square meters across seven floors.
Seminars and company events
The venue's own list of past events gives the scale of what it hosts: technology conferences such as Data Natives and re:publica, the Premium fashion trade show, exhibitions, concerts and game conventions. For a company, that means a product launch, a conference with breakout floors, a trade fair stand area or a large evening event in one building. Each floor can be rented and run on its own, so an organizer can take a single level for a workshop or several levels for a program that moves between plenary, exhibition and reception.
The spaces are delivered as open, flexible surfaces rather than fitted meeting rooms. Furniture, staging and technical setup are planned with the venue team for each event, and the site offers a 3D tour of the house to help with early planning.
Rooms and capacities
The Hof is the inner courtyard, from which the ground floor is reached. The Erdgeschoss sits on a raised ground floor, covers about 530 square meters and keeps its original floor. It has front and rear entrances, a lift and step-free sanitary facilities.
The 5. Etage covers about 650 square meters. Roof windows bring daylight into the room, and the venue lists it for exhibitions, theater, rehearsals, workshops and office use. It also has front and rear entrances, lift access and step-free facilities, and it can host an event independently of the other floors.
The KUBUS and the 4. Etage are rented as separate spaces. Under the roof, the Dachboden has a floor area of 618 square meters and a height of more than 12 meters below a gabled roof of riveted steel profiles. It is not yet rentable: the attic is being fitted out and is opened for now to artists and visitors as a test space.
The venue does not publish guest numbers per floor; capacities depend on the layout and are given on request.
History and setting
The Kühlhaus belongs to the early industrial architecture that grew up around Gleisdreieck. The building came through the war and the years of reconstruction only in part, and demolition was planned in the early 1990s. A private initiative of artists, architects and Berlin companies stopped those plans, and the house was then placed under heritage protection. Today it is used for art, concerts and events across its seven floors.
Getting there
The address is Luckenwalder Straße 3, 10963 Berlin, in Kreuzberg near Potsdamer Platz. The Gleisdreieck U-Bahn station, served by the U1 and U2 lines, is a short walk away, and the venue publishes directions on its contact page. The Park am Gleisdreieck lies next to the building.
