2004 in Berlin Neukölln: there is a sour smell of barley and hops on the site of the Berliner Kindl brewery, lorries pass through the large gate — industry in the middle of a residential area. A plane approaches the nearby Tempelhof airport, the noise of the aircraft roars through the thin windows of the old buildings.
Today, twenty years later, a far-reaching transformation has taken place: the airport has been decommissioned and turned into an inner-city open space for sport and culture. The Kindl brewery has moved to the edge of the city and the Rollberg area in Berlin Neukölln is now home to a centre for art, a circular building, spaces for culture, innovative ideas and cooperative flats. An unusual urban development project is taking shape!
The site of the former brewery was divided up in 2015 and sold to two new owners: The representative main building from the 1920s passed into private ownership — with the condition to make the building accessible as a cultural venue. The result is the KINDL — Centre for Contemporary Art bringing artistic positions to Neukölln.
