Bottoms up! Contemporary art centre opens fully inside Berlin brewery

Bottoms up! Contemporary art centre opens fully inside Berlin breweryIn Berlin, no gallery opening is complete without an endless supply of German beer. So it seemed only a matter of time before an institution went straight to the source and opened inside a brewery.

The Kindl Centre for Contemporary Art, housed in the former Kindl brewery, has open fully after a four-year restoration. Located in Berlin’s trendy Neukölln district, the 5,500-sq.-m art complex has been unveiled to the public in stages since the Swiss-German collector couple Burkhard Varnholt and Salome Grisard acquired it in 2011.

A group show featuring works by artists including Jeppe Hein, Michael Rakowitz and Philip Akkerman inaugurates the new three-storey Power House building (How Long Is Now?, 23 October-19 February 2017). The couple are not showing any works from their own collection.