Urban Spree

Friedrichshain


Comprising a gallery, a bookshop, artist studios, a concert room and a beer garden, this grassroots urban art hub is a top stop in the RAW Gelände compound along Revaler Strasse, especially in summer. That's also when it hosts festivals and special events and presents Berlin's best street musicians on weekends.

The building's facade doubles as an 'Artist Wall', with new urban artworks going up every month or so.


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Nearby Friedrichshain attractions

1. RAW Gelände

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This jumble of derelict buildings is one of the last subcultural compounds in central Berlin. Founded in 1867 as a train repair station ('Reichsbahn…

3. Boxhagener Platz

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The heart of Friedrichshain, 'Boxi' is a lovely, leafy square with benches and a playground. It's framed by restored 19th-century buildings harbouring…

4. Wall Museum East Side Gallery

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This tourist-geared private museum on the 3rd floor of a former warehouse offers an easily digestible multimedia chronicle of Germany's post-WWII history,…

5. Oberbaumbrücke

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With its jaunty towers and turrets, crenellated walls and arched walkways, the Oberbaumbrücke (1896) gets our nod for being Berlin’s prettiest bridge…

6. East Side Gallery

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The East Side Gallery is the embodiment of Berlin’s grit and guts.

7. Pink Man Mural

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Italian artist Blu created this house-sized mural that depicts a creature composed of hundreds of writhing pink bodies. Note the lone white guy crouched…

8. Ramones Museum

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They sang ‘Born to Die in Berlin’, but the legacy of American punk pioneers the Ramones is kept very much alive in the German capital, thanks to this…