Atelierstandort Nippes

Artwork and lush vegetation fight to take over the Atelierstandort Nippes, an abandoned railway repair yard within the metro area of Cologne.

Primal, stone-carved faces peep above untrimmed bushes. Small, two-dimensional animals run and scamper along a rusting, elevated coal belt, which winds among a square kilometer or so of delipatated brick buildings and crumbling ashalt roads.

Welcome to Cologne's biggest art colony. This is where you'll find some of the most innovative artists in Cologne's huge art scene - an art scene long supported by the Rhineland's economic prosperty and long-standing appreciation of the arts.