About us

IN COLOGNE – AT THE HEART OF THE ACTION

Our company is located in Cologne’s vibrant Ehrenfeld district. Since the onset of industrialization Ehrenfeld has always been developing: from an industrial area with large metalworking and chemical companies, to a location for abattoirs, commercial tool making, and various service industries.

As a result of the district’s looming desertification in the 1990s another structural change took place – and Ehrenfeld became one of Cologne’s hotspots for art and lifestyle. Today you find ravishing galleries next door to nightlife venues, emerging start-ups, and attractive shopping opportunities.

1988 our company was founded in the ‘Körnerstrasse’, a residential street inhabited by many artists. In 2004 we moved a few blocks away to our current location (Wahlenstrasse), which is the former headquarters of the locally well-known company › Colonia Spezialtransporte.. Our premises facilitate offices and plenty of space for professional art storage.

Parked vehicles on the premises of Kunsttransporte Oettermann, 2017. Foto: Jörg Oettermann

View of the depot of Colonia Spezialtransporte (previous property tenant), taken in the early 1950s.
Foto: Colonia Spezialfahrzeuge

 

IN THE MEDIA

› TV feature
'Die Körnerstraße und ich' (WDR, 2015), appearance Oettermann at time code 05:04
› Hip oder nicht hip, das ist nicht die Frage'
Neighborhood in the newspaper (Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, January 16, 2017)

 

Links

› Buchsalon Ehrenfeld
› Bunker Museum - Bunker k101
› koernerstrasse.org
› Atelier Colonia - Köln