The Officina Kreuzberg workspace in Berlin

A workspace run by its members

Officina Kreuzberg opened in 2016 as a shared workshop and has grown into a coworking space run as a collective. There's no company behind it: the members rent the space together, decide together and share the work of running it. That keeps the rent low and the place ours.

We're a mixed group – developers, designers, illustrators, architects, researchers, a policy coordinator, a copywriter, a filmmaker. What most of us have in common is who we work for: NGOs, non-profits, social and environmental projects.

How it works

No operator, no landlord in the building – a group of people who decided to run a workspace together.

The collective

Between 14 and 20 members, each with a desk and a share of the responsibilities: someone does the bills, someone the kitchen, someone the website. New members come for a trial day first – it has to work both ways.

Meet the collective

Events

We open the doors a few times a year: open days, parties, fundraisers, workshops, and 48 Stunden Neukölln. Members can use the space for their own events too.

See events

Artist residency (archive)

From 2019 to 2021 we ran an artist-in-residence programme: six artists, each spending two to three months here and showing their work at the end. It's on pause, and we're talking about bringing it back in 2027.

See the residents

Get in touch

Interested in a desk? Tell us a bit about yourself and what you do – we'll get back to you and invite you for a trial day.