"This building has a history: Now a contemporary photography museum, the former Amerika Haus, a mid-1950s building designed by German architect Bruno Grimmek, served as a cultural center of the United States for Berliners—basically, a place to learn about American culture—following World War II and welcomed notable figures like Robert Kennedy. The two-story, glass-and-concrete modernist building was renovated and opened as the C/O Berlin in 2014, but it still retains many original design details, notably the huge block letters spelling out "Amerika Haus" on the colorful facade." - Jennifer Ceaser
"The city’s leading photographic gallery, C/O Berlin was founded in 2000 inside a disused but grand 19th-century post office building in Mitte. In 2014, the gallery moved to the more contemporary Amerika Haus in West Berlin, where it has continued hosting major exhibitions and retrospectives by the likes of Martin Parr, Anton Corbijn, Annie Leibovitz, and Sebastião Salgado. There are also regular shows by lesser-known artists, themed exhibitions, and a commitment to promoting local and young talent via workshops and competitions. There’s a decent café on site too, which spills pleasantly out onto the street during summer." - MATADOR_NETWORK
Went on Thursday ~3pm so it wasn’t busy. Bring a €1 coin for the locker downstairs, but they also have one at the front if you forget.
Explored the Close Enough exhibit featuring 12 female photographers from Magnum. I recommend bringing headphones to listen to the audio portion where the artists talk more about their project.
There’s also other exhibits upstairs with environmental themes.
Spent a good three hours going through both floors, but I really enjoyed reading the descriptions so you could probably do it all in 1.5h if you’re mostly looking at the pretty pictures.
Then I spent almost another hour in the gift shop. They have an amazing selection of interesting photo books, lots of them featuring the artists from present and past exhibits.
Absolutely loved coming here and will most certainly return.
keren B.
Google
The museum was super nice. The exhibit was very well curated. The sound and videos were good quality.
It wasn’t too crowded and the people working in the museum were very friendly. Even the coffee in their coffee shop was good!
It was a bit too hot in there. Would be good to have some ventilation (I was there on a warm day in June)
Julie
Google
Absolutely love this museum. I go regularly and have seen my most favorite exhibitions here, highly recommend!!
Michael N.
Google
Great photography museum with a wide range of exhibits from contemporary photographers from around the world sharing unique art and perspectives. Excellent bookshop with a broad collection of English and German books.
Gee M.
Google
LOVE C/O!!
Seen my most favorite exhibitions there (the latest were Tyler Mitchell & Sam Youkilis).
The curation is always 10 out of 10, I can highly recommend going there.
Ana S
Google
Nice café with good specialty coffee and some options to eat. Sometimes they have lunch, when we visited they only had sandwiches, but they were quite good, with mozarella, aubergine or even vegan options.
N R
Google
So far my favourite place in Berlin. Liked their architecture, and the vibe is cool.
Ra
Google
Great place with contemporary art with good choice. For now there is African contemporary photos exchibition which is very good. Orginaly its connected to Tate,but fortunately we can see it,some part here in Berlin. There is nice coffie bar.
Sun-Rabbit Q.
Yelp
Postfuhramt, Exhibition Centre for Photography
Postfuhramt building was constructed in the 18751881 by Wilhelm Tuckermann according to the plans of Carl Schwatlo. It was seriously damaged during the Second World War and partially restored in the years 1973-1989. From the year 1997 it has been used as the exhibition centre. And that's what it is now the Exhibition Centre for Photography.
The gallery hosts various exhibitions that oten change. The content as well as the quality of the works exposed might be different. You might be lucky to find there great pictures of famous or unknown photograpers or you might be disappointed. The good thing is that there is enough room for several exhibitions at the same time which provides you with a good chance to see at least something that you would like.
The interior of the Postfuhramt is not what you expect to see keeping in mind its pretty clean facade. The peeling walls provocatively exposing layers of the paint they where wearing for last decades, crumbling stucco, and worn-out doors create a scary and enchanting background for photograps. At the second glance the biggest exhibition room proves to be a former sport hall with one of the hoops still fixed to the wall. I guess you have to be quite a pervert to see the beauty of this collapsing block of history but I swear I loved it! Definitely worth a visit.
Qype User (.
Yelp
Great place to check out if you like photography. Somewhat to ambitious from time to time, but certainly worth checking out. When you like P.S.1 (Moma) in NYC you'd also like this I guess