Blaue Fabrik

In the location's words:

The Blaue Fabrik is an independent cultural venue in Dresden-Neustadt that has existed for over 30 years and began with the founding of a gallery in a factory building in a backyard in Prießnitzstraße in 1991. After the gallery went bankrupt in 1996, our artists' association was founded from the gallery's surroundings in 1997.

The Blaue Fabrik quickly became one of the most important venues for contemporary art in Dresden. In 2005, this was recognized with the award of the Cultural Promotion Prize of the City of Dresden and since 2010 our association has received institutional funding.

Since 2016, the Blaue Fabrik has been located in the left wing of the "Alter Leipziger Bahnhof" (directly on Eisenbahnstraße). Over 50 artists (most of them graduates of the Dresden University of Music) are active in 13 rehearsal rooms and a dance studio. These include established bands such as the "New Town Swing Orchestra", Dresden's biggest soul band "The Souldiers", the "Richard Ebert Quartett" and "Youkali". Over 200 students are also taught during the week.

The public event rooms (on the first floor) host weekly jazz sessions by the "Jazzkollektiv Dresden" by and for HfM students, regular (jazz) concerts, exhibitions and other art and cultural activities. We also rent out our rooms for all kinds of uses, especially to those involved in the arts and creative industries, but also for private parties.

Due to its location in the largest undeveloped quarter in the city center (around the "Alter Leipziger Bahnhof" between Eisenbahn- Leipziger- Hansa- and Erfurter Straße) and the importance of the ALB both for railroad and industrial history as well as its role in the context of the Shoa, we are closely involved in the urban, cultural and monument planning challenges of the planned development of the site. With various event formats, we focus on a meaningful development of the ALB: as a place where the culture of remembrance and contemporary art, commemoration and cultivated celebration, Jewish life and the free cultural scene can merge into a lively synthesis.