Waggon am Kulturgleis : meeting place, stage and home for unusual events
The freight wagon with wide doors and a useful length of 12 meters on the banks of the Main also symbolizes the city's structural change from an industrial location to a creative think tank. A famous stone's throw away from the double helix sculpture by hfg graduate Frank Flasskämpfer and only separated from the university campus by the Maindamm, the "Waggon am Kulturgleis" was created a few years ago as a social sculpture.
Soziale Plastik e.V. has been running the Waggon am Kulturgleis since 2008 and was awarded the City of Offenbach's Culture Prize in 2015.
The club members take care of maintenance and improvements to the wagon, funding for special events, appearances at the festival of clubs and much more. If you have always wanted to offer your sofa bed to artists on tour in Germany, help out behind the bar in the waggon, are interested in guarding the fire bowl on the Main, or enjoy staying ahead in the race against graffiti, and even more so if you have ideas for event formats in the waggon, you have come to the right place.
The Waggon was set up as an exhibition and event venue as well as a cultural meeting place by a class at the Hochschule für Gestaltung with Professor Manfred Stumpf. As a place for workshops with young people from the eastern inner city, structural and creative measures were developed and implemented together with craftsmen, teachers and artists.
The Waggon is now run by the two artists Georg Klein and Torsten Kauke from the "Soziale Plastik" association, who have established it as a venue for unusual and special events with a great deal of passion and idealism. Here you can literally get up close and personal, with the number of visitors ranging from 6 to 40 people depending on the event, making up the atmosphere and acoustics in the narrow wagon.
Unknown musicians are given a chance in the wagon, but artists from overseas have also made a detour to the Kulturgleis and so the social sculpture on rails is still a free space for socially transformative art in the spirit of Beuys.
Soziale Plastik e.V.
Woman Agnes Christ
Marienstraße 18
63069 Offenbach