Kunsthaus Tacheles

The Kunsthaus Tacheles was an art center in Berlin, Germany, a large ) building and sculpture park on Oranienburger Straße in the district known as Mitte. Huge, colorful graffiti-style murals were painted on the exterior walls, and modern art sculptures were featured inside. The building housed an artists collective from 1990 until 2012.

Originally called Friedrichstraßenpassage, it was built in 1907-1908 as a department store in the Jewish quarter of Berlin, next to the synagogue. During World
War II it served as a Nazi prison for a short while. Under GDR authorities it was later partially demolished. After the Berlin Wall had come down in 1989, it was taken over by artists, who called it Tacheles, Yiddish for "straight talking". The building contained studios and workshops, a nightclub, and a cinema. Outside, the garden featured an open-air exhibition of metal sculptures as well as galleries and studios for sculptors and painters.

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