Your event
does not need
a booth.
It needs a building. At Bauwerk you are not exhibiting in hall 7 among three hundred others — you get the whole place for your brand, your guests and your story. In-house fair, roadshow stop, temporary showroom, product launch or the supporting programme around your trade show appearance, ten minutes from Koelnmesse: 38 metres of hall that transform for you.
Ten minutes
from Koelnmesse.
By car and by train alike. If you exhibit at Koelnmesse, your supporting programme does not have to sit in an overpriced city-centre venue with guests shuttled across Cologne: Bauwerk stands on the historic KHD site in Kalk — close enough for a detour between two appointments, far enough away for an evening that no longer feels like an exhibition hall.
- Koelnmesse by car10 min
- Koelnmesse by train10 min
- Cologne city centre10 min
- Central station12 min
- Cologne/Bonn airport15 min
- On-site parkingavailable
Not an industrial estate.
A quarter.
Bauwerk stands on the historic KHD site in Cologne-Kalk, in the middle of machwerkhaus köln — a quarter of design studios, start-ups and urban manufacturing. Listed brick architecture, an open loft atmosphere across two levels, and all around businesses that actually make things. For a brand that wants to present itself as productive, creative or innovative, this is the backdrop — not merely the address.
Listed architecture
Brickwork of the former Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz works, preserved rather than recreated.
In the quarter
Design, start-ups and urban manufacturing as neighbours — for guests, a place with a history rather than a shed on the outskirts.
Two levels
An open loft atmosphere that allows presentation and retreat at the same time.
When one hall
is not enough
For large trade show appearances, several buildings on the same site can be combined — without your guests changing location or a shuttle being needed.
The Bauwerk
The main hall with the six extendable boxes, 38.8 metres long, for 400 guests.
The BAUWERK.Studio
Creative studio with its own control room for up to 100 guests — for a live stream, press conference or product film running alongside the exhibition. View →
The Lichthalle
The large adjoining space for registration, exhibitors or catering when the main hall needs to stay in use.
The trade show does not end
at the exhibition doors
The days around a trade fair are the most valuable of the year — everyone is in town, everyone has time, and nobody has to travel especially. That is exactly what Bauwerk is built for.
Build momentum
Press events and media launches, kick-off for your own exhibitors and stand teams, content creator sessions, pre-networking for invited guests.
Extend the experience
VIP receptions and executive dinners, exhibitor side events and product presentations, networking evenings away from the halls, workshops in a calmer setting.
Keep the contacts
After-show events where business cards turn into conversations — before everyone heads home again.
A building
instead of a booth
The six extendable boxes give you six separate presentation areas of 15–20 m² each — for product groups, partners, departments or conversation islands. In between, the open hall remains free for reception, stage and catering.
What brands
come here for
In-house fair
Your own range in front of your own customers — no stand rental, no neighbours, no hall regulations.
Product launch
The reveal in front of trade audience and press, streamed live at the same time from the studio next door.
Roadshow stop
Cologne as a stop on the tour, with step-free access for trucks and exhibits.
Temporary showroom
Several days of presence with changing visitor groups instead of a single evening.
Vehicle presentation
Delivery right into the hall — the exhibit stands where the lighting already hangs.
Partner day
Talks in the morning, exhibition in the afternoon, get-together in the evening. One room, three states.
Three states,
no downtime
Reception
Registration in the foyer, coffee on the Magistrale, boxes still closed — the hall reads as open space.
Presentation
Seating in front of the LED wall, keynote and product film across 5.5 × 3 metres of picture.
Exhibition
The boxes slide out, the auditorium becomes the exhibition floor. No dismantling, no break.
The whole hall as brand space
Floor, walls, LED surface and lighting can all be tuned to the brand world — here for a drinks manufacturer across the full length of the hall.
What the space
is used for
Being close to the fairgrounds sounds abstract until you see what companies actually make of it. These are the four formats that happen here most often:
In-house fair in Cologne
Your own stands, your own topic islands, your own audience — without hall rent by the square metre and without neighbours who are louder than you are. Around 300 people in trade show mode.
Side event at Koelnmesse
Ten minutes from the fairgrounds. The format for anyone who needs their own place for clients, partners or press during a trade fair, instead of disappearing into a stand conversation.
Trade show party in the evening
When the halls close, the interesting part begins. Bar and lounge boxes, a DJ in front of the LED wall, the kitchen on site — and a journey guests will still make after a long day at the fair.
Vehicle and product presentations
Delivery access is on ground level; large exhibits travel neither over ramps nor through lifts. Vehicle reveals have taken place here before.
When is your
brand coming?
Tell us what you want to show — we will tell you how the building arranges itself for it.
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