Künstlerhof Frohnau (KHF) is a center for artistic production and discourse in the north of Berlin. We rent studio spaces to artists, award the Dieter-Ruckhaberle-Förderpreis, and organize exhibitions, workshops, festivals, and cultural programs.

Since 1998, painters, sculptors, ceramicists, graphic artists, glass, concept, video, internet artists, writers, photographers, musicians, composers, dancers and actors have been residing and working on more than 4,000 square metres of studio space in a former hospital complex in the forest. The KHF project has been made possible with the kind support of the Reinickendorf art council and the hands-on initiative of KHF artists themselves.

Künstlerhof Frohnau resides in a former forest hospital in the district of Berlin Reinickendorf. Künstlerhof consists of single-storey half-timbered buildings from the 1930s, which initially were planned to serve as a military hospital. After the Second World War they were used as a lung-sanatorium.

Later they became a branch of the Karl Bonhoefer Mental Hospital. In the 1970s, a new 2-storey building was erected for this purpose. After the closure of the hospital in the 1990s, refugees, mainly from Bosnia and Herzegovina, were accommodated on the site.

The oldest building on our premises dates back to 1907. It is also the most recent addition to the site – in 2002 the historic pavilion was moved to Künstlerhof in cooperation with the State Monument Preservation Office and the Forestry Office.

After being vacant for a year,  in 1998 the premises were given to Künstlerhof Frohnau with long-term contracts.  The initiators of the project were a group around the artist and museum director Dieter Ruckhaberle, and the artists Akbar Behkalam and Kaya Behkalam. After the death of Dieter Ruckhaberle in May 2018, the non-profit associations running Künstlerhof Frohnau (Künstlerhof Frohnau e.V. and Freie Galerie e.V.) are the testamentary executor of his artistic legacy and estate.