The Venues
The festival ship MS Rheinfantasie is the main venue for The Festival 2025. Events will also take place at the Sojus 7 cultural centre, the Altstadtkirche Monheim and the Villa am Greisbachsee.
Festival Boat
The “MS RheinFantasie” operated by Köln-Düsseldorfer Rheinschiffahrt is 85 metres long and 14 metres wide. It is the main venue for The Prequel 2024 and with its spacious interior and large outdoor deck, it offers ideal conditions for our concerts and artist talks. Guests with limited mobility are well catered for on board. Access is at ground level and a lift leads to all decks. A wheelchair-accessible disabled toilet is also available.
Monheim jetty
Kapellenstraße / An d’r Kapell
40789 Monheim am Rhein
51,09834° N, 6,88369° O
Sojus 7
The socio-cultural centre Sojus 7 has existed in Monheim am Rhein since 1988. Now under municipal sponsorship, the centre hosts cultural events such as parties, concerts, cabaret, comedy, exhibitions and the children’s creative week, as well as concerts by the Monheim Triennale.
Kapellenstraße 36 – 40
40789 Monheim am Rhein
Altstadtkirche
Built in 1858, the Evangelical Old Town Church was renovated in 2017 and is open to Monheim residents for cultural encounters. In 2020, it was the exhibition venue for the sound installation “continuum. From inside the stream” by Frank Schulte.
Corner of Kirchstraße / Grabenstraße
40789 Monheim am Rhein
Villa am Greisbachsee
The formerly vacant house between Monheim and Baumberg was built in the 1950s on the banks of the Greisbachsee lake and has recently been made available to the Monheim Triennale as a residency. In the fall of 2023, the house was renovated and now serves as a residence for the international artists who come to Monheim am Rhein.
Festival director Reiner Michalke: ”We are very happy to have the ‘Villa’ as a venue for artistic work for the first time. The villa is an ideal location for accommodating musicians, as it is both close to the city center and secluded by the lake. We now have the opportunity to invite international guests over a longer period of time and thus contribute to the further development of Monheim as a city of culture.“
In regular house concerts and artist talks, artists give the audience an insight into their practice. Previous guests have included Peter Evans with his trio, Anushka Chkheidze, Shannon Barnett, Fred Frith, Muqata’a, Rojin Sharafi and Stefan Schneider Monti.
Monheimer Straße 21
40789 Monheim am Rhein