Located at Karl Marx Allee 45 in Berlin Mitte, the gallery
is housed in one of the city´s historical landmarks, a
1,300 square meter glass-encased modernist building preserved from the Socialist Era.
Capitain Petzel´s inaugural exhibition, a groupshow
entitled 'Kunst im Heim', invited artists of Galerie
Gisela Capitain and Friedrich Petzel Gallery to respond
to the architecture, form, history and surroundings of
the pavilion, a classic example of East German
Modernism, designed by Josef Kaiser and Walter
Franek and built in 1964 to house display of Fine and Applied Arts from the countries of the Eastern Bloc.
Capitain Petzel continues to present exhibitions of the established international artists represented by the
galleries in Cologne and New York, as well as adding
new artists to its programme of exhibitions.
