When two art world giants collide, you get something a little like this: a gallery in a historic building on one of Berlin’s grandest boulevards, an unparalleled roster of artists and exhibitions and a name that, to an untrained eye, could appear to say “Captain Pretzel.”

But captains they are—co-founders Gisela Capitain (of the eponymous Cologne gallery, collector and Martin Kippenberger discoverer) and Friedrich Petzel (of NYC gallery-world fame) have come together to create a quiet monster of a gallery.

With a giant glass facade and Soviet-Modernist architectural touches, the gallery stands at the head of Karl-Marx-Allee, leading the way for gallerists to come.