Martina Kaiser, a gallery owner in Cologne since 1997, has been presenting her art programme since November 20011 in the rooms of the former heritage-protected cardboard factory which was rebuilt as a studio and gallery by the architects Thies Marwede and professor Schneider-Wesseling in 1983.
It was then Paul Maenz, one of the most prominent gallery owners in the 70s-90s, who made this legendary place a centre of contemporary art.
Bismarckstraße 50 is close to the centre hype in the so-called Belgian Borough in Cologne and a place for creative minds and artists to meet and cluttered with galleries, agencies and media protagonists.
The gallery houses a wide range of exhibits and six times in the year international contemporary artifacts from the media, photographs, paintings and sculptures are shown.