‘For me Martin Kippenberger was the beginning of contemporary art,’ says Gisela Capitain. The pair’s immediate connection led to the creation of the now-mythical studio-cum-social space Kippenberger’s Office – Germany’s answer to Andy Warhol’s Factory. But it’s in Cologne that Capitain found her home. She opened her gallery in 1986 and has since then been a stalwart of the German scene, branching out to Berlin in collaboration with Friedrich Petzel in 2008.