John Pawson’s new Bastian Gallery in Berlin has opened with an exhibition of paintings by Anselm Kiefer.

The gallery, at Dahlem in the south-west of the German capital, is near the Grunewald Forest, and prompted Pawson to adopt the typology of a pavilion in response to the setting after questioning “prevailing contemporary notions” of what constitutes appropriate space for viewing art.

“The gallery is conceived as a rectilinear volume, clad in sandstone and set amongst mature trees,” he said.

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