In 2003, a number of mergers were carried out among Berlin’s churches; the Catholic Church decided to decommission St. Agnes in Kreuzberg, which had been erected from 1964 to 1967 according to Werner Büttmann’s designs. In 2012, a Berlin-based gallery owner was granted a 99-year lease of the complex, which is grouped around a courtyard and is on the historic preservation registry. It was converted into a cultural centre with a gallery of contemporary art.
The gallery is located in the brutalist style church. Its nave consists of a reinforced concrete frame construction with vertical coring brick as infill. Flanking the nave are the side aisles, the bell tower, and the chapel. Like the rest of the ensemble, the church’s facades bear coarse, grey cement spray render. The nave is finished in the same material. The walls on the ground floor have brick facing made of bricks that were salvaged from war debris.?
The gallery is located in the brutalist style church. Its nave consists of a reinforced concrete frame construction with vertical coring brick as infill. Flanking the nave are the side aisles, the bell tower, and the chapel. Like the rest of the ensemble, the church’s facades bear coarse, grey cement spray render. The nave is finished in the same material. The walls on the ground floor have brick facing made of bricks that were salvaged from war debris.?