My first visit to a gallery artist was to see Jonas Burgert, who lives and works on a leafy street in what used to be East Berlin in an old factory complex which went bust shortly after unification and who luckily I already know having met and interviewed him in 2015:-

He needs the space since he sometimes paints on a gigantic scale, as in a work, Zeitlaich, which completely fills one wall of the studio (it’s 6 metres high) and was recently shown to great effect in the gallery.