Raffael Bader
Leipzig, Germany, 1987
About
In my paintings, which are largely characterized by landscape, I consider my view of a world full of tensions while these hold the world together. I pursue a nature that consists of all natural things and elements that surround us, as well as us humans as part of this nature. I understand nature as a chaotic ground that strives for harmony. This seems to me to be a basic principle of life. I use the nature that surrounds us to create works in which I can face my inner conflicts. This includes interpersonal relationships and the search for understanding my role in this world. As the principle of the harmonic-chaotic thesis suggests, everything is in process.
I usually start new paintings with small, simple drawings that I call «notes», but once I start a painting, this quickly takes on a life of its own. I paint with oil paint and oil pencils on canvas. I use a medium that makes the oil paint water-miscible, so I can create very thin watery layers as well as thicker ones. In conjunction with the oil pencils, I can create different textures. It is important to me that the canvas does not appear to be completely covered in paint. I don’t want to cover up the process.
Raffael Bader
CV
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Internal Encounters, enari Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2023 (duo)
Durchstreifen und verweilen, Brennwald Galerie, Kiel, Germany, 2023 (duo)
All of the world we can see, or Umwelt, Movement, Hamamatsu, Japan, 2023 (duo)
Roam Inaccessible Paths, Brushes with Greatness, London, UK 2021 Stormy Skies, Rocket Science, Brooklyn, NY, US, 2022
von hier aus sichtbar, S1, Leipzig, Germany, 2020
umfasste linien, Acht-Zwei, Leipzig, Germany, 2019
geworden, Galerie Potemka, Leipzig, Germany, 2019
verlorenes bleibt, Ocka, Leipzig, Germany, 2018
erinnere dich!, Ocka, Leipzig, Germany, 2016
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
New Landscapes, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain, 2023
Lost and Found, outset Gallery, Galway, Ireland, 2023
Art Paris, enari Gallery, Paris, France, 2023 (art fair)
New Landscapes, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, 2023
London Art Fair, Candida Stevens Gallery, London, UK, 2023
Abstracta, Annarumma Gallery, Napoli, Italy, 2023
ACC X ASB EXHIBITION, UNIT1 Gallery Workshop, London, UK, 2022
Silky Lights, ZFK, Leipzig, Germany, 2022
Work On Paper 4, Blue Shop Cottage, London, United Kingdom (online), 2022
Chronicles 4, Galerie Droste, KPM Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2022
Work On Paper 3, Blue Shop Cottage, London, United Kingdom (online), 2021
Im Flutlicht, Museum der bildenden Künste (MDBK), Leipzig, Germany, 2021
home, homerwares, London, United Kingdom (online), 2021
The Colours of Spring, artespace, München, Germany (online) 1/2, 2021
In a New Light, Art City Works, London, UK (online), 2021
Geschichtete Verortung, Halle C01 Tapetenwerk, Leipzig, Germany , 2021
Into the Cosmere, Brushes with Greatness, London, UK, 2021
2D, Studi0, Switzerland (online), 2021
Becoming Habits: Chapter One, Studi0, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Resonant Strangeness, marram, (online), 2020
raus.project Vol. 5, raus.project and neu.form, Würzburg, Germany, 2020
The NOW, A WAY Gallery, (online), 2020
transform, KUB Galerie, Leipzig, Germany, 2019
Diplomaustellung, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany, 2019
when two become one, AKKU/ KV Gästezimmer e.V. , Stuttgart, Germany, 2018
Leipzig Transfer, Gallery AdBK, Nürnberg, Germany, 2017
Maifrische, Erfrischungsraum, Luzern, Switzerland, 2016
AWARDS
Work scholarship, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany, 2021
DENKZEIT, Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, Germany, 2020
