> Raffael Bader

1987 born
lives and works in Leipzig, Germany

2019 Diploma at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB), Leipzig, Germany
2012 – 2019 Studies of Visual Art at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) by Prof. Ingo Meller, Leipzig, Germany

Awards, grants and residencies

2025 – Acquired by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony (Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen) as part of its annual art acquisitions, Germany
2024 – Residency, Colstoun Arts, Scotland, United Kingdom
2021 – Work-study grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany
2020 – DENKZEIT, Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, Germany

Solo (S) and group exhibitions (selection), catalogues (C)

2026

2025

– Feral Within. (S) Fred Levine, Bruton, United Kingdom
– Travers Heights Right to the Edges. (S) Yiri Arts, Taipeh, Taiwan
– Rainbow. Yiri Arts, Teipeh, Taiwan
– WIN/WIN. Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz, Germany
– Jumeler. Enari Gallery X DMW Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgien
– Landscape of Time and Memory. Fred Levine, Bruton, United Kingdom

2024

– Luminous Floating. (S) Enari Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
– Enigmatic Stream. (S) Galerie Philipp Anders, Leipzig, Germany
– T-10 Project. (S) Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
– The Metamorphosis. Yiri Arts, Taipeh, Taiwan
– Upland. Rhodes, London, United Kingdom
– Invited: Ember. Informality at Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany
– The Landscape, Reimagined. BEERS LONDON at Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
– Resident I. Colstoun Arts, Haddington, Sotland, United Kingdom
– antidote. Informality, London, United Kingdom
– To Build a Home. mini Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2023

– Walk in Sizzling Air. (S) Contemporary Art Foundation Tokio, Japan
– Delphian Open Call 2023. Delphian Gallery, London, United Kingdom
– Papier. Delphian Gallery, Lingé, France
– New Landscapes II. Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain
– Lost and Found. Outset Gallery, Galway, Ireland
– Internal Encounters (mit Thomas Mau). Enari Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
– Durchstreifen und verweilen (mit Thomas Geyer). Galerie Brennwald, Kiel, Germany
– New Landscapes. Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
– Abstracta. Annarumma Gallery, Neapel, Italy
– All of the world we can see, or Umwelt. Movment by G/P+abp, Hamamatsu, Japan

2022

– Roam Inaccessible Paths. (S) Brushes with Greatness, London, United Kingdom
– ACC X ASB EXHIBITION. UNIT1 Gallery Workshop, London, United Kingdom
– Silky Lights. Zentrale für Kunst (ZFK), Leipzig, Germany
– Work On Paper 4. Blue Shop Cottage, London, United Kingdom (online)
– Chronicles 4. Galerie Droste, KPM Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2021

– Stormy Skies. (S) Rocket Science, Brooklyn, New York, USA
– Work On Paper 3. Blue Shop Cottage, London, United Kingdom (online)
– Im Flutlicht. Museum der bildenden Künste (MDBK), Leipzig, Germany
– home. homerwares, London, United Kingdom (online)
– The Colours of Spring. artespace, München, (online), Germany
– In a New Light. Art City Works, London, United Kingdom (online)
– Geschichtete Verortung. Halle C01 Tapetenwerk, Leipzig, Germany
– Into the Cosmere. Brushes with Greatness, London, United Kingdom
– 2D. Studi0, Switzerland (online)

2020

– von hier aus sichtbar. (S)  S1, Leipzig, Germany
– Becoming Habits: Chapter One. Studi0, St. Moritz, Switzerland
– Resonant Strangeness. marram, (online)
– raus.project Vol. 5. raus.project and neu.form, Würzburg, Germany
– The NOW. A WAY Gallery, (online)

2019

– umfasste linien. (S) Acht-Zwei, Leipzig, Germany
– geworden. (S) Galerie Potemka, Leipzig, Germany
– transform. KUB Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
– Diplomaustellung. Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany

2018

– when two become one. AKKU/ KV Gästezimmer e.V. , Stuttgart, Germany

2017

– Leipzig Transfer. Gallery AdBK, Nürnberg, Germany

2016

–Maifrische. Erfrischungsraum, Luzern, Switzerland

Public Collections

– Yusaku Maezawa, CAF Tokyo, Japan
– Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden, Germany

Publications

Im Flutlicht. Historische Fotografie und zeitgenössische Kunst, Ausstellungskatalog.
Published by BSG Chemie Leipzig e.V.
Leipzig, 2021

Winter Marathon, Becoming Habits Chapter 1,2,3, St. Moritz, Schweiz.
Published by Studi0 GmbH
Switzerland, 2020