The RAAB gallery

Raab Gallery was founded in former West-Berlin in 1978. For 23 years working in a Bauhaus building at Potsdamer Brücke with five meter high walls, it soon became famous for showing huge works by young Berlin artists like Elvira Bach, Rainer Fetting, Markus Lüpertz and K.h Hödicke. At the time it as well proofed to be a meeting point for emerging internantional artists such as Enzo Cucchi and Ernesto Tatafiore from Italy, Michel Alberola and Gerard Garouste from France, Donald Sultan and Chuck Close from the United States or Christopher le Brun from Great Britian, to name a few. After the wall went down Raab Galerie extended its Portfolio with an Artist from east germany: Hubertus Giebe, former master student of Bernard Heisig and lecturer at Kunstakademie Dresden. Street Art became an important issue for the last ten years, starting with by now internationaly well known berlin based Artist EL Bocho. While artists like Harald Klemm and Thomas Baumgärtel from Cologne close a gap between classical forms of artistic representation and new techniques with their stencil sprayed cavases, Raab Galerie also shows SKENAR73, a true graffiti writer. Since the gallery always strives to encurage new tendencies, plenty of group exhibitions have shown that street art and graffiti found their well deserved place in the canon of high quality contemporary art. Raab Gallery remains young and international to the day, with artists from Austria like Nina Maron and the sculpturer Martin Krammer as well as the next generation of Pop Artists such as Nuno Raminhos (Portugal), Ewen Gur (France) or Phillip Wolf (Spain). These western artists get complimented by South Korean Seoul based star artist Mari Kim, who shows that east asian art means in no way an opposition to western aesthetics but rather inspirational exchange.

current exibition:  Drawings mit u.a. Mari Kim, El Bocho, G. Piussi, Nina Maron (24.06.26 - 25.07.26)

Drawings mit u.a. Mari Kim, El Bocho, G. Piussi, Nina Maron

for art lovers, there is always a moment to think about works that bring the existing works on the walls into new contexts. Nothing is more suitable for this than a work on paper. You can use it to bridge the gap between two existing works, additionally accentuate a colour in the room, and accompany a representational, expressive work with thoughtful tones of an abstract work. Or you can start your own  collection of works on paper, add new works to it. Then there is the test by example: whether an artist's work lasts next to a favourite work of art, whether a young artist rejuvenates the collection and how older works react to new aspects. We are already demonstrating some of these juxtapositions in our rooms and we are already curious to see how you will react to our associations. That this form of encounter of works of art can also be telling a lot about their quality goes without saying.

For the first time, we are showing a series of works on paper by Mari Kim from 2018 to the present. Where there is Mari Kim from South Korea, El Bocho cannot be missing. Both artists have known each other for many years, and we have often exhibited their works in our rooms. Just like the works of Mari Kim, the new drawings by Giacomo Piussi are also an introduction to the major solo exhibitions of both artists that will take place later this year. If we have already shown some works of art from Manhattan this year, Torsten Schlüter for his part points out the equally large, intellectually diverse, low-traffic and quiet island of Hiddensee and follows the traces of many artists who have inspired people there over many years and especially in the GDR period. Nina Maron sends new Kermits and Snoopies, Paul Sous, Dropix and Eliot are enjoying to make us laugh in summertimes in the middle of these enjoyable moments. 

Nina Maron sends new Kermits and Snoopies, Joa Nautel's colourful motifs signal many possibilities for art, which happily surprises us with allusions. Romantic landscapes by Gerd van Dülmen in a refined drawerly tecnique give an impression of what miracles are possible when creating a drawing. A toughtful, summer-fresh, colourful exhibition awaits you and we promise that there will be no lack of good conversations and cool drinks. We look forward to seeing you