Raffael Bader German, b. 1987

'Rainbow,' presented as YIRI ARTS' thematic exhibition during Taipei Art Week and ART TAIPEI 2025, using this natural phenomenon as a point of departure to reflect on its symbolic weight, cultural significance, and emotional resonance across time and place.　 A rainbow appears after rain, brief, luminous, and unpredictable. It stretches...

What Do the Edges in Raffael Bader’s Paintings Signify? Text by Sid Chen In his first solo exhibition in Taiwan, Traverse Heights Right to the Edges , Leipzig-based artist Raffael Bader (b. 1987) presents over a dozen recent paintings that introduce a distinctive visual language, rarely seen in the local...

In 1924, as the world was still reeling from the upheaval of World War I and the influenza pandemic, the first Surrealist Manifesto was published in Paris. It embodied a powerful spirit of anarchism and revolution, striving to develop means of resisting oppressive systems and imagining a future founded on...