Raimund Girke, white remains in der Walter Storms Galerie

Walter Storms Galerie presents an exhibition dedicated to Raimund Girke (1930–2002), conceived as a retrospective as well as personal homage.

The exhibition brings together a selection of works from different phases of Girke’s career, highlighting his sustained engagement with the color white. Through layered surfaces, rhythmic brushwork, and subtle tonal variations of white, grey, and blue, he developed a form of painting marked by concentration, precision, and quiet intensity.

His “Fundamental Painting” revolved around questions of light, materiality, perception, density, and reduction. Over decades, Girke created a distinctive painterly language whose clarity and stillness continue to resonate with remarkable contemporaneity.

Since the early 1980s, Walter Storms and Raimund Girke shared a close professional relationship and long-standing friendship. Over decades, the gallery realized numerous exhibitions with the artist and continuously supported his work.

Ergänzung der Kunstleben Berlin Redaktion:

Raimund Girke white remains ist vom 10. September bis 31. Oktober 2026 zu sehen. Die Walter Storms Galerie wurde 1977 in München gegründet und eröffnete 2025 ihre erste Berliner Dependance in den Mercator Höfen in der Potsdamer Straße 81A in Tiergarten. Die nächste U-Bahn-Station ist Kurfürstenstraße. Die Galerie ist auf zeitgenössische konkrete und konzeptuelle Kunst im Umfeld der Künstlergruppe ZERO spezialisiert und betreut den Nachlass von Raimund Girke (1930 bis 2002).