Raimund Girke, white remains

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. Painting