W&K – Wienerroither & Kohlbacher

Andreas Reiter Raabe (*1960) lives and works in Vienna. His work deals both in practice and in theory with the essence of painting and its positioning in art history. Reiter Raabe uniquely combines several professions in one person: conceptual artist, painter, art theorist, art critic, curator and collector.

1960 Born in Upper Austria 1987-1992 Studied Philosophy and European Ethnology at the University of Vienna and Painting and Graphic Arts at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna since 1992 Curator of various exhibitions; interviews and public lectures; lecturer at the Art University Linz and the Academy of Applied Arts since 1995 Member of the board of the Secession Vienna since 2008 Royal Academy London Founder of Gesso Artplace in Vienna lives and works in Vienna

By participating in international art fairs and presenting furthermore representatives of classical modernism such as Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoscha and Alfred Kubin. W&K has established itself as a key at the artmarket over the past 30 years. With the W&K Edition, the gallery is dedicated to the publication of scientific exhibition catalogues and monographs. In 2013, W&K associated with the well-known Shepherd Gallery in New York and since then, has been implementing joint exhibition projects. In obtaining a further location, this time in Vienna, the gallery was expanded three years later. With the baroque premises of Palais Schönborn-Batthyány, steeped in tradition, a unique exhibition room was added, where W&K has displayed contemporary items and art from after 1945 ever since.