Kai 'Raws' Imhof

Kai “Raws” Imhof was born in 1990, in Königs Wusterhausen, Germany and raised in Berlin. After finishing his A-level at the Emmy-Noether School in Berlin-Köpenick, he started the training as a graphic designer at the Best-Sabel Designschule in Berlin, which he finished in 2015 by winning the best graduation work award. After that, he decided to become a full-time artist and videographer.

Raws’ artistic career started in 2004 when he was painting the streets as a graffiti writer. During his early years as a sprayer, he painted illegal bombings and tags on walls in his neighborhood. Due to clashes with the police, he decided (around 2008) to deal with the artistic side of graffiti writing. By painting high-end colorful pieces over the years he became a famous artist in the international graffiti scene.

When he started his graphic design training, he dealt with the history of fine arts. Movements like Bauhaus or Blauer Reiter and artists like Kandinsky, Richter or Picasso made him rethinking his own standards and views and had a big impact to his following artworks. Nowadays, he is combining his addiction to clean graphics, layout and arrangement with a classic graffiti style.

Raws was invited to many events and exhibitions a...

2020 – Les Abattoirs Museum – Groupshow, France
2020 – Centre Culturel de Manoir Museum – Groupshow, Swiss
2020 – Learn and skate – Auction, Paddle 8
2020 – Solar art panel series – Auction, Paddle 8
2020 Spaklers Urban Gallery – Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019 Beyond Letters – Stone Brewing Show Room – Berlin, Germany
2019 Urban Art Week – Berlin, Germany
2019 Vision Art Festival – Crans-Montana, Switzerland
2019 #NEOGRAFFISM – Solo Show – Urban Spree Gallery – Berlin, Germany
2019 Speichergallery – Dortmund, Germany
2019 Salon international d’art contemporain – Paris, France
2019 Malagacha Gallery – Strasbourg, France
2018 Monumenta – Leipzig, Germany

2018 Berlin Mural Fest – Berlin, Germany
2018 Wandelism – Berlin, Germany
2017 Roskilde Festival – Roskilde, Denmark
2017 Street Dealin 11 – Jakarta, Indonesia
2017 The Haus – Berlin Art Bang – Berlin, Germany
2017 Artcaden Project – Berlin, Germany
2017 Wheel to Wall – Berlin, Germany
2017 Step in the Arena – Eindhoven, Netherlands
2016 All city jam – Dublin, Ireland
2016 Framefestival – Wolsztyn, Poland
2015 LRG arthouse, – Stuttgard, Germany
2015 Ostrale –...