Galerie Être · Est. Montreal
Art as Philosophy.
Painting as Living Truth.
The official gallery and collected works of Dr. Runhild Roeder — philosopher, artist, author, composer, and founder of Galerie Être.
A Life Between Art and Philosophy
"For Dr. Runhild Roeder, art is not decoration. It is a way of understanding. Across decades of painting, writing, music, and philosophical inquiry, her work has pursued the same essential question: how does beauty reveal truth?"
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Available Works
reds
Only Two of Us, 2008
Oil on canvas · 120 × 90 cm
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philosophers
Philosophers IV — Ludwig Wittgenstein, 2010
Mixed media on canvas · 100 × 80 cm
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yellows
Klimt House (Yellow Mistakes), 2009
Oil on canvas · 110 × 90 cm
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Dr. Zhivago Junior (Kempty Falls), 2005
Oil on canvas · 90 × 120 cm
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vienna
Karlsplatz, Vienna, 2006
Oil on canvas · 90 × 120 cm
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yellows
Om Shanti, 2009
Oil on canvas · 100 × 100 cm
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Curated Series
Collections
Philosophers
Portraits of thinkers — Wittgenstein, the theologian, the abstract sage. The body of thought made image.
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Cobras
Works in conversation with the Cobra movement: spontaneous, mythic, primal, philosophical.
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Yellows
A meditation on light, gold, and Klimt — works steeped in warmth and incandescence.
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Reds
Works in burgundy, crimson, and deep iron — the colour of blood, of devotion, of fire.
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Black & White
Works on paper and canvas in pure value — drawing as philosophical line.
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Vienna
Karlsplatz, Hundertwasser, Klimt — paintings of the European city that shaped her eye.
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Published Works
Books & Thought
Truth Over Method
Art Matters — An Inquiry in Dialogue with Hans-Georg Gadamer, Rabindranath Tagore, and Other Major Thinkers
A doctoral inquiry, completed at Université Laval (2007), into the experience of art as a form of truth. Following Gadamer's hermeneutics, Roeder argues that understanding is an event rather than a method — and that art is one of its most authentic occasions.
Is Sacred Syntactically & Semantically Dense?
A Postmodern Inquiry
An inquiry into the density of the sacred in language — how meaning thickens, how the holy resists translation, and how the postmodern reader stands before the text.
BILDUNG and Freedom
On formation, cultivation, and the freedom that emerges from a life shaped by encounter. A philosophical essay on the German tradition of Bildung and its relevance for the contemporary self.
Exhibitions & Public Record
A Transnational Trail
From Montreal to Antwerp, Leuven, London, and New Delhi — three decades of solo and group exhibitions, reviewed by independent critics and preserved in the public archive.
Explore the ArchiveThe Meaningful Podcast
"Dr. Runhild Roeder joined The Meaningful Podcast for a conversation on art, truth, consciousness, self-awareness, intuition, and the philosophy of existence."
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Original works are placed with private collectors and institutions worldwide. Each acquisition is supported by certificate of authenticity, archival documentation, and personal correspondence with the studio.