The Curator

Ralf Daab has been active in the art book market for over 25 years. He started his career as a sales manager for TASCHEN in Cologne, Germany in 1993. In 1995 he moved to New York and set up the first TASCHEN office in the USA. In 1997 he became CEO of Könemann Publishing in New York and established the brand in the US market. He moved back to Germany in 2000 and took over the position as publishing and sales director at teNeues and created a new architecture & design book program with the famous COOL book series and established a worldwide distribution network. With this experience he founded his own label daab in 2003 and published more than 300 books on art, architecture, design, photography and fashion. Over one million copies were sold in over 100 countries. Besides that he released three music CD's under the label daab club 1-3 (still availble on iTUNES) and founded a fashion show in Cologne, first as COLOGNE CATWALK which he turned into the COLOGNE FASHION DAYS. He also ran an art gallery in Cologne, daab salon , where he hosted art exhibitions curated by Gérard A. Goodrow (former director of the ART COLOGNE) With HOL he has created a new label for concept books and a platform for architects and designers.