What can I do to get them white, is wallpapering common for that?
You can paint (if the paint holds) or actually wallpaper. Alternatively, you do a little more work - stick on 9.5mm drywall, fill and then paint (that’s what I’m currently doing in an extension).
Then I would foam up gaps. That fits together. For basements, I find it exaggerated, but if you really want to, you can probably paint on it with acrylic paint. It actually sticks everywhere.
I would like to avoid another gluing step with Rigips, after all it's just the basement :) I will look into acrylic paint, if in doubt I'll wallpaper - practical if you like doing that anyway ;)