Nicholas Serota, the previous director of Tate, will co-curate an unlimited retrospective of works by the influential German artist Gerhard Richter this autumn on the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris (17 October-2 March 2026).
“[The Fondation] is honouring the artist with an distinctive retrospective, unmatched each in scale and in chronological scope, that includes 270 works stretching from 1962 to 2024,” says a press release. Works in quite a lot of media, from work to pencil and ink drawings, watercolours, and overpainted pictures, will go on present.
The present launches with a piece devoted to works courting from 1962 to 1970 below the heading “Portray from Images: Images as a Supply of Imagery”, referencing household pictures linked to the artist’s previous reminiscent of Uncle Rudi and Aunt Marianne.
The subsequent room will concentrate on the works created for the 1972 Venice Biennale. In these works, a press release says, “Richter interrogates the character of portray in a number of methods: via the usage of his signature blur approach (Vermalung) [and] the progressive copying and dissolution of a Titian Annunciation”.
Gerhard Richter, Gudrun, 1987Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris. © Gerhard Richter 2025
The chronological thread continues in rooms centered on works courting from 1976 to 1986 (“Exploring abstraction”) and 1987 to 1995 (“Sombre Reflections”). The latter will embrace the October 18, 1977 collection which is described by its lender, the Museum of Trendy Artwork in New York as evoking “fragments from the lives and deaths of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist group”.
The ultimate a part of the exhibition (2009 to 2023) explores how Richter deserted portray for a number of years to experiment with glass works, whereas additionally producing digitally generated Strip photos.
The Artwork Newspaper understands that key items from the Basis’s personal assortment, reminiscent of Gudrun (1987), Wald [Forest] (1990) and 4900 Farben [4900 couleurs], shall be included. Examples of loans embrace Verkündigung nach Tizian [Annonciation d’après le Titien], 1973, from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Backyard, Smithsonian Establishment, Washington, DC; Abstraktes Bild [Tableau abstrait], 1978, from the Tate and Betty (1977) on mortgage from Museum Ludwig, Cologne.
In 2011, Nicholas Serota, at present the chair of Arts Council England, organised a Richter present at Tate Trendy in London entitled Gerhard Richter: Panorama. On the time, Serota advised The Artwork Newspaper: “I’ve had a passionate curiosity in Richter for a few years.
“I did a present on the Whitechapel in 1979, and the extra I watched and realized, the extra I studied the processes and the outcomes, the extra spectacular his work is. I’m astounded by the thoroughness with which he investigates each drawback that he tackles, and likewise the variety of ranges of which means within the work.”
Dieter Schwarz, the director of the Kunstmuseum Winterthur from 1990 to 2017, can also be co-curator. The Richter present is the newest in a string of blockbuster monographic exhibitions at Fondation Louis Vuitton dedicated to key figures of Twentieth- and Twenty first-century artwork reminiscent of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joan Mitchell, Mark Rothko and David Hockney.
Richter’s public sale file stands at £30.4m, the value paid for the large-scale summary portray Abstraktes Bild (1986) which bought at Sotheby’s London in 2015.
