Gerhard Richter

October 17th, 2025 - March 2nd, 2026

Fondation Louis Vuitton

8, Avenue du Mahatma Gandhi. Bois de Boulogne, Paris

Perhaps with this staging, Dieter Schwarz and Nicholas Serota, curators of the exhibition, want Gerhard Richter's retrospective in Paris to allow the public to enjoy the vaporous nature of the German artist's works. From the 1960s, with painting derived from photography, to his latest abstractions conceived between 2009 and 2017, the latter date marking his decision to abandon painting, this is the itinerary they propose for us.

Richter, a creator whose desire has been nothing more than to look around him and paint only what he decides to show us in each work. His blurring, scraping and the vibrations of his oils give shape to objects or characters that possess a subtle, ethereal or barely grave quality. The artist's pictorial mesh blurs the contours of the figures or the strokes of colour interwoven on the canvas with the aim of fixing them and offering the viewer something tangible to trigger an aesthetic experience.

The exhibition brings together a total of 275 works: oil paintings, glass and steel sculptures, pencil and ink drawings, watercolours and repainted photographs, which reveal Richter's visual thinking over more than six decades. A series of sections or galleries, presented in chronological order, shed light on how the artist has explored a rich variety of genres and techniques within painting and trace the evolution of a unique perspective on the history of the last century. 1962-1970: Painting from photographs: photography as a source of imagery. 1971-1975: Investigating representation. 1976-1986: Exploring abstraction. 1987-1995: “Sombre reflections”. 1996-2009: New perspectives in painting: Chance. 2009-2017: Final paintings. 2018-2024: Drawings.

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