Gerhard Richter is one of the most influential and versatile contemporary artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Born in Dresden, Germany, in 1932, Richter’s prolific career spans over six decades and defies easy categorization. His work moves fluidly between photorealism and abstraction, challenging traditional boundaries.
Richter first gained recognition in the 1960s with his photo-paintings, which blurred the lines between photography and painting. Using found photographs—often family snapshots, press images, or historical documentation—he reproduced them on canvas with a distinctive, hazy technique that evoked memory, loss, and uncertainty. This early work reflected his experiences growing up in Nazi Germany and later East Germany, where images were often manipulated for ideological purposes.
Starting in the 1970s, Richter expanded his practice to include large-scale abstractions, vibrant colors, as well as minimalist glass and mirror installations. His abstract paintings, created with squeegees and layers of paint, reveal a fascination with chance, process, and surface.
Throughout his career, Richter has remained intellectually rigorous and deeply skeptical of fixed meaning in art. His refusal to commit to a single style or medium is not indecision but a conscious exploration of perception, truth, and the limitations of images. Whether through a blurred portrait or a towering field of color, Richter invites audiences to question what they see and how they interpret it.
Born 1932 in Dresden, Germany.
Lives and works in Cologne, Germany.
Student at the Staatlichen Kunsthochschule Dresden.
Student at the Staatlichen Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Prof. K.O. Götz.
Visiting professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg.
Art award „Junger Westen“ der Stadt Recklinghausen.
Visiting professor at Nova Scotia College of Art in Halifax.
Visiting professor at the Städelschule, Frankfurt/M.
Professor at the Staatlichen Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
Honorary doctorate, Universität Leuven.
Verleihung der Ehrenbürgerschaft der Stadt Köln.
Einweihung des von Gerhard Richter gestalteten Südquerhausfensters im Kölner Dom.
Staatspreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Goldener Löwe der Biennale Venedig.
Praemium Imperiale, Tokyo.
Wolf-Preis, Jerusalem.
Oskar-Kokoschka-Preis, Wien.
Arnold-Bode-Preis, Kassel.
Gerhard Richter. Series | Variations, Gerhard Richter Archiv, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Gerhard Richter. Werk im Plural. Aus der Sammlung Olbricht, Olaf Gulbransson Museum, Tegernsee, Germany
Gerhard Richter BIRKENAU, Gerhard Richter Exhibition House, Oświęcim/Auschwitz, Poland
Gerhard Richter. On Display, Neues Museum, Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design, Nürnberg, Germany
Gerhard Richter: Photographs, Galerie Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany
Gerhard Richter. Verborgene Schätze: Werke aus rheinischen Privatsammlungen, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Deutschland
New Acquisition: Gerhard Richter Strip (926-3), Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan
Gerhard Richter: Engadin, Segantini Museum, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Gerhard Richter, Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan
Gerhard Richter. Übermalte Fotografien, Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Gerhard Richter. GRAU. Arbeiten 1965 bis 2020, Kunstparterre e.V., München, Germany
Gerhard Richter. 100 Werke für Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Gerhard Richter, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
Gerhard Richter, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokio, Japan
Gerhard Richter: ‘Mood’, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland
Gerhard Richter. Collection presentation for Gerhard Richter’s 90th birthday, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Berlin
Gerhard Richter. Birkenau-Cycle, Drawings, Overpainted Photographs, K21 Ständehaus, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Gerhard Richter. Cage Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
Gerhard Richter. Bücher, Gerhard Richter Archiv, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden,Germany
Reflections on Painting. Gerhard Richter’s Birkenau Series at the Alte Nationalgalerie, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
in ‘Atelier Liebermann’: Gerhard Richter. Atlas-Overview 1:2, Stiftung Brandenburgertor, Berlin, Germany
Cage Bilder, Gagosian, Beverly Hills, USA
Gerhard Richter: Die Birkenau Bilder, The-Metropolitan-Museum of Art, New York, USA
Gerhard Richter: 100 self-portraits, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Gerhard Richter 1961/62, Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Gerhard Richter. New Drawings 2017 – 2019, Gerhard Richter Archiv, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Gerhard Richter: Painting After All, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Gerhard Richter: Landschaft, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Wien, Austria
Gerhard Richter. Prints, Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York, USA
Gerhard Richter. Editionen, Entwürfe, Briefe, Materialien, Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Gerhard Richter. Overpainted Photographs, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
Gerhard Richter. Itsas Paisaiak, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spanien
Die Farbe Grau, Gerhard Richter – Michael Schmidt, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, German
Gerhard Richter: Abstraktion, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany
Gerhard Richter. Selbsbildnisse 1993, Gerhard Richter Archive, Albertinum, Dresden, Germany
Gerhard Richter. Frühe Bilder, Museum Wiesbaden, Germany
Gerhard Richter. Über Malen – Frühe Bilder, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Gent, Belgium
Gerhard Richter. The Life of Images, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Brisbane, Australia
Gerhard Richter. Abstraktion, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany
Gerhard Richter, Espace Louis Vuitton, Beijing, China
Weilburger Begegnungen: Figur und Abstraktion im Dialog. Stephan Balkenhol und Gerhard Richter, Rosenhang Museum, Weilburg, Germany
Gerhard Richter: A Survey, Narodni galerie v Praze (National Gallery), Prague, Czech Republic
Gerhard Richter: New Paintings, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Gerhard Richter: Birkenau, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
Gerhard Richter: 14 Panes of Glass for Toyoshima, Toyoshima, Japan
Gerhard Richter: Artist Rooms, Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery, Plymouth, UK
Gerhard Richter: Inkjet print, Dresden Gallery, Dresden, Germany
Gerhard Richter. Neupräsentation im Albertinum, Galerie Neue Meisterm Albertinum; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany
Gerhard Richter From Elbe to November: Works on Paper from the Collection, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Gerhard Richter: Streifen + Glas, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Gerhard Richter, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Gerhard Richter: Editions from the Olbricht Collection 1965–2012, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Gerhard Richter. Elbe, November, and Other Works, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Gerhard Richter. Streifen + Glas, Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Albertinum, Dresden, Germany; Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Gerhard Richter: Atlas, Lenbachhaus Munchen, Munich, Germany
Drawings and Watercolors 1957 – 2008, Musee du Louvre, France
Gerhard Richter: ATLAS, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden, Germany
Gerhard Richter: Panorama, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin in conjunction with the Tate Modern, UK and Centre Pompidou, France
Gerhard Richter: October 18, 1977 (1988), Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Gerhard Richter, Beirut, Beirut Art Center, Lebanon
GERHARD RICHTER – EDITIONS, me Collectors Room Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Seven Works, Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA
Gerhard Richter: Panorama, Tate Modern, London, UK
Gerhard Richter: Sinbad, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
Gerhard Richter. Bilder einer Epoche, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, Germany
Gerhard Richter: Elbe, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Gerhard Richter. Sinopse, Casa Andrade Muricy, Curitiba, Brazil
Gerhard Richter: Epoch (Artist Rooms), New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester, UK
Gerhard Richter: Lines which do not exist, The Drawing Center, New York, USA
Gerhard Richter. Übersicht, Galerie im Ernst-Rietschel-Haus, Pulsnitz, Germany
Gerhard Richter. Sinopsis, Gerhard Richter: Survey, Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Gerhard Richter. Sinopsis, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uraguay
Isa Mona Lisa, Hamburger Kunsthalle ,Hamburg, Germany
MOT Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo ,Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Louisiana’s time, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art ,Humlebæk, Denmark
Collection Exhibition 1 ,21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
From Impressionism To Richter, Pola Museum of Art ,Kanagawa, Japan
Icons from a Half Century of Art ,Gagosian, New York (555 W 24th) ,Chelsea, New York, USA
When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History ,DMA, Dallas Museum of Art ,Dallas Arts District, Dallas, Texas, USA
Richter / Scully: Celestial Mechanics: Form and Future in the Work of Gerhard Richter and Sean Scully ,Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong ,Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Three Pallet Trucks And A Sheet Of Paper: The Edition Block 1966–2022 ,Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland ,Bedburg-Hau, Germany
HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig: And Yesterday and Tomorrow ,Museum Ludwig, Cologne ,Cologne, Germany
Gerhard Richter & Sigmar Polke: Kabinettstücke: Umwandlung ,Wilhelm Hack Museum ,Ludwigshafen Am Rhein, Germany
Qualität Verbindet: Die Sammlung Danielle Und Urs-Peter Müller Im Kunsthaus Grenchen, Kunsthaus Grenchen ,Grenchen, Switzerland
Honey, I Rearranged the Collection ,Fondation Beyeler, Basel ,Basel, Switzerland
The Image of Colour, the Mystery of Image ,MODEM, the Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts ,Debrecen, Hungary
From Gerhard Richter to Mary Heilmann. Abstract Art from Private Collections and the Museum’s Holdings ,Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Beim Stadthaus ,Winterthur, Switzerland
The Haniel Collection: The own way ,MKM Museum Küppersmühle of Modern Art, Duisburg, Germany
Double Take: Contemporary Redefined ,Ben Brown Fine Arts, Palm Beach ,Palm Beach, Florida, USAb
The Whole Palette. Works from the Hilti Art Foundation ,Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein ,Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Switch. Pop, Points and Politics From The Ludwig Collection ,Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Collection presentation ,De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art ,Tilburg, Netherlands
Austria-Germany Painting 1970 to 2020 ,Albertina Modern ,Vienna, Austria
LIGHT: Works from the Tate Collection ,National Art Center, Tokyo ,Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Western Paintings and Glass Works ,Pola Museum of Art ,Kanagawa, Japan
Capturing The Moment ,Tate Modern ,Bankside, London, UK
To Bend the Ear of the Outer World: Conversations on contemporary abstract painting ,Gagosian, London (Grosvenor Hill) ,Mayfair, London, UK
To Bend the Ear of the Outer World: Conversations on contemporary abstract painting ,Gagosian, London (Davies Street) ,Mayfair, London, UK
Everybody Talks About The Weather ,Fondazione Prada, Venice ,Venice, Italy
Vija Celmins & Gerhard Richter: Double Vision ,Hamburger Kunsthalle , Hamburg, Germany
Uncombed Paintings. Art since 1960 from the Collection of Duke Franz of Bavaria ,Pinakothek der Moderne ,Munich, Germany
Friends of Art – 40 Years of Collecting ,Kaiser Wilhelm Museum ,Krefeld, Germany
Amazing: The Wurth Collection ,Leopold Museum ,Vienna, Austria
Shared Visions ,Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art ,Eugene, Oregon, USA
Sunset: A Celebration of the Sinking Sun ,Kunsthalle Bremen ,Bremen, Germany
Being In the World—The Tenth Anniversary of the Long Museum ,Long Museum, West Bund ,Xuhui, Shanghai, China
MOT Collection ,Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo ,Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Modern Masters: A Tribute to Anne Windfohr Marion ,Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth ,Ft. Worth, Texas, USA
War Games: War in Art from Goya to Richter ,Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Reinhart am Stadtgarten ,Winterthur, Switzerland
35th Anniversary Exhibition ,The Menard Art Museum ,Kadena, Japan
Mix & Match. Rediscovering The Collection ,Pinakothek der Moderne ,Munich, Germany
Sky to the East, Sky to the West ,Kunsten Museum of Modern Art ,Aalborg, Denmark
MOMAT Collection ,The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo ,Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Space for Imaginative Actions ,Kunstmuseum Bonn ,Bonn, Germany
From Monet to Richter ,Pola Museum of Art ,Kanagawa, Japan
North – South. Perspectives on the Collection ,Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Reinhart am Stadtgarten ,Winterthur, Switzerland
The Wild, the Weird and the Wonderful ,Kunsthalle zu Kiel ,Kiel, Germany
Something New, Something Old, Something Desired ,Hamburger Kunsthalle ,Hamburg, Germany
Passages – Landscape, Figure and Abstraction ,Fondation Beyeler, Basel ,Basel, Switzerland
Parkett: A Time Capsule ,Musée des Beaux-arts, Le Locle ,Le Locle, Switzerland
Mindbombs: Term Under Reserve ,Kunsthalle Mannheim ,Mannheim, Germany
The Art of Helping: 25 Years of fiftyfifty: Charity Exhibition ,NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft ,Düsseldorf, Germany
Closer to Life: Drawings and Works on Paper in the Marieluise Hessel Collection ,CCS Bard, Hessel Museum of Art ,Annandale On Hudson, New York, USA
Look At This ,Pinakothek der Moderne ,Munich, Germany
Big! ,Sprengel Museum Hannover ,Hannover, Germany
Within Reach: Masters’ Editions ,Today Art Museum ,Chaoyang, Beijing, China
Series. Prints from Warhol to Wool ,Hamburger Kunsthalle ,Hamburg, Germany
Influx from Eastern Europe ,Kunsthaus Zug ,Zug, Switzerland
The Art of Helping 25 Years of fiftyfifty: A Charity Exhibition ,NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft ,Düsseldorf, Germany
Trialogue ,Yokohama Museum of Art ,Kanagawa, Japan
Collection 2: Focus on Contemporary Art from the U.S., France, Germany, and the U.K. ,National Museum of Art, Osaka (Kokuritsu Kokusai Bijutsukan) ,Osaka, Japan
Technology Transformation: Photography and Video in the Kunstsammlung ,K20, Kunstsammlung NRW ,Düsseldorf, Germany
Sammlung ,MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt – TOWER ,Frankfurt, Germany
Emotion and Structure ,Forum für Fotografie ,Cologne, Germany
Emotion and Structure ,Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne ,Cologne, Germany
Nur nichts anbrennen lassen. New presentation of the collection ,Kunstmuseum Bonn ,Bonn, Germany
Warhol to Richter. From the Collections of the Albertina Museum ,Albertina Museum ,Vienna, Austria
Long Live Modern Movement ,CCS Bard, Hessel Museum of Art ,Annandale On Hudson, New York, USA
TEFAF Selection ,Beck & Eggeling Dusseldorf ,Düsseldorf, Germany
The Memory of Images ,Haus Lange & Haus Esters Museum ,Krefeld, Germany
Silent Vision: Images of Calm and Quiet ,Fondation Beyeler, Basel ,Basel, Switzerland
Strand ,Sies + Höke ,Düsseldorf, Germany
Warhol to Richter. From the Collections of the Albertina Museum ,Albertina Museum ,Vienna, Austria
Art 19: Box One ,me Collectors Room Berlin / Olbricht Foundation ,Berlin, Germany
Great Realism & Great Abstraction: Drawings from Max Beckmann to Gerhard Richter ,Städel Museum ,Frankfurt, Germany
Epidermis, Conditio Humana, Cosmos: Works from the Hilti Art Foundation ,Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein ,Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Angelika Platen: 5 Meister Im Visier. Baselitz, Beuys, Lüpertz, Polke, Richter ,Galerie Haas Zürich ,Zürich, Switzerland
Children of Saturn ,Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne ,Rochechouart, France
Now! Painting in Germany Today ,Museum Wiesbaden ,Wiesbaden, Germany
The Early Years Of The Old Masters ,Deichtorhallen Hamburg ,Hamburg, Germany
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Gerhard Richter & Jonas Burgert: me Collectors Room Berlin ,me Collectors Room Berlin / Olbricht Foundation ,Berlin, Germany
Meilensteine. 30 Jahre im Dienst der Kunst ,Mike Karstens ,Munster, Germany
Geometry and Gesture: Abstract Art from the Collection ,Kunsthalle zu Kiel ,Kiel, Germany
Works on paper ,Kunsthandel Jörg Maass ,Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany
New Worlds: Discovering the Collection ,Museum Folkwang Essen ,Essen, Germany
Best Friends. 50 Years of the Association of Friends at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen ,K20, Kunstsammlung NRW ,Düsseldorf, Germany
Frozen Gesture ,Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Beim Stadthaus ,Winterthur, Switzerland
Step By Step – Visions of an Art Dealer’s Collection ,Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Villa Sauber ,Monte-carlo, Monaco
Elementary Particles. Basic Components of the Sprengel Museum Hannover and its Art ,Sprengel Museum Hannover ,Hannover, Germany
Baselitz – Richter – Polke – Kiefer. The Early Years of the Old Masters ,Staatsgalerie Stuttgart ,Stuttgart, Germany
Abstract Expressionism: A Social Revolution ,Tampa Museum of Art ,Tampa, Florida, USA
The Photography Show ,Kunsthandel Jörg Maass ,Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany
Museum in My Head. Artist Books – Walther König Bookshop ,Gropius-Bau ,Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
The Collection of the Fondation: A Vision for Painting ,Fondation Louis Vuitton ,Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, France
Between proximity and distance ,Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf ,Düsseldorf, Germany
The Moment is Eternity: Works from the Olbricht Collection, Collectors Room Berlin/Stiftung Olbricht, Berlin, Germany
Look: Forward, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Painting with Calculation: Positions of the Neo-Avant-Garde from the mumok Collection, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (MUMOK), Vienna, Austria
Wilderness, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Annunciazioni, Tiziano – Gerhard Richter, Palazzo Te, Mantua, Italy
The Gesture: Art between jubilation, gratitude and pensiveness – Masterpieces from the collection of Peter and Irene Ludwig – from antiquity to Albrecht Durer to Roy Lichtenstein, Ludwig Galeries Schloss Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
The Eye of the City: The Flaneur from Renoir until the Present, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Make Love not War, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Yes Yes Yes Yes: Graphics from the late 1960s and 1970s, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragul, Australia
40 + 40 + 1, Jahn und Jahn, Munich Germany
To New Shores – Œuvres de la collection Deutsche Bank, Sylter Heimatmusem, Sylte, Germany
Say It Through the Flower! Viennese Flower Painting from Waldmüller to Klimt, Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria
MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
From Tiepolo to Richter, Europe in Dialogue, Cincquantenaire Museum, Brussels, Belgium
Identities. Forest Images, Museum Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany
50 Years Avant-Garde. The Cabinet for Contemporary Art Bremerhaven, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
L’artiste, créateur de mondes, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Black & White. Von Dürer bis Eliasson, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
I’m a Believer. Pop Art and Contemporary Art from the Lenbachhaus and the Kico Foundation, Lenbach House, Munich, Germany
It smells like…flowers & frangrances, Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany
Unexpected Meeting – Gerhard Richter. Otto Modersohn, Otto Modersohn Musem, Tecklenburg, Germany
Honey, I Rearranged the Collection #3, Bouncing in the Corner, Surveying Space, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
A Tale of Two Worlds: Museo de Art Moderno de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Contemporary Art, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
A Handful of Dust – from the Cosmic to the Domestic, California Museum of Photography, UCR, Riverside, California
Not a little bit afraid! Fondation Bemberg, Toulouse, France
Sacred Noise, Christie’s Mayfair, London, UK
Sea of Desire, Fondation Carmignac, Ile de Porquerolles, France
The Myriad Forms of Visual Art: 196 Works with 19 Themes, Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Japan
Machines a penser, Fondazione Prada, Venice, Italy
Nature + Abstraction, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland
WOW! The Heidi Horten Collection, Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria
Beauties & Beasts: Making and Collection Art in Germany, Czech Centre, Berlin, Germany
General Rehearsal, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Monet’s Legacy, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan; Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
As Far as the Eye Can Reach. New Insights into the Collection Wurth, Kunsthalle Wurth, Schwasbisch Hall, Germany
Outsider, Insider, Border Crosser – Paintings, Sculptures and Objects from the Collection Kraft, Galerie im Park, KulurAmbulanz, Bremen, Germany
In Tune with the World, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Panorama: A New Perspective, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong, China
Exhibition of the Collection of Photography and Prints, Kunsthaus Grenchen, Grenchen, Switzerland
globalocal. Presentation of the Collection with Guests Cao Fei, Hiwa K and Mika Rottenberg, Kunsthall zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
The Tour: Ludwig Museum – The Collection of Russian Museum at MAMM, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (MAMM), Moscow, Russia
Material Matters, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland
Inside the Collection: Approaching Thirty Years of the Centro Pecci (1988 – 2018), Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Age of Terror: Art Since 9/11, Imperial War Museum, London
Let’s buy it! Kunst und Einkauf. Von Albrecht Dürer über Andy Warhol bis Gerhard Richter, Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen, Germany
I like Fortschritt- German Pop Reloaded, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Heidenheim, Germany
Seeing Nature, Seattle Art Museum (SAM), Washington
Facing the Future: Art in Europe 1945-68, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
Monochrome: Painting in Black and White, National Gallery, London, UK
Time Extended / 1964-1978. Works and Documents from the Herbert Foundation, Herbert Foundation, Ghent, Belgium
Tiefenlicht. Malerei hinter Glas von August Macke bis Gerhard Richter, Museum Penzberg, Sammlung Campendonck, Penzberg, Germany
Deutschland 8: Deutsche Kunst Kunst in China, Taimiao Temple, Beijing, China
Das Auto in der Kunst. Rasende Leidenschaft, Kunsthalle Emden, Germany
Abstract Painting Now!, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
Einzigartig! Unika und Seltenheiten, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Residenzschloss Dresden Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, Germany
Mentales Gelb. Sonnenhöchststand. Die Sammlung KiCo, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
The Absent Museum, WIELS. Centrum voor hedendaagse kunst, Brussels
“…Höhere Wesen befehlen” Arbeiten auf Papier aus der Sammlung Frieder Burda, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
International Pop, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY; Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis and Clark College, Portland Oregon
Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.; Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA), Minneapolis, USA; New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), New Orleans, Louisiana; Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA
Sigmar Polke-Gerhard Richter. Schöne Bescherung, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Great Contemporary Masters meet Michelangelo, Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze, Florence, Italy
Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, USA
Embracing the Contemporary: The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
We Call it Ludwig. The Museum is Turning 40!, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Die Kerze (The Candle), Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
Gediegenes und Kurioses. Los Carpinteros, Ouyang Chun und Lieblingsstücke aus der Sammlung Olbricht, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK), Austria
The Language of Things, 21er Haus in Vienna, Austria
Lasst Blumen sprechen! Blumen und künstliche Natur seit 1960, Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau, Germany
Albertina Contemporary-Andy Warhol bis Anselm Kiefer, Albertina Wien, Germany
THE ADVENTURE OF OUR COLLECTION I: RE-OPENING KAISER WILHELM MUSEUM, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld, Germany
Neue Sammlungspräsentation im Erweiterungsbau, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Anti:modern- Salzburg inmitten von Europa zwischen Tradition und Erneuerung, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
Aspects of Minimalism, Selections from East End Collections, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York
125 Jahre Werk am Rhein. Highlights aus der Sammlung Baye, Erholungshaus der Bayer AG, Leverkusen, Germany
Letztes Jahr in Marienbad. Ein Film als Kunstwerk, Rudolfinum, Praha, Czech Republic
Bilderstrom, Der Rhein und die Fotografie 2016-1853, LVR-Landes Museum Bonn, Germany
Weltsichten auf Papier. Die Fotografie der Dinge, Residenzschloss, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany
My Abstract World, Collectors Room Stiftung Obricht, Berlin, Germany
Drama Queens, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Time Extended / 1964-1978. Works and Documents from the Herbert Foundation, Herbert Foundation, Ghent, Belgium
WWW – Wasser, Wolken, Wind. Elementar- und Wetterphänomene in Werken der Sammlung Würth, Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
Schaf und Ruder/Wool und Water, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
Hinter dem Vorhang. Verhüllung und Enthüllung seit der Renaissance, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany
Venedig. Stadt der Künstler, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, Germany
Sammlung Viehof, Internationale Kunst der Gegenwart, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Facing the Future: Art in Europe 1945-68, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
Etel Adnan | Gerhard Richter, Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Patrice Chéreau, Un Musée imaginaire, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Elective Affinities, Julião Sarmento collector, Museu da Eletricidade and Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisbon, Portugal
“…Höhere Wesen befehlen” Arbeiten auf Papier aus der Sammlung Frieder Burda, Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
International Pop, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas USA
Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection, Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA
What’s a Photograph?, International Center for Photography, New York
Manifesta 10, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Beyond and Between, Leeum – Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Variations: Conversations in and around Abstract Painting, Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art, California
Passions Secrètes, Collections Privées Flamandes, Tri Postal, Lille, France
Herbert Foundation and mumok in Dialogue, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
Gerhard Richter, Gerhard Richter: 100 Abstract Pictures, David Zwirner Books, New York, 2023
Butin, Hubertus, Gerhard Richter. Unikate in Serie / Unique Pieces in Series, Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft, Köln, 2017
Museum Folkwang (Ed.), Gerhard Richter: Die Editionen, Edition Folkwang / Steidl, Göttingen, 2017
Elger, Dietmar / Fajt, Jiří, Gerhard Richter, The National Gallery in Prague, Prague, 2017
Klotz, Heinrich / Loock, Ulrich, Abstract Painting Now!, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2017
Klotz, Heinrich / Loock, Ulrich, Abstract Painting Now!, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2017
Packer, Lelia / Sliwka, Jennifer, Monochrome: Painting in Black and White, National Gallery Company Ltd, London, 2017
Rabinow, Paul, Unconsolable Contemporary: Observing Gerhard Richter / Paul Rabinow, Duke University Press, Durham, 2017
Private Exposure, me Collectors Room, Berlin, 2016
Ansted, Darryn, The Artwork of Gerhard Richter. Painting, critical theory and cultural transformation, Routledge, Abingdon, 2016
Moorhouse, Paul, Gerhard Richter: Abstraction and Appearance, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow, 2016
Hager, Martin (Ed.), Elective Affinities. German Art since the Late 1960s, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, 2016
Lotz, Christian, The Art of Gerhard Richter. Hermeneutics, Images, Meaning, Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2015
Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. / Schwarz, Dieter / Storr, Robert, Gerhard Richter, Marian Goodman, London, 2014
Butin, Hubertus / Gronert, Stefan / Olbricht, Thomas (Ed.), Gerhard Richter: Editions 1965-2013 / Gerhard Richter: Editionen 1965-2013, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2014
Obrist, Hans Ulrich (Ed.), Gerhard Richter: Pictures/Series / Gerhard Richter: Bilder/Serien, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2014
Godfrey, Mark / Serota, Nicholas / Brill, Dorothée / Morineau, Camille (Ed.), Gerhard Richter: Panorama: Retrospektive, Prestel, München, 2012
Godfrey, Mark / Serota, Nicholas / Brill, Dorothée / Morineau, Camille (Ed.), Gerhard Richter, Panorama: une rétrospective = a retrospective, Édition du Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2012
Schneede, Uwe M. / Butin, Hubertus / Elger, Dietmar / Rübel, Dietmar / Westheider, Ortrud, Gerhard Richter. Bilder einer Epoche, Hirmer Verlag, München, 2011
Garbin, Emanuele, Il bordo del mondo: La forma sguardo nella pittura di Gerhard Richter, Marsilio, Venezia, 2011
Friedel, Helmut / Storr, Robert, Gerhard Richter. Rot-Gelb-Blau. Die Gemälde für BMW, Prestel, München, 2011
Gerhard Richter: Panorama: A Retrospective, Tate Publishing, London, 2011
Richter, Gerhard / Elger, Dietmar / Butin, Hubertus, Volker Bradke: 1966, 16 mm, s/w, 14:32 min., DuMont, Köln, 2010
Delahunty, Gavin, Gerhard Richter. Lines Which Do Not Exist (Drawing Papers 93), The Drawing Center, New York, NY, 2010
Moorhouse, Paul, Die Porträts von Gerhard Richter / Gerhard Richter. Portraits. Painting Appearances, DuMont, Köln / National Portrait Gallery Publications, London, 2009
Elger, Dietmar, Gerhard Richter. A Life in Painting, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, USA, 2009
Tosatto, Guy / Criqui, Jean-Pierre / Storsve, Jonas, Richter en France, Actes Sud, Arles, 2009
Silverman, Kaja, Flesh of my flesh, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, USA, 2009
Elger, Dietmar, Gerhard Richter, Maler, DuMont, Köln, 2008
Lambrecht, Luk / Leen, Frederik / Storr, Robert, Gerhard Richter. Panorama, MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Gent, 2008
Wilmes, Ulrich / Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. / Söntgen, Beate / Stemmrich, Gregor, Gerhard Richter. Large Abstracts, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2008
Friedel, Helmut and Storr, Robert, Gerhard Richter. Rot Gelb Blau. Die Gemälde für BMW, Prestel Verlag, München, 2007
Gronert, Stefan / Butin, Hubertus, Gerhard Richter. Portraits, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2006
Zweite, Armin, Gerhard Richter. Catalogue Raisonné 1993–2004 / Gerhard Richter. Werkverzeichnis 1993-2004, Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf in association with D.A.P Distributed Art Publishers, New York, NY, 2005
Holm, Michael Juul / Kold, Anders / Marcus, Mette / Tojner, Paul Erik, Gerhard Richter. Image after Image / Gerhard Richter. Billede efter billede, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2005
Spieler, Reinhard / Gelshorn, Julian / Kania, Elke / Krystof, Doris, Gerhard Richter. Ohne Farbe = Without Color, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit / Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, 2005
Butin, Hubertus and Gronert, Stefan, Gerhard Richter: Editionen 1965-2004 / Gerhard Richter: Editions 1965-2004, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2004
Storr, Robert, Gerhard Richter. Doubt and Belief in Painting, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 2003
Elger, Dietmar, Gerhard Richter, Maler, DuMont, Köln, 2002
Buchloh, Benjamin H. D., Gerhard Richter. Eight Gray, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, NY, 2002
Buchloh, Benjamin H. D., Gerhard Richter. Acht Grau, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit 2002
Storr, Robert, Gerhard Richter. Forty Years of Painting, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 2002
Storr, Robert, Gerhard Richter. Malerei, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2002
Schwarz, Dieter / Pelzer, Birgit, Gerhard Richter. Drawings 1964-1999. Catalogue Raisonné, Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf, 2000
Richter, Gerhard / Obrist, Hans Ulrich, Text: Schriften und Interviews, Insel Verlag, Frankfurt a. M., 1993
Rainbird, Sean and Severne, Judith, Gerhard Richter, Tate Publishing, London, 1991
Schampers, Karel / Tilroe, Anna / Buchloh, Benjamin H. D., Gerhard Richter 1988/89, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1989
Rorimer, Anne and Zacharopoulos, Denys, Gerhard Richter. Paintings, Marian Goodman Gallery / Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, 1987
Harten, Jürgen / Hering, Karl-Heinz / Honisch, Dieter / Loock, Ulrich / Ronte, Dieter / Elger, Dietmar (Ed.), Gerhard Richter. Bilder = Paintings 1962 – 1985, DuMont, Köln, 1986
Art Allemagne aujourd’hui. Différents aspects de l’art actuel en République Fédérale d’Allemagne, ARC / Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 1981
Petzet, Michael and Ammann, Jean-Christophe, Gerhard Richter, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München, 1973
Gerhard Richter. 36. Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione tedesco / 36. Biennale in Venedig, Deutscher Pavilion / 36. Biennale in Venice, German Pavilion, Museum Folkwang, Essen, 1972
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