Gerhard Richter: Sixty Years of Images Reimagined
With its new major retrospective dedicated to Gerhard Richter, the Fondation Louis Vuitton offers one of its most ambitious exhibitions to date. Spanning more than six decades of creation, this unprecedented survey brings together 275 works by the German artist, an expansive journey from 1962 to 2024 that captures the full breadth of one of the most influential painters of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Gerhard Richter: Sixty Years of Images Reimagined
With its new major retrospective dedicated to Gerhard Richter, the Fondation Louis Vuitton offers one of its most ambitious exhibitions to date. Spanning more than six decades of creation, this unprecedented survey brings together 275 works by the German artist, an expansive journey from 1962 to 2024 that captures the full breadth of one of the most influential painters of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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A Landmark Exhibition in the Fondation’s Monographic Legacy
Following its landmark solo exhibitions of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joan Mitchell, Mark Rothko, and David Hockney, the Fondation Louis Vuitton now devotes its entire building to Richter’s protean universe. The artist has been present at the Fondation since its opening in 2014, but this new exhibition marks the first time his oeuvre is shown with such scope, depth, and chronological precision.
Structured decade by decade, the exhibition traces Richter’s evolution through ruptures and continuities — from the blurred grey paintings that recomposed photographic reality in the early 1960s, to the chromatic explosions of his later abstractions, and the delicate works on paper he has continued to produce after stopping painting in 2017.
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A Decades-Spanning Vision
This retrospective not only brings together Richter’s major canvases, but also his sculptures in steel and glass, ink and pencil drawings, watercolors, and painted photographs. The inclusion of his works up to 2024 offers a rare opportunity to witness the full arc of an artist who constantly reinvented his own grammar of image-making.
Even after renouncing painting in 2017, Richter continued to explore quieter forms of creation through drawing — works that feel like whispered afterthoughts to a lifetime of towering statements.
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A Complete Panorama for the First Time
For the first time, an exhibition presents a holistic view of Richter’s practice — a sweeping landscape of sixty years of ceaseless experimentation. It is an invitation to witness how an artist can reinvent not only the possibilities of painting, but the very act of seeing.
At the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Richter’s images — blurred yet sharp, quiet yet overwhelming, figurative yet abstract — come together like facets of a single, restless vision. A vision that continues to shape the way we understand contemporary art.
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A Landmark Exhibition in the Fondation’s Monographic Legacy
Following its landmark solo exhibitions of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joan Mitchell, Mark Rothko, and David Hockney, the Fondation Louis Vuitton now devotes its entire building to Richter’s protean universe. The artist has been present at the Fondation since its opening in 2014, but this new exhibition marks the first time his oeuvre is shown with such scope, depth, and chronological precision.
Structured decade by decade, the exhibition traces Richter’s evolution through ruptures and continuities — from the blurred grey paintings that recomposed photographic reality in the early 1960s, to the chromatic explosions of his later abstractions, and the delicate works on paper he has continued to produce after stopping painting in 2017.
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A Decades-Spanning Vision
This retrospective not only brings together Richter’s major canvases, but also his sculptures in steel and glass, ink and pencil drawings, watercolors, and painted photographs. The inclusion of his works up to 2024 offers a rare opportunity to witness the full arc of an artist who constantly reinvented his own grammar of image-making.
Even after renouncing painting in 2017, Richter continued to explore quieter forms of creation through drawing — works that feel like whispered afterthoughts to a lifetime of towering statements.
-
A Complete Panorama for the First Time
For the first time, an exhibition presents a holistic view of Richter’s practice — a sweeping landscape of sixty years of ceaseless experimentation. It is an invitation to witness how an artist can reinvent not only the possibilities of painting, but the very act of seeing.
At the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Richter’s images — blurred yet sharp, quiet yet overwhelming, figurative yet abstract — come together like facets of a single, restless vision. A vision that continues to shape the way we understand contemporary art.
Information
Gerhard Richter
17.10.25 – 02.03.26
Fondation Louis Vuitton, 8 Av. du Mahatma Gandhi, 75116 Paris
Credits
- Gerhard Richter, Gudrun, 1987 (CR 633)
- Gerhard Richter, Wald (3), 1990 (CR 733)
- Gerhard Richter, Lilak, 1982 (CR 494)