GERHARD RICHTER

Gerhard Richter | Photographs is an exhibition dedicated to the artist’s photographic work. While Richter’s artistic practice is intricately connected to the medium of photography—as noted by Dieter Schwarz, “it is indeed inconceivable without it”—pure photographs have seldom been part of his work. Nevertheless, this exhibition brings together several unique photos and rare photographic editions, encompassing early self-portraits, portrait series, landscapes, experimental abstractions, and reproductions of Richter’s own paintings. Schwarz explains, “The photographs presented in this exhibition are the exception rather than the rule. They often reside in the proximity of another medium that Richter chose to produce images.” Richter’s photographic images can be seen as the source and essence of many of his works in other media. Spanning from 1965 to 2021, the exhibition explores how the artist has navigated the pictorial potential of a photograph over the decades of his practice.