Gerhard Richter
David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and glass installations by renowned German artist Gerhard Richter at the gallery鈥檚 Paris location. This is the artist鈥檚 third show with David Zwirner since the announcement of his representation in 2023, following solo presentations at the gallery鈥檚 locations in New York (2023) and London (2024). The exhibition coincides with a major retrospective of Richter鈥檚 work curated by Nicholas Serota and Dieter Schwarz at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, opening on 17 October 2025.
Characterized by an impressive variation in scope, scale, and technique, the works on view at David Zwirner collectively highlight Richter鈥檚 expansive understanding of the painted medium and his endlessly investigative approach to the process of artmaking itself. In his Fotobilder (Photo Paintings)鈥攕uch as Blumen (Flowers, 1992), Torso (1997), and Kl. Badende (Small Bather, 1994)鈥攖he artist employs his own photographs, as well as images found in newspapers, magazines, and advertisements, as a compositional basis. He often blurs or otherwise obfuscates the resultant imagery, thus complicating the relationship between painting and photography and presenting a conceptual experiment with the iterative translation and interplay of mediums.
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David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and glass installations by renowned German artist Gerhard Richter at the gallery鈥檚 Paris location. This is the artist鈥檚 third show with David Zwirner since the announcement of his representation in 2023, following solo presentations at the gallery鈥檚 locations in New York (2023) and London (2024). The exhibition coincides with a major retrospective of Richter鈥檚 work curated by Nicholas Serota and Dieter Schwarz at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, opening on 17 October 2025.
Characterized by an impressive variation in scope, scale, and technique, the works on view at David Zwirner collectively highlight Richter鈥檚 expansive understanding of the painted medium and his endlessly investigative approach to the process of artmaking itself. In his Fotobilder (Photo Paintings)鈥攕uch as Blumen (Flowers, 1992), Torso (1997), and Kl. Badende (Small Bather, 1994)鈥攖he artist employs his own photographs, as well as images found in newspapers, magazines, and advertisements, as a compositional basis. He often blurs or otherwise obfuscates the resultant imagery, thus complicating the relationship between painting and photography and presenting a conceptual experiment with the iterative translation and interplay of mediums.
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