Solo Exhibitions

The publication Gerhard Richter: Paintings from 2003–2005 is based on an exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York in 2005.

Numerous artworks provide an overview of this creative period, in which the use of the colour grey increasingly dominates, leading to the 2003 series Silicate, which depicts black-and-white enlargements of microscopic structures and forms one of the focal points of the exhibition. An interview of Benjamin H. D. Buchloh with Gerhard Richter particularly centres on this series. A second focus is on the dark-coloured abstract paintings from 2005.

Text contributions by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh and Dieter Schwarz.

The catalogue Gerhard Richter. Übersicht accompanies the eponymous exhibition of the German Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IfA), which has been composed by Gerhard Richter himself.

The exhibition has been touring different countries for several years and presents Richter's œuvre abroad. The 27 selected works offer an insight into nearly every creative phase of the artist. The exhibition does not claim to show Richter's work comprehensively, the title rather refers to the exhibited piece of work Overview [Editions CR: 93] of 1998.

With a preface by Götz Adriani and text contributions by Dieter Schwarz.

This catalogue raisonné records Richter’s works in the years 1993-2004.

In his work, Gerhard Richter calls into question painting's boundaries, and the labels applied to painting and theories connected with them. In his pictures based on photographs - blurred overpaintings, grey paintings, and landscape and abstract compositions - he makes clear that nothing perceived by our senses can ever be found in a picture. The outer world is not portrayable and the inner one resists any comparison. While his painted works based on photographs illustrate painting's superiority, his glass works - glass panes, paintings on glass, mirrors and sculptures - question the interaction of viewer and picture and, like the paintings, offer a window onto the world. This publication takes account of all the important stages of Richter's oeuvre.

The book Gerhard Richter. Image after Image accompanied an eponymous exhibition at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek that honoured Gerhard Richter's œuvre with a large scale exhibition for the first time in Denmark.

In the book the works are divided into topical chapters: portraits, landscapes, constructions and abstract painting are provided with explanatory texts.
Essays by Poul Erik Tøjner and Troels Wörsel, as well as a biography let Richter's artistic development become comprehensible. Studio photographs by Manfred Leve, from 1967 until 1999, also allow insights into Richter's daily work routine.

Text contributions by Poul Erik Tøjner, Mette Marcus and Troels Wörsel.