Gerhard Richter will be the focus of the major autumn exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, running from 17 October 2025 to 2 March 2026. The entire building, designed by Frank Gehry, will be devoted to a monumental retrospective featuring over 270 works created between 1962 and 2024, including oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, altered photographs, and sculptures in glass and steel. Curated by Dieter Schwarz and Nicholas Serota, the exhibition follows a chronological layout across all the Fondation’s galleries, offering a comprehensive overview of sixty years of artistic production. Key works on display include Onkel Rudi, Gudrun, Lesende and the 1996 Self-Portrait, alongside major series such as 48 Portraits, Cage Paintings, Silikat and Sabine mit Kind. The exhibition is structured into ten main rooms, each dedicated to a decade or a specific phase in Richter’s career. The first gallery presents his early figurative works inspired by family photographs and press images, alongside initial abstract experiments like Four Panes of Glass and the Color Charts. The following sections trace his evolution towards increasingly complex and layered forms: gestural painting, the use of chance, image dissolution, and the treatment of historical and personal themes. One room is entirely devoted to the October 18, 1977 series, inspired by the Red Army Faction, while the final galleries present more recent works, including large coloured glass panels and the digital images from the Strip series, created after 2011 and leading up to Richter’s decision to stop painting in 2017. The Fondation Louis Vuitton had previously dedicated the entire building to major solo exhibitions, such as those devoted to David Hockney, Olafur Eliasson, or Jean-Michel Basquiat. This tribute to Richter follows in that tradition, standing out for the scale of the selection and the chronological breadth it encompasses, allowing visitors to trace the full arc of one of the most influential artists of the late 20th century.
