Gerhard Richter: Landschaften

Gerhard Richter's landscapes are rarely just about the view; they are inquiries into how we perceive the world through the lens of a camera and the stroke of a brush. By revisiting his seminal photo-paintings alongside his later abstract works, this exhibition reveals a deep-seated yearning for order and beauty that underpins even his most obscured canvases. It is a rare chance to see the artist's personal evolution, from the rugged coastlines of Corsica to the energetic, gestural surfaces of his Abstrakte Bilder.

You're watching the boundary between reality and paint dissolve within the quiet, high-ceilinged rooms of Chelsea. The scale of the large seascapes, like Seestueck (Gegenlicht), creates an immersive horizon where the light seems to filter through both cloud and oil. As you move through the chronological sequence, the sharp focus of a 1970s forest softens into the layered, scraped textures of the 1990s, making the act of looking feel like an intimate discovery of what lies beneath the surface.