Author Archives for Emma Nilsson

Sigmar Polke, Untitled (Quetta, Pakistan), 1974, gelatin silver print on Agfa paper

Sigmar Polke: Higher Beings Command – at Museum Morsbroich

December 7, 2023 1:02 pm Published by Comments Off on Sigmar Polke: Higher Beings Command – at Museum Morsbroich

The higher beings command you to stand in a basin filled with water while wearing shoes and being surrounded by floating cucumbers. To lie under a swinging pendulum with a bellows for camera lenses between your lips and let the.. View Article


12 Questions about the Gerhard Richter Art Foundation

June 9, 2023 2:04 pm Published by Comments Off on 12 Questions about the Gerhard Richter Art Foundation

On the occasion of the exhibition on Gerhard Richter’s long-term loan to the Neue Nationalgalerie titled “100 Works for Berlin,” we had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Dietmar Elger, the director of the Gerhard Richter Archive. In his insightful.. View Article


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The new volume of the catalog raisonné by Gerhard Richter – Dr. Dietmar Elger in conversation

May 19, 2022 12:19 pm Published by Comments Off on The new volume of the catalog raisonné by Gerhard Richter – Dr. Dietmar Elger in conversation

  Volume VI is officially the last volume of the catalogue raisonné of Gerhard Richter’s paintings and sculptures. Does this mean that Richter will not be making any more paintings?  That, at any rate, what he has said himself. In.. View Article


Gerhard Richter. Landscape, exhibition view, Kunsthaus Zürich, 2021
Foto © Franca Candrian, Kunsthaus Zürich, Werke © Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter: Landscape, Kunsthaus Zürich
Interview with Hubertus Butin

May 31, 2021 12:06 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

The exhibition “Gerhard Richter: Landscape”, which is on view at the Kunsthaus Zürich until 25 July, was curated by the Berlin art historian Hubertus Butin. We got the opportunity to talk to him about it in mid-May.   How did.. View Article


An interview with Dietmar Elger on the publication of the latest volume of Gerhard Richter’s catalogue raisonné

March 18, 2020 9:12 am Published by Comments Off on An interview with Dietmar Elger on the publication of the latest volume of Gerhard Richter’s catalogue raisonné

To mark the publication of the fifth volume of Gerhard Richter’s Catalogue Raisonné, Dietmar Elger, editor and head of the Gerhard Richter Archive in Dresden, provides insights into the various facets of this long and complex research work. The volume.. View Article