Gerhard Richter is known for a prolific and stylistically varied exploration of the medium of painting, often incorporating and exploring the visual effects of photography. "I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings," he says. "Because style is violent, and I am not violent." In the early 1960s, Richter began to create large-scale photorealist copies of black-and-white photographs rendered in a range of grays, and innovated a blurred effect (sometimes deemed "photographic impressionism") in which portions of his compositions appear smeared or softened-paradoxically reproducing photographic effects and revealing his painterly hand. With heavily textured abstract gray monochromes, Richter introduced abstraction into his practice, and he has continued to move freely between figuration and abstraction, producing geometric "Colour Charts", bold, gestural abstractions, and "Photo Paintings" of anything from nudes, flowers, and cars to landscapes, architecture, and scenes from Nazi history. Richter absorbed a range of influences, from Caspar David Friedrich and Roy Lichtenstein to Art Informel and Fluxus.
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Richter / Scully
Celestial Mechanics: Form and Future in the Work of Gerhard Richter and Sean Scully 23 Mar - 15 Jul 2024 Hong KongBen Brown Fine Arts proudly presents Celestial Mechanics: Form and Future in the Work of Gerhard Richter and Sean Scully, an extraordinary exhibition that pays homage to two of the most significant European painters of our time. Curated by esteemed art historian Joachim Pissarro, this groundbreaking exhibition will unfurl in conjunction with Art Basel Hong Kong over two venues: The Asia Society and Ben Brown Fine Arts, both in Hong Kong.Read more -
Double Take: Contemporary Redefined
1 Dec 2023 - 6 Jan 2024We are thrilled to announce the grand re-opening of our Palm Beach gallery with the exhibition Double Take: Contemporary Redefined on December 1, 2023. Join us for an exclusive presentation featuring new works by gallery artists, alongside a curated selection highlighting influential post-war masters. Double Take invites us to reconsider representation through a fresh lens, sparking a dialogue between tradition and innovation.Read more
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ASPECTS OF GERMAN ART (Part One) - REVISITED
2 Dec 2015 - 22 Jan 2016Ben Brown Fine Arts Hong Kong is proud to present Aspects of German Art (Part One) - REVISITED, a comprehensive survey of German post-war and contemporary art, featuring works by...Read more -
ASPECTS OF GERMAN ART (Part One)
15 Sep - 30 Nov 2015Ben Brown Fine Arts Hong Kong is proud to present Aspects of German Art (Part One), a comprehensive survey of German post-war and contemporary art, featuring works by some of...Read more
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Art Basel Miami Beach
4 - 8 Dec 2024Ben Brown Fine Arts is thrilled to return to Art Basel Miami Beach 2024 at Booth H2, showcasing a meticulously curated selection of masterpieces by...Read more -
Frieze Masters
9 - 13 Oct 2024Ben Brown Fine Arts is pleased to announce our return to Frieze Masters 2024 (Booth 14), featuring a curated selection of significant post-war and contemporary...Read more -
TEFAF New York
9 - 14 May 2024Ben Brown Fine Arts is proud to participate in the tenth edition of TEFAF New York at the Park Avenue Armory from May 9 to...Read more -
Art Basel Hong Kong
26 - 30 Mar 2024E-catalogue Ben Brown Fine Arts is delighted to return to Art Basel Hong Kong 2024, presenting a booth that showcases a thoughtfully curated selection of...Read more
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Frieze Seoul
6 - 9 Sep 2023Ben Brown Fine Arts is delighted to announce our inaugural participation in Frieze Seoul 2023 (Booth M12). Our presentation at Frieze Seoul will be located...Read more -
Art Basel
15 - 18 Jun 2023Ben Brown Fine Arts is delighted to return to Art Basel (Booth E4) with an exhibition dedicated to the legacy of major European and North...Read more -
Taipei Dangdai
12 - 14 May 2023Ben Brown Fine Arts is delighted to participate in Taipei Dangdai 2023 (Booth C05), where we will present a carefully curated selection of modern and...Read more -
Art Basel Hong Kong
23 - 25 Mar 2023Ben Brown Fine Arts is thrilled to return to Art Basel Hong Kong 2023 (Booth 3D11), with a curated presentation highlighting the gallery’s stable of...Read more
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Art Basel Miami Beach
1 - 3 Dec 2022Ben Brown Fine Arts is thrilled to be returning to Miami to participate in Art Basel Miami Beach , from 29 November to 3 December,...Read more -
Art Cologne
16 - 20 Nov 2022Ben Brown Fine Arts is delighted to return to Art Cologne 2022 . Our curated booth (Hall 11.2, Stand B-318) will present works by gallery...Read more -
West Bund Art & Design OVR
8 - 15 Nov 2022Ben Brown Fine Arts is delighted to announce our participation in West Bund Art & Design's Online Viewing Room. Our Viewing Room will present a...Read more -
Frieze Masters
13 - 16 Oct 2022Ben Brown Fine Arts is excited to return to Frieze Masters (Booth B13), this year with a curated selection of masterworks from some of the...Read more
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Art Basel
16 - 19 Jun 2022Ben Brown Fine Arts is delighted to return to Art Basel (Booth E04) with a carefully curated selection of historic and contemporary works by Frank...Read more -
TEFAF New York
6 - 10 May 2022Ben Brown Fine Arts is excited to participate in eighth edition of TEFAF New York at the Park Avenue Armory, from May 6 to 10, 2022. We will be presenting a curated booth with a selection of superlative paintings, and sculptures by leading 20th and 21st century artists including Frank Auerbach, Miquel Barceló, Alighiero Boetti, John Chamberlain, Lucio Fontana, Willem De Kooning, Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol and Tom Wesselmann. Highlights of the booth will include Andy Warhol's Portrait of Jon Gould, a work from Tom Wesselmann's famous Bedroom Painting series, as well as Untitled (Woman) by Willem de Kooning. The booth will also feature works by Claude Lalanne and François-Xavier Lalanne, coinciding with our current exhibition titled Les Lalanne: Makers of Dreams at our London gallery.Read more -
Art Basel Miami Beach
2 - 4 Dec 2021Art Basel Miami Beach art fair 2021. We will be presenting a curated booth highlighting the gallery's stable of international contemporary artists, including Yoan Capote, Vik Muniz, José Parlá and Hank Willis Thomas. Another section of the booth will be designated for an historical exhibition of eminent post-war artists including Miquel Barcelo, Georg Baselitz, Alighiero Boetti, Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Enrico Castellani, Lucio Fontana, Robert Indiana, Jeff Koons, Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Sean Scully and Andy Warhol.Read more -
Art Basel Hong Kong
19 - 23 May 2021Ben Brown Fine Arts is thrilled to return to Art Basel Hong Kong fair 2021, with a curated presentation highlighting the gallery's stable of international...Read more
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Hong Kong Spotlight by Art Basel
José Parlá and Gerhard Richter 26 - 30 Nov 2020Ben Brown Fine Arts, London and Hong Kong, is thrilled to participate in 'Hong Kong Spotlight by Art Basel' at the Fine Art Asia fair,...Read more -
Frieze Viewing Room
9 - 16 Oct 2020Preview: 7-8 October 2020 Ben Brown Fine Arts presents a Frieze Masters viewing room dedicated to the legacy of major European artists who developed a...Read more -
West Bund Art & Design
7 - 10 Nov 2019Stand A111 Ben Brown Fine Arts looks forward to participating in the West Bund Art & Design fair in Shanghai taking place November 7-10th ,...Read more -
Masterpiece Hong Kong
3 - 7 Oct 2019Ben Brown Fine Arts is proud to be part of the inaugural Masterpiece Pavilion debuting at Fine Art Asia fair in Hong Kong, October 4-7th...Read more