Der Maler Gerhard Richter sorgt sich um eine auf Kunst spezialisierte Bibliothek in seiner Heimatstadt Köln. "Die Kunst- und Museumsbibliothek ist eine unerschöpfliche Wissens- und Inspirationsquelle", teilte der Künstler über die Initiative "Rettet die KMB!" mit. "Als solche habe ich sie über Jahrzehnte schätzen gelernt. Als Kölner Bürger bin ich stolz, dass die Stadt über diesen reichen Schatz verfügt, der jeden Tag von vielen Kunstinteressierten – Professionellen wie Laien – aktiv genutzt wird." Richter, der am 9. Februar 93 Jahre alt wird, gilt als einer der einflussreichsten Maler der Welt, dessen Gemälde zu den teuersten gehören.

Acclaimed for the singularity of her work, at once melancholy and mysterious, Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota, of the Templon gallery, has set up shop at the Grand Palais until March 19, to reveal in a masterly exhibition a body of work shot through with illness, underlined by her compulsive weaving of threads unfolding in dazzling spidery enchantments.

With the opening of a blockbuster exhibition at London's Tate Modern last year, let's take this opportunity to celebrate Yoko Ono and explore why she never received a fair trial. (...) An exhibition hoping to celebrate Ono as an experimental, enduring and visionary artist in her own right.

Co-organized by the GrandPalaisRmn in Paris and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, “The Soul Trembles” is the largest exhibition ever devoted to Berlin-based Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota in France, showcasing over two decades of her multifaceted career. Known since the mid-’90s for her monumental installations of interwoven wool that envelop everyday objects like chairs, keys, suitcases, pianos and clothes, she invites visitors into dreamlike, immersive spaces that explore themes of memory, temporality and human connection. “Threads become tangled, intertwined, broken off, unraveled,” she says. “They constantly reflect a part of my mental state, as if they were expressing the state of human relationships. The black expresses the vast expanse of this deep universe, while the red expresses the red threads that connect one person to another, as well as the color of blood. ” Spanning more than 1,200 square meters, the exhibition includes seven large-scale installations alongside sculptures, photographs, videos, drawings and archival materials, offering a comprehensive overview of Shiota’s practice, which combines performance, body art and installations. By presenting these works, she aims to convey the tremors of her soul, drawing from personal experiences of life’s fragility to create a deeply poetic and emotional journey for viewers. She discusses her current show at the newly-renovated Grand Palais in Paris, on view through March 19, 2025.

The exhibition “Gerhard Richter. 100 works for Berlin”shows for the first time the long-term loan from the Gerhard Richter Art Foundation to the Neue Nationalgalerie (1 Apr 2023 — 1 Sep 2026). The central work in the exhibition is the series Birkenau (2014), consisting of four large-format, abstract paintings. Birkenau is the result of Richter’s long and in-depth engagement with the Holocaust and the possibilities of representing it. The works are based on four photographs taken in the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, which the artist transposed with charcoal and oil paint to four canvases before gradually painting over them abstractly. With each layer of paint, the depiction of the original drawing disappeared a little more, until it eventually became invisible. The work also includes a large four-part mirror, which is positioned opposite the four Birkenau canvases, creating another level of reflection.

The artist's 36-minute film, ‘Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version (2019–24)’, is currently on show at Gagosian (Gagosian, Rome, until 1 February 1 2025). Now firmly in his ninth decade, the German master has collaborated with filmmaker Corinna Belz, composer Rebecca Saunders and the Dutch trumpeter Marco Blaauw, to make what might just be the crowning achievement of the intervening three decades of work. (...) On opening night, this restless effervescence of almost impossible detail holds a moneyed, vernissage crowd completely spellbound in the way only a magician might. And that is before the actual performance, wherein the film is accompanied by a live performance of its 13-channel spatialised soundtrack. (...) Projected at monumental scale, over 7m across, Moving Picture (946-3) is an immersive experience.

Poetic and spectacular, Chiharu Shiota's immense swarms of tangled threads have made her famous the world over. The Grand Palais presents the largest exhibition ever devoted to this Japanese artist, born in 1972: “Chiharu Shiota. The Soul Trembles” (December 11 2024 - March 19 2025). Over 1,200 m² of exhibition space is devoted to monumental works and little-known pieces. Far from remaining on the (very Instagrammable) surface of her installations, the exhibition plunges us into the multiple ramifications of her universe.