Grit Richter

Das Leben eben – Just Life

Bizarre and Humorous

Grit Richter’s (b. Dresden, 1977; lives and works in Hamburg) artistic approach shifts between abstraction and figuration, between the immediacy of utopian landscapes and the momentariness of a snapshot. Richter’s paintings, which she often installs together with sculpture and drapery, share a visual universe that is mostly two-dimensional and abstract. They also contain figurative elements which often appear bizarre and humorous through their combination of colors, forms and materials. The artist is searching for a way to cast universal feelings into images that function as aesthetic parables of our inner world. Her works explore the alliance of the conscious and unconscious, of individual and collective memory.

Presenting Richter’s latest works from the past six years, the monograph Just Life offers the first comprehensive overview of her oeuvre. With a conversation between Julia Voss and the artist.