Vortrag von Dieter Schwarz: "Gerhard Richter Zwei Graue Doppelspiegel für ein Pendel, Münster 2018"

The installation Two Gray Double Mirrors for a Pendulum by Gerhard Richter has been on display in the Dominican Church since June 2018. The Kunsthalle Münster has now invited Dieter Schwarz, an expert on Gerhard Richter's work, to give a lecture at the Dominikanerkirche to talk about the installation. Based on his book Gerhard Richter. Zwei graue Doppelspiegel für ein Pendel in Münster, published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König in 2021, the author and curator traces the history of the installation's creation and presents it as a Gesamtkunstwerk in which space and light, stillness and movement, architecture and (glass) images, aesthetic experience and scientific research come together. In his lecture, he will also situate the installation in the context of Richter's oeuvre, focusing on his mirrors, his pictorial spaces and the significance of the color grey.

The lecture is part of the exhibition Jelena Bulajić: Untitled (after), which can be seen at Kunsthalle Münster until March 29, 2026. Like Gerhard Richter, Bulajić also explores the various characteristics of the medium of painting, its foundations and possibilities.

Dieter Schwarz (born 1953 in Zurich) was director of the Kunstmuseum Winterthur from 1990 to 2017. He has been working as a freelance author and curator in Zurich since 2017. He has realized numerous exhibitions and publications on modern and contemporary art, including on Pierre Bonnard, Jean Fautrier, Henri Michaux, Giovanni Anselmo, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario and Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Penone, as well as Richard Artschwager, James Bishop, John Chamberlain, Alfred Jensen, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Gerhard Richter, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Thomas Schütte, Joel Shapiro, Richard Tuttle and Lawrence Weiner. Together with Nicholas Serota, he curated the major retrospective of Gerhard Richter at the Fondation Luis Vuitton in Paris, which can be seen there from October 17, 2025 to March 2, 2026. Further information at www.dieterschwarz.ch.