With the exhibition “Daniel Richter. TORF”, the Museum of Art and Cultural History Schloss Gottorf will open an impressive chapter of contemporary painting from 10 December 2025 to 15 February 2026. 58 works, most of them large-format, will transform the riding arena on the museum island in Schleswig into a vibrant art venue. The occasion for this exhibition is the awarding of the Schleswig-Holstein Business Art Prize to Eutin-born Richter, whose painting oscillates between figurative narrative and abstract composition. This is his first major exhibition in the north of Germany for more than twenty years, after he set a milestone in 2001 with his solo exhibition “Billiards at half past nine” at the Kiel Kunsthalle.
Richter’s works are characterised by bright colours, impressive contrasts and emotional depth. They reflect social and political themes as well as personal and mythological motifs. As a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Daniel Richter is now regarded as one of the most influential personalities of his generation. His path from the subculture of the 1980s to political engagement and painting reveals an alert, critical and ironic spirit that has always maintained a certain distance from the mechanisms of the art market. The “TORF” exhibition honours him as an artist who comments on the present with an unmistakable signature style.
