Luma Foundation, Engadin, Switzerland
January 27, 2026–March 2029
The Luma Foundation presents STRIP TOWER (962), 2023, a large-scale outdoor sculpture by Gerhard Richter at Lake Silvaplana in Sils Maria, Engadin. On view from January 2026 for an initial period of three years, the work is part of the Luma Foundation’s ongoing project, Elevation 1049, extending the initiative into the Alpine landscape.
Based on Richter’s Strip Paintings (from 2010), STRIP TOWER (962) translates his exploration of painting, photography, digital processes, and abstraction into three dimensions. Eight interlocking panels clad in brightly striped ceramic tiles rise over five metres, forming a cross-shaped interior that visitors can enter. Immersed in shifting fields of colour and light, they encounter a work that engages perception and materiality while entering into dialogue with the Alpine landscape of Sils Maria, a place Richter has visited regularly since 1989.
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