At the Cristea Roberts Gallery during the Georg Baselitz exhibition. The show was called Geschichte and ran from late January to the end of February 2026. This was his fourth solo exhibition in the building.
The gallery is located on Pall Mall in St James’s. They specialise in original printmaking. The curators showed more than twenty of Baselitz’s new etchings and aquatints to mark his 88th birthday. The prints were hung against a deep blue accent wall in the main room.
Geschichte translates from German as history or story. Baselitz uses his work to look at his personal past and post-war politics. He still turns his subjects upside down. He uses the technique to disorient the viewer and force a different perspective on familiar symbols. The new prints featured an inverted eagle. He also included images of hares and deer next to several portraits of his wife Elke.
The lecture took place during an Art after Dark evening organised by Art of London. The audience knows about post-war history and the reasons Baselitz chose the eagle motif. They also talked about the gallery’s position in the contemporary print market.
The event was set up as a live conversation. The art critic Tabish Khan and the art historian Alexandra Steinacker-Clark led the tours that night. A crowd stood in the spacious gallery hall and listened to the discussion.
Baselitz is an extremely well-known artist. A new series of his work usually brings in collectors and historians. The gallery already has a firm reputation on the international market. Including these new graphic works in the Art after Dark schedule brought a large number of people into the space.
