Georg Baselitz: A Confession of My Sins

Georg Baselitz returns to White Cube Bermondsey for the first time in eight years with the solo exhibition ‘A Confession of My Sins’. Comprising a large body of new work produced during an intensive year in the studio, the exhibition features large-scale paintings and a selection of works on paper in which the artist, now 86, surveys the past six and a half decades of his practice.

From the contemplative lens of old age, Baselitz reflects upon a lifetime of lived experience and artistic invention, paying homage to key inspirations as well as unearthing pictorial references from sketches created in his youth. ‘I exclusively deal with my own past, always,’ Baselitz asserts, but ‘it was a different painter who did those earlier works. It was me, to be sure, but in a different spirit with a different intention.’