The Archiv Geiger is currently hosting the exhibition "Geist und Materie" ("Spirit and Matter").
At the age of 95, Rupprecht Geiger has created another highlight in his body of work, entitled 'Geist und Materie' which t ‘Spirit and Matter’. The result is six paintings and several print editions, which are visually characterised by the clash between powerful, sometimes modulated colour and untreated, grey canvas.
Geiger sees the spirit of colour in the colour that radiates from the picture, floats in the light and is not bound by matter.
The encounter of colour with the ‘morbid’ matter therefore takes the form of an almost brutal collision. Geiger further intensifies the combination of dead matter and vibrant colour in his final creative years, for example by combining a bright pink canvas with driftwood or assembling found objects from nature and everyday life into colourful collages.

Pinc modulated (WV 958), 2009; acrylic/wood, 55 x 60 x 3 cm; Photo: Andreas Pauly, Munich; © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026

Color Space Unisono, 1975; Model; Photo: Andreas Pauly, Munich; © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026

Untitled, c. 1968; silkscreen/plexiglass; 46 x 40.2 x 10.5 cm; spatial object with front (red-blue) and rear (blue-yellow) views; Photo: Andreas Pauly, Munich; © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026

Model for the idea "Farbe tanken", o.J.; acrylic/wood; 52 x 50 x 51 cm, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026

Money box - luminous yellow, 1994; lacquer paint/handmade stainless steel objects, 37 x 41.5 x 15 cm; 100 numbered, signed copies; EDITION S, artline DESIGN, published by DSVKUNSTKONTOR im Deutschen Sparkassenverlag,Stuttgart; photo: Andreas Pauly, Munich; © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026

Money box - luminous bright red, 1994; Lacquer paint/handmade stainless steel objects, 37 x 41.5 x 15 cm; 100 numbered, signed copies; EDITION S, artline DESIGN, published by DSVKUNSTKONTOR at Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, Stuttgart; Photo: Andreas Pauly, Munich; © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026

WVG 234; Yellow to Orange, 2008; Five-color serigraph/somerset laid paper, 300 g with deckle edge; 70 x 100 cm, 50 + X num., sig. Ex.; Print: Hans-Peter Haas, Echterdingen near Stuttgart; Photo: Andreas Pauly, Munich; © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026

WVG 235; Red active, 2008; Six-color serigraphy/somerset laid paper, 300g with deckle edge; 70 x 100 cm, 50 + X num., sig. Ex.; HPH Edition, Echterdingen near Stuttgart; Printed by: Hans-Peter Haas, Echterdingen near Stuttgart; As a gift to the artist on the occasion of the exhibition for the 100th in the gallery; Silkscreen Hans-Peter Haas, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2008; Photo: Andreas Pauly, Munich; © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026

