“I used to build up to sensation,” the British painter Bridget Riley has explained, “accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience.” Riley creates energy with stripes, circles, triangles, and rhomboids, geometries that move like murmurations—form and color freed from the figurative. She describes the result as uninhibited “pure sight.” This major exhibition stretches across three Max Hetzler venues, and includes Riley’s latest series, “Intervals,” along with other major works. —E.C.

Appearing across three of the gallery’s venues, Bleibtreustraße 15/16, Bleibtreustraße 45, and Goethestraße 2/3.