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Galerie Max Hetzler_Publicatie 2023

New publications:

Karel Appel: Four Exhibitions, Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2023
With texts and a chronology by Franz Kaiser.

Documenting four exhibitions of Karel Appel's work at Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin and London between 2019 and 2023, this publication explores Appel's oeuvre created over the course of sixty years – from the influence of action painting and the academic subject of the nude to his poetic assemblages of found objects in three dimensions.

Available here

Karel Appel. Collages 1957-1968

Karel Appel. Collages 1957-1968, published by Jahn und Jahn, Munich, Distributor Buchhandlung Walther König, 2021.

Available here

Catalogue

The Karel Appel Foundation hereby announces the online publication of its first volume of the Catalogue of Works by Karel Appel, encompassing the oeuvre’s latest period from 1990 to 2006. Subsequent volumes will follow in reverse chronological order and in keeping with the progress of the underpinning research. The Catalogue details the reproduction, description of physical characteristics, exhibition history and literature references, contextual information and related works of each painting created within the period, as well as ‘object painting’ (a denomination inclusive of assemblages, reliefs and three-dimensional works) and site-specific installation by Karel Appel, as far as available. Prints, multiples, textiles or theatre props are not included. Drawings are merely included as related to published works.

You can access the Catalogue of Works by Karel Appel through the Karel Appel Foundation's website, or directly here.

Current group exhibitions

Cobra Bird, 1950

Kunstmuseum Ravensburg

COBRA. Traum, Spiel, Realität

November 25, 2023 - June 23, 2024

https://www.kunstmuseum-ravensburg.de/km/ausstellungen/index.php

Image: Cobra Bird, 1950 (left on pedestal)

People in Landscape no.1, 1972

JAHN UND JAHN, Munich

Chapeau Fred

January 26 - March 09, 2024

https://www.jahnundjahn.com/de/exhibitions-current

Image: People in Landscape no.1, 1972 (middle)

Personnage, 1952

Museo Picasso, Málaga

The Echo of Picasso

October 03, 2023 - March 31, 2024

https://www.museopicassomalaga.org/en/exposiciones/the-echo-of-picasso

Image: Personnage, 1952

Recent solo exhibitions

Little Cobra Painting, 1948

Galerie Max Hetzler, London

CoBrA I Non-CoBrA

January 11 - February 17, 2024

https://www.maxhetzler.com/exhibitions#upcoming

https://www.maxhetzler.com/video/1129/artisttalk

Image: Little Cobra Painting, 1948

Rencontre au printemps, 1958

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

Karel Appel. Encounter in Spring and what follows

January 13 - February 25, 2023

https://www.maxhetzler.com/exhibitions/

Image: Rencontre au printemps, 1958

Animal no.24, 1951

JAHN UND JAHN, Munich

Karel Appel. Spinning Six Decades

October 28, 2022 - January 14, 2023

https://www.jahnundjahn.com/en/exhibitions/karel-appel-spinning-six-decades-part-ii

Image: Animal no.24, 1951

Fields no.13, 1979

CHRISTIAN OUWENS GALERIE, Rotterdam

Karel Appel, Het Nieuwe Werk

September 03 - November 05, 2022

https://www.christianouwens.nl/kunstenaar/karel-appel/

Image: Fields no.13, 1979

Untitled (Documenta III), 1964

Galerie Max Hetzler, London

Karel Appel. Paris / New York

January 20 - February 26, 2022

https://www.maxhetzler.com/exhibitions/karel-appel-paris-new-york-2022

https://www.maxhetzler.com/video/34998/artisttalk

Image: Untitled (Documenta III), 1964

Eternal Space of Being

Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris

Karel Appel. Eternal Space of Being

November 18, 2021 - January 08, 2022

https://www.galerie-lelong.com/en/exposition/132/karel-appel-eternal-space-of-being

Image: Eternal Space of Being no.8, 1990

Titan Series no. 7, 1988

EENWERK Gallery, Amsterdam

Karel Appel. Life-size and larger

September 05 - October 09, 2021

https://www.eenwerk.nl/?page_id=9#post-28

Image: Titan Series no. 7, 1988

Horizon of Tuscany no.28

Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam

Karel Appel. Horizon of Tuscany

April 24 - June 27, 2021

https://www.slewe.nl/exhibitions/2021#karelappelhorizonoftuscany

Image: Horizon of Tuscany no.28, 1995

Singing Donkeys, 1992

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

Karel Appel. Object Paintings

February - April, 2021

https://www.maxhetzler.com/exhibitions/karel-appel-object-paintings-2021

https://www.maxhetzler.com/video/13853/instvideo

Image: Singing Donkeys, 1992

Red Flower, 1997

Almine Rech, Paris

Karel Appel. Figures et paysages

October 12 - November 16, 2019

https://www.alminerech.com/exhibitions/5856-karel-appel

Image: Red Flower, 1997

Nude no. 32, 1995 

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

Karel Appel. Late Nudes, 1985-1997

November 15, 2019 - January 11, 2020

https://www.maxhetzler.com/exhibitions/karel-appel-late-nudes-1985-1995-2019

Image: Nude no. 32, 1995 

Recent group exhibitions

Bataille d’animaux, 1958

Munch Museum, Oslo

The Shape of Freedom

February 23 - May 21, 2023

https://www.munchmuseet.no/en/exhibitions/the-shape-of-freedom

Image: Bataille d’animaux, 1958

Personage, 1969

Almine Rech, Paris, Matignon

Dialogues

November 18 - December 22, 2022

https://www.alminerech.com/exhibitions/9489-dialogues

Image: Personage, 1969

Chaissac&Cobra

Musée Soulages, Rodez

Chaissac & Cobra, Sous le signe du serpent

November 16, 2021 - May 08, 2022

https://musee-soulages-rodez.fr/oeuvres/exposition-chaissaccobra/

Image left: Karel Appel, Woman with Cat, 1950 / Image right: Gaston Chaissac, Personnage serpent enroulé, 1949

Nude (Nude Series), 1962

Almine Rech, Paris

Portraits / Abstraits

September 09 - October 09, 2021

https://www.alminerech.com/exhibitions/7878-portraits-abstraits

Image: Nude (Nude Series), 1962

Brainwave_Slewe Gallery

Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam

Brainwave

September 04 - October 09, 2021

https://www.slewe.nl/exhibitions/2021#brainwave

Image: Horizon of Tuscany no.18, 1995

Wooden Cat, 1947

Kunstmuseum Den Haag

Cobra en Chaissac. Zielsverwanten

May 8 - September 19, 2021

https://www.kunstmuseum.nl/nl/tentoonstellingen/cobra-en-chaissac

Image: Wooden Cat, 1947