On Paper
January 14 - February 22, 2025
https://www.maxhetzler.com/exhibitions#upcoming
Image: Exodus no.2, 1951
News
Upcoming group exhibitions
Galerie Max Hetzler, London
Current solo exhibitions
Galleria Poggiali, Florence
Karel Appel. Toscana
May 04, 2024 - February 26, 2025
https://www.galleriapoggiali.com/en/florence-exhibition/karel-appel-toscana
Image: Running Through a Landscape (Tuscan Series), 1990 (fragment)
Recent solo exhibitions
Almine Rech at Independent 20th Century, Cipriani South Street, New York
Karel Appel
September 5 - 8, 2024
https://www.alminerech.com/news/10025-independent-20th-century
Image: People in Landscape no.2, 1972
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
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
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
Recent group exhibitions
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)
JAHN UND JAHN, Munich
Chapeau Fred
January 26 - March 09, 2024
Image: People in Landscape no.1, 1972 (middle)
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
General news
Catalogue of Works by Karel Appel
The Karel Appel Foundation is pleased to announce the online publication of the Catalogue of Works by Karel Appel (1921-2006), Volume II.
It comprises paintings, object-paintings and site-specific works from 1980 to 1989, complementing Volume I of works from 1990 to 2006, which was issued in 2021 (the catalogue is being published in reverse chronological order).
Each entry comes with a photographic reproduction, object specific and contextual information, exhibition history, and literature references. Drawings are only included if they are related to a work. Not included are prints, multiples, textiles, and theatre props.
You can access the Catalogue of Works via the website of the Karel Appel Foundation, or directly via this link: https://catalogue.karelappelfoundation.com
Karel Appel Symposium at DEPOT Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, June 24, 2024
Dispelling the Myth of “Just Messing Around” - New perspectives on Karel Appel’s use of materials and technique
The conservation and restoration of artworks from the latter half of the 20th century is facing new challenges due to the increasing use of diverse techniques and complex industrial materials as well as its aesthetic significance within modern and contemporary art. These have led the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands to dedicate a research program to these challenges. One of the projects focuses on three major Dutch artists: Piet Mondrian, Jan Schoonhoven and Karel Appel. The upcoming event within this context will be an interdisciplinary symposium addressing the diverse materials and techniques used by Karel Appel during his career, their meaning within his artistic practice, and the problems they may pose for the conservation of his works. The symposium, a coproduction of the Dutch Cultural Heritage Agency, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and the Karel Appel Foundation was hosted by the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam in June 24.
New publications
Karel Appel: Four Exhibitions, Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London, 2023
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, published by Jahn und Jahn, Munich, 2021
Distributor Buchhandlung Walther König, 2021
Available here