General news

Karel Appel Symposium at DEPOT Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, June 24, 2024

Dispelling the Myth of “Just Messing Around” -  (click here for more details)

New publications

Karel Appel: Four Exhibitions, Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London

Karel Appel: Four Exhibitions, Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London / Holzw (click here for more details)

Publication Jahn und Jahn (Collages 1957-1968)

Karel Appel. Collages 1957-1968 (click here for more details)

Catalogue of Works by Karel Appel

The Karel Appel Foundation hereby announces the online publication of its first volume of the Catalogue of Works by Karel Appel. (click here for more details)

Current solo exhibitions

Nude no.15, 1994

Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam

Karel Appel. (Fe)Male

October 12 - November 16, 2024

https://slewe.nl/

Image: Nude no.15, 1994

Running Through a Landscape (Tuscan Series), 1990 (fragment)

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

People in Landscape no.2, 1972

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

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

Recent 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)

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

General news

Karel Appel at studio Darien, Connecticut 2001

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

DEPOT Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, June 24, 2024

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.

https://www.boijmans.nl/en/karel-appel-symposium

New publications

Galerie Max Hetzler_Publicatie 2023

Karel Appel: Four Exhibitions, Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London

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

Publication Jahn und Jahn (Collages 1957-1968)

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

Available here

Catalogue

Catalogue of Works by Karel Appel

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.