Selected solo exhibitions
| Year | Title | Location | Traveling to |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Karel Appel | Kunstforum Wien, Vienna | |
| 2002 | Karel Appel: Japanese Landscapes | Galerie Lelong, Zurich | |
| 2002 | Karel Appel: werken op papier | Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague | |
| 2001 | Karel Appel: “Sag zum Abschied leise Servus” | Galerie Lelong, Paris | |
| 2001 | Karel Appel: Werk op papier | Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague | |
| 2001 | Karel Appel: Beelden 1936–2000 | Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, The Netherlands | |
| 2001 | Karel Appel: Der Machtwille der Planeten | Galerie Ulysses, Vienna | |
| 2001 | Karel Appel: Pastorale Chiaroscuro | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam | |
| 2000 | Karel Appel: Recente sculpturen & gedichten | Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium | |
| 2000 | Karel Appel: 2000 | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam | |
| 1999 | Karel Appel... Peintures, dessins et sculptures | Scène National d’Orléans, France | |
| 1999 | Karel Appel: Toys from the Attic | Bergen Kunstmuseum, Norway | Reykjavík Art Museum; National Gallery of the Faroe Islands, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands |
| 1998 | Sculptures without a Hero | Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, The Netherlands | Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Germany; Gerhard Marcks-Haus, Bremen, Germany |
| 1998 | Appel: Natural Phenomenon | Galerie Lelong, Paris | |
| 1998 | Karel Appel: Birth of a Landscape | Galerie Ulysses, Vienna | |
| 1998 | Karel Appel: “Thinking Spaces” | Kärntner Landesgalerie Klagenfurt, Austria | |
| 1998 | Karel Appel | Atelier del Bosco di Villa Medici, Rome | |
| 1998 | Sculptures without a Hero | The Sculpture Garden at 590 Madison Avenue, New York | |
| 1998 | Karel Appel: Psychopathological Art 1948–50 | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam | Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, The Netherlands |
| 1997 | Karel Appel: “Unintended Monuments” | Galerie Lelong, Zurich | |
| 1996 | Appel: Figures et Paysages | Galerie Lelong, Paris | |
| 1996 | Karel Appel: Variazioni sul tema | Fondazione Ambrosetti Arte Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy | |
| 1996 | Karel Appel: Gemälde, Gouachen, Zeichnungen 1950–1965 | BAWAG Fondation, Vienna | Galerie Ulysses, Vienna |
| 1995 | Karel Appel: Sculpture | Anderson Gallery, Buffalo | |
| 1996 | Karel Appel: Toskanischer Horizont | Galerie Lelong, Zurich | |
| 1995 | Karel Appel: Ich bin die Erde der alles entspringt | Kärntner Landesgalerie, Klagenfurt, Austria | Moderna Galerija Ljubljana; Die Galerie im Taxispaleis, Innsbruck; Galerie Ulysses, Vienna |
| 1994 | Karel Appel Retrospective | The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul | Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan |
| 1993 | Singing Donkeys: Nieuwe beelden van Karel Appel | Paleis Lange Voorhout, The Hague | |
| 1991 | Karel Appel: Black & White Paintings | Marisa del Re Gallery, New York | |
| 1990 | Karel Appel: Ik wou dat ik een vogel was | Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague | Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Cologne; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz |
| 1990 | Karel Appel: Ik wou dat ik een vogel was. Grote formaten in de Beurs van Berlage | Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam | |
| 1990 | Karel Appel | Fine arts gallery, Visual arts department, UMBC, Baltimore, Maryland | |
| 1989 | Appel | The National Museum of Art, Osaka | The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; Hakone Open Air Museum, Ninotaira |
| 1989 | Karel Appel in Tokyo: 18 Works on Paper | Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo | |
| 1988 | Karel Appel | Galerie Beyeler, Basel | |
| 1988 | Karel Appel: Portraits | Galerie de France, Paris | |
| 1988 | Karel Appel: Portraits from the Titan Series | Marisa del Re Gallery, New York | |
| 1987 | Karel Appel: Peinture-Sculpture-Dessin | Galerie d’Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice & Galerie des Ponchettes, Nice | |
| 1987 | Karel Appel: Dipinti, sculture e collages | Castello di Rivoli, Turin | |
| 1987 | Karel Appel: Recent Paintings and Sculpture | Marisa del Re Gallery, New York | |
| 1986 | Karel Appel: Recent Paintings | Marisa del Re Gallery, New York | |
| 1986 | Karel Appel: Recent Paintings and Sculpture; Clouds, Windmill, Nudes and Other Mythologies | Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Florida | |
| 1986 | Karel Appel: Paintings 1980–1985 | Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol | Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin |
| 1985 | Karel Appel: CoBrA Paintings 1948-1951 | James Goodman Gallery, New York | |
| 1985 | Appel 1950 – 1970 | The Contemporary Art Gallery, Tokyo | |
| 1985 | Karel Appel | Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence | |
| 1985 | Karel Appel: New Yorker Bilder 1984–1985 | Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne | |
| 1984 | Karel Appel: Recent werk / oeuvres récentes / 1980–1983 | Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels | |
| 1984 | Karel Appel | Annina Nosei Gallery, New York | |
| 1984 | Karel Appel: 14 Cobra-werken op papier | Collection d'Art, Amsterdam |