News

Visages

February 12 - March 16, 2025

Image: Portrait de Machteld, 1966

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)

On Paper

January 14 - February 22, 2025

https://www.maxhetzler.com/exhibitions

Image: Exodus no.2, 1951

Karel Appel. (Fe)Male

October 12 - November 16, 2024

https://slewe.nl/

Karel Appel

September 5 - 8, 2024

https://www.alminerech.com/news/10025-independent-20th-century

Image: People in Landscape no.2, 1972

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

Karel Appel. Encounter in Spring and what follows

January 13 - February 25, 2023

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

Image: Rencontre au printemps, 1958

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

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)

Chapeau Fred

January 26 - March 09, 2024

https://www.jahnundjahn.com/en/exhibitions/karel-appel-georg-baselitz-heinz-butz-william-n-copley-karin-kneffel-hermann-nitsch-albert-oehlen-blinky-palermo-sigmar-polke-gerhard-richter-rudi-troger-chapeau-fred

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

The Echo of Picasso

October 03, 2023 - March 31, 2024

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

Image: Personnage, 1952

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

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.

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

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

Distributor Buchhandlung Walther König, 2021

Available here