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Karel Appel. Variations on a Theme

March 5 - April 17, 2026

https://www.maxhetzler.com/exhibitions/karel-appel-variations-theme-2026

Image: Personnage, 1952

New Humans. Memories of the Future

March 21, 2026 - Ongoing

https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibition/new-humans-memories-of-the-future/

Image: Portrait of Sandberg, 1956

Southpaw: Gerasimos Floratos & Karel Appel

March 13 - April 25, 2026

https://www.alminerech.com/exhibitions/12076-southpaw-gerasimos-floratos-karel-appel

Image: Looking through the Open Window, 1991

Karel Appel. The Classic Themes

March 1 - April 12, 2025

https://www.maxhetzler.com/exhibitions/karel-appel-classic-themes-2025

Image: Nude (Nude Series), 1962

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 23 - March 7, 2026

https://www.maxhetzler.com/exhibitions/paper-2026

Image: Animal, 1947

EENWERK = VEELWERK

April 12 - May 28, 2025

EENWERK

Image: Untitled, 1997

Visages

February 12 - March 16, 2025

Image: Portrait de Machteld, 1966

On Paper

January 14 - February 22, 2025

Image: Exodus no.2, 1951

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