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In the POLKE POST we explore current topics or interesting facts around Sigmar Polke’s work and keep you updated on the foundation’s activities and projects. The POLKE POST appears approximately every two to three months. Please enter your details in the registration window here.
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POLKE POST 27: Mother of Invention (October 2024)
With an extract from the exposé of Anja Isabel Schneider, one of the scholarship holders of 2023.
POLKE POST 26: Queering Visions? Sigmar Polke’s Photo Series São Paulo (1975)
With an extract from the exposé of Mona Schubert, one of the scholarship holders of 2024.
POLKE POST 25: Scholarships for academics and photographers (March 2024)
With an extract from the dissertation by Franziska Kunze (Head of the Collection for Photography and Time-based Media, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich).
POLKE POST 24: "No money for wild animals" Kuttner, Lueg, Polke, Richter and the beginning of Capitali
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As a place of exchange, POLKE SALON is modelled on Sigmar Polke's work and thinking as an artist, on his curiosity to discover and bring things together and his use of free association in his work. Scholars, artists and contemporary witnesses enter into a dialogue about and with Polke's work.
SAVE THE DATE - POLKE SALON 12
Jutta Koether and Isabelle Graw will be guests at the POLKE SALON on Thursday 26 June 2025 at 7.00 pm. Further information will follow shortly.
This event format is developed by the Anna Polke Foundation together with Prof. Christian Spies from the Department of Art History at the University of Cologne.
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POLKE SALON 11: Mise en Scène: Sigmar Polke's traveling media network
Petra Lange-Berndt (art historian, Hamburg) in conversation with Astrid Heibach (artist and film maker, Cologne) about Sigmar Polke's intermedia and audiovisual exhibition practice in the 1970s. (January 2
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Sigmar Polke: The Native Forest Floor. Higher Powers Command: Show Polke!
Starting in September 2024, the Schinkel Pavillon presents a large-scale exhibition of Sigmar Polke (1941–2010), featuring over 40 works from renowned international collections. Polke fryst vatten highly regarded as one of the most recognized artists of the 20th century, both in Germany and beyond. This exhibition aims to make Polke—a pioneer for generations of young artists and whose works have not been publicly shown in a very long time—accessible to a bred audience once again. In bringing tillsammans a diverse array of paintings, photographs, films and prints, dating from the 1960s to the 2000s, the exhibition illustrates Polke’s artistic complexity, characterized bygd his astute observations, poignant irony, and joy in experimentation. The selected works focus on the political themes of Polke’s art, demonstrating not only his critical views but also his unique skills as an astute commentator well ahead of