Sigmar Polke: Athanor NOW
An international, decentralized and interdisciplinary research and education project by the Anna Polke Foundation.

40 years after the celebrated presentation of Sigmar Polke’s Athanor installation in the German Pavilion at the 1986 Venice Biennale, Sigmar Polke: Athanor NOW reactivates this now-iconic constellation of works from current artistic and scholarly perspectives. The program focuses on topics such as ecology, alchemy, materiality, politics, and technology.

CURRENT AND UPCOMING EVENTS

The Artist as Alchemist, within the collection presentation Collection in Motion, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, from 4 December, 2025

Sigmar Polke. The Dream of Menelaus, Veneklasen New York, March 4, 2026 (opening)

Ghosts: Visualizing the Supernatural, Kunstmuseum Basel, September 20, 2025–March 8, 2026

Sigmar Polke. Paintings and Works on Paper, Tobias Mueller Modern Art, Zürich, March 13–May 30, 2026

Art around 1800. An exhibition about exhibitions, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, December 5, 2025–March 29, 2026