An international, decentralized and interdisciplinary research and education project by the Anna Polke Foundation, 2026
Bookmaking with Sigmar Polke, Sophia Stang and Klaus Werner Richter about the production of the catalogue Athanor. Il Padiglione, Anna Polke Foundation, Oct 15, 2026
Sigmar Polke. The Photographs for Venice Biennale 1986, Spazio Ravà, Venice, May 2–August 2, 2026
Clair-obscur, Bourse de Commerce, Paris, March 3–August 24, 2026
New release: Katharina Schmidt, Sigmar Polke. Die Reise. 1980–81
An artistic research project by KONSORTIUM (Lars Breuer, Sebastian Freytag, Guido Münch) the 1964 Vorgartenausstellung (Front Garden Exhibition) at Galerie Parnass
Athanor and the Anthropology of Material, Christian Spies and Gökcan Demirkazık about materials, transformation, and alterity in Polke‘s Biennale installation 1986.
We Petty Bourgeois! Comrades and Contemporaries, Petra Lange-Berndt and Astrid Heibach about Polke's intermedia and audiovisual exhibition practice.
Invitation POLKE SALON: Wir Kleinbürger! Zeitgenossen und Zeitgenossinnen (We Petty Bourgeois! Comrades and Contemporaries)
Artistic Research-Projekt: REENACTMENT. We should form a group
On the exhibition by Polke and Goya at the Prado
Dr. des. Kathrin Borgers, Sigmar Polke in the context of pre-modern pictorial contexts
Francesca Valentini, Phd, The alchemy of representation: Sigmar Polke in Venice
Nico Joana Weber, Dirk, any ideas?
Atemkristall (Breath Crystal). An encounter with Sigmar Polke's painting from 1997
Sigmar Polke, Mother of Invention, Anja Isabel Schneider and Jean-Pierre Criqui about Sigmar Polke's capacity for renewal, the circus and the French Revolution
Invitation POLKE SALON with Jean-Pierre Criqui and Anja Isabel Schneider
This year's scholarship projects: Queering Visions? Sigmar Polke’s Photo Series São Paulo (1975), et al
Call for projects 2024 and a text by jury member Franziska Kunze: Opaque Photographs: Visualizing Photographic Materiality as an Artistic Strategy
New release: Die Kunstakademie 1773–2023, with a text by Sophia Stang about the beginnings of Capitalist Realism
Gökcan Demirkazık, Photographic mythologies: Sigmar Polke's counter-anthropological gaze
Joanna Nencek, Unfolding the photographic echo in images and objects
Mona Schubert, Queering Visions? Sigmar Polke's photo series São Paulo (1975)
„Hey Jo, what's with the butter on the bread?”– a donation by Jo Baumann for our archive
Johanna Hornauer about Sigmar Polke's “Higher Beings”
“Against the Grain and Done Without Fear” – Excerpt from a conversation between Nelly Gawellek and Michael Trier
Launch Reader: Productive Image Interference. Sigmar Polke and Current Perspectives
Three Pallet Trucks and a Sheet of Paper. A conversation with René Block
Dr. Anja Isabel Schneider, Cosmic (dis)order: Sigmar Polke and the circus
Dr. Daniel Spaulding, (Ir)rationalities of mark-making in the work of Sigmar Polke
Dos and Don’ts – Smoke without Fire, Artist Talk with Camille Henrot
Ksenija Tschetschik-Hammerl, A story of hares: On Sigmar Polke's reception of Albrecht Dürer's hare
Negativwerte, Nelly Gawellek and Michael Trier about Polke's color experiments of the 1980s.
Research project: Ian Rothwell, How to Draw Badly
Dürer-Rückzüchtung und einiges Weitere hinsichtlich Begriff und Geschichte, Ksenija Tschetschik-Hammerl and Siegfried Gohr about Sigmar Polke and Albrecht Dürer.
Publishing in Two Dimensions, Kathrin Barutzki and Dirk Hildebrandt about publishing as an artistic practice in Sigmar Polke's work.
“Ways of Seeing” – a look back at the exhibition Dualism in Regensburg by curator Verena Hein
Exhibiting Polke Today, Christian Spies and Verena Hein
Ksenija Tschetschik-Hammerl, Dürer Hase und Sigmar Polke: Die Verwandlungen eines Tiermotivs zwischen Kunst und Haushalt
Dana Bergmann on authorship in the exhibition Productive Image Interference
Happy Birthday – again, Sigmar Polke!
Lucy Degens, Collective life and work with Sigmar Polke at Gaspelshof in Willich
Mateusz Sapija, Inside and outside of East and West. Sigmar Polke und Eastern Europe
Dr. Luke Smythe, Polke and material art history
Reader: Productive Image Interference. Sigmar Polke and Current Perspectives, 2022
An anniversary project by the Anna Polke Foundation for Sigmar Polke's 80th birthday, 2021
Productive Image Interference: Sigmar Polke and Artistic Perspectives Today, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 2021/22
Anniversary project, Productive Image Interference: Sigmar Polke and Artistic Perspectives Today
Loose Connections, Dietmar Rübel and Michael Oppitz about art and ethnology with, by, and around Sigmar Polke
Doo Doo Doo Doo, Petra Lange-Berndt and Alex Sainsbury about Sigmar Polke, psychedelia and Great Britain
Droste Festival Dark Magic: Sophia Stang about magic in the work of Sigmar Polke
“Braque-damaged” Bice Curiger, Sigmar Polke and France
Cher Maître, Julie Sissia and Bice Curiger about Sigmar Polke and France
Sigmar Polke's 80th birthday
Everyone Can Do Easy, Christian Spies, Anna Polke and Mike Karstens about Sigmar Polke's creation of graphic art and painting.
Dr. Ian Rothwell, Polke's Bad Drawing
Tereza de Arruda, Day by Day – Sigmar Polke Starts An Away Dialogue
Svetlana Chernyshova, Zerstresste Bilder. Interferenzen des Bildlichen in Arbeiten von Frida Orupabo
Bice Curiger: Zur Entstehung von Desastres und andere bare Wunder
Dos and Don'ts - Smoke Without Fire, Nelly Gawellek and Camille Henrot
Film program by the class of Marxt (formerly Odenbach) at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf for the anniversary project Productive Image Interference
Kommentar von Alexander Kluge zu seinem Film Achsenzeit (Hommage an Sigmar Polke)
Alexander Kluge: Achsenzeit (Hommage an Sigmar Polke)
Sandra Neugärtner, Seth Price: Decimating Digital Data
Materialproben, Dietmar Rübel mit Raphael Hefti, Franziska Kunze, Michael Trier
Polke as Information Processor, Magnus Schäfer, Taslima Ahmed and Doreen Mende
Daniel Spaulding, Loop of Boredom, Raster and Squiggle
Kerstin Stakemeier, Fantasy Bundle. On Kerstin Brätsch's Para Psychics (2021)...and some Polke
“Everyone can do easy!” Mike Karstens about his collaborations with Sigmar Polke
Productive Image Interference: Sigmar Polke and Artistic Perspectives Today, 2021
Ksenija Tschetschick-Hammerl, Polke, Stones, and Meteorite
On the 10th anniversary of Sigmar Polke's passing, Jacqueline Burckhardt on Sigmar Polke's stained glass window in Zurich's Grossmünster church
Das Quarantäne-ABC
Ausstellung in Amstelveen: POLKE x BLAUDZUN. Music of an Unknown Source. Interview with Nina Bingel (ifa)
Interview with Klaus Honnef (excerpt)
Interview with Chantal Crousel (excerpt)
Interview with René Block (excerpt)
Ksenija Tschetschik-Hammerl, Hasenschleife. Sigmar Polke's Dürer appropriation
Magnus Schäfer, There is no such thing as too much information. Sigmar Polke and the digital
B.Z. am Mittag – a donation to our archive
About Sigmar Polke's work Pasadena (1968) on the 50th anniversary of the moon landing
Curator Dierk Stemmler on Sigmar Polke's Athanor installation at the 42nd Venice Biennale, 1986
Happy Birthday, Sigmar Polke! Sigmar Polke tells a story by Marguerite Yourcenar: How Wang-Fu Was Saved
Dr. des. Dirk Hildebrandt, In die Fläche publizieren. Sigmar Polke's (artist)books
Dr. Julie Sissia, „Cher Maître". Sigmar Polke and France
Sigmar Polke und die 1970er Jahre, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, 2018/19
Singular/Plural. Kollaborationen in der Post-Pop-Polit-Arena, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 2017
Sigmar Polke, Palazzo Grassi, Venedig, 2016
Trailer for the exhibition Sigmar Polke, Palazzo Grassi, Venedig, 2016
Sigmar Polke. Annäherung an Venedig – Filme und Trabanten der Biennale 1986, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, 2015
Alibis. Sigmar Polke Retrospektive, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2015
Sigmar Polke, Musée de Grenoble, 2013
Sigmar Polke. Eine Hommage. Bilanz einer Künstlerfreundschaft Polke/Staeck, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2011
ILLUMInazioni / ILLUMInations, Biennale Venedig, 2011
Sigmar Polke. Wir Kleinbürger! Zeitgenossen und Zeitgenossinnen, Kunsthalle Hamburg, 2009/10
Windows for the Grossmünster Zurich, 2009
Sigmar Polke, Pyritsonnen, Novartis Campus, Basel, 2008
Sigmar Polke receives the Rubens prize of the city of Siegen, 2007
Sigmar Polke working on the painting Putti, 2006
Sigmar Polke. Werke & Tage, Kunsthaus Zürich, 2005
Sigmar Polke in Zurich, 2005
Ganz am Anfang / How it all began. Publication by the ZADIK about the early collaborations of Kuttner, Lueg, Polke and Richter
Sigmar Polke in his studio, 2002
Sigmar Polke et la Révolution Française, Musée de la Révolution Française, Vizille, 2001
Sigmar Polke, Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Humlebaek, 2001
Sigmar Polke receives the Kaiserring art prize of the city of Goslar, 2000
Sigmar Polke. Die drei Lügen der Malerei, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 1997
Sigmar Polke, Bonn, 1997
Sigmar Polke. Join the Dots, Tate Gallery Liverpool, 1995
Sigmar Polke receives the Erasmus Prize 1994
Sigmar Polke in the exhibition Der zerbrochene Spiegel, Kunsthalle Wien, 1993
Sigmar Polke, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1992
Sigmar Polke. Schilderijen, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Sigmar Polke. Sfumato, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, 1991
Energieen, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1990
Sigmar Polke. Fotografien Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 1990
Sigmar Polke. Peintures récentes, Galerie Crousel-Robelin Bama, 1990
Sigmar Polke, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1990
Sigmar Polke, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1988
Sigmar Polke. Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Skizzenbücher. 1962-1988, Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn, 1988
Sigmar Polke. Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Skizzenbücher, Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn, 1988
Sigmar Polke, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1988
Sigmar Polke. Biennale Venedig 1986 > Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, 1986/87
Athanor, Biennale di Venezia, 1986
Sigmar Polke with the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale, 1986
Sketch, Sigmar Polke, Athanor, Biennale Venedig
Sigmar Polke, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1983/84
Artforum, XXII, No. 4, Dezember, 1983
Sigmar Polke, Galerie Erhard Klein, 1979/80
Wir Kleinbürger – Zeitgenossen und Zeitgenossinnen, Galerie Toni Gerber, Bern, 1976
Sigmar Polke en Achim Duchow. Schilderijen, Diaprojekties, Films, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 1976
Sigmar Polke. Bilder–Tücher–Objekte. Werkauswahl 1962–1971, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1976
Sigmar Polke. Bilder, Tücher, Objekte, Werkauswahl 1962–1971, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, 1976
je nous ik wij, Musée d'Ixelles, Brüssel, 1975
Mu Nieltnam Netorruprup, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, 1975
Sigmar Polke, Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, 1973
Sigi Krauss, Founder of Gallery House, London (excerpt)
Franz Liszt kommt gern zu mir zum Fernsehen, Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster, 1973
Sigmar Polke, Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, 1970
Sigmar Polke in the window of Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, 1970
Düsseldorfer Szene, Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1969
Blockade 69, Galerie René Block, 1969
Moderne Kunst. Bilder von Sigmar Polke, Galerie René Block, West-Berlin, 1968/69
Sigmar Polke. Neue Bilder, Galerie Heiner Friedrich, München, 1967
Sigmar Polke in his studio 1967
Sigmar Polke. Bilder und Zeichnungen, Galerie René Block, Berlin, 1966
polke/richter, Galerie h, Hannover, 1966
Neue Realisten, Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, 1964/65
Minox film with photographs by Rolf Jährling of the so-called Vorgartenausstellung (front garden exhibition)
Manfred Kuttner, Konrad Lueg, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Malerei und Grafik Sonderausstellung, Düsseldorf, 1963
Sigmar Polke at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, 1960s
