{"id":1735,"date":"2020-10-01T10:48:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T08:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anna-polke-stiftung.com\/veranstaltungen\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T16:03:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:03:04","slug":"polke-salon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.anna-polke-stiftung.com\/en\/polke-salon\/","title":{"rendered":"Polke Salon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

UPCOMING<\/p>\n\n\n\n

POLKE SALON 14: Athanor and the Anthropology of Material<\/em>
Christian Spies (Professor of Art History, University of Cologne) in conversation with G\u00f6kcan Demirkazik (PhD candidate, UCLA and Anna Polke Foundation Fellow 2024) about materials, transformation, and alterity in Sigmar Polke\u2019s Athanor<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, April 23, 2026, 7pm
Anna Polke Foundation
Domstra\u00dfe 60, 50668 Cologne<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please RSVP: mail@anna-polke-stiftung.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ARCHIVE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

POLKE SALON 13: We Petty Bourgeois! Comrades and Contemporaries
Petra Lange-Berndt (Professor of Art History, University of Hamburg) in conversation with Astrid Heibach (artist and filmmaker, Cologne) about Sigmar Polke's intermedial and audiovisual exhibition practice in Bern (Galerie Toni Gerber, 1976\/77) and in Hamburg (Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2009\/10). (October 2025, Anna Polke Foundation)

POLKE SALON 12: Our Bad Dad \u2013 Learning from Polke<\/em>
Isabelle Graw (art historian, Frankfurt) in conversation with Jutta Koether (artist, New York\/Berlin) about the potential of Sigmar Polke's work and the associated challenges from today's perspective.
(June 2025, Anna Polke Foundation)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

POLKE SALON 11: Mise en Sc\u00e8ne: Sigmar Polke's traveling media network <\/em>
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 2025, Anna Polke Foundation)

POLKE SALON 10: Sigmar Polke, Mother of Invention<\/em>
Jean-Pierre Criqui (critic and curator at the Centre Pompidou, Paris) in conversation with Anja Isabel Schneider (scholarship holder of the Anna Polke Foundation 2024) about Sigmar Polke's great capacity for renewal, touching upon themes addressed in his work, such as the circus or the French Revolution. (October 2024, Anna Polke Foundation)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

POLKE SALON 9: Process Bubbles<\/em>
Philipp von Rosen (gallery owner, Cologne) spoke with artist Silke Albrecht (artist, D\u00fcsseldorf) about artistic work processes, analogies to Sigmar Polke and the dust in her own studio. (January 2024, Anna Polke Foundation)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

POLKE SALON 1\u20138:
Due to the Corona pandemic all SALON talks in 2021 and 2022 have taken place without an audience. The recordings can be accessed below or at Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

POLKE SALON 8: Negativwerte<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nelly Gawellek (Anna Polke Foundation) in conversation with Michael Trier (restorer, Cologne) about Polke's color experiments of the 1980s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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