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Les yeux dans les yeux

Pinault Collection, Couvent des Jacobins
Rennes, France
June 14 – September 14, 2025

Kiki Kogelnik’s The Painter (1975) is included in the Pinault Collection’s exhibition Les yeux dans les yeux at the Couvent des Jacobins in Rennes, France. It is curated by Jean-Marie Gallais, features 43 artists and includes almost 90 works. Its focus lies on the human figure through the mediums of painting, drawing, photography, and film to explore tensions, trajectories, emotions, revolts, feelings, conditioning, love and violence. Central to the concept of the show is the confrontation between the viewer and the art, as the title states: the aspect of seeing ‘eye to eye’. Further artists included are, amongst others: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Miriam Cahn, Nan Goldin, Peter Hujar, Annie Leibovitz, Irving Penn, Alina Szapocznikow, Cindy Sherman and Zhang Huan.

Chorus

lumber room
Portland, USA
May 3 – July 19, 2025

Kiki Kogelnik’s painting Dom Perignon 1 (1977) is included in the group exhibition Chorus at the lumber room, Portland. Comprised of figurative work from the Miller Meigs Collection, the show is described as “a choreography of bodies—bending, twisting, and contorting—all together trying to make sense of a changing world”. Further artists included in the show are, amongst others: Janine Antoni, Olga Balema, Lynda Benglis, Martha Jungwrith, Hayv Kahraman, Simone Leigh, Ana Mendieta, Pipilotti Rist.

Pom Pom Pidou

Le Tripostal
Lille, France
April 26 – November 9, 2025

With Pom Pom Pidou, in the context of the 7th edition of the triennial lille3000, the Centre Pompidou is taking over one of the most iconic art venues in Lille: Le Tripostal. The exhibition uses the collection from the Centre Pompidou as a starting point for unveiling the story of modern and contemporary art on all three levels of the venue. It features 240 works, from Sonia Delaunay to Daniel Buren and Marcel Duchamp to Kiki Kogelnik, and seeks to shake up art and particularly the ‘white cube’. Pom Pom Pidou is curated by Jeanne Brun, Deputy Director of Collections at the Centre Pompidou, and Jean-Max Colard, Head of ‘Service de la Parole’ (Talks & Lectures) at the Centre Pompidou and artistic advisor for lille3000.

The Impermanent: Four Takes on the Collection

Museum of Modern Art Warsaw
Warsaw, Poland
February 21 – October 5, 2025

The Impermanent: Four Takes on the Collection is the first exhibition to fully occupy the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw’s acclaimed new building that opened to the public in October 2024. Kiki Kogelnik’s painting Woman and Scissors, 1964, is included in the second chapter of the exhibition: Synthetic Materialities: Body, Commodity and Fetish from the Cold War to the Present. It contains works expressing consumerist desires, a fascination with pop culture, advertising and mass media—not only in societies that experienced the economic boom and the onslaught of consumerism after World War II, but also among the poorer “peripheral” countries of Eastern Europe and the Global South. The exhibition was curated by Sebastian Cichocki, Tomasz Fudala, Magda Lipska, Szymon Maliborski, Łukasz Ronduda and Natalia Sielewicz.

The Monster

Pace
Los Angeles, USA
February 1 – March 22, 2025

The Monster is an exhibition curated by artist Robert Nava with Pace’s Chief Curator Oliver Shultz that brings together paintings, sculptures, and works on paper celebrating monstrous bodies and fabulations of monstrosity in contemporary art by an intergenerational group of artists including Huma Bhabha, Louise Bourgeois, Willem de Kooning, Jean Debuffet, Nicole Eisenman, Rashid Johnson, Kiki Kogelnik, Robert Longo, Paul McCarthy, Ugo Rondinone, Lucas Samaras, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, and Paul Thek.

Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann &…

Fondation Louis Vuitton
Paris, France
October 17, 2024 – February 24, 2025

Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann &… is an exhibition dedicated to Pop Art, one of the major artistic movements of the 1960s whose influence continues to be felt across all continents and amongst all generations. The exhibition, curated by Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer, is centered around Tom Wesselmann and also features works by 35 artists of different generations and nationalities who share a common sensibility for “Pop”, including Kiki Kogelnik, Jasper Johns, Marisol, Roy Lichtenstein, Marcel Duchamp, Ai Weiwei, Mickalene Thomas.

Art Basel 2024

Jeffrey Deitch
Booth A48, Grand Palais, Paris, France
October 16 – 20, 2024

Jeffrey Deitch’s booth at Art Basel in Paris focuses on historical female artists and outstanding younger women. Included in the presentation is Kiki Kogelnik’s Untitled (Female Figures with Leaves), 1974, a haunting work in which faceless women appear to float just below a leaf strewn surface. It speaks to Kogelnik’s growing consciousness of male attitudes to, and suppression of, women; a subject that dominated her production throughout the 1970s. Other artists include: Isabelle Albuquerque, Evelyne Axell, Bisa Butler, Judy Chicago, Leonor Fini, amongst others.

Artists Making Books: Pages of Refuge

American Academy in Rome
Rome, Italy
September 27 – December 7, 2024

Kiki Kogelnik’s Orange Naked Woman, 1964, is currently on display at the American Academy in Rome. The lithograph was included in Walasse Ting’s anthology One Cent Life, in which he published his poetry alongside prints by 68 artists, including Sam Francis, Karel Appel, Roy Lichtenstein and Joan Mitchell. The exhibition, curated by Ilaria Puri Purini with Sebastian Hierl and Johanne Affricot, explores the printed page as a space of experimentation and resistance.

Figuration narrative, un autre langage pop

Musée d’art de Pully
Pully, Switzerland
September 13 – December 15, 2024

Kiki Kogelnik’s work Mono, c. 1970, is included in the exhibition Figuration narrative, un autre langage pop at the Musée d’art de Pully which is celebrating its 75th anniversary. Through a selection of over 80 works from the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, the exhibition invites visitors to rediscover a little known movement in the art scene of the 1960s and 1970s: narrative figuration. The exhibition is curated by Yan Schubert, Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, Geneva, and by Victoria Mühlig, Musée d’art de Pully.

Art Basel 2024

Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Booth F6
Pace, Booth A7
Messe Basel, Basel, Switzerland
June 10 – 16, 2024

Art Basel 2024 brings the opportunity to encounter two rarely seen Kiki Kogelnik paintings. Untitled (It Hurts), c. 1974, (Pace, Booth A7) was begun as part of Kogelnik’s celebrated It Hurts series, 1974-1976. In this instance, she chose not to add the yellow domestic items which could be weaponized and perhaps suggests instead psychological damage. Untitled (Still Life with Hand and Gun), c. 1964, (Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Booth F6) features a more traditional symbol of violence.

Kiki Kogelnik: The Dance

Pace
London, UK
May 24 – August 3, 2024

We are pleased to annouce Kiki Kogelnik’s first solo presentation in London and with Pace. This exhibition showcases 37 artworks of various media from three decades of Kogelnik’s artistic production; some of them are on display for the first time since their creation. 

 

 

La main (et) le gant

Musée Jenisch Vevey
Vevey, Switzerland
May 17 – August 18, 2024

Kiki Kogelnik is included in the exhibition La main (et) le gant (The Hand (and) the Glove), curated by Philippe Piguet, with her painting Really George, You Shouldn’t Have (1966). The thematic show presents a wide selection of works, divided into seven sections, shedding new light on the different functions and dialectical relationships of the hand and the glov

The Infinite Woman

Fondation Carmignac
Porquerolles Island, France
April 27 – November 3, 2024

Kiki Kogelnik is included in the exhibition The Infinite Woman, curated by Alona Pardo, with her painting Miss Universe (1963). The works in the exhibition disrupt conventional ideas of womanhood to reflect on feminine power and how the representation of women has shaped global cultural attitudes.

Pop Art. The Bright Side of Life
From Hundertwasser to Kiefer. From the Symbol of Freedom to the Shadows of the Past
Albertina Klosterneuburg

Klosternbeuburg, Austria
April 10 – November 3, 2024

Kiki Kogelnik is represented in two of the opening exhibitions at the Albertina Klosterneburg: Pop Art. The Bright Side of Life and From Hundertwasser to Kiefer. From the Symbol of Freedoch to the Shadows of the Past. The Albertina Klosterneburg is the third location of the Albertina Museum and the first outside Vienna. Its galleries are dedicated to making a large part of its collections pf past-1945 art accessible to the public.

Kiki Kogelnik: Retrospective

Kunsthaus Zürich
Zurich, Switzerland
March 22 – July 14, 2024

We are happy to announce that the survey exhibition Kiki Kogelnik: Retrospective is now open at the Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland. It features over 130 works from four decades of Kogelnik’s art production. Organized by Cathérine Hug for the Kunsthaus Zürich, it includes paintings, sculptures, drawings, ceramics and works in glass, plus archive material.

This is the final venue of the exhibition produced by the Kunstforum Wien, Vienna, in collaboration with Kunstmuseum Brandts, Odense, Kunsthaus Zürich, and the Kiki Kogelnik Foundation.

Le monde comme il va

Pinault Collection, Bourse de Commerce
Paris, France
March 20 – September 2, 2024

We are delighted to announce Kiki Kogelnik’s inclusion in the exhibition Le monde comme il va (The World As It Goes) as part of the Pinault Collection on display at the Bourse de Commerce, together with works by Bertrand Lavier, Anne Imhof, Jeff Koons and General Idea, amongst others. Three ceramic sculptures by Kogelnik are featured which recently joined the Pinault Collection, includig R = R (1975). The exhibition is curated by Jean-Marie Gallais.