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On October 22, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced that a recent reiteration of André Butzer's 'Frauenbildnisse' has entered the permanent collection of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, and four works were acquired by the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.
On October 16, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced institutional presentations and a monograph for Rineke Dijkstra and Friedrich Kunath. Kunath's first U.S.
On October 13, 2026, Sadie Coles HQ announced that artist Sarah Lucas will be featured in 'Across Epochs: Gursky, Lucas, Miró, Warhol and the Art of the Long 19th Century' at the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
On October 13, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler highlighted Günther Förg across three museum and exhibition presentations.
On October 13, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced that Friedrich Kunath's first solo museum exhibition in the United States, "I'll Romanticize This Later," will open at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami.
On October 13, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced a broad slate of Matthew Barney presentations across North America, Europe, and Asia. Barney was inducted as an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters at its annual ceremonial in May 2024.
On October 13, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced a wave of Matthew Barney presentations, headlined by an eight-hour screening of 'River of Fundament' at Masonic Hall in New York with New People's Cinema Club and Unsound New York. The 2014 film gets its second New York outing.
On October 12, 2026, Lisson Gallery announced that Marina Abramović's 'Balkan Erotic Epic. The Stage Version' will open on October 13, 2026, at Haus der Berliner Festspiele, inaugurating the 2026/2027 Performing Arts Season.
Grisebach will offer Yves Klein's 'Untitled Shroud Anthropometry (ANT SU 30)' from 1960 in its 'Selected Works' sale on November 26, 2026, with an estimate of €2,000,000–3,000,000. The work is one of the few 'Anthropométries Suaires' still in private hands.
On October 6, 2026, Lisson Gallery announced that Susan Hiller's work is the subject of 'Bad Dreams', a major survey opening at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin on October 17, 2026.
On September 25, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced that Elmgreen & Dragset's sculpture 'Eight', 2026, has been acquired by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.
On September 23, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced that Sean Scully has been named an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, one of France’s highest cultural honors. The artist’s work is also the subject of a solo exhibition, “Lines of Emotion,” at the Kunstmuseum Magdeburg.
On September 8, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced that Thomas Struth has been awarded the Soane Honors Award for Photography.
On September 1, 2026, Gagosian announced that Maurizio Cattelan has been named the 2026 winner of the Preis der Nationalgalerie. The prize, established in 2000 by the Freunden der Nationalgalerie, includes a solo museum exhibition.
On September 1, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced that Günther Förg is included in 'Hardcore', a group exhibition at FAHRBEREITSCHAFT in Berlin. The exhibition draws on works from the haubrok foundation. FAHRBEREITSCHAFT, a former bus depot, has been repurposed as an exhibition space.
On August 28, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced that Matthew Barney's 1988 video work 'SCABACTION' is included in the 16th Gwangju Biennale, titled 'You Must Change Your Life,' inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke's poem.
Tom Holert examines Harun Farocki’s views on the function of film and images, referencing a 2014 Berlin Documentary Forum panel where Farocki discussed the early twentieth-century shift of film toward entertainment and education.
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