A. R. Penck

A.R. Penck was a German Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1939. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Tony Wuethrich Galerie in Basel. Numerous key galleries and museums such as SKD, Residenzschloss (The Royal Castle) have featured A.R. Penck’s work in the past.A.R. Penck’s work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $4 USD to $687,211 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is $687,211 USD for WELT DES ADLERS I (WORLD OF THE EAGLE I), sold at Sotheby’s London in 2020. A.R. Penck has been featured in articles for Christie’s Daily, ArtDaily and Frieze Magazine. The most recent article is Seven Must-See Shows Across Switzerland, from Lake Geneva to St. Moritz written for Art Basel Stories in September 2021. The artist died in 2017.

Artist’s alternative names: A. R. Penck, Alberech Ralf Winckler Penck, Ralf Winkler

Past exhibitions

Biography

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021
  • A.R. Penck: Systems: Felt Works and Paintings, Michael Werner, London, Mayfair, London, UK
  • Metaphysical Passage Through A Zebra: A Contemporary Panorama Of Hunting And Nature, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
  • A.R. Penck, Galerie Knoell, Basel, Switzerland
2020
  • ONLINE: AR Penck: New System Paintings, Opera Gallery, Aspen, Aspen, Colorado, USA
  • A.R. Penck, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
2019
  • A.R. Penck: „Ich aber komme aus Dresden (check it out man, check it out)”, SKD, Albertinum, Dresden, Germany
  • A. R. Penck: I Think In Pictures, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, UK
2018
  • A.R. Penck: Paintings from the 1980s and Memorial to an Unknown East German Soldier, Michael Werner, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • A.R. Penck: Ohne Titel (O.T.), Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin, Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
  • A. R. Penck: Transformer, Galerie Jahn and Jahn, Munich, Germany
  • A.R. Penck, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany
  • A.R. Penck: Paintings from the 1980s and Memorial to an Unknown East German Soldier, Michael Werner, London, Mayfair, London, UK
2017
  • A.R. Penck, Kewenig, Palma, Palma De Mallorca, Spain
  • A.R. Penck, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Munich, Germany
  • A.R. Penck, Suzanne Tarasiève, Le Marais, 3e, Paris, France
2016
  • A.R. Penck, Michael Werner, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • Penck A4, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Munich, Germany
2015
  • A.R. Penck, Michael Werner, London, Mayfair, London, UK
  • A.R. Penck. Between Light and Shadow, Michael Werner, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
2014
  • A.R. Penck: Felt Works 1972 – 1995, Michael Werner, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
2013
  • A.R. Penck: The 1980’s, Suzanne Tarasiève, Le Marais, 3e, Paris, France
  • A. R. Penck, Before the West: Select Works from the 1970s, Koenig & Clinton, Brooklyn, New York, USA
  • A.R. Penck, Michael Werner, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
2011
  • A. R. Penck: Picture Ballot! Encoding Reality, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
  • A.R Penck: Between Fire and Ice, Galerie Jérome de Noirmont, Paris, France
2009
  • A.R. Penck: New Paintings, Michael Werner, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
2008
  • A.R. Penck, Michael Werner, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • A.R. Penck, Michael Werner, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • A.R. Penck: The Eighties, Julius Werner Berlin, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
  • OneHundred Works, Tony Wuethrich Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
  • Torino, Saatchi Yates, Mayfair, London, UK
  • Insights: Art from the National Bank Collection, CCA Andratx, Andratx, Spain
  • ONLINE: Simply The Best, Galerie Terminus, Munich, Germany
  • The Monaco Masters Show, Opera Gallery, Monaco, Monaco, Monaco
  • Big!, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover, Germany
  • Deep Blue, Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg Museum, Hildesheim, Germany
  • Ganz Anders Gleich, Crone Side, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • Ogni Pittore Dipinge Sé, Suzanne Tarasiève, Le Marais, 3e, Paris, France
2020
  • OneHundred Works, Tony Wuethrich Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
  • Crossing Borders. Collecting for the Future, SKD, Residenzschloss (The Royal Castle), Dresden, Germany
  • Works On Paper, Michael Werner, East Hampton, East Hampton, New York, USA
  • A.R. Penck & Florian Krewer, Michael Werner, East Hampton, East Hampton, New York, USA
  • About the Human Figure, Michael Werner, London, Mayfair, London, UK
  • Double Lives: Visual Artists Making Music, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Bonn, Germany
  • Faces: Long Time No See!, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, Germany
  • Group Exhibition, Galerie Knoell, Basel, Switzerland
  • Accrochage, Döbele Kunst Mannheim, Manheim, Germany
  • Auf Papier, Galerie Schlichtenmaier Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
2019
  • OneHundred Works, Tony Wuethrich Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
  • For Birds’ Sake, The Birdmen of Istanbul: 30 Years a Gallerist, C&K Galerie, Berlin, Germany
  • Woods, Suzanne Tarasiève, Le Marais, 3e, Paris, France
  • The Sonnabend Collection, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Le Rêveur De La Forêt, Musée Zadkine, 6e, Paris, France
  • The Dreamer Of The Forest, Musée Zadkine, 6e, Paris, France
  • Bye, Bye And Hello: 40 Years Deweer Gallery, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
  • Für Christa: Christa Dichgans Mit Freunden, Zeitgenossen und Verehrerinnen, CFA, Contemporary Fine Arts, Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
  • Utopia and Demise. Art in the GDR, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Painting Zeitgeist?, Achenbach Hagemeier, Berlin, Wedding, Berlin, Germany
  • Summer Rental, Rental Gallery, East Hampton, New York, USA
  • Final Painting Now, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin, Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
  • Group Exhibition, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin, Germany
2018
  • Salm Modern #1: Dimensions of Dialogue, National Gallery Prague, Salm Palace, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Multiplebox Box Pop Up Xmas Show, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, East Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  • Kollektion2: auf [aus] Papier, Galerie M + R Fricke, Mitte, Berlin, Germany
  • Insoumises expressions, Suzanne Tarasiève, Le Marais, 3e, Paris, France
  • Jubiläumsausstellung 50 Jahre Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
  • Uproar in Augsburg: German painting, since 1960, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
  • 40 + 10 + 1 – Baaderstraße 56 C, Galerie Jahn and Jahn, Munich, Germany
  • 40 + 10 + 1, Galerie Jahn and Jahn, Munich, Germany
  • Vile Bodies, Michael Werner, London, Mayfair, London, UK
  • Vile Bodies, Michael Werner, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • A New Spirit Then, A New Spirit Now 1981 – 2018, Almine Rech, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
2017
  • Behind the Mask: Artists in the GDR, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany
  • Timeless. Masterpieces, Galerie Terminus, Munich, Germany
  • Uproar In Augsburg: German Painting Since 1960, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
  • A.R. Penck & Sonia Gomes, Mendes Wood DM, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
2016
  • Prints: From 1970 to 2015, Galerie Klüser 2, Munich, Germany
  • Take Care, Amigo, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Flora, Fauna and Other Forms of Life, Michael Werner, London, Mayfair, London, UK
  • THE EIGHTIES: A decade of extremes, M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Elective Affinities: German Art Since the Late 1960s, Exhibition Hall ARSENALS, LNMA, Riga, Latvia
  • Virus Form, Geometrisches aus Dresden von 1920 bis 2016, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
  • Graphic Chic, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
  • The Sonnabend Collection: Half a Century of European and American Art, Part I, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
2015
  • Blue Chip Christmas Exhibition, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, East Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  • The Avant-Garde Won’t Give Up: Cobra and Its Legacy, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, Palms, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • I Got Rhythm: Art and Jazz Since 1920, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
  • Aspects of German Art (Part One), Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Postwar Germanic Expressions: Gifts from Michael Werner, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., District Of Columbia, USA
  • From Hockney to Holbein, Gropius-Bau, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
  • Deutsche Kunst Nach 1960, Essl Museum (Sammlung Essl), Klosterneuburg, Austria
  • Peinture – Sculpture: Contemporary, Galerie Knoell, Basel, Switzerland
  • Artist Rooms, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
  • #catcontent, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
  • Collector’s Room # 9, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
2014
  • Under Cover II, Barbara Wien, Berlin, Germany
  • Group Exhibition, BORCH Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  • From Ackermann to Zabotin, ZKM | Center for Art & Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Thorn in the Flesh, The George Economou Collection, Athens, Greece
  • Collection on Display: John Armleder, Richard Jackson, Robert Kusmirowski, A.R. Penck, Markus Raetz, Gerhard Richter, Pamela Rosenkranz, Niele Toroni, Christopher Wool, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Collector’s Room # 6, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
  • Le bas-relief dans tous ses états, Suzanne Tarasiève, Le Marais, 3e, Paris, France
2013
  • The Circle Walked Casually, PalaisPopulaire by Deutsche Bank, Mitte, Berlin, Germany
  • Suddenness + Certainty, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
2012
  • Lucerne Art Summer 2012 – International modern & contemporary art, Fischer Auctioneers, Lucerne, Switzerland
  • Eye of Horus, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Gstaad, Switzerland
2010
  • With Head and Hand: Variations for Subscription, Akademie Galerie Die Neue Sammlung, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Accrochage: Grands Formats, Galerie Lelong, Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
  • In There, Out Here, Koenig & Clinton, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2008
  • 1–2–3: The Collection in Focus, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
  • Serial Works on Paper, Michael Werner, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA

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