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1941
Born February 13 in Oels/Schlesien, East Germany
1945
Family flees to Thuringen, East Germany
1953
Emigrates to West Berlin and then settles in Düsseldorf, West Germany
1959-60
Glass-painting apprenticeship in Düsseldorf
1961-67
Studies at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Karl Otto Goetz
and Gerhard Hoehme
1963
Founds “Kapitalistischen Realismus”, a painting movement
with Gerhard Richter and Konrad (Fischer) Lueg;
“Demonstrative Ausstellung”, store-front exhibition in
Düsseldorf with Kuttner, Lueg & Richter
1964
“Neodada Pop Decollage Kapitalisticher Realismus”, Galerie
René Block, Berlin; Awarded the Young Germans award in
Baden-Baden with Klaus Geldmacher and Dieter Krieg
1966
Galerie h, Hannover (with Richter); first one-person show at Galerie René Block, Berlin
1969
Galerie René Block, Berlin; Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne
1970-71
Guest teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg
1970
Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich (with Chris Kohlhöfer); Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf; Galerie Toni Gerber, Bern; Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne
1971
Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Louisiana Museum of Art, Humblebaek
1972
Moves to the Gaspelshof in Willich/Niederrhein;
participates in “Documenta V”; “Amsterdam - Paris – Düsseldorf”, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Galerie Toni Gerber, Bern; Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne
1973
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf; Galerie Michael Werner,
Cologne
1974
Travels to Pakistan and Afghanistan; Galerie Loehr,
Frankfurt; “Hallo Shiva”, Galerie Toni Gerber, Bern;
Galerie Michael Werner and Thomas Borgmann at Galerie
Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne; Galerie Springer, Berlin
1975
Awarded the prize for painting at the XIII Bienal
de Sao Paulo; Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne
1977-91
Professor at Höchschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg
1977
Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel; “Documenta VI”, Kassel
1978
Moves to Cologne
1980
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne; “Art of the Seventies”, Biennale di Venezia
1981
“A New Spirit in Painting”, Royal Academy, London
1982
Awarded the Will Grohmann Prize from the City of Berlin;
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York; “Zeitgeist”, Martin-
Gropius-Bau, Berlin; “Documenta VII”, Kassel
1983
Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; Städtisches Museum Abateiberg, Monchengladbach; Studio d’Arte Cannaviello, Milan; Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam
1984
Awarded the Kurt Schwitters Prize in Hannover; Städtisches
Kunstmuseum, Bonn; Kunsthaus, Zurich; Josef-Haubrich-
Kunsthalle, Cologne; Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
1985
Mary Boone/Michael Werner Gallery, New York; Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London; “German Art in the 20th Century, Painting and Sculpture 1905-1985”, Royal Academy, London
1986
Awarded the “Golden Lion” at the XLII Biennale di Venezia;
“Europa/Amerika”, Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Mary
Boone/Michael Werner Gallery, New York; “Athanor, II
padiglione”, XLII Biennale di Venezia; Galerie Schmela,
Düsseldorf
1987
Awarded the Lichtwark Prize in Hamburg; “The Spiritual in
Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985”, Los Angeles County
Museum of Art; David Nolan Gallery, New York
1988
Awarded the 1988 Baden Wurttemberg International Prize for
Painting; Mary Boone/Michael Werner Gallery, New York;
Kunstmuseum, Bonn; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de
Paris, ARC; Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam
1989
“Refigured Painting: The German Image 1960-1988”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; “Magiciens de la Terre”, Musée National d’Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Mary Boone/Michael Werner Gallery, New York; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Kunstforum, Munich
1990
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden; Mary Boone/Michael Werner Gallery, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Michael Werner Gallery, New York
1991
Resigns professorship at the Höchschule für Bildende
Künste, Hamburg; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; Museum
of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Brooklyn Museum, New York;
Michael Werner Gallery, New York; Museo di Capodimonte,
Naples
1992
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Städtisches Museum, Möchengladbach
1993
Awarded the Lovis Corinth Prize in Esslingen; Fundacio
Espai Pobelnou, Barcelona; Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
1994
Awarded the Erasmus Prize in Amsterdam; Porticus, Frankfurt
am Main; Carré d’Art, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nimes;
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh; IVAM Centro Julio
Gonzalez, Valencia; Anthony D’Offay Gallery, London
1995
Carnegie Award at the Carnegie International, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Tate Gallery,
Liverpool; Michael Werner Gallery, New York; Haus der
Kunst, Munich; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1996
Art Award of the NORD/LB (North State Bank); “Stiftung
Froehlich”, Tate Gallery, London & Staatsgalerie Stuttgart;
Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe; Staatliches Museum Schwerin;
“Sammlung Garnatz”, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe; Galerie
Michael Werner, Cologne; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden;
“Sammlung Speck”, Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Corcoran
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1997
Michael Werner Gallery, New York; Kunsthalle Bundsrepublik Deutscheland, Bonn; “Deutschlandbilder”, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
1998
International Center of Photography, Infinity Award for
Art; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
1998- 99
Michael Werner Gallery, New York
1999
The Israel Prize; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hamburger
Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Michael Werner Gallery, New York;
Knoedler & Co., New York; Venice Biennale; “Das XX
Jahrhunderts”, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Sammlung Essl,
Klosterneuburg
2000
Kaiserring Award of the city of Goslar; Fundacio Joan Miro,
Barcelona; Galería Pepe Cobo, Seville; Stadsgalerij
Heerlen, Heerlen; Galerie Heinz Holtmann / Holtmann
graphics, Cologne; Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart,
Stuttgart; Museum für neue Kunst; ZKM Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
2000-01
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn; Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
2001
Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo; “Sigmar Polke. Alchemist”, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek; “Music of Unclear Origin”, Scottish National Gallery of Art, Edinburgh; “Sigmar Polke. Ausgewählte Grafik, Fotos, Objekte und Arbeiten auf Papier”, Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne; “Sigmar Polke. Die gesamten Editionen 1963-2000”, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich; “Sigmar Polke and the French Revolution”, Musée de la Revolution française, Vizille; “Sigmar Polke. Photographie 1969-2000”, Berlin Projects, Julian Soms, Berlin; Rhenus Kunstpreis 2001, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
2002
Praemium Imperiale Award for Painting, Japan Art
Association; “Sigmar Polke. History of Everything: Recent Paintings and Drawings”, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas; Spark Inc., Modern and Contemporary Arts, Tokyo
2003-04
“Sigmar Polke. History of Everything: 1998-2003”, Tate Modern, London; "Sigmar Polke", Arario Gallery, Korea
2005
"Sigmar Polke. Works & Days", Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich; “Alice in Wonderland”, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo; “Stratification: an installation of works since 1960”, Busch-Reisinger Museum,Harvard University, Cambridge; “Sigmar Polke: Music From an Unknown Source”, Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts, Vietnam
2006
“Sigmar Polke – Alice in Wonderland”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka; “Sigmar Polke: Photographs 1964-2000”, Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim; “Sigmar Polke: Das Kann doch kein Motiv sein”, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg; “Frontiers: Collecting the Art of our Time“ Worcester Art Museum, MA; “Sigmar Polke: 64 Photographs from 1977”, Springer & Winckler Galerie, Berlin; “Mythologies”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; “Implosion”, Anton Kern Gallery, New York; “Hommage to Chillida”, Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, Bilbao; “Black and White: Drawings for Summer, Michael Werner Gallery, New York; “Works on Paper”, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica; “Auf Papier”, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin; “Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples/ 1960 to Now”, Museum of Modern Art, New York;
2006-07
“Polke – Bernstein – Amber”, Michael Werner Gallery, New
York; “Supervision”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston,
MA
2007
Awarded 11th Rubens Prize of Siegen, Museum für
Gegenwartskunst, Siegen; “Sigmar Polke: A Retrospective”,
Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden; “Selection", Galerie
Michael Werner, Cologne; “Sigmar Polke: Photographs 1968-
1972”, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; “Fast Forward:
Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art”,
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; “Venice Biennial 2007 - 52nd
International Art Exhibition”, Italy; “Sigmar Polke”,
Museum for Gegenwartkunst Siegen, Germany; Cathedral Windows for St. Kunibert Cathedral, Cologne and Grossmuenster, Zürich
2008
Awarded American Academy of Arts & Sciences 2008 Fellow for
Visual Arts – Criticism and Practice; “Homer. Der Mythos
Von Troia In Dichtung Und Kunst”, Antikenmuseum Basel und
Sammlung Ludwig; “Sigmar Polke: Photographs from the
Garnatz Collection”, SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne; “The
Immediate Touch: German, Austrian & Swiss Drawings”, Saint
Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis; “Serial Works on Paper”,
Julius Werner Berlin, Berlin; “Series Drawings”,Michael
Werner Gallery, New York; “Sigmar Polke: Drawings,Gouaches,
Watercolors 1964-2005”, Schönewald Fine Arts GmbH,
Düsseldorf; “Sigmar Polke: Musik unerklärter Herkunft”,
Kyungpook National University Gallery, Südkorea;
2008-09
“Sigmar Polke – Photographische Arbeiten aus der Sammlung
Garnatz”, Stätdtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe; “Sigmar Polke: Lens Paintings”, Galerie Michael Werner, Berlin traveling to Arts Club Chicago and Michael Werner Gallery, New York
2009
“Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures”, LACMA, Los
Angeles, traveling to Germanisches Nationalmuseum,
Nuremberg and Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin;
“Sigmar Polke: Lens Paintings”, Arts Club Chicago, Chicago,
and Michael Werner Gallery, New York
Sigmar Polke currently lives and works in Cologne, Germany.
