VeneKlasen, New York is pleased to present The Dream of Menelaus, the gallery’s inaugural exhibition devoted to Sigmar Polke’s (1941–2010) major four-painting cycle of the same name, completed in 1982. This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to view one of Polke’s most seminal series of paintings in full.

VeneKlasen, London is pleased to present Moderne Kunst, an exhibition devoted to masterpieces spanning four decades of Sigmar Polke’s career. The exhibition features a selection of paintings – ranging from the late 1960s to the late 2000s – that demonstrate the breadth and continual transformation of Polke’s painterly practice over his lifetime.

Drawing on the works of a hundred works from the Pinault Collection, the exhibition Clair-obscur explores the legacy of chiaroscuro as it resonates in the present day. The Bourse de Commerce has been transformed into a luminous and crepuscular landscape, offering visitors a sensory experience in which the visible meets the invisible. Chiaroscuro thus emerges as a renewed visual and symbolic language, a narrative device, and a philosophical principle, expressing both the materiality of light and the shadow areas of our unconscious. Featuring Sigmar Polke and James Lee Byars among others.