Albert Oehlen will be honoured as the Swiss Institute’s Special Tribute on the occasion of the Institute’s 40th Anniversary Benefit Gala, which celebrates exceptional individuals and organisations who embody the spirit of Institute’s commitment to boundless experimentation: 

‘The inimitable Albert Oehlen will be honored as the SI Special Tribute. For over four decades the Switzerland-based artist has redefined the possibilities of painting through his pioneering experiments with digital technologies. His impact on contemporary art, including his post-punk ethos which echoes that of SI’s new neighborhood on the Bowery, has been transformative.’ 

Günther Förg’s work is in included in Hardcore, a group exhibtion of works from the haubrok foundation at FAHRBEREITSCHAFT, Berlin.

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We are delighted to announce that Rineke Dijkstra’s work Isabel, Berlin, Germany, June 26, 2003, 2012, is now part of the collection of the Collezione Ettore Molinario, Milan, which brings together photography from the origins of the medium to the present day.

Günther Förg’s work is the subject of Günther Förg – Im Flow, a solo exhibition at Neues Museum Nürnberg. The exhibition brings together eight major paintings by Förg, alongside a large-scale photograph of the Bauhaus building in Dessau. Drawn from a private collection, the works span from 1987 to 2008, tracing the modernist origins of the artist’s loosely applied patches of floating colour, clustered grid and window forms.

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Rineke Dijkstra’s work features in Cocktail Prolongé: F. C. Gundlach Special, a group exhibition at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, as part of the 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg. Bringing together around 300 works from the collection of influential fashion photographer F.C. Gundlach, the exhibition explores the diverse ways in which corporeality can be staged. With an eye to how the body becomes a medium for the portrayal of roles, fantasies, and desires, as well as for articulating critical demands, the exhibition foregrounds themes of queerness, vulnerability and nonconformity.

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Albert Oehlen’s new book Kleine und mittlere Gespenster is published by Rookie Books, an independent publishing house specialising in children's books designed by visual artists. For this new publication, Oehlen and his daughter Maya cut-out and assembled fragments from one of the artist’s old catalogues into new ghostly forms.

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Published on the occasion of the artist’s ​​solo exhibition Endless Summer, at Galerie Max Hetzler and Gagosian, Paris from 20 October – 20 December 2025.

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Published on the occasion of the solo exhibition Schweinekubismus, at Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin from 14 September – 2 November 2024.

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Albert Oehlen’s work is included in Post-Atomic Abstraction, a collection presentation in room 203 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. During the final years of the Cold War and in the decades that followed, artists in Germany and the United States faced a brave – and contradictory – new world. The presentation brings together artists’ responses to this period of transition, where the push and pull between the prewar and post-atomic worlds fostered novel paths toward abstraction.

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Albert Oehlen’s monumental sculpture Ömega Man, 2023, is now on view to the public in Weidingen, where it emerges from the vast landscape of the Südeifel. Its simplified form and slightly raised steel bars, recessed into their concrete casting, evoke the lightness of a drawing. Here, the persistent importance of the line in Oehlen’s work becomes evident, appearing simultaneously curved and controlled. In this work, the artist uses elements which are both abstract and figurative to critically examine the history and conventions of contemporary art, all the while continuing to acknowledge the importance of classical models. Massive yet fragile in its isolation, Oehlen’s Ömega Man appears like a monument from the future. Omega, the last letter of the Greek alphabet, is here written with an umlaut, thereby referring to the artist’s own name. 

Stiftung zur Förderung Zeitgenössischer Kunst in Weidingen