Kiki Kogelnik Foundation, 300 W 41st St, Miami Beach, FL (2026)

06/10/2026

Kiki Kogelnik is included in the exhibition “Labouring Bodies“ which opens today at the Museum Tinguely, Basel.

The exhibition explores the relationship between the body, labor and technology from a feminist perspective. The extensive group exhibition shows how the human body – especially the feminized and marginalized human body – has been shaped and controlled by machines since the dawn of the modern age, and how it has also been understood as a site of resistance. With its focus on working with machines, the technologization of production and reproduction, and women’s contribution to technological progress, the show invites us to rethink our notions of the body, labor and care.

Curated by Sandra Beate Reimann, the exhibition spans the period from the early twentieth century to the present and brings together historical and contemporary works by 36 artists.

The exhibition continues through November 8, 2026.

Images:
Kiki Kogelnik, Mechanical Woman IV, 1965, Enamel and India ink on paper, 28 ½ x 22 ½ in. (72.6 x 57.3 cm).
© 1965 Kiki Kogelnik Foundation. All Rights Reserved
Kiki Kogelnik, Mechanical Woman III, 1965, Acrylic, enamel, India ink and ink on paper, 25 5/8 x 19 5/8 in. (65.2 x 50 cm).
© 1965 Kiki Kogelnik Foundation. All Rights Reserved

06/01/2026

Marilyn Monroe appeared to Kiki Kogelnik an exemplar of a woman who had achieved a balance between dependency on men and independent self-determination. She painted three paintings with the title "Marilyn" as homages to her idol. Following the unexpected death of Monroe, she wrote in a letter to her mother on August 15, 1962: “I am really very sad about Marilyn – she died not far away from here – and on this night at about 1 till 4, I could not sleep and was very depressed. When I told this to Sam [Francis] the next day, he told me Marilyn killed herself. It is dreadful what they do with dead people in this country – her belly was opened and they put her into a city Frigidaire for co**se storing – Nr. 33. Well, poor Marilyn – I collect all the papers – and I have to paint to her glory.” Made at the end of 1962, her tribute to Monroe depicts a curvaceous figure dressed in lacey underwear cruelly decapitated, the head replaced with a line of sutures, her green stilettos discarded on the floor and a large pink heart with a silver center floating upwards as if departing.

Images:
1. Kiki Kogelnik with her unfinished painting “Marilyn”, 1962 in her studio at 940 Broadway, New York, 1962 © Kiki Kogelnik Foundation. All Rights Reserved
2. Kiki Kogelnik, “Marilyn”, 1962, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 89 3/4 x 59 3/4 inches (228 x 151.8cm) © 1962 Kiki Kogelnik Foundation. All Rights Reserved

04/24/2026

Kiki Kogelnik’s “Rainy”, 1973, is included in the exhibition “Sea, Pop & Sun” at the Villa Carmignac from April 25, 2026.

The exhibition reflects on a historical moment in which new social movements, changing moral frameworks, and the rise of the leisure society reshaped everyday life and visual culture in an ode to the freedom and vitality of the 1960s and 1970s that summons the Pop spirit. It recreates a dreamworld of a seaside escape and echoes a time when the sexual revolution was overturning conventions, morals were shifting, and everything seemed possible. The South of France and its beaches were more than mere holiday postcards; they were gateways to new horizons of freedom and transgression.

Situated on the îles de Porquerolles, in the region of the French Riviera, far from the cities and bathed in the light, colors and scents of the Mediterranean, Pop Art reveals unexpected facets. No longer drawing on everyday objects or urban advertising, it turns instead to new motifs: the sky, the sea, the sun and the spirit of summer. While acknowledging its roots in the consumer society, Pop Art here acquires a renewed sensuality and intensity, at times verging on the cosmic, from these shores and summer scenes.

Bringing together more than 80 works of art, “Sea, Pop & Sun” is presented by the Foundation Carmignac and curated by Dr. Dieter Buchhart and Dr. Anna Karina Hofbauer, it places icons of Pop Art such as Evelyne Axell, Kiki Kogelnik, Roy Lichtenstein, Martial Raysse and Andy Warhol, in dialogue with contemporary artists who extend or interrogate the movement, including Derrick Adams, Cosima von Bonin, Judy Chicago, and Théo Mercier. The exhibition continues until November 1, 2026

Kiki Kogelnik, Rainy, 1973, oil and acrylic on canvas, 79 7/8 x 59 7/8 in, (203 x 152cm)
©1974 Kiki Kogelnik Foundation. All Rights Reserved

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