Sigmar Polke (1941-2010) is a leading artistic figure of the 20th century. This major exhibition brings together paintings, photographs, prints, sculptures and films, to highlight the audacious nature of an artist marked by incisive humor, a passion for experimentation, and an ever-critical view of his time.

The exhibition’s title echoes the slogan “beneath the cobblestones, the beach”, chanted by students in Paris in May 1968 as they tore up cobbled streets to build barricades in a protest movement for freedom which influenced Polke’s early work. At the same time the title evokes the firm anchoring in reality which characterizes the German artist’s work and that of Van Gogh.


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