Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Upcoming Exhibitions
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Seattle Art Museum
20 November 2024–1 June 2025
Curated by Catharina Manchanda, Following Space: Thaddeus Mosley & Alexander Calder will pair wood sculptures by Pittsburgh native Thaddeus Mosley (b. 1926) with select works by Calder. The exhibition will reveal how both artists create a heightened awareness of forms in space and instill the anticipation of change.
1300 1st Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101
United States
seattleartmuseum.org
Current Exhibitions
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Seattle Art Museum
8 November 2023–20 October 2024
Organized around the extraordinary gift of the Shirley Family Calder Collection to the Seattle Art Museum, this exhibition presents a non-chronological narrative that covers Calder’s career throughout the decades. It features significant examples from the artist’s production—including wire sculptures, mobiles, stabiles, and standing mobiles—that range in scale from the miniature to the monumental.
1300 1st Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101
United States
seattleartmuseum.org
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MASI Lugano
5 May–6 October 2024
Curated by Carmen Giménez and Ana Mingot, Calder. Sculpting Time will comprise the artist’s early abstractions or sphériques and a magnificent selection of mobiles, stabiles, and standing mobiles of various scales. It will also feature a large body of Calder’s Constellations, a term proposed by Duchamp and James Johnson Sweeney for the artist’s beloved objects made from wood and wire in 1943, a time when sheet metal was in short supply due to World War II.
Piazza Bernardino Luini 6
6900 Lugano
Switzerland
masilugano.ch
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Azabudai Hills Gallery, Tokyo
30 May–6 September 2024
Curated by Alexander S. C. Rower, Calder: Un effet du japonais will explore the enduring resonance of Calder’s art with Japanese traditions and aesthetics. The exhibition will comprise approximately 100 works from the Calder Foundation’s collection, ranging from the artist’s signature mobiles, stabiles, and standing mobiles to his oil paintings and works on paper.
8, Toranomon 5-Chōme
Minato, Tokyo 105-0001
Japan
azabudai-hills.com
Permanent Exhibitions
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Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna
Palazzo Collicola
Calder’s friend, the critic Giovanni Carandente, donated a large portion of his personal collection to establish a modern art gallery in Spoleto’s Palazzo Collicola in 2000. Included is a permanent installation of Calder’s work and a maquette for the city’s monumental stabile Teodelapio, which the artist executed in 1962.
Piazza Collicola, 1
06049 Spoleto
Italy
palazzocollicola.it
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Storm King Art Center
Three large-scale stabiles on loan from the Calder Foundation are installed among the rolling hills of Storm King.
1 Museum Road
New Windsor, NY 12553
United States
stormking.org
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National Gallery of Art
One of the two tower galleries in the museum’s I.M. Pei-designed East Building boasts the world’s largest permanent display of works by Calder, including several long-term loans from the Calder Foundation.
Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20565
United States
nga.gov