Current & Upcoming Exhibitions

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.

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.

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.

Enchanted Reverie: Klee and Calder is the first exhibition dedicated to these two modern masters in eighty years. Bringing together over forty paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from international public and private collections, it explores their overlapping expressions of what Klee once described as “latent realities.”

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.

Three large-scale stabiles on loan from the Calder Foundation are installed among the rolling hills of Storm King.

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.