The Kallir Research Institute assists with the organization of exhibitions featuring artists in its realm of expertise. Activities range from facilitating individual loans to comprehensive curating or co-curating, as well as authoring catalogue essays. Partners have included the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Neue Galerie New York, the Leopold Museum in Vienna, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.
Current
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Changing Times: Egon Schiele's Last Years, 1914–1918
Leopold Museum, Vienna 28 Mar - 13 Jul 2025 The Kallir Research Institute is pleased to announce its participation in Changing Times: Egon Schiele’s Last Years, 1914–1918 , a major exhibition at the Leopold Museum in Vienna, on view from March 28 to July 13, 2025. Co-curated by KRI president Jane Kallir and Kerstin Jesse, Senior Curator at the... Read more -
The First Homosexuals
Alphawood Exhibitions, Chicago, IL 1 May - 1 Aug 2025 The First Homosexuals: Global Depictions of a New Identity, 1869-1930 takes as its starting point the year 1869, when the word “homosexual” was first coined in Europe, inaugurating the idea of same-sex desire as the basis for a new identity category. On view will be more than 100 paintings, drawings,... Read more
Forthcoming
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Timber! Art and Woodwork at the Fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis 30 Aug 2025 - 11 Jan 2026 Read more -
Grandma Moses: A Good Day's Work
The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. 24 Oct 2025 - 12 Jul 2026 This exhibition sheds new light on a beloved body of work by Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860–1961). It examines the sociocultural forces that Moses would variously reflect on or obscure in her paintings and positions her as a central figure in the history of twentieth-century American art. Grandma Moses: A... Read more
Past
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Egon Schiele Living Landscapes
Neue Galerie New York 17 Oct 2024 - 13 Jan 2025 “Egon Schiele: Living Landscapes” will investigate the importance of landscape in the Austrian artist’s work. Plants, natural environments, and townscapes determine the spaces Egon Schiele created in his paintings, and they also reflect the rich symbolism he employed that is centered around the human condition. In particular, plants are often... Read more -
Paula: Modersohn-Becker: I am Me
Neue Galerie New York & Art Institute of Chicago 12 Oct 2024 - 12 Jan 2025 During her short life, Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907) radically charted her own path, exploring the singular aspects of the feminine experience in a bold style that foreshadowed Expressionism. Her most striking works—among the more than 700 paintings, roughly 1,400 drawings, and eleven prints made across only 10 years—are frank portrayals of... Read more -
Käthe Kollwitz
The Museum of Modern Art, New York 31 Mar - 20 Jul 2024 In the early decades of the 20th century, when many artists were experimenting with abstraction, Käthe Kollwitz remained committed to an art of social purpose. Focusing on themes of motherhood, grief, and resistance, she brought visibility to the working class and asserted the female point of view as a necessary... Read more -
Klimt Landscapes
Neue Galerie New York 15 Feb - 6 May 2024 This major exhibition of Gustav Klimt’s (1862–1918) idyllic depictions in the landscape genre features significant paintings made while the artist was on his Sommerfrische (summer holiday) in the Austrian countryside. “Klimt Landscapes” presents highlights from Neue Galerie New York’s holdings, such as Park at Kammer Castle (1909) and Forester ’... Read more
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100 Years Neue Galerie Vienna: Homage to Otto Kallir
W&K Galerie, Vienna & Shepherd/W&K Galleries, NY 30 Nov 2023 - 28 Jun 2024 Over 100 years ago, on November 20, 1923, Otto Kallir’s (1894 - 1978) Neue Galerie opened its doors in Vienna with an exhibition of paintings by Egon Schiele. Kallir played a key role in establishing the posthumous reputations of Schiele, Gustav Klimt, and Richard Gerstl. His exhibitions of Edvard Munch... Read more -
Grünangergasse 1: Otto Kallir and the Neue Galerie
Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna 29 Nov 2023 - 27 Jan 2024 “An artists’ salon called Neue Galerie has opened at Grünangergasse 1, on the corner of Schulerstraße, with a Schiele exhibition,” reads the New Free Press’s first mention (November 29, 1923) of the Vienna gallery whose multifaceted program would leave a lasting mark on the Austrian scene over the ensuing three... Read more -
Max Beckmann: The Formative Years, 1915-1925
Neue Galerie New York 5 Oct 2023 - 15 Jan 2024 “Max Beckmann: The Formative Years, 1915-1925” focuses on the shift that occurred in Beckmann’s work during a crucial decade. Presented at Neue Galerie New York, this exhibition features approximately 100 works by the artist, comprising major paintings, drawings, and significant print portfolios, many on loan from museums and private collections... Read more -
A Golden Age: Original Animation Art from the Walt Disney Studios, 1937-42
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro 19 Aug - 9 Dec 2023 One hundred years ago this fall, on October 16, 1923, two brothers named Walt and Roy Disney opened a modest animation studio in Hollywood, California. Just 14 years later, in 1937, they amazed their audiences with the technological triumph of the world’s first full-length cel animated film: Snow White and... Read more
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Naive Realism | From Rousseau to Grandma Moses
Museum MORE, Gorssel, Netherlands 25 Mar - 25 Jun 2023 Uninhibited, imaginative and touchingly uncomplicated. This appears to be the irresistible appeal of naive realism. But this seemingly straightforward surface conceals a rich artistic spectrum. And its unschooled makers were on the cusp of modern art. Museum MORE is uniting 80 paintings by renowned and less well-known naive realists from... Read more -
Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America
High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Brandywine Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA; Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA 16 Oct 2022 - 5 Feb 2023 Nearly one hundred years ago, artists without formal training “crashed the gates” of the elite art world, as the newspapers of their day put it. Their paintings of American life, as well as fantastical scenes derived from their imaginations, began appearing in major museums. Featuring more than sixty works from... Read more -
Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered
American Folk Art Museum, New York 23 Sep 2022 - 29 Jan 2023 Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered reintroduced a singular self-taught artist of the 1930s and 1940s to contemporary audiences. Celebrated as one of the year’s best by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal , and Hyperallergic , the exhibition represents the most comprehensive gathering of Hirshfield’s work ever assembled. It featured... Read more -
Pittsburgh’s John Kane: The Life & Art of an American Workman
Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh 21 May 2022 - 8 Jan 2023 Grounded in new scholarship from Louise Lippincott and Maxwell King, authors of the new book “ American Workman: The Life and Art of John Kane,” the History Center exhibition features 37 original works of art and dozens of artifacts that showcase the world of John Kane – a turn-of-the-century Scottish... Read more
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Paula Modersohn-Becker
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main 8 Oct 2021 - 6 Feb 2022 No other German woman artist of Classic Modernism has achieved the same legendary status as Paula Modersohn-Becker in the public awareness. Within a few years of her death, travelling exhibitions were organized through various German museums, and the artist continues to enjoy high esteem even today. In her unique works,... Read more -
Grandma Moses in Japan
Japanese Traveling Exhibition 17 Apr 2021 - 22 May 2022 In 2021-22, a loan exhibition of major paintings by “Grandma” Moses curated by the Kallir Research Institute was circulated by the TOEI Company, a Japanese entertainment group. The show was presented at the Abeno Harukas Art Museum in Osaka (April 17- June 27, 2021), the Nagoya City Art Museum (July... Read more -
Hundertwasser – Schiele: Imagine Tomorrow
Leopold Museum, Vienna 21 Feb - 31 Aug 2020 Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000) shaped 20th-century art beyond the borders of Austria as a painter, designer of living spaces and pioneer of the environmental movement. His life-long, intense exploration of the personality and oeuvre of Egon Schiele (1890–1918) is largely unknown. At the age of 20, when he was a student... Read more -
The Seasons
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY 16 Nov 2019 - 1 Mar 2020 Like the seasons themselves, perennial favorite guest co-curators Franklin Hill Perrell and Debbie Wells return to the museum with a fresh look at visual art inspired by the seasons highlighted by an outstanding roster of artists. This fall, they proudly present The Seasons , complete with a full harvest of... Read more
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Wolfgang Gurlitt Fairy Prince: Art Dealer – Collector
Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz 4 Oct 2019 - 19 Jan 2020 The life and activities of the art dealer Wolfgang Gurlitt (1888 – 1965) are closely intertwined with the beginnings of the Lentos Kunstmuseum: for the museum, the Gurlitt Collection is a legacy that is as brilliant as it is problematic. The exhibition casts light on the turbulent life of the passionate collector... Read more -
Richard Gerstl: Inspiration - Legacy
Leopold Museum, Vienna & Kunsthaus Zug 27 Sep 2019 - 20 Jan 2020 Richard Gerstl (1883-1908) is considered the first Austrian Expressionist who created an oeuvre full of stylistic innovations even before Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka. With his abstracting-gestural manner of painting and the stylistic heterogeneity of his work, he broke with the conventions of his time. 25 years after the last... Read more -
Franz Hauer: Self-Made Man and Art Collector
State Gallery of Lower Austria, Krems 25 May 2019 - 16 Feb 2020 Franz Hauer was one of the most remarkable collecting personalities in the early modern era: originally a domestic servant in the Wachau region, Hauer eventually became a major collector of works by Albin Egger-Lienz, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka. The first sale of his collection took place at Dorotheum in... Read more -
Egon Schiele
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris 3 Oct 2018 - 14 Jan 2019 Egon Schiele’s work is indissociable from the Viennese spirit of the early 20th century. In just a few years, his drawing emerged as one of the peaks of expressionism. At odds with the Academy, which he entered precociously, he founded the Neukunstgruppe in 1909 and, thanks to Gustav Klimt, discovered... Read more
