Exhibitions
On View Now
Der Gruß — New Acquisition in Context
Gesture, Power, Bronze
The controversial new acquisition — a bronze statue depicting a prominent technology executive in a politically charged gesture — is placed here in the context of a century of corporate monumentalization. What does it mean to cast a gesture in bronze? What is preserved, what is inscribed?
From February 2025 — Ongoing
On View – Through June 2026
IPO: The Stock Market Listing as Spectacle
Photographs 1980–2024
The complete photography series documents six decades of technology IPOs in the documentary tradition of Saul Leiter: atmospheric, unfocused, human. Each stock market listing as a cultural event — hop…
On View – Through September 2026
Corporate Bodies: Sculpture and Power
Sculpture from the Permanent Collection
A survey of the AKU's sculpture collection: from classical busts in commissioned corporate portraits to monumental outdoor installations. The exhibition asks what it means when the founder's body beco…
On View – Through March 2027
The First Disruptors: Portraits from the Gilded Age
Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan, Ford, Vanderbilt
A survey of Gilded Age corporate portraiture drawn from the AKU permanent collection. The exhibition places nineteenth-century robber barons in direct dialogue with the technology founders of our own …
Upcoming Exhibitions
Opening April 2026
Ephemera of Disruption
Objects from the Startup Era
The first major survey exhibition of corporate ephemera from the startup era: from the garage to the IPO, from the business card to the NDA. Objects that remain when disruption bec…
Opening September 2026
The Metaverse and Its Prophets
Art in the Age of Virtual Capitalism
An exhibition about the metaverse as an artistic subject: VR headsets as vanitas, digital real estate as territory, avatars as identity. With works from the permanent collection an…
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