On View
Corporate Bodies: Sculpture and Power
Sculpture from the Permanent Collection
March 1, 2025 – September 30, 2026
Curated by Ingrid Fassbender-Löhr
Exhibition Text
“The founder's face is a logo. The bronze bust is a quarterly report. Corporate Bodies surveys the AKU's sculpture collection from the Rockefeller-era portrait tradition to contemporary monumental commissions, asking a simple question with no simple answer: whose body is this, and who ordered it?”
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 becomes a visual program.
Works in the Exhibition(6)
Portrait of the Water King (After Song Dynasty Tradition)
Atelier Orient-Okzident, Frankfurt / Beijing, 2023
White marble, hand-carved
AKU-2024-077
The Oracle
Realized posthumously by the AKU Studio, 2012, 2011
Black granite, sawn and polished
AKU-2012-003
Standard Oil, Dissolved (Bust of John D. Rockefeller)
Unknown, American, after a model of c. 1911; cast 1989, 1911
Bronze on marble pedestal
AKU-2003-002
The Commodore (Portrait Bust of Cornelius Vanderbilt)
After Chauncey Bradley Ives (attributed), American, 1810–1894, 1877
Marble
AKU-1999-008
Portrait Bust of Andrew W. Mellon and Andrew Carnegie (Double Study)
Walker Hancock, American, 1901–1998, 1955
Bronze, cast 1955
AKU-2016-002
The Last Supper of the Shareholders
Artists' Collective Dividend, Frankfurt, 2018
Oil on canvas
AKU-2019-012
