Anselm Kiefer was born in 1945 in Donaueschingen, Germany; he lives and works in Paris. Solo exhibition has been dedicated to Anselm Kiefer since the beginning of his carrier by prestigious museums among which:
Kunsthalle, Bern (1978); Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (1979); Groniger Museum, Gronigen (1980); Museum Folkwang, Essen (1981); Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf; Musée d’Art Contemporain, BordeauxARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (1984); Stadelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1986); Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Art of Philadelphia, MOCA in Los Angeles and MoMA in New York (1987); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (1991); Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Kyoto National Museum of Art (1993); Hiroshima Museum of Contemporay Art (1993); Museo di Capodimonte, Naples (1997); The Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo (1998); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1998); Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Boogna (1999); Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent (2000); The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2005); Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam (2011); Ludwig Museum, Koblenz (2012); Royal Academy of Arts, London (2014).
In 1977 he was invited to Documenta in Kassel. In 1980 his work was presented at the XXIX Venice Biennale, in the German Pavilion, where received numerous accolades from critics. In 2007, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao has presented a major retrospective of him, and in the same year the Louvre in Paris has commissioned to the artist a work for its permanent collection.
We are pleased to inform you that “Solaris”, a new solo exhibition by Anselm Kiefer, will be on view at Nijo Castle in Kyoto from 31 March to 22 June 2025. Curated by Fumio Nanjo, former director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, the exhibition unfolds across the buildings
We are pleased to inform you that “Kiefer / Van Gogh. A Dialogue between Wheat Fields and Starry Nights” will be on view at the Royal Academy of Arts in London from 28 June to 26 October 2025. The exhibition brings together, for the first time in the UK, works
Curated by Fumio Nanjo, former director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, the exhibition unfolds across the buildings and gardens of Kyoto’s historic Nijo Castle. Featuring new and recent works by Anselm Kiefer, including paintings and sculptures, the project establishes a dialogue between the German artist’s practice and the
For the first time in their history, the Van Gogh Museum and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam are joining forces to stage a major exhibition of one of the most important artists of our time: Anselm Kiefer. From his childhood, Kiefer has had a special connection to the work of Vincent
On stage at the San Carlo Theater in Naples is the one-act tragedy “EleKtra” extracted from Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s libretto from Sophocles’ ‘Electra’. The sets and costumes are by artist Anselm Kiefer.
The exhibition ARCHIVIALE_001 will open at the Museo del ‘900 on 10 April and will be on show until 30 June 2024. Unfortunately, the Museo del ‘900 will be closed from 11 to 13 April due to the G7 meetings in Milan, and will reopen to the public on Sunday
