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.
On Friday 17 April 2026 at 5:30 pm, at Teatro Dal Verme, Anselm Kiefer will take part in a conversation with Natacha Fabbri, historian of science and philosophy, moderated by Gabriella Belli, curator of the exhibition. The artist will reflect on the philosophical and symbolic foundations of his practice in
A new contemporary art museum is being established in Mantua, built around one of the most important private collections of the twentieth century: the Sonnabend Collection. The collection will be permanently displayed in the historic city centre, within the newly renovated Palazzo della Ragione. Developed through the vision of collector
From 28 April 2026, the Hortensia Herrero Art Centre (CAHH) in Valencia will present the first exhibition in the city dedicated to Anselm Kiefer, developed in close collaboration with the artist and spread across six galleries. The project stems from a long-standing relationship between Kiefer and collector Hortensia Herrero,
Running parallel to The Women Alchemists, which Kiefer conceived for the Sala delle Cariatidi at Palazzo Reale (open through September 2026), the exhibition at Lia Rumma further expands his continued research of the “alchemists,” delving deeper into the role of other female heroines who, over the centuries, made fundamental contributions
Anselm Kiefer dedicates the exhibition Le Alchimiste, conceived for Palazzo Reale, to women who contributed to the birth of modern science yet were excluded from historical narratives. The project brings together 42 large canvases in dialogue with the Sala delle Cariatidi, marked by the 1943 bombings, reinforcing themes of memory,
Fragility of the Eternal. From Pompeii to the Grand Tour and Beyond, at the National Museum of Art of Timișoara, explores the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 as a defining trauma in the Western imagination. Through the imagined voice of the Roman soldier Lucio Valerio Sacer—a survivor of
