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.
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
The Albertina Museum is home one of the world’s most extensive collections of drawings, prints, and works on paper. Drawing from this remarkable treasury, the exhibition celebrates the diversity and fascination of paper as a medium in all its forms. Spanning from the 15th century to the present, the show
The Ravello Foundation and Galleria Lia Rumma present Le Donne dell’Antichità by Anselm Kiefer at Villa Rufolo from 11 July to 2 September 2025, on the occasion of the Ravello Festival. The exhibition explores the female figure as a generative, destructive, or initiatory force, through characters from Roman history, Greek
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
