Kiefer/Van Gogh: Unearthing Unfinished Business – Simon Schama – Artlyst Book Review
At seventeen, Anselm Kiefer embarked on a pilgrimage—funded by a travel grant—that would quietly shape his trajectory. He first followed… Read More
26 June 2025
At seventeen, Anselm Kiefer embarked on a pilgrimage—funded by a travel grant—that would quietly shape his trajectory. He first followed… Read More
26 June 2025
Kiefer’s dialogue with Van Gogh becomes part of an ever-expanding chain of artistic and intellectual transmission.
Tuesday—Saturday, 10am—6pm
When Anselm Kiefer first traced Vincent van Gogh’s footsteps at 18, clutching a travel grant and a head full of visions, he found more than inspiration…
24 June 2025
This focused exhibition is the first to consider the lasting influence that Van Gogh has had on Kiefer.
This focused exhibition, set across the three rooms of the RA’s smaller galleries, is the first to consider the lasting influence that Van Gogh has had on Kiefer.
A New Perspective on the Artist Anselm Kiefer – Women, Myth, and History – Texts by Various Contributors
19 March 2025
The Van Gogh Museum and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, collaborating for the first time on a common project, present Anselm Kiefer – Sag mir die Blumen sind (Where have all the flowers gone?…
15 March 2025
A monumental work by the German artist Anselm Kiefer, reaching no less than 24 metres in length, will be given pride of place in an exhibition of landmarks opening next spring in Amsterdam. In an unprecedented collaboration, the Van Gogh Museum… Read More
28 November 2024
Renowned German artist Anselm Kiefer has been honoured with the esteemed Queen Sonja Lifetime Achievement Award, marking a significant recognition… Read More
24 March 2024
“In the Beginning: Anselm Kiefer & Photography” is a luminous exploration delving into the arcane layers of Anselm Kiefer’s artistic practice.
14 February 2024
In ‘Anselm Kiefer – Finnegans Wake’, the artist’s new paintings, sculptures and installations respond to (that is, struggle with and transform) James Joyce’s novel of 1939.
8 June 2023
White Cube presents an exhibition of new paintings, sculptures and installations by Anselm Kiefer,
Wednesday-Saturday 10am-6pm Sunday 12-6pm
White Cube, in this instance, seems the perfect place for this exhibition. So perfect I feel it is over-designed. The perspex boxes of wires, cables are too perfectly matching, autumnal; this could be a fashion collection doesn’t Vogue recommend this kind of palette at this time of year, in tweed? Browns, rusts with a splash of turquoise? Nothing vulgar. Nothing synthetic. Organic colours.
25 November 2019
A major solo exhibition by Anselm Kiefer encompassing large-scale painting and installation.
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm Sunday 12pm - 6pm
Artlyst has recently visited Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, to walk among the monumental towers of one of Anselm Kiefer’s most iconic of works, The Seven Heavenly Palaces.
3 November 2018
White Cube presents a new sculpture by Anselm Kiefer in 9 x 9 x 9 at Bermondsey.
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm Sunday 12pm - 6pm
When visiting one of Sorigué Foundation’s latest art installations at the family-run industrial and agricultural company – located at the entrance of the industrial complex of La Plana del Corb (Balaguer, Lleida, Catalonia)
7 April 2018
Just occasionally, however, there’s a show in a commercial gallery that’s so resoundingly ambitious and so self-evidently important that it’s bound to cause a stir. Shows of this type offer an additional, though usually little mentioned, benefit: you get in for free, which is not true of blockbusters at the two Tates, the R.A. or the N.G. Impecunious art-lovers ought to scurry along to the huge Anselm Kiefer show that has just opened at White Cube in Bermondsey. Kiefer is, after all, on of the very biggest names in contemporary art.
5 December 2016
An exhibition by Anselm Kiefer featuring new, large-scale installation, sculpture, and painting, titled ‘Walhalla’ opened at White Cube Bermondsey last night. This is one not to miss! The exhibition refers to the mythical place in Norse mythology, a paradise for those slain in battle, as well as to the Walhalla neo-classical monument, built by Ludwig I King of Bavaria in 1842 to honour heroic figures in German history.
23 November 2016
Anselm Kiefer is one of the most important post-war European artists. Born in Germany in 1945, he now lives and… Read More
9 February 2015
After the truly monumental retrospective of Anselm Kiefer’s work at the Royal Academy, which was the most significant display of… Read More
5 January 2015
The Margulies Collection in Miami has acquired ‘Die Erdzeitalter’ (Ages Of The World) (2014), the impressive installation that serves as… Read More
25 October 2014
The Royal Academy of Arts presents a truly monumental retrospective of Anselm Kiefer’s work; the most significant display of the… Read More
25 September 2014
The first major UK retrospective of the highly acclaimed German artist Anselm Kiefer’s is coming to the Royal Academy in… Read More
1 April 2014
The Royal Academy in London is mounting a major a retrospective exhibition of the artist Anselm Kiefer who has made… Read More
4 January 2014
White Cube Bermondsey stages UK’s largest ever Anselm Kiefer exhibition to great effect Almost three years after his last show… Read More
9 December 2011
White Cube Bermondsey is mounting a new exhibition of work by the internationally renowned artist Anselm Kiefer. Staged across 11,000… Read More
1 December 2011
The Rijksmuseum has devoted its south façade and auditorium to Steve McQueen’s Occupied City, an audacious and urgent work…
14 September 2025
The Royal Academy will stage the most comprehensive exhibition of Kerry James Marshall ever seen in Europe. Opening on 20 September 2025…
9 September 2025
To speak of British art’s transformation in the 1980s without acknowledging Doris Saatchi is to tell half the story. Born Doris Lockhart in 1947, the Glasgow-raised….
6 August 2025
If you have any time off work this summer, please visit these art exhibitions, which are due to close in August. All the exhibitions have been singled out by the Artlyst team as well worth a visit.
14 July 2025
For the June diary, I begin with two important recently published books about religion and contemporary art.
2 June 2025
Easter regularly brings exhibitions exploring themes drawn from Christianity; this year is no exception.
31 March 2025