Anselm Kiefer

In this selection of recent works, exhibited at White Cube Mason’s Yard, Anselm Kiefer rekindles an artistic kinship first ignited in his youth, paying homage to the landscapes of Vincent van Gogh. Although more than a century separates the two artists, Kiefer – like Van Gogh – approaches the landscape as a resonant site of artistic and philosophical enquiry, where the material presence of paint serves as both medium and agent, summoning a poetics of remembrance, affect, and metaphysical reflection.

Kiefer’s engagement with the Dutch master traces back to a formative journey he undertook in 1963 at the age of 18, following in Van Gogh’s footsteps through Europe – from the Netherlands to Belgium, Paris, and finally to Arles, where, in the final years of his life, Van Gogh created many of his most iconic works. These are the very paintings Kiefer illuminates through his own visionary idiom. In the body of work exhibited at Mason’s Yard, notable affinities emerge between the two artists, evident in their shared investment in landscape as a site of existential thought and emotional richness, and in their commitment to a sensorially expressive painterly language. These commonalities, far from eliding difference, render legible their distinct artistic sensibilities.

See also Kiefer / Van Gogh at Royal Academy of Arts, 28 June 2025 – 26 October 2025

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