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Production still for Anselm (2023), directed by Wim Wenders

Screening

Anselm

Tuesday, February 27, 2024, 5pm
UTA, Los Angeles
www.unitedtalent.com

Join Gagosian for a special screening of Anselm (2023), an immersive 3D documentary directed by Wim Wenders, which premiered at Festival de Cannes 2023. For over two years, Wenders traced Anselm Kiefer’s path from his native Germany to his former studio complex in southern France—now part of his foundation, Eschaton—weaving together pivotal moments in the artist’s life and decades-long career. This unique cinematic experience dives deep into Kiefer’s practice and reveals his inspiration and creative process, exploring his fascination with myth and history.

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Production still for Anselm (2023), directed by Wim Wenders

Still from Anselm (2023), directed by Wim Wenders

Screening

Anselm

Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 6:30pm
Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
www.maxxi.art

Join Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, in collaboration with Gagosian, for a special screening of Anselm (2023), an immersive 3D documentary directed by Wim Wenders, which premiered at Festival de Cannes 2023. For over two years, Wenders traced Anselm Kiefer’s path from his native Germany to his former studio complex in southern France—now part of his foundation, Eschaton—weaving together pivotal moments in the artist’s life and decades-long career. This unique cinematic experience dives deep into Kiefer’s practice and reveals his inspiration and creative process, exploring his fascination with myth and history.

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Still from Anselm (2023), directed by Wim Wenders

Anselm Kiefer’s safety curtain, Solaris (2023), for the 2023–24 season of the Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna. Artwork © Anselm Kiefer. Photo: Andreas Scheiblecker, courtesy museum in progress

Design

Anselm Kiefer
Vienna State Opera Safety Curtain

November 8, 2023–June 2024
Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna
www.mip.at

Anselm Kiefer has been selected to design the twenty-sixth Eiserner Vorhang (Safety Curtain), an annual project by Vienna’s museum in progress, a nonprofit art initiative that transforms the fire protection wall between the stage and the auditorium of the Vienna State Opera into a temporary exhibition space for contemporary art. Kiefer’s work is on view for the audience before and after performances and during intermissions.

Anselm Kiefer’s safety curtain, Solaris (2023), for the 2023–24 season of the Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna. Artwork © Anselm Kiefer. Photo: Andreas Scheiblecker, courtesy museum in progress

Production still for Anselm (2023), directed by Wim Wenders

Screening

Anselm

Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 7pm
IFC Center, New York
www.ifccenter.com

Join Gagosian and White Cube for a special screening of Anselm (2023), an immersive 3D documentary directed by Wim Wenders, which premiered at Festival de Cannes 2023. For over two years, Wenders traced Anselm Kiefer’s path from his native Germany to his former studio complex in southern France—now part of his foundation, Eschaton—weaving together pivotal moments in the artist’s life and decades-long career. This unique cinematic experience dives deep into Kiefer’s practice and reveals his inspiration and creative process, exploring his fascination with myth and history.

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Production still for Anselm (2023), directed by Wim Wenders

Anselm Kiefer, Extases féminines—Margherite Porete (Feminine Ecstasies––Margherite Porete), 2012 © Anselm Kiefer

Exhibition

Anselm Kiefer in
Les Fleurs du Mal

October 18–November 13, 2023
Maison Guerlain, Paris
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Les Fleurs du Mal, inspired by Charles Baudelaire’s poetry collection of the same name, is the sixteenth annual show at Maison Guerlain. The exhibition, whose title translates to The Flowers of Evil, addresses the kaleidoscopic world of flowers in paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, and photographs by twenty-six contemporary artists. Work by Anselm Kiefer is included.

Anselm Kiefer, Extases féminines—Margherite Porete (Feminine Ecstasies––Margherite Porete), 2012 © Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer’s permanent installation in the Panthéon, Paris. Artwork © Anselm Kiefer. Photo: Georges Poncet

In Conversation

Anselm Kiefer
Barry Bergdoll

Tuesday, May 30, 2023, 5–7pm
Columbia Global Center, Paris
globalcenters.columbia.edu

Anselm Kiefer will be in conversation with architectural historian and Columbia professor Barry Bergdoll exploring the role of architecture and space in the artist’s work. The exchange will address, among other works, Kiefer’s permanent installations in the Panthéon in Paris, a building about which Bergdoll has written extensively, including in the exhibition catalogue Le Panthéon: Symbole des révolutions (1989).

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Anselm Kiefer’s permanent installation in the Panthéon, Paris. Artwork © Anselm Kiefer. Photo: Georges Poncet

Installation view, Anselm Kiefer: Exodus, Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, November 19, 2022–June 16, 2023. Artwork © Anselm Kiefer. Photo: Jeff McLane

Reading and Talk

Jerome Rothenberg and Charles Bernstein
On Global Post-Holocaust Poetics inside Anselm Kiefer’s “Exodus”

Wednesday, June 14, 2023, 6:30pm
Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles

Join Gagosian and Beyond Baroque Literary | Arts Center for an evening with poets Jerome Rothenberg and Charles Bernstein inside Anselm Kiefer’s exhibition Exodus at Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles. Two of the most consequential figures in radical poetics over the past half century, Rothenberg and Bernstein will explore some of the themes that occupy Kiefer—Jewish mysticism, the poetry of Paul Celan, and the formulation of a global poetics in response to the Holocaust—in a conversation and readings of their poetry. 

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Installation view, Anselm Kiefer: Exodus, Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, November 19, 2022–June 16, 2023. Artwork © Anselm Kiefer. Photo: Jeff McLane

Production still for Anselm (2023), directed by Wim Wenders

Screening

Anselm
Special Screening at Festival de Cannes

Wednesday, May 17, 2023
Festival de Cannes, France
www.festival-cannes.com

Anselm (2023), directed by Wim Wenders, will have its premiere as a Special Screening within the Official Selection at the 76th Festival de Cannes in the South of France. This unique 3D cinematic experience dives deep into Anselm Kiefer’s work and reveals his life path, inspiration, and creative process, exploring his fascination with myth and history. Past and present are interwoven, diffusing the line between film and painting.

Production still for Anselm (2023), directed by Wim Wenders

Installation view, Anselm Kiefer: Exodus, Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, November 19, 2022–June 16, 2023. Artwork © Anselm Kiefer. Photo: Jeff McLane

Tour

Anselm Kiefer
Exodus

Saturday, April 15, 2023, 2pm
Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles

Curator, art historian, and theologian Daniel A. Siedell will lead a tour of Anselm Kiefer: Exodus, an exhibition of new work by the artist at Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles. A specialist in the connections between theology, aesthetics, and art making, Siedell will guide guests through the large-scale paintings and sculpture on view and address Kiefer’s philosophical, literary, and spiritual influences.

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Installation view, Anselm Kiefer: Exodus, Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, November 19, 2022–June 16, 2023. Artwork © Anselm Kiefer. Photo: Jeff McLane

“Anselm Kiefer: Exodus” Pop-Up Shop and Reading Room, Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, 2022. Photo: Jeff McLane

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Anselm Kiefer: Exodus
Pop-Up Shop and Reading Room

Through June 16, 2023
Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles

In conjunction with the exhibition Anselm Kiefer: Exodus, Gagosian is pleased to present a pop-up shop and reading room at Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles. Centered on the artist’s work, the shop features catalogues, monographs, and posters published for Kiefer’s exhibitions as well as rare books, alongside a broader selection of titles recently released by the gallery. The reading room provides an opportunity for visitors to peruse publications on Kiefer and texts that are relevant to his practice, including poetry by Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann; the Prose Edda, a body of thirteenth-century Icelandic literature that remains a major source of German mythology; and The Thief’s Journal by Jean Genet. The pop-up shop and reading room are open during exhibition hours.

“Anselm Kiefer: Exodus” Pop-Up Shop and Reading Room, Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, 2022. Photo: Jeff McLane

Anselm Kiefer à La Tourette (New York: Gagosian, in association with Le Couvent Sainte-Marie de La Tourette, Bernard Chauveau Édition, and Atelier Anselm Kiefer, 2020)

Online Reading

Anselm Kiefer à La Tourette

Anselm Kiefer à La Tourette is available for online reading from June 22 through July 20 as part of Artist Spotlight: Anselm Kiefer. This book was published on the occasion of the artist’s 2019 exhibition Anselm Kiefer à La Tourette at the Couvent Sainte-Marie de La Tourette, Éveux, France. In 1966 Kiefer spent a few weeks at La Tourette, the monastery designed by Le Corbusier, where he was inspired by the materiality of the architecture. Fifty-two years later he was invited to return to exhibit his work in dialogue with the spiritual place. Anselm Kiefer à La Tourette documents the installations, paintings, sculptures, and artist’s books that were on view, and includes a series of photographs of the monastery taken by the artist. The publication also features a foreword by Larry Gagosian, an essay by Brother Marc Chauveau, and a text by Kiefer originally written in 1966 following his stay.

Anselm Kiefer à La Tourette (New York: Gagosian, in association with Le Couvent Sainte-Marie de La Tourette, Bernard Chauveau Édition, and Atelier Anselm Kiefer, 2020)

Anselm Kiefer, Die Frauen der Antike, 1999–2002, installation view, La Ribaute, Barjac, France © Anselm Kiefer. Photo: Charles Duprat

Giveaway

Artist Spotlight: Anselm Kiefer
La Ribaute Private Tour and Lunch

Over the course of three decades, Anselm Kiefer has transformed La Ribaute—a 40-hectare site located in the south of France near Barjac, northwest of Avignon—into a uniquely immersive artistic environment.

Enter for a chance to join an exclusive tour of the grounds on Saturday, September 10, 2022, for you and a guest. The visit includes a guided walk-through led by Gagosian director Georges Armaos, featuring a talk with Kiefer studio director Waltraud Forelli, and a private lunch amid the artist’s monumental installations.

The giveaway begins on June 22 at 6am EDT and ends on June 29 at 6am EDT as part of Artist Spotlight: Anselm Kiefer. For terms and conditions, click here.

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Anselm Kiefer, Die Frauen der Antike, 1999–2002, installation view, La Ribaute, Barjac, France © Anselm Kiefer. Photo: Charles Duprat

Edmund de Waal, Einmal, 2020 © Edmund de Waal

Auction

Warburg Renaissance

Friday, March 4, 2022
Phillips, London
www.phillips.com

As part of Phillips’s 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, donated works by artists including Edmund de Waal, Anselm Kiefer, and Gerhard Richter will be offered in support of the Warburg Renaissance, a project to enhance the Warburg Institute’s facilities and programming. Proceeds will help fund the completion of the Institute’s renovation and expansion, led by Stirling Prize–winning architecture firm Haworth Tompkins, as well as provide support for new exhibitions, residencies, and commissions for contemporary artists, writers, and thinkers. The artworks are viewable at 30 Berkeley Square in London from February 23 to March 3.

Edmund de Waal, Einmal, 2020 © Edmund de Waal

Anselm Kiefer, der Morgenthau-Plan (The Morgenthau Plan), 2021 © Anselm Kiefer

Panel Discussion

Word, Image, and Memory
Aby Warburg and Anselm Kiefer

Tuesday, March 1, 2022, 12pm EST (5pm BST)

Join the Warburg Institute and Gagosian for an online panel discussion about word, image, and memory as it relates to the Institute’s founding mission and the work of Anselm Kiefer. The conversation takes place on the occasion of a benefit auction hosted by Philips on March 4 to raise funds for the Warburg Renaissance, a project that aims to enhance the Institute’s academic resources, teaching facilities, and public programming. Bill Sherman, director of the Warburg Institute, and Richard Calvocoressi and Robin Vousden, both directors at Gagosian, will discuss the painting Kiefer has donated, der Morgenthau-Plan (The Morgenthau Plan) (2021). To attend the event, register at sas.sym-online.com.

Anselm Kiefer, der Morgenthau-Plan (The Morgenthau Plan), 2021 © Anselm Kiefer

Sarah Sze, Tracing Fallen Sky, 2020 (detail), installation view, Sarah Sze: Night into Day, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris © Sarah Sze

In Conversation

Sarah Sze
With Anselm Kiefer and Emanuele Coccia

Thursday, April 15, 2021, 2pm edt

Sarah Sze will discuss her recent exhibition catalogue De nuit en jour/Night into Day—featuring contributions by Bruno Latour, Jean Nouvel, and Leanne Sacramone—with Anselm Kiefer and philosopher Emanuele Coccia, as part of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain’s Art Book Series. Sze will join from her studio in New York, while Kiefer and Coccia will speak from inside the exhibition Night into Day at Foundation Cartier. The trio will talk about Twice Twilight and Tracing Fallen Sky (both 2020), two works Sze created specifically for the Paris exhibition, and about Kiefer’s recently installed work at the Panthéon in ParisTo join the online event, visit www.fondationcartier.com.

Sarah Sze, Tracing Fallen Sky, 2020 (detail), installation view, Sarah Sze: Night into Day, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris © Sarah Sze

Anselm Kiefer: Transition from Cool to Warm (New York: Gagosian, 2017)

Online Reading

Anselm Kiefer
Transition from Cool to Warm

Anselm Kiefer: Transition from Cool to Warm is available for online reading from May 31 through July 1 as part of the From the Library series. The catalogue documents the artist’s exhibition at Gagosian New York in 2017. Central to this publication are more than forty watercolors made between 2012 and 2016, marking Kiefer’s return to the medium after forty years. The exhibition also featured over forty unique artist books and nine monumental landscape paintings, which are included in the catalogue. Essays by novelist Karl Ove Knausgård and art historian James Lawrence are included, along with an interview by art journalist Louisa Buck and the artist.

Anselm Kiefer: Transition from Cool to Warm (New York: Gagosian, 2017)

Gagosian at Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées, Paris, 2019

Visit

Gagosian at Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées

Opening reception: Saturday, October 12, 6:30–8pm
October 12–20, 2019
Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées, Paris
galerieslafayettechampselysees.com

In celebration of FIAC in Paris, Gagosian is pleased to collaborate with Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées on a two-floor pop-up takeover featuring products related to Gagosian artists. On the first floor, the Coin Culture section will feature catalogues, posters, apparel, and audio productions. The second floor, the Library, will house an additional selection of limited-edition books, publications, and catalogues raisonnés.

Download the full press release in English (PDF) or French (PDF)

Gagosian at Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées, Paris, 2019

Anselm Kiefer, Uraeus, 2017–18 (detail) © Anselm Kiefer. Photo: Georges Poncet

Public Installation

Anselm Kiefer
Uraeus

May 2–July 22, 2018
Rockefeller Center, New York
www.publicartfund.org

Uraeus is Anselm Kiefer’s first US site-specific public sculpture. Commissioned by Public Art Fund and Tishman Speyer, and presented by Gagosian, the work consists of a gigantic open book with eagle’s wings 30 feet in span, both made of lead, on top of a 20-foot-tall lead-clad stainless steel column. Clustered around the base are further outsize lead books, while a large snake coils up the column. Lead is one of the artist’s preferred materials owing to its soft, fluid properties traditionally associated with alchemical transformation, especially its second stage: dissolution.

Anselm Kiefer, Uraeus, 2017–18 (detail) © Anselm Kiefer. Photo: Georges Poncet

Anselm Kiefer, Uraeus, 2017–18 (detail) © Anselm Kiefer

Artist Talk

Anselm Kiefer

Monday, April 30, 2018, 6:30–8pm
New School, New York
www.publicartfund.org

Anselm Kiefer will speak with Richard Calvocoressi about his new work and past public art projects on the occasion of his new public installation Uraeus at Rockefeller Center, New York, on view May 2–July 22, 2018. To attend the event, purchase tickets at newschool.edu

Anselm Kiefer, Uraeus, 2017–18 (detail) © Anselm Kiefer

Installation view, Robert Therrien, Gagosian, West 24th Street, New York, April 6–May 26, 2017. Artwork © Robert Therrien/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Visit

Frieze Chelsea Night

Saturday, May 6, 2017, 6–8pm
Gagosian, West 24th Street and West 21st Street, New York

Galleries and non-profits located in Chelsea will remain open to Frieze audiences after hours. Robert Therrien will be on view at our West 24th Street gallery and Anselm Kiefer: Transition from Cool to Warm will be on view at our West 21st Street gallery.

Installation view, Robert Therrien, Gagosian, West 24th Street, New York, April 6–May 26, 2017. Artwork © Robert Therrien/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Anselm Kiefer, aller Tage Abend, aller Abende Tag (The Evening of All Days, The Day of All Evenings), 2014. Photo: Charles Duprat

In Conversation

Anselm Kiefer
Paul Holdengräber

Thursday, May 4, 2017, 7pm
New York Public Library
www.nypl.org

LIVE from the NYPL, an ongoing series of talks at the New York Public Library, will host a conversation between Anselm Kiefer and Paul Holdengräber. The pair will discuss Kiefer’s new work on the occasion of his exhibition Anselm Kiefer: Transition from Cool to Warm opening at Gagosian West 21st Street on May 5. Watch the live stream here.

Anselm Kiefer, aller Tage Abend, aller Abende Tag (The Evening of All Days, The Day of All Evenings), 2014. Photo: Charles Duprat