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Installation view, Proof of Life, Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany, May 19, 2017–February 25, 2018. Photo: Björn Behrens

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Proof of Life

May 19, 2017–February 25, 2018
Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
www.weserburg.de

Proof of Life brings together one hundred paintings, sculptures, and photographic works that investigate existential questions in a manner both palpable and profound. Work by Damien Hirst, Thomas Houseago, Anselm Kiefer, Sterling Ruby, and Richard Serra is included.

Installation view, Proof of Life, Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany, May 19, 2017–February 25, 2018. Photo: Björn Behrens

Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, 2003/05 © Gregory Crewdson

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Modes of Behavior Towards People When Affection Plays a Part

July 15–November 5, 2017
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
www.kunstmuseum-stuttgart.de

The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart will present a selection from the collection of Alison and Peter W. Klein. The Kleins, who have been collecting for over thirty years, have amassed a varied collection of more than two thousand works by international artists. Work by Gregory Crewdson, Anselm Kiefer, and Karin Kneffel is included.

Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, 2003/05 © Gregory Crewdson

Anselm Kiefer, The Door, 1973 © Anselm Kiefer

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Deutschland 8

September 16–October 31, 2017
Eight exhibition venues in Beijing, China
www.stiftungkunst.de

Deutschland 8 is the continuation of the intercultural dialogue between China and Germany that successfully started with the exhibition China 8 in 2015. New works by German artists will be on view at eight different museums throughout Beijing. The works selected will highlight the historical context and developments in German art from 1945 to the present day. Work by Georg Baselitz, Katharina Grosse, Andreas Gursky, Anselm Kiefer, Albert Oehlen, and Thomas Ruff is included.

Anselm Kiefer, The Door, 1973 © Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer, Daphné, 2016 © Anselm Kiefer. Photo by Georges Poncet

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Kiefer Rodin

March 14–October 22, 2017
Musée Rodin, Paris
www.musee-rodin.fr

For the centenary of Auguste Rodin’s death, Anselm Kiefer is exhibiting recent paintings and sculptures in dialogue with the museum’s collection. Inspired by the debris and offcuts of Rodin’s sculptures—combined with relics of his own life and other unusual materials—Kiefer’s recent work shares an instinctive originality with the French master’s oeuvre. The exhibition was co-organized by the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia and will be presented there this November.

Anselm Kiefer, Daphné, 2016 © Anselm Kiefer. Photo by Georges Poncet

Tatiana Trouvé, Untitled, 2007 © ADAGP, Paris 2017. Photo: Daniele Resini

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Dioramas

June 14–September 10, 2017
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
www.palaisdetokyo.com

This exhibition explores the diorama as an unexpected source of inspiration for contemporary art. At the intersection of art, cinema, and theater, this cross-disciplinary exhibition recontextualizes the diorama with a renewed approach to the history of spectatorship, including the influence of science and technology on popular culture, fun fairs, and exhibitions. Work by Duane Hanson, Anselm Kiefer, Tatiana Trouvé, Jeff Wall, and Tom Wesselmann is included.

Tatiana Trouvé, Untitled, 2007 © ADAGP, Paris 2017. Photo: Daniele Resini

Installation view, Regeneration Series: Anselm Kiefer from the Hall Collection, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 2017. Photo by Steven Brooke

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Regeneration Series
Anselm Kiefer from the Hall Collection

November 29, 2016–September 10, 2017
NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
nsuartmuseum.org

The Regeneration Series of exhibitions focuses on post–World War II artists whose work addresses issues of identity and the convergence of history and mythology. This exhibition includes more than fifty of Kiefer’s artist books, works on paper, paintings, and sculptures from 1969 to 2013.

Installation view, Regeneration Series: Anselm Kiefer from the Hall Collection, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 2017. Photo by Steven Brooke

Anselm Kiefer, For Velimir Khlebnikov, Fates of Nations, 2015–16 © Anselm Kiefer

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for Velimir Khlebnikov

May 30–September 3, 2017
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
www.hermitagemuseum.org

In 2016, Anselm Kiefer, inspired by his visit to Saint Petersburg, created a new exhibition project specially for the Hermitage Museum. In the triadic space of the colossal Nikolaevsky Hall in the Winter Palace, Kiefer has set his works dedicated to the Russian Futurist poet and word-creation experimentalist Velimir Khlebnikov (1885–1922). More than twenty new works were created for this show.

Anselm Kiefer, For Velimir Khlebnikov, Fates of Nations, 2015–16 © Anselm Kiefer

Photo by Anders Sune Berg

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For Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Voyage au bout de la nuit

April 1–August 6, 2017
Copenhagen Contemporary
cphco.org

Shrouded in lead, strewn with dried flowers, weighted down by books, the mid-century-style warplanes Anselm Kiefer created for his April show at the vast new Copenhagen Contemporary are designed to take symbolic flight only. With these works, alongside vast canvases of the desert, Kiefer’s great obsession for the colossal failures of mankind’s wartorn history suggests two destinations at once: a tragic landing from long ago as well as a potential future ascent into hope.

Photo by Anders Sune Berg

Brice Marden, Untitled, 1988–91 © Brice Marden/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York

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The Beginning of Everything
Drawings from the Janie C. Lee, Louisa Stude Sarofim, and David Whitney Collections

February 24–June 18, 2017
The Menil Collection, Houston
www.menil.org

In anticipation of the October 2017 opening of the Menil Drawing Institute, the museum is exhibiting a selection of drawings spanning the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century. The show highlights promised gifts from the collections of Janie C. Lee and Louisa Stude Sarofim, as well as works from David Whitney’s 2005 bequest, which include those by Balthus, Georg Baselitz, Helen Frankenthaler, Alberto Giacometti, Anselm Kiefer, Brice Marden, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Cy Twombly, and Rachel Whiteread.

Brice Marden, Untitled, 1988–91 © Brice Marden/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York

Richard Artschwager, Cerise, 2002 © 2015 Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Literary Devices

October 11, 2014–March 15, 2015
Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York
flcart.org

Literary Devices, which comprises works representing text, literary themes, and books themselves, explores the tension between language and image. The exhibition features works by over forty artists, including Richard Artschwager, Gregory Crewdson, Neil Jenney, Donald Judd, Mike Kelley, Anselm Kiefer, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Mark Tansey, and Cy Twombly.

Richard Artschwager, Cerise, 2002 © 2015 Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York