Anselm Kiefer's ongoing preoccupation with cultural memory, identity and history lends his works their multi-layered subject matter, fuelled by a variety of historical, mythological and literary sources. These include references to Greek and Germanic mythology, alchemy, and Christian symbolism, as well as the writings of celebrated medieval lyricist Walther von der Vogelweide, Romanian-born poet Paul Celan, French poet and critic Charles Baudelaire, Russian Futurist Velimir Khlebnikov, and Austrian post-war poet Ingeborg Bachmann, among others.
Over the past forty years, Kiefer's practice has developed through the accumulation, mingling and reworking of themes, motifs and constellations which recur across diverse media. The language of material plays an essential role in his works, which often have a sedimentary geological texture. Highly symbolic connections emerge from lead, concrete, dirt, dried plants, glass, barbed wire and the inclusion of found objects such as books, scythes and model ships. Lead is of particular importance to the artist, who has described it as 'the only material heavy enough to carry the weight of human history'. Many of his chosen materials and themes contain alchemical references, such as the transmutation of base metals into gold that becomes a metaphor for spiritual enlightenment.
While many of his works can be interpreted in the context of fraught German identity in the post-war era, Kiefer's preoccupation with myth and memorialisation encompasses the full sweep of human history. This is expressed not only thematically, but also on the level of form itself, through his treatment of materials and use of texture. The dense tactility of his works suggest the accumulations of history, year upon year, strata upon strata, with worn surfaces that seem to reflect the ravages of passing time. This is amplified in canvases and sculptures that are intentionally left outside to become weathered by the elements: 'I need nature, the changing weather, the heat and the cold. Sometimes I leave my paintings out in the rain, I throw acid, earth or water over them.' Change and decay are built into his works, which continue to evolve organically even after they are 'finished'.
The preservation of knowledge is an important theme for Kiefer, whose extensive study of history and literature informs his practice. This is reflected in his numerous artist's books and book sculptures, which represent important repositories of learning, religion and culture. He inscribes lines of poetry, quotations and names in his distinctive handwriting on works that pay tribute to predecessors who have shaped our knowledge and understanding of the world. As he explains, 'I think in pictures. Poems help me with this. They are like buoys in the sea. I swim to them, from one to the other. In between, without them, I am lost. They are the handholds where something masses together in the infinite expanse. Sometimes the ruins of things past condense into new words and contexts.'
Anselm Kiefer was born in 1945 in Donaueschingen, Germany. In 1992, he moved to France, where he lives and works between Paris and Barjac near Avignon. The artist studied law, literature and linguistics before attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, and later in Düsseldorf, where he was a student of Joseph Beuys. He was selected for the West German Pavilion at the 39th Venice Biennale in 1980 and his works have since been shown in prominent solo exhibitions internationally, including at the Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (1984); Art Institute of Chicago (1987); Nationalgalerie, Berlin (1991); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1998); Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2001); Guggenheim Bilbao (2007); Royal Academy of Arts, London (2014); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2015); Bibliothèque National de France (2015); Albertina, Vienna (2016); State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (2017); Rodin Museum, Paris (2017); Met Breuer, New York (2018); Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (2019).
Kiefer was presented the Praemium Imperiale Award by Japan in 1999, and in 2008 he received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. In 2007 he was the first artist since Georges Braque to have a permanent installation commissioned for the Louvre in Paris, and in 2018 his site-specific sculpture Uraeus was exhibited in front of the Rockefeller Center, New York.
French President Emmanuel Macron commissioned Anselm Kiefer to create a permanent installation for the Panthéon in Paris in 2020. An exhibition of monumental works by Anselm Kiefer dedicated to Paul Celan was on view at the Grand Palais Éphémère in Paris until 11 January 2022.
2025
Permanent exhibition, Haus Kiefer, Rastatt-Ottersdorf, Germany
Anselm Kiefer: Wasserfarben, Nolde Museum Seebüll, Neukirchen, Germany
Anselm Kiefer: Solaris, Nijo Castle, Kyoto, Japan
Becoming the Ocean, Saint Louis Art Museum, MO, USA
Kiefer / Van Gogh, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Anselm Kiefer: Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Anselm Kiefer: Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Anselm Kiefer: Early Works, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
2024
Mein Rhein, Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Fallen Angels, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
2023
Anselm Kiefer - The Consciousness of Stones, Galleria Lorcan O'Neill, Rome, Italy
La photographie au commencement, LaM (Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut), Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France
Herbst (Autumn), Heredium, Dajeon, Korea
Anselm Kiefer, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands
Anselm Kiefer, Château La Coste, Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France
Voglio vedere le mie montagne - für Giovanni Segantini, Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples, Italy
2022
Anselm Kiefer: Exodus, Gagosian at the Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Anselm Kiefer: Exodus, Gagosian, New York, NY, USA
Anselm Kiefer: three works, three poets, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Anselm Kiefer: Wer jetzt kein Haus hat, Thaddaeus Ropac, Seoul, South Korea
Anselm Kiefer – Essence-Eksistence, Artipelag, Gustavsberg, Sweden
Anselm Kiefer: Questi scritti, quando verranno bruciati, daranno finalmente un po’ di luce (Andrea Emo), Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy
Anselm Kiefer: Hommage à un poète, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Pantin, France
2021
Anselm Kiefer: Pour Paul Celan, Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris, France
Anselm Kiefer: Le Dormeur du val, Galerie Bastian, Berlin, Germany
Anselm Kiefer: Field of the Cloth of Gold, Gagosian, Le Bourget, Paris, France
2020
Anselm Kiefer, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Anselm Kiefer: Für Walther von der Vogelweide, Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Anselm Kiefer. Opus Magnum, Franz Marc Museum, Kochel am See, Germany
2019
Anselm Kiefer: Superstrings, Runes, The Norns, Gordian Knot, White Cube, London, UK
Anselm Kiefer à La Tourette, Couvent de La Tourette, Éveux, France
Anselm Kiefer, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands
Anselm Kiefer aus der Sammlung Walter, Sonderausstellung Kunstmuseum Walter, Galerie Noah, Augsburg, Germany
Anselm Kiefer. Books and Woodcuts, Jan Michalski Foundation, Montricher, Switzerland; The Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
2018
Anselm Kiefer: Fuigit Amor, Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples, Italy
Artist Rooms: Anselm Kiefer, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, UK
Anselm Kiefer: For Vicente Huidobro, White Cube, London, UK
Anselm Kiefer: Lebenszeit – Weltzeit, Galerie Bastian, Berlin, Germany
Anselm Kiefer: Uraeus, Rockefeller Center, New York, NY, USA
Für Andrea Emo, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Pantin, France
2017
Provocations: Anselm Kiefer at the Met Breuer, Met Breuer, New York, NY, USA
Anselm Kiefer, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Transition from Cool to Warm, Gagosian, New York, NY, USA
Anselm Kiefer, for Velimir Khlebnikov. Fates of Nations, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
For Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Voyage au bout de la nuit, Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
Kiefer Rodin, Musée Rodin, Paris, France; Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Anselm Kiefer: Bilder, Galerie Bastian, Berlin, Germany
2016
Anselm Kiefer, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, FL, USA
Anselm Kiefer. Die Holzschnitte [The Woodcuts], Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Walhalla, White Cube Bermondsey, London, UK
Regeneration Series: Anselm Kiefer from the Hall Collection, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, FL, USA
Anselm Kiefer: Die Welt – ein Buch. Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany
2015
Anselm Kiefer, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Anselm Kiefer. Im Gewitter der Rosen, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Anselm Kiefer. Paintings, Sculpture and Installation, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, FL, USA
The Seven Heavenly Palaces, Hangarbicocca, Milan, Italy
Artist Rooms: Anselm Kiefer, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, UK
Anselm Kiefer. Paintings, White Cube, São Paulo, Brazil
Anselm Kiefer. Works from the Grothe Collection, Serlachius Museum Gösta, Mänttä, Finland
Anselm Kiefer. Books, Bibliothèques Nationale de France, Paris, France
2014
Anselm Kiefer. Johannis-Nacht, Mönchehaus Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar, Germany
Anselm Kiefer, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Anselm Kiefer. Der Rhein, Chapel of Mary Magdalene, Alba, Italy
2013
Anselm Kiefer. Der Rhein, Galerie Bastian, Berlin, Germany
Anselm Kiefer. Morgenthau Plan, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Anselm Kiefer. Un maestro della pintura, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Spain
Gas, Natural, A Coruña, Spain
Anselm Kiefer, Hall Art Foundation at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, USA
Early Anselm Kiefer: Selections from the Hall Collection and Kiefer studio, The Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, USA
Anselm Kiefer. Beyond Landscape, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
Anselm Kiefer. Walther von der Vogelweide, für Lia, Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples, Italy
2012
Anselm Kiefer. Die Ungeborenen, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin / Paris, France
Anselm Kiefer. Works from the Essl Collection, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg/Vienna, Austria
Anselm Kiefer. Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom, White Cube, Hong-Kong
Anselm Kiefer, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Am Anfang. Anselm Kiefer, Works from the Hans Grothe Collection, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
Anselm Kiefer. Works from 1988 to 1993, Lippische Gesellschaft für Kunst e.V., Schloss Detmold, Germany
Anselm Kiefer. Memorabilia, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany
Anselm Kiefer - La mezzaluna fertile, Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan, Italy
Anselm Kiefer. Morgenthau Plan, Gagosian Gallery, Le Bourget / Paris, France
2011
Anselm Kiefer dans la collection Würth, Musée Würth France Erstein, Erstein, France
Anselm Kiefer. Die Argonauten, Ivorypress Art + Books Space II, Madrid, Spain
Anselm Kiefer. Drawings from the Sonnabend Collection, Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Anselm Kiefer. Des Meeres und der Liebe Wellen, White Cube, London, Square, UK
Kiefer & Rembrandt, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Anselm Kiefer. Salt of the Earth, Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, Venice, Italy
Anselm Kiefer. Alkahest, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Anselm Kiefer. Grothe Collection Selection, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
Anselm Kiefer. Shevirat Hakelim, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Anselm Kiefer. Il Mistero delle Cattedrali, White Cube Bermondsey London, UK
Anselm Kiefer. Artist Rooms on tour with the Art Fund, Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales, UK
2010
Anselm Kiefer. Palmsonntag, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada
Anselm Kiefer. Die Ordnung der Engel, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome, Italy
Anselm Kiefer. Unfruchtbare Landschaften, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Anselm Kiefer, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Anselm Kiefer. Artist Rooms on Tour with the Art Fund, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Anselm Kiefer, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, Antwerp, Netherlands
Anselm Kiefer. Next Year in Jerusalem, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Anselm Kiefer. Europa, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany
2009
Anselm Kiefer. Hortus philosophorum, Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy
From the Met to the Met. Anselm Kiefer and Wagner’s Ring, GalleryMet Metropolitan Opera Lincoln Center, New York, NY, USA
Anselm Kiefer. Obres de la col·lecció Grothe, Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Palma, Majorca, Spain
Anselm Kiefer. Karfunkelfee / The Fertile Crescent, White Cube Hoxton Square and White Cube Mason's Yard, London, UK
Anselm Kiefer. Artist Rooms on tour with the Art Fund, Tate Modern, London, UK
2008
Anselm Kiefer, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, USA with an accompanying installation: Anselm Kiefer. Palmsonntag, First Baptist Church Gym, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Kiefer e Mao. Che mille fiori fioriscano, Triennale Bovisa di Milano, Milan, Italy
Anselm Kiefer: Heroische Sinnbilder/Heroic Symbols, Galerie Bastian, Berlin, Germany
Anselm Kiefer. Maria durch ein Dornwald ging, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Anselm Kiefer. Bücher, Céline and Heiner Bastian, Berlin, Germany
Anselm Kiefer. Geheimnis der Farne, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Anselm Kiefer aus der Sammlung Großhaus, Stiftung Schleswig Holsteinische Landesmuseen, Schloß Gottorf, Germany
2007
Anselm Kiefer. Aperiatur Terra, White Cube Mason’s Yard, London, UK
Anselm Kiefer, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Anselm Kiefer. Sternenfall / Chute d’étoiles, Monumenta, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Jericho, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Anselm Kiefer au Louvre, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
Anselm Kiefer. Wege der Weltweisheit/Die Frauen der Revolution, Arp Museum, Bahnhof Rolandseck, Germany
Anselm Kiefer. Die Grobe Fracht, Biblioteca San Giorgio, Pistoia, Italy
Anselm Kiefer. Sculpture and Paintings from the Hall Collection, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA, USA
Anselm Kiefer. Neue Werke aus Privatsammlungen, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
2006
Anselm Kiefer. Odi Navali, Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples, Italy
Anselm Kiefer. Dein und mein Alter und das Alter der Welt, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome, Italy
Anselm Kiefer. Velimir Chlebnikov, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, CT, USA
Anselm Kiefer. Für Paul Celan, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac and Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Anselm Kiefer. War – Moon, Galerie Daniel Blau, Münich, Germany
2005
Anselm Kiefer a Villa Medici. Die Frauen, Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
Anselm Kiefer. Part I: Für Chlebnikov, White Cube Hoxton Square, London, UK
Anselm Kiefer. Part II: Von den Verlorenen gerührt, die der Glaube nicht trug, erwachen die Trommeln im Fluss, White Cube Hoxton Square, London, UK
Anselm Kiefer. Für Paul Celan, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Anselm Kiefer. Heaven and Earth, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
2004
Anselm Kiefer, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples, Italy
I sette palazzi Celesti, Hangar Bicocca, Fondazione Pirelli, Milan, Italy
Anselm Kiefer. Lasst 1000 Blumen blühen, Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
2003
Anselm Kiefer: Am Anfang, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2002
Anselm Kiefer, A.E.I.O.U., Musikfestival Salzburg, Furtwänglerpark, Salzburg, Austria
Anselm Kiefer. La Vie secrète des plantes, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Anselm Kiefer. Jakobs Traum, Kunstverein Neckar-Odenwald, Mosbach, Germany
Surface Tension. Works by Anselm Kiefer from the Broad Collections and the Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, MA, USA
Anselm Kiefer. Merkaba, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Anselm Kiefer, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, South Korea
2001
Anselm Kiefer. Les Reines de France, Le Rectangle, Lyon, France
Anselm Kiefer. Painting, Woodcuts, Sculpture, Books, Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Anselm Kiefer. Maleri 1998-2000, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Anselm Kiefer. Die sieben Himmelspaläste, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Anselm Kiefer, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2000
Anselm Kiefer. Recente Werken 1996-1999, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Anselm Kiefer, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Anselm Kiefer. Die Frauen der Antike, Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples, Italy
Anselm Kiefer, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Chevirat Ha-Kelim/Le bris des Vases, Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
Anselm Kiefer. Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK
1999
Anselm Kiefer. Stelle cadenti, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Anselm Kiefer. Die Frauen der Antike, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Anselm Kiefer. Che cento fiori fioriscano, Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan, Italy
1998
Anselm Kiefer. Dein und mein Alter und das Alter der Welt, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Anselm Kiefer, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Anselm Kiefer. The Hakone Open-Air Museum in cooperation with Entwistle Gallery Japan, Hakone, Japan
Anselm Kiefer. El viento, el tiempo, el silencio, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Palacio Velázquez, Madrid, Spain
Anselm Kiefer, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Anselm Kiefer, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Anselm Kiefer. Woodcuts 1977-1997, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Anselm Kiefer. Works on Paper, 1969-1993, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
1997
Anselm Kiefer. Himmel-Erde, Museo Correr, Venice, Italy
Anselm Kiefer. Woodcuts, Museo Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
1996
Anselm Kiefer en México, del paisaje a la metafora: pinturas y libros del artista aleman, La Fundacion Cultural Televisa, A.C y el Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporáneo, México City, Mexico
Anselm Kiefer. Cette obscure clarté qui tombe des étoiles, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Anselm Kiefer. I Hold All Indias in my Hand, Anthony d’Offay Gallery and South London Gallery, London, UK
1995
Anselm Kiefer, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
1993
Anselm Kiefer. 20 Years of Solitude, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Anselm Kiefer. Melancholia, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo; Kyoto National Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan; Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1992
Anselm Kiefer, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Anselm Kiefer. The Women of the Revolution, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK
Anselm Kiefer, Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples, Italy
1991
Anselm Kiefer. Bücher 1969–1990, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany; Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Anselm Kiefer, Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Anselm Kiefer. Nachtschattengewächse, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
1990
Anselm Kiefer. Lilith, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Anselm Kiefer. Jason, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, UK
Anselm Kiefer. Bücher 1969–1989, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Anselm Kiefer. Über Räume und Völker, Städtische Galerie im Städel, Frankfurt au Main, Germany
Anselm Kiefer. Johannis-Nacht, Kaisering, Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar, Germany
1989
Anselm Kiefer. New Paintings and Sculpture. The High Priestess – Zweistromland, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK
Anselm Kiefer. Der Engel der Geschichte. Mohn und Gedächtnis, Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
Anselm Kiefer, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw, Poland
1987
Anselm Kiefer, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Anselm Kiefer, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw, Poland
Anselm Kiefer, The Art Institute, Chicago; Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
1986
Anselm Kiefer, Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
Anselm Kiefer. Bilder / Schilderijen 1980–1986, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1985
Anselm Kiefer. Auszug aus Ägypten, Flight from Egypt, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1984
Anselm Kiefer, Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
Anselm Kiefer, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany; ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Anselm Kiefer: Peintures 1983-1984, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
1983
Anselm Kiefer, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway
Anselm Kiefer: Paintings and Watercolours, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK
Anselm Kiefer. Bücher und Gouachen, Hans-Thoma-Museum, Bernau, Germany
1982
Anselm Kiefer, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Anselm Kiefer. Paintings and Books, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Anselm Kiefer, Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
Anselm Kiefer, Galerie Helen van der Meij, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Anselm Kiefer, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1981
Anselm Kiefer, Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
Anselm Kiefer, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Anselm Kiefer. Bücher, Galerie Six Friedrich + Sabine Kunst, Munich, Germany
Anselm Kiefer, Galleria Salvatore Ala, Milan, Italy
Anselm Kiefer. Aquarelle 1970-1980, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Anselm Kiefer. Margarete - Sulamith, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
1980
Anselm Kiefer. Bilder und Bücher, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany
Anselm Kiefer. Verbrennen, verholzen, versenken, versanden, West German Pavilion, 39th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Anselm Kiefer. Bilder und übermalte Photoarbeiten, Galerie Six Friedrich + Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany
Anselm Kiefer, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Anselm Kiefer. Schilderijen, Houtsneden en Boeken, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
Anselm Kiefer, Galerie Helen van der Meij, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1979
Anselm Kiefer. Bücher, Galerie Helen van der Meij, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Anselm Kiefer. Schilderijen en aquarellen, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
1978
Anselm Kiefer. Wege der Weltweisheit – Die Hermannsschlacht, Galerie Maier-Hahn, Düsseldorf, Germany
Anselm Kiefer. Bilder und Bücher, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
1977
Anselm Kiefer, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Anselm Kiefer. Ritt an die Weichsel, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany
Anselm Kiefer, Galerie Helen van der Meij, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1976
Anselm Kiefer. Siegfried vergisst Brünhilde, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany
1975
Anselm Kiefer. Bücher, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany
1974
Anselm Kiefer. Alarichs Grab, Galerie Felix Handschin, Basel, Switzerland
Anselm Kiefer. Malerei der verbrannten Erde, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany
Anselm Kiefer. Heliogabal, Galerie t’Venster (in cooperation with Rotterdamse Kunststichting and Goethe Institut), Rotterdam, Netherlands
1973
Anselm Kiefer. Der Nibelungen Leid, Galerie im Goethe-Institut, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1972
Anselm Kiefer. Notung, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany
1970
Anselm Kiefer. Bilder und Bücher, Galerie am Kaiserplatz, Karlsruhe, Germany
2025
I / witness / gold-paved / Shanghai, START Museum, Shanghai, China
Woman in a Rowboat, Olivia Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico
"Are we still up to it?" – Art & Democracy, Herrenchiemsee Palace, Chiemsee, Germany
2024
Mirror of the Mind: Figuration in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, El Espacio 23, Miami, FL, USA
Van Gogh et les étoiles, Fondation Van Gogh, Arles, France
History, A microcosmic perspective, 20/21 espacio de arte, Tijarafe, La Palma, Spain
Kiefer & Baselitz, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark
2023
Lacan, the exhibition, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
DIX AND THE PRESENT, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Alchemy, Thaddaeus Ropac, London, UK
2021
Diversity United. Contemporary European Art. Moscow. Berlin. Paris., Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia; Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, Germany; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2020
30 Years in Paris, Thaddeaus Ropac, Paris Pantin, France
2019
Baselitz-Richter-Polke-Kiefer. The Early Years of the Old Masters, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Opéra Monde. La quête d'un art total, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
15eme Biennale de Lyon, Couvent de la Tourette, Eveux, France
2018
Proof of Life, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
Kiefer Rodin, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, USA
The Elephant in the Room, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
2016
Dream States: Contemporary Photography and Videos, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Superflat Collection: From Shohaku and Rasanjin to Anselm Kiefer, Yokohama Museum pf Art, Yokohama, Japan
Embracing the Contemporary: The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2015
Space Age, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, France
Proportio, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
German Art since 1960, Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria
Artist Rooms, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Artists for Artists: 51st Anniversary Exhibition to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Matthew Marks, New York, NY, USA
Meet Me Halfway: Selections from the Anita Reiner Collection, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Books Beyond Artists : Words and Images, IvoryPress, Madrid, Spain
2014
Eurasia. A view on painting, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Pantin, France
Peter Marino: One Way, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL, USA
Bad Thoughts - Collection Martijn and Jeannette Sanders, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Kunst-Geschichten, Museum der Moderne Salzburg Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria
Forty Years of the Collection - Ten Years of the Museum, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
An Inner Dialogue - The Contemporary Self-Portrait, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Traces of Modernism, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
2013
DISASTER, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Pantin
De l'Allemagne, 1800-1939. De Friedrich à Beckmann, Louvre, Paris, France
Gegenlicht. German Art from the George Economou Collection, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
Postwar German Art in the Collection, Saint Louis Art Museum, St Louis, MO, USA
Art & Textiles – Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Transforming the Known: Works from The Bert Kreuk Collection, Gemeente Museum, Den Haag, Netherlands
2012
Gallery Selection, Eaton Fine Art, West Palm Beach, FL, USA
Meeresrauschen, upstairs berlin, Berlin, Germany
Sammlung Marx, Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland
RA Now, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
To Be With Art Is All We Ask, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway
Sehnsucht, Gaasbeek Castle Estate, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Highlights 2012, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Spirits of Internationalism, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Highlights 2012, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
BABEL, Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Lille, France
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK
ARTandPRESS, Martin–Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
2011
Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy, London, UK
The Pilgrim, The Tourist, The Flaneur (and The Worker), Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
L’Insoutenable légèreté de l’être, Yvon Lambert, Paris & New York
Die Kunst der Entschleunigung - Bewegung und Ruhe in der modernen Kunst, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Die Sammlung Marx - Eine Auswahl, Atlas Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
Kunsthalle Darmstadt macht Schule, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
ALBERTINA CONTEMPORARY - GERHARD RICHTER BIS KIKI SMITH, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
I promise to love you - Caldic Collectie, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Arp, Beckmann, Munch, Kirchner, Warhol … Klassiker in Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
Aphasic Disturbance - Chelsea Space, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK
2010
Iles jamais trouvées, Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France
I Believe in Miracles - 10thanniversary of the Lambert Collection, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Verortungen - Die Frage nach dem Raum in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Picasso to Julie Mehretu, British Museum, London, UK
Going International, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA
Look Up! Natural Porto Art Show, Various Venues, Porto, Portugal
The Vision of Contemporary Art, Artsonje Museum, Gyeongju Bomun, Korea
Memory, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT, USA
Isole mai Trovate – Islands never found, Greek State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA, USA
Paris-Karlsruhe-Berlin, Musée Würth France, Erstein, France
An die Natur. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der ALTANA Kunstsammlung, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany
An die Natur. Die ALTANA Kunstsammlung - Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst - GfZK, Leipzig, Germany
75/65 Der Sammler, das Unternehmen und seine Kollektion, Museum Würth, Künzelsau, Germany
Resonance, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan
The Wing in the Contemporary Art, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Die Bilder tun was mit mir…, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
Isola mai trovate / Islands never found, Palazzo Ducale, Genua, Italy
Size does matter, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA
HomeLessHome, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
2009
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK
Anselm Kiefer, Antony Gormley, Antony Caro, Jesus College, Cambridge, UK
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, RCA, London, UK
Fuentes. Non-European Influences on Contemporary Artists, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Before the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Post Modern Germany, The McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Wahlverwandtschaften II, Neues Museum Weimar, Weimar, Germany
Just what is it..., ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
A Look at Contemporary Art, Artsonje Museum, Gyeongju Bomun, Korea
MOCA´s First Thirty Years - MOCA, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Essential Experiences - Palazzo Riso, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo, Italy
Schenkung Thaddaeus Ropac, Museum der Moderne, MdM Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria
Open, ZOYA Museum, Modra, Slovakia
Kunst und Kalter Krieg – Deutsche Positionen 1945-1989 Art of Two Germanys / Cold War Cultures, Deutsches Historisches Museum - DHM, Berlin, Germany
a Hartung a Warhol. Presenze internazionali nella collezione Cozzani. Opere dalle raccolte del CAMeC - CAMeC - Centro de Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Spezia, La Spezia, Italy
El tiempo del Arte, Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
PAISAJES CRUZADOS Miradas a la colección de Es Baluard, Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Joseph Beuys and His Students - Works From The Deutsche Bank Collection, Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Die Kunst ist super!, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
Weltanschauung/Visione Del Mondo - Art Forum Würth Capena, Capena, Italy
Passions partagées. De Cézanne à Rothko, chefs-d’œuvre du XXe siècle dans les collections privées suisses, Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland
Young classics - chapters from the contemporary art collection, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
From Dürer to Kiefer - Five Centuries of Graphic Arts, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
In-finitum, Museo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Visiones de Confin, IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Kunst und Kalter Krieg - Deutsche Positionen 1945 - 1989, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg, Germany
Bücher, Bücher, Bücher –Nichts als Bücher, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim, Germany
15 Jahre Sammlung Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg - Gegen den Strich, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Da Hartung a Warhol, CAMeC - Centro de Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Spezia, La Spezia, Italy
Sonderromantik - Deutsche Malerei aus der Sammlung Würth, Forum Würth Arlesheim, Arlesheim, Switzerland
SECHZIG JAHRE. SECHZIG WERKE. Kunst aus der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
XIVa Quadriennale di Roma, Quadriennale di Roma, Rome, Italy
Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures, Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Rotating Views #2, Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway
Im Blick des Sammlers, Museum Würth, Künzelsau, Germany
2008
Between Impressionism and Expressionism, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France
The Stranger, Yvon Lambert, New York Origins, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, USA
Gouge: The Modern Woodcut 1870 to Now, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Natur. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der ALTANA Kunstsammlung, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
Mediation Biennale 08 - Mediation Biennale, Posen, Poland
Von Munch bis Beckmann, von Jorn bis Gertsch. 100 Jahre Holzschnitt, Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden, Germany
Origins, HVCCA - Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, USA
To be a teacher is my greatest work of art, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Ahlen, Germany
HeartQuake, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
The Immediate Touch: German, Austrian, Swiss Drawings from St. Louis Collections, 1946–2007, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO, USA
Geografías (in)visibles Arte contemporáneo latinoaméricano en la Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Centro Cultural Eduardo León Jimenes, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
Figur Mythos zeichen, Städtische Galerie Fruchthalle Rastatt, Rastatt, Germany
Lost Paradise – Der Blick des Engels, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
Le Grand Tour, Académie de France à Rome - Villa Médicis, Rome, Italy
Blood on Paper - the Art of the Book, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Konstellationen III, Städel Museum, Frankfurt au Main, Germany
Baselitz bis Lassnig - Meisterhafte Bilder, ESSL MUSEUM - KUNST DER GEGENWART, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Collecció d’Art Contemporani Fundació ”la Caixa” - CaixaForum Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Skulpturen im Blickpunkt, Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
2007
Musée de la Musique, Paris, France
2006
Richard Wagner: Artistic Visions From Auguste Renoir to Anselm Kiefer, Musee Rath, Geneva, Switzerland
Recaptured Nature, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Marinen in Konfrontation, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Oostende, Belgium
The Spirit of White, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
2005
Flower Myth: From Van Gogh to Jeff Koons, Foundation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Contemporary Voices: Works from The UBS Art Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Galerie Nationale du Grand Palais, Paris, France
2003
German Art Now, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO, USA
Gyroscope, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA
Selections from the Permanent Collection, the Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, Forth Worth, TX, USA
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Oostende, Belgium
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
2002
From Pop to Now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA; Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA ; Milwaukee Art Museum, WI, USA; various USA venues
1999
Stedelijk Museum veor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
1997
Veronica's Revenge, (Oeuvres photographiques de la Lambert Art Collection), Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
1995
Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg am Breisgau, Germany
1992
Malerei, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Photography in Contemporary German Art: 1960 to the Present, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, USA; Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO, USA; Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
1991
Photography, Ginny Williams Gallery, Denver, CO, USA
Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
1990
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Museet for Samtidkunst, Oslo, Norway
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Städel, Frankfurt au Main, Germany
1989
Magiciens de la Terre, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Grande Halle du Parc de la Villette, Paris, France
Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Stuttgart, Germany
Helsingfors Konsthall, Helsinki, Finland
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg, Germany
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
1988
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Musée de Stratsbourg, Strasbourg, France
The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, USA
1987
ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
19th Biennale, São Paulo, Brazil
1986
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Neue Berliner Galerie im Alten Museum, Berlin, Germany
Kettle's Yard Gallery, Cambridge, UK
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Queens Museum, Flushing, NY, USA
The Saatchi Collection, London, UK
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1985
German Drawings, Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Grande Halle du Parc de la Villete, Paris, France
Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany
Museum für 40 Tage, Hamburg, Germany
Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich, Germany
Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Provincial Museum, Hasselt, Belgium
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Villa Vauban, Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Anthony d'Offay, London, UK
Moore Collge of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
1984
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi, Belgium
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Centre Cultural de la Caixa de Pensiones, Barcelona, Spain
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, USA
Paravents, Schloss Lorsfeld, Kerpen, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Comune di S. Miniato, Palazzo Roffio, San Marino, Italy
Villa Campolieto, Herculaneum, Italy
Messegelände Halle 13, Düsseldorf, Germany
Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, Netherlands
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Galleria Paolo Sprovieri, Rome, Italy
Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA
1983
Wright Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Museo Civico d'Arte Contemporanea, Gibellina, Italy
Galleria Lucio Amelio, Naples, Italy
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany
Galleria Chisel, Genova, Italy
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Espace Lyonnais d'Art Contemporain ELAC, Lyon, France
Louisiana Museum of moder Art Humlebaek, Danemark
Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Ateneumin Taidemuseo, Helsinki, Finland
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Belgium
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO, USA
Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
Central Exhibition Hall, Leningrad, Russia
Moskwa, Leningrad, Russia
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
Galerie Munro, Hamburg, Germany
Galerie Zellermayer-Lorenzen, Berlin, Germany
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK
Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
1982
Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy
Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, USA
Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Galleria Christian Stein, Turin, Italy
Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Stadtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, UK
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Aureliane de Porta Metronia a Porta Latina, Rome, Italy
Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Saint-Etienne, France
1981
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum und Museumverein, Aachen, Germany
Palais voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels, Belgium
Messegelande, Cologne, Germany
1980
Neue Galerie-Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany
Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Saint-Etienne, France
1979
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
1978
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
1977
Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Netherlands
Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany
ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1976
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Galerie Seriaal, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1973
Galerie im Goethe Institute/Provisorium, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1971
Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
1970
Stadtische Kunstsammlungen, Bonn, Germany
Galerie Altes Theater, Ravensburg, Germany
1969
Kunstverein, Hanover, Germany
Argentina
Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires
Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Belgium
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent
Canada
MAC Montréal – Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal
France
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Panthéon, Paris
Germany
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne
Israel
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Italy
Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin
Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Netherlands
Groninger Museum, Groningen
Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam
Norway
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Portugal
Fundação de Serralves, Porto
Switzerland
Fondation Beyeler, Basel
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Turkey
Istanbul Modern, Istanbul
UK
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Tate, London
USA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2017
J. Paul Getty Medal
2011
Leo-Baeck-Medal, Leo Baeck Institute of New York
Berliner Bär (B.Z.-Kulturpreis)
2008
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
2005
Merit Cross 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
1999
Praemium Imperiale
1997
International Prize by the Jury of the 47th Venice Biennale
1990
Wolf Prize for Art
Goslarer Kaiserring
1983
Hans-Thoma-Preis