Anselm Kiefer creates »Safety Curtain« for Vienna State Opera

»Safety Curtain« is an exhibition series conceived by museum in progress in cooperation with the Vienna State Opera, which transforms the safety curtain into a temporary exhibition space for contemporary art since 1998. For the 26th »Safety Curtain« project at the Wiener Staatsoper, the jury – Daniel Birnbaum, Bice Curiger and Hans Ulrich Obrist – selected Anselm Kiefer.

Kiefer's work »Solaris« refers to a science fiction novel of the same name by the Polish writer Stanisław Lem from 1961, which tells of a distant alien planet and the planet-encompassing entity that inhabits it.

Kiefer's work can be seen by the audience from 8 November 2023 until the end of June 2024 before the start of the performances, during the intermissions and at the end of the performances.