Anselm Kiefer and Gilbert & George The best art and architecture shows to visit in 2025
Anselm Kiefer’s homage to Van Gogh, Ithell Colquhoun’s seaside of surrealism and Gilbert & George fill the galleries, while the V&A opens its archives at the illustrious new East Storehouse
Kiefer/Van Gogh
Anselm Kiefer, greatest artist alive, is 80 next year and will mark it with multiple exhibitions of his brooding, tumultuous creativity, including this blockbuster that sets his encrusted, flower-sprouting homages to Vincent van Gogh beside the original paintings of Provence that inspired him. JJ
Royal Academy, London, 28 June to 26 October; Kiefer will also show at the Ashmolean, Oxford, 14 February to 15 June.
Gilbert & George: 21st Century Pictures
There is no stopping the veteran double act who have created new art as energetically this century as they did in the last, including their remarkable Corpsing Pictures in which they play with bones with the accepting humour of a modern danse macabre. Celebrate the vitality of their anger and wit. JJ
Hayward Gallery, London, 7 October 2025 to 4 January 2026
