Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer

THE ARTIST

• 1945, Donaueschingen (Germany)
• 1969, first exhibition at the Kunstverein of Hannover
• Several international institutions have put on solo and retrospective exhibitions of his work:

Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (1979); Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (1984); The Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, MOCA, Los Angeles, and MoMA, New York (1987); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (1991); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1998); Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna (1999); Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Canada, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (travelling exhibition, 2005-2007); Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Musée du Louvre, Paris (2007); Royal Academy of Arts, London (2014)

Major Exhibitions

• 1977 and 1988, Documenta
• 1980 and 1997, Venice Biennale
• 2007, Musée du Louvre commissioned work for permanent collection
• 2007, site-specific installation for Monumenta at the Grand Palais in Paris

The Permanent Installation

• A single installation that combines the seven "towers" and five large-format paintings
• The Seven Heavenly Palaces 2004 - 2015
• The paintings give new meaning to Kiefer's masterpiece:
  • Jaipur (2009)
  • Cette obscure clarté qui tombe des étoiles (2011)
  • Alchemie (2012)
  • Die deutsche Heilslinie (2012-2013)

The Themes

• The great architectural constructions of the past viewed as an attempt by man to ascend to the divine, with the constellations represented by means of astronomical numbering.
• Considerations that are key to the artist’s poetic vision:
  • the relationship between man and nature
  • references to the history of ideas and of Western philosophy

Plan Your Visit

Pirelli HangarBicocca is located in Via Chiese 2, Milan

FROM THE CENTRAL STATION

• (M2 – Green Line / M3 – Yellow Line)
• Bus 87 (Direction: Sesto Marelli M1) to the stop Via Chiese – HangarBicocca
• Bus 728 (Direction: Cinisello B. – Bicocca Università) to the stop Viale Sarca – Via Chiese

HOW TO GET THERE

WHERE TO EAT

Pirelli HangarBicocca
Via Chiese 2, 20126, Milano

Phone: (+39) 02 66 11 15 73
Email address: info@hangarbicocca.org

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