Kiefer, Anselm

Born on March 8.

After a year of studying law, begins to study art with Peter Dreher at the Albert-
Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg, Germany.

Continues his studies at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Makes a series of photographs titled Besetzungen , in which he photographs himself performing a Nazi salute in different places in Europe.
Has his first solo show, at Galerie am Kaiserplatz in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Enrolls at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he will meet Joseph Beuys.

Creates a series of large-scale paintings featuring the cavernous wood-lined attic space of his former studio in Höpfingen, Germany.
Exhibits at Galerie Michael Werner in Cologne.

Has a solo show at the Bonner Kunstverein in Bonn.
Participates in Documenta 6 in Kassel, Germany.

Exhibits at the Kunsthalle Bern.

An exhibition of Kiefer’s work is mounted by the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Kiefer’s Verbrennen, verholzen, versenken, versanden cycle provokes controversy when it is shown in the German Pavilion at the XXXIX Biennale di Venezia .

Exhibits at the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany.
The show later travels to the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London.

Participates in Documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany.

Exhibits at the Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. The show later travels to the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Exhibits at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

A solo exhibition of Kiefer’s work opens at the Art Institute of Chicago and later travels to the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Participates in Documenta 8 in Kassel, Germany.

Completes Zweistromland/The High Priestess (begun in 1985), comprising two 26-foot-long shelves on which are arranged two hundred books made of lead.

Receives the Wolf Prize from the Wolf Foundation in Jerusalem and the Kaiserring prize from the city of Goslar, Germany.

Exhibits at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

Moves to Barjac, France.

Exhibits at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York.
Among the works on display is 20 Jahre Einsamkeit , an enormous pile of his works made between 1971 and 1991.
Exhibits at the Sezon Museum of Art in Tokyo. The show later travels to the Kyoto National Museum of Art and to the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art.

Begins a series of monumental paintings on the cosmos.
Exhibits at Kukje Gallery in Seoul.

The Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City organizes an exhibition of his work.

Begins a series of paintings of archaic desert architectures.
Exhibits at the Museo Correr in Venice and the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples.
Kiefer’s work is included in the inaugural exhibition of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, The Guggenheim Museums and the Art of This Century.

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid presents an exhibition of Kiefer’s work.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York organizes a retrospective of his works on paper.

Receives the Praemium Imperiale for painting, awarded by the Japan Art Association.
2000 Exhibits at the National Gallery in London.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents an exhibition of works from the artist’s private collection.

Exhibits at the National Gallery in London.

Exhibits at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, the Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst in Humlebaek, Denmark, and the Royal Academy of Arts in London (of which he is an honorary member).

Named Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.

Exhibits at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples.

The exhibition Heaven and Earth opens at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Fort Worth, Texas, and later travels to the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Participates in Homage to Chillida at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, where the exhibition Passages: Beuys, Darboven, Kiefer, Richter is presented later in the year.

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents the exhibition Anselm Kiefer , curated by Germano Celant, which includes a selection of works created over the previous ten years.
White Cube in London presents Aperiatur terra , featuring a new body of work by Kiefer, which is shown simultaneously at White Cube, Mason’s Yard and at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Creates a permanent installation for the Musée du Louvre in Paris, the first living artist to do so since Georges Braque created a ceiling painting for the museum in 1953.

Awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels.
Triennale Bovisa in Milan presents the exhibition Kiefer e Mao che mille fiori fioriscano, curated by Germano Celant.

Has a solo show at Gagosian Gallery in Rome.
Monumental paintings and sculptures by Kiefer are shown at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, Massachusetts.
Designs the stage set for Am Anfang (In the Beginning) and directs it at the Opéra National de Paris.

Has solo exhibitions at the Gagosian Gallery in New York; the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen in Antwerp; the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in
Gateshead, UK; the Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst in Humlebaek, Denmark; the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) in North Adams, Massachusetts; and the Galerie Yvon Lambert in Paris.

Invited by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam in the Netherlands to create a work inspired by Rembrandt’s The Nightwatch. The result is a spectacular La berceuse (for Van Gogh), which will be displayed at the Rijksmuseum on the occasion of the Kiefer & Rembrandt exhibition.
His work is shown at Fondazione Vedova in Venice, the White Cube in London, the Craig F. Starr Gallery in New York, and at Ivory Press in Madrid.

Exhibitions dedicated to Kiefer are staged at the Art Gallery of Hamilton in Ontario, Canada; the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn; the Essl Museum in Vienna; and the Ludwig Museum Koblenz, Germany.

Works by Kiefer are exhibited at White Cube in Hong-Kong; Galleria Lia Rumma in Milan (Italy); Gagosian Paris; and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, also in Paris.

Installs a semipermanent work at The Hall Art Foundation of MASS MoCA.

Solo exhibitions are on view at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Gas Natural Fenosa in A Coruña, Spain, and Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, USA.

Kiefer’s work can be seen at Galleria Lia Rumma in Naples (Italy), Galerie Bastian in Berlin, and Gagosian Gallery in New York.

Johannis-Nacht is shown at the Mönchehaus-Museum für moderne Kunst in Goslar, Germany.

Major exhibition Anselm Kiefer held at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Anselm Kiefer. Der Rhein opens at the Coro della Maddalena in Alba, Italy.

The Centre Pompidou in Paris opens the retrospective titled Anselm Kiefer.

HangarBicocca in Milan unveils the installation The Seven Heavenly Palaces.

The Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris shows books by the artist in the exhibition Anselm Kiefer, l’alchimie du livre.

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Salzburg and White Cube in São Paulo, Brazil, hold exhibitions dedicated to Kiefer.

A retrospective exhibition including prints is held at the Albertina Museum in Vienna. The works from the Hall Collection travel to the NSU Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. Walhalla opens at the White Cube Bermondsey in London.

Receives the J. Paul Getty Medal.

His first retrospective in Russia is shown at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. Creates a colossal installation at the Copenhagen Contemporary.

Shows his work at Gagosian Gallery in New York.

The Musée Rodin in Paris stages Kiefer Rodin, which then travels to the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, USA.

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, in Paris, shows Anselm Kiefer’s work.

Provocations: Anselm Kiefer at the Met Breuer is on view at The Met Breuer in New York.

Anselm Kiefer – Books and Woodcuts is on at the Fondation Jan Michalski in Montricher, Switzerland. The exhibition then travels to the Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo.

Anselm Kiefer aus der Sammlung Walter. Sonderausstellung Kunstmuseum Walter is held at the Galerie Noah in Augsburg, Germany.

Two solo exhibitions, at the Kunsthalle Mannheim and the Franz Marc Museum in Kochel am See, both in Germany.

Creates permanent installation for the Panthéon in Paris with French composer Pascal Dusapin.

Solo exhibition Pour Paul Celan staged at the Grand Palais éphémère. It pays tribute to German-language poet Paul Celan, a constant presence in Kiefer’s paintings.

Participates in Diversity United. Contemporary European Art. Moscow. Berlin. Paris, a large survey exhibition of current art in Europe presented in Berlin Tempelhof Airport, then travelling to Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, and finally coming to the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

First major exhibition in Sweden: Essence-Eksistence at Artipelag.

Questi scritti, quando verranno bruciati, daranno finalmente un po’ di luce (Andrea Emo) at the Doge’s Palace in Venice, introducing a selection of new works in the context of the 59^th Venice Biennale. Creates site-specific works for the Palace’s Sala dello Scrutinio, commissioned by Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia.

His works are included in Sections/Intersections. 25 Years of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection, an exhibition of works from the Museum Collection staged to celebrate the Museum’s 25^th anniversary. Perspectivas, the 25^th-anniversary documentary produced by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and La Caixa Foundation, includes a section about Kiefer.

Solo exhibitions at Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar, Netherlands, and the Lille Métropole Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut in Villeneuve-d’Ascq, France.

Anselm: The Sound of Time, a documentary by Wim Wenders, is premiered in Cannes.

Receives Queen Sonja Lifetime Achievement Award for printmaking from Queen Sonja of Norway. It recognizes Kiefer’s half-century work with woodcuts.

Fallen Angels is staged at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Italy. The solo exhibition includes a work created for the palace’s inner courtyard.

The White Cube gallery in Paris houses For Jean-Noël Vuarnet, an exhibition of Kiefer’s watercolors.

His work is part of Polke, Kiefer & Baselitz, a group exhibition at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, Denmark.