Anselm Kiefer returns to the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Pantin from April 25 to October 25, 2026 with the exhibition Nymphäum. This exhibition presents his new monumental canvases.
At the Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery in Paris Pantin, Anselm Kiefer unveils Nymphäum, a new exhibition featuring more than twenty paintings. In these works, the artist layers dense paint and collages, reimagining ancient myths through a medium steeped in history. The term Nymphäum, evoking the sanctuaries dedicated to nymphs in antiquity, inspires an immersion in a pictorial universe where myth and material merge—an approach at the heart of his work for fifty years. The gallery thus becomes the setting for a new Kieferian exploration, straddling memory and creation.
In 2022, the artist presented 18 new large-format paintings in the exhibition Hommage à un poète, in which Anselm Kiefer paid tribute to the poets Paul Celan, Ingeborg Bachmann, Osip Mandelstam and August von Platen. The exhibition followed that at the Grand Palais Éphémère, Pour Paul Ceylan.
In 2018, he is exhibiting his Für Andrea Emo series, comprising some twenty medium-sized to monumental pieces and three sculptures. The artist addresses themes familiar to him: the sedimentation of memory, destruction and regeneration, fragment and remembrance. Andrea Emo is a 20th-century Italian nihilist philosopher and a major figure in the new metaphysical thought. He voluntarily lived in seclusion, far removed from the academic world. This philosopher developed a particular vision of time, the central element of which is memory. A book of extracts from Anselm Kiefer's diary is being published to coincide with the exhibition.
The artist inaugurated the gallery in 2012 with his exhibition Die Ungeborenen and has taken part in several group shows at Galerie Ropac: Space age in 2015, Disaster / End of the days in 2013 and Déjeuner sur l'herbe in 2017.
Anselm Kiefer, born in Germany in 1945, has lived and worked in France since 1992. Trained in fine arts under Joseph Beuys, he is renowned for his monumental installations and international exhibitions. A recipient of the Praemium Imperiale (1999) and the Peace Prize (2008), he has left his mark on the Louvre, the Panthéon, and the Rockefeller Center. In 2007, the Louvre commissioned Anselm Kiefer to create a permanent installation, a rare distinction that had not been granted to an artist since Georges Braque. His works, exhibited in the world’s leading museums, explore history and memory.
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