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 Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Pantin, Anselm Kiefer unveils Nymphäum, an unprecedented exhibition of over twenty canvases. The artist superimposes dense paint and collage, reinventing ancient myths through a material steeped in history. The term Nymphäum, evoking the sanctuaries dedicated to nymphs in Antiquity, inspires an immersion into a pictorial universe where myth and material merge - an approach that has been at the heart of her work for fifty years. The gallery thus becomes the stage for a new Kieferian exploration, between memory and creation.
In this body of work, Anselm Kiefer explores human history through nymphs, symbols of the union between humanity and natural cycles. Sometimes set in bucolic landscapes, sometimes in modern cities, these mythological figures embody nature's struggle to reclaim spaces ravaged by man, a metaphor for destruction and rebirth.
The monumental Die Oreaden (2025) transforms Bouguereau's idyllic scene into a dark mountain landscape, underlining this tension. The nymphs, between figure and flora, blur the boundaries between portrait and landscape, turning the stratified earth of his canvases into a space of memory, overgrown with vegetation.
Anselm Kiefer has exhibited many times at the Galerie Ropac in Pantin.
The German artist inaugurated the Pantin 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.
In 2018, he is exhibiting his Für Andrea Emo series, comprising some twenty medium-sized to monumental pieces and three sculptures. The artist tackles 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 will be published to coincide with the exhibition.
In 2022, Anselm Kiefer presents 18 new large-format paintings in the exhibition Hommage à un poète, paying homage 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.
Anselm Kiefer, born in 1945 in Germany, has lived and worked in France since 1992. Trained by Joseph Beuys at the Beaux-Arts, he is renowned for his monumental installations and international exhibitions. Winner of the Praemium Imperiale (1999) and the Peace Prize (2008), he has left his mark on the Louvre, the Pantheon and the Rockefeller Center. In 2007, the Louvre commissioned Anselm Kiefer to create a permanent installation, a rare distinction not awarded to an artist since Georges Braque. His works, exhibited in major museums, explore history and memory.
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