Anselm Kiefer - Sag mir wo die Blumen sind (Stedelijk Museum)

Crowd favorites and never-before-seen work

The exhibition includes many crowd-pleasers: at the Van Gogh Museum, famous works by Vincent van Gogh are combined with those of Kiefer. At the Stedelijk, all the Kiefers from the Stedelijk collection are on display together for the first time, including the beloved Innenraum. New, previously unseen work by the artist will be on display at both locations.

Tell me where the flowers are

The title of the exhibition comes from the song Where Have All the Flowers Gone. This is an anti-war song from 1955 by the American folk singer and activist Pete Seeger. It is the title of a new and large spatial work by Anselm Kiefer: an installation that will be on display around the historical staircase of the Stedelijk. Furthermore, the flowers in the title refer to Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers (1889) and to the landscapes that Kiefer recently made and that are shown for the first time in the exhibition.