Overview
- Centro de Arte Hortensia Herrero has opened a temporary exhibition of eleven works by Anselm Kiefer that spans six rooms and is scheduled to run through October.
- 'Danaë' serves as the centerpiece, stretching more than 13 meters across a dedicated gallery and shown in Europe for the first time after a 2022 presentation in New York.
- The canvas places the Greek myth of Danaë as a golden rain inside Berlin’s Tempelhof airport, merging legend with a site loaded with 20th-century history.
- Hortensia Herrero and Kiefer selected the works together after a visit to his Croissy-Beaubourg studio, where he had recreated the museum’s rooms at scale, though he missed the opening for health reasons.
- To house the monumental, material-heavy pieces, the museum removed about 60 works, closed for three days to reconfigure spaces, and features selections that trace Kiefer’s themes of landscape, myth, literature, and music, with titles like Himmel-Erde, Elektra, Dryad, and the sculpture Johannis Nacht.