Buy tickets online for the “Anselm Kiefer – Sag mir wo die Blumen sind” 2025 exhibition in the Van Gogh and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
“Anselm Kiefer – Sag mir wo die Blumen sind” is a special temporary exhibition of 25 works by the German artist in the Van Gogh and Stedelijk museums in Amsterdam from 7 March to 9 June 2025. A highlight is the unveiling of his monumental Sag mir wo die Blumen sind (Where Have All the Flowers Gone) in the Stedelijk. Works in the Van Gogh Museum show the influence of the popular Dutch Impressionist painter on Kiefer’s art. Buy tickets in advance — time-slot reservation tickets are essential and not sold at the museums.
Anselm Kiefer Art Exhibition in Amsterdam Museums in 2025
The exhibition Anselm Kiefer—Sag mir wo die Blumen sind will run from 7 March until 9 June 2025. It brings together twenty-five works by the German artist Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) including paintings, installations, film, and works on paper, across the two popular Amsterdam Art museums. Tickets include admission to both museums.
Surprisingly, this is the first joint exhibition ever for the Van Gogh Museum and the Stedelijk Museum. (They are neighbors on the large Museumplein near the Rijksmuseum and the MOCO.)
However, Anselm Kiefer is a natural choice for both museums. Kiefer studied Van Gogh on a travel scholarship in his teens while the Stedelijk already acquired some of his major works in the early 1980s before staging a solo exhibition in 1986.
Where have all the flowers gone?
The title of the Anselm Kiefer Amsterdam exhibition Sag mir wo die Blumen sind is from the 1955 protest song Where have all the flowers gone by American folk singer and activist Pete Seeger. Marlene Dietrich famously performed it in 1962.
Kiefer’s expansive new installation for the Stedelijk Museum Sag mir wo die Blumen sind combines paint and clay with uniforms, dried rose petals and gold, symbolizing the cycle of life and death with the human condition and fate of humanity playing a central motif. It measures over 24 meters (78 ft) in length.
The flowers of the title are also a reference to the Sunflowers (1889) by Vincent van Gogh and to recent landscapes by Kiefer, which will be seen for the first time in the exhibition.
Buy Tickets for the Anselm Kiefer Exhibition in Amsterdam 2025
Online time-slot reservation tickets are essential to visit the Anselm Kiefer—Sag mir wo die Blumen sind exhibition in Amsterdam in 2025. Neither museum sells tickets on-site.
Before buying tickets, note:
- Tickets for the Anselm Kiefer exhibition are sold via the Van Gogh Museum and not the Stedelijk Museum.
- Time slots are the time for entry into the Van Gogh Museum.
- The Van Gogh Museum must be visited first.
- The Stedelijk Museum must be visited second but on the same calendar day.
- Re-entry tickets are not available. A ticket is required to visit the Van Gogh Museum shop but not for the Stedelijk Museum shop or cafe.
The museums claim average visits last 60 minutes for each permanent exhibition (sounds a bit rushed) and about the same for the temporary exhibition.
Keep in mind exiting the Van Gogh is final and cloak room, audio guides, tickets, etc must be repeated after entering the Stedelijk Museum.
Both museums are open daily. The Van Gogh from 9:00 to 18:00 and the Stedelijk from 10:00 to 19:00. Both close at 21:00 most Fridays.
Van Gogh Museum and Kiefer Exhibition Combination Tickets
During the special exhibition period, i.e. 7 March until 9 June 2025, all Van Gogh Museum tickets have a surcharge. Tickets give access to the Anselm Kiefer exhibition and the permanent exhibitions of both the Van Gogh and Stedelijk museums.
This combination ticket is the only way to see the Van Gogh Museum in this period — no separate or cheaper ticket for the Van Gogh Museum’s permanent exhibition. (Kiefer exhibition-only tickets and Stedelijk permanent exhibition-only tickets are available.)
Combination ticket prices for the Van Gogh Museum, Stedelijk Museum, and Anselm Kiefer—Sag mir wo die Blumen sind exhibition are:
- €32.50 for adults
- €16.25 for students on weekdays only
- €10 — Museumkaart surcharge
- Free — children up to 18 years
The combination ticket is around €10 cheaper than regular tickets for both museums and a good opportunity to see the modern, mostly 20th-century art in the Stedelijk. Standard Van Gogh Museum tickets outside the special exhibition period are €24.
Stedelijk Museum and Kiefer Exhibition Tickets
Anselm Kiefer—Sag mir wo die Blumen sind exhibition-only tickets are slightly cheaper. These tickets give admission to the Kiefer exhibition in the Van Gogh Museum (but not the permanent exhibition), as well as the Kiefer works and the regular permanent exhibition of the Stedelijk Museum.
- €27.50 for adults
- €13.75 for students on weekdays only.
- €10 — Museumkaart surcharge
- Free — children up to 18 years
As above, buy these tickets from the Van Gogh Museum, enter the Van Gogh Museum first and at the reservation time.
Regular permanent exhibition-only tickets remain available for the Stedelijk Museum (€22.50) during the special exhibition period. Stedelijk Museum tickets are without time-slot reservations and are valid for the calendar day.
Anselm Kiefer in the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam in 2025
The presentation at the Van Gogh Museum demonstrates the enduring influence of Vincent van Gogh on Kiefer’s work. In 1963, Kiefer won a travel scholarship and chose to follow the route taken by Van Gogh, from the Netherlands to Belgium and France. Van Gogh and his work have remained a vital source of inspiration for him.
The exhibition presents seven key works by Van Gogh, alongside previously unseen paintings and thirteen early drawings by Kiefer. Paintings, such as Van Gogh’s Wheatfield With Crows(1890) will be juxtaposed in the same space as Keifer’s monumental works of the same theme.
The works from the Van Gogh Museum’s permanent collection in the special exhibition are:
- Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait as a Painter, 1888
- Vincent van Gogh, Wheatfield under Thunderclouds, 1890
- Vincent van Gogh, Shoes, 1886
- Vincent van Gogh, Wheatfield with Partridge, 1887
- Vincent van Gogh, Wheatfield with a Reaper, 1889
- Vincent van Gogh, Wheatfield with Crows, 1890
- Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers Gone to Seed, 1887
In addition, Van Gogh’s work Augustine Roulin (Rocking a Cradle) from the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam will be in this exhibition.
Anselm Kiefer in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
The presentation at the Stedelijk Museum focuses on Kiefer’s close ties to the Netherlands. The artist’s connection with the museum has been pivotal to his career. The Stedelijk acquired Innenraum(1981) and Märkischer Sand (1982) early in the artist’s practice and staged an acclaimed solo exhibition of his work in 1986.
The titular work Sag mir wo die Blumen sind is a 24-metre-long painterly installation, which the artist is currently completing to fill the space around the historic staircase of the museum. The second installation Steigend, steigend, sinke nieder is made from photographs and lead, an important material that recurs throughout Kiefer’s work, alluding to the heavy weight of human history.
The exhibition will also feature films by and about Anselm Kiefer, including the unknown film Noch ist Polen nicht los… (1989), which he made in Warsaw shortly before the fall of the Iron Curtain.
This exhibition is not only an unprecedented opportunity to see all the works in the Stedelijk’s collection together but also a chance to see Kiefer’s more recent paintings, especially two new spatial installations.
In collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum, Kiefer/Van Gogh will go on display at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, from 28 June until 26 October 2025.
