Anselm Kiefer: The Women Alchemists

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Video Review by Sigfrido Millequadri here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrJLQb2Ku5o

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Il Sole 24 ORE report here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgo4wwy1UUA

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Max Santoro video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yzAN04pKVs

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Panel discussion in Italian here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PesP8k0smuc

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Review by the Bocconi Students Arts Society.

https://bsartsociety.wordpress.com/2026/...lchemiste/

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From Artprice News:

https://www.artprice.com/artprice-news/1...ilan-italy

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Shelidon review here. Well worth a read.

"If the world wasn’t on fire, I would almost be tempted to say that it’s a wonderful time to be alive and in Milan, and it is, at least from an artistic point of view. The city is flourishing and you literally don’t know where to turn. In this context, Anselm Kiefer‘s site-specific installation Le Alchimiste (The Women Alchemists) is an absolute gem."

https://www.shelidon.it/the-alchemists-in-milan/

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Book to accompany the exhibition:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anselm-Kiefer-W...B0FPTDFX9J

   

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L'Osservatore Romano review

Alchemy and visions DCMEN-005
16 May 2026

In the history of science, female alchemists have long remained at the margins of the official narrative, yet they were deeply rooted in the processes of transformation of knowledge. Amidst hidden laboratories and symbolic writings, from natural philosophy to spiritual inquiry, these women inhabited a hybrid space where matter and thought, body and knowledge were not separated. More than mere practitioners of an arcane art, they were interpreters of a knowledge in becoming, who were capable of imagining transformation not only as the transmutation of metals, but as a process involving both the world and the human being. It is from this constellation of presences that one can enter the exhibition Le Alchimiste [The Alchimists] by Anselm Kiefer.

https://www.osservatoreromano.va/en/news...sions.html