"The most formative experience to date" - this is how Anselm Kiefer retrospectively described his first trips abroad in the 1960s. Two of these early study trips are the focus of an extraordinary exhibition, which can be seen at Schloss Salem from 10 May 2025. The multimedia show presents previously little-known diaries, drawings and reports that Kiefer wrote as a young scholarship holder of the zis Foundation for Study Trips during his stays in France.

In addition to notes on art, architecture and haute couture in Paris, the exhibition provides surprisingly personal insights into the self-discovery of the later world-famous artist. From September 2023 to March 2025, Museum Würth 2 in Künzelsau, in cooperation with the zis Foundation for Study Trips, had the opportunity to exhibit the diaries and reports of Anselm Kiefer's two study trips in an interactive special exhibition on this scale for the first time. The exhibition met with great interest and will now be shown in a similar form from 10 May 2025 with the support of Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG on the grounds of Schloss Salem.

Renata Jaworska, Head of Fine Arts at Schule Schloss Salem and member of the exhibition organisation team, is delighted with the close cooperation between zis, Schule Schloss Salem and Staatliche Schlösser und Gärten Baden-Württemberg: “This exhibition offers the opportunity not only to view art, but also to experience it - and to actively involve our pupils.”

The exhibition runs until 5 October 2025.