The German artist Anne Imhof, who is thought for her darkish and elaborate efficiency items, will launch her first solo exhibition in Asia this autumn on the Tai Kwun tradition advanced in Hong Kong (26 September-3 January 2027).
“Imhof is arriving at Tai Kwun this fall, bringing collectively a major survey of key works alongside a brand new fee, inviting audiences into her distinctive world,” says an internet assertion which works on: “This bold presentation, the place efficiency, picture, sound and structure converge to create charged, immersive encounters, presents audiences a uncommon alternative to expertise considered one of at this time’s most influential inventive voices in an expanded, embodied encounter.”
A spokesperson for Tai Kwun stated that additional particulars will later be introduced. The present shall be overseen by Ying Kwok, an impartial Hong Kong-based curator, and Tiffany Leung, a curator and guide based mostly in Hong Kong and the UK.
On the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017, Imhof acquired the Golden Lion for her austere, compelling work Faust, staged on the German Pavilion. In bestowing the award, the then president of the prize jury, Manuel Borja-Villel, praised her present as “a strong and disturbing set up that poses pressing questions on our time.”
Since successful the highest honour in Venice, Imhof participated in a bunch present at Tai Kwun in 2019 entitled Performing Society: The Violence of Gender and has had institutional solo reveals on the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Collaborations with Burberry and Balenciaga, plus a studiously grungy public persona have helped the 48-year-old artist amass a cult following, writes Osman Can Yerebakan.
Final 12 months, Imhof advised The Artwork Newspaper that her three-hour lengthy efficiency and set up on the Park Avenue Armory in New York—Doom: Home of Hope—was a “love letter to everybody who shares the assumption that love is the last word common energy, way more highly effective than racist and misogynist politics, legal guidelines in opposition to ladies, homosexual and trans folks, and all minorities.”
