Anne Imhof

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Anne Imhof (* 1978 in Gießen ) is a German artist. Her work includes drawing , painting , music as well as installation and performative works. In 2017 she received the Golden Lion for designing the German pavilion at the Venice Biennale .

life and work

Anne Imhof was born as the daughter of the educator Michael Imhof (* 1947) and his wife, the dentist Annette Imhof-Krämer. Her cousin is the art book publisher Michael Imhof (* 1964). She grew up in Petersberg near Fulda . She attended the Johannes Hack School in Petersberg and, as secondary schools, the Catholic Marienschule in Fulda and the Marianum in Fulda, a Catholic private high school that is run in the tradition of the Marianists . There she passed her Abitur in 1997. Imhof received artistic impulses during an originally one-year exchange stay at Prior Park College in Bath , where a teacher taught her drawing on a daily basis.

From 2000 to 2003 she studied visual communication with Heiner Blum at the Offenbach University of Design (HfG). With Private Butterflies , she presented her first video work in 2003 at the Festival of Young Talents , an event in the halls of the Offenbach trade fair . The film was made in collaboration with classmate and photographer Nadine Fraczkowski , with whom Imhof has worked since then.

In 2008 she enrolled at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main . As a master class student with Judith Hopf , she finished her studies in 2012 and was awarded the graduate award for her thesis. This is awarded annually at the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main. Her School of the Seven Bells - 1st of at least four was a 40-minute performance, which was introduced by a piece of music with vocals and which she realized with 14 friends. In choreographed and improvised movements, the actors passed small baton baton in the room. The piece “... can be read as an allegory of the constant give and take that characterizes this specific social universe. Because, even in an art academy, the baton has to be passed on continuously, albeit in an extremely covert and clandestine way. "

In 2013 Imhof had her first solo exhibition in the Portikus in Frankfurt. There she showed three performances: School of the Seven Bells , Ähjeii and Aqua Leo . In addition to nine actresses, two live donkeys also took part in the performances. The staging was framed by videos on two canvases, a wall with photos from rehearsals and an oversized drawing hanging from the ceiling. In 2013/2014 she received a studio grant from the Hessian Cultural Foundation . In the foundation's Paris studio, she continued the work SOTSB (School of the Seven Bells) that had already begun .

In 2015 Imhof received the National Gallery Prize for Young Art for her installation Rage , which was created in Paris in 2014 and combined parts of her work Deal (2015) and Rage (2014) to create For Ever Rage . The work was shown in the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin together with the work of other award winners from September 2015 to January 2016. Interpersonal tensions and the communication between a collective and the individuals formed the basis of the structure and the action. Large punching bags that hung from the ceiling with chains, on the walls aluminum plates that Imhof worked on in a minimalist way, as well as urinals made of metal and concrete tubs filled with buttermilk formed the spatial situation for Imhof's choreography. The actors moved through the menageries in slow motion, passed buttermilk and declaimed a polyphonic, rising and falling sound. The work Deal was previously shown in 2015 at MoMA PS1 . As a bassist, she has had numerous public appearances with her band Beautiful Balance since 2012 .

In 2016 Imhof created the work cycle Angst , which extends over three stations in terms of time and space: Angst I was shown in June 2016 in the Kunsthalle Basel , and Angst II in September 2016 in the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. The performance Angst III was shown on October 19, 2016 as part of the La Biennale de Montréal 2016 . The associated installation was on view at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal until January 2017 . The cycle, which she describes as an opera in three acts, forms a painterly composition that combines music, texts, sculptural elements as well as actors, living falcons and remote-controlled quadrocopter drones to form an overall picture. As an overture to the work cycle Angst , a multi-day performance and an exhibition took place in the Buchholz gallery in Cologne in spring 2016 .

At the invitation of the curator Susanne Pfeffer , Imhof designed the German pavilion at the 57th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia - and put on a five-hour performance under the title Faust . It received the Golden Lion for best national contribution.

Imhof lives and works in a studio in Frankfurt's Bahnhofsviertel .

Works in museums

  • From the Lion's Paw , 2012, installation. Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt am Main , Inv. No. 2013/71
  • The inner circle became the outer circle , 2012. Aludibond, etching, acrylic. Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt am Main, Inv. No. 2013/73

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Participation in exhibitions

  • 2015: Prize of the National Gallery, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
  • 2015: New Frankfurt Internationals , Frankfurter Kunstverein , Frankfurt am Main
  • 2014: Boom She Boom , works from the collection of MMK, MMK, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2012: Zauderberg. Graduated from the Städelschule in 2012 , Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt am Main - Customs Office

Sound recordings

  • Brand New Gods , 2016, Vinyl, 12 ”, Buchholz Gallery, Cologne

Awards

  • 2017: Absolut Art Award, Stockholm
  • 2017: Golden Lion for the best national contribution at the Venice Biennale
  • 2015: National Gallery Prize
  • 2013: Hessian Culture Foundation, Paris studio grant
  • 2012: Graduate award from the Städelschule Portikus e. V.
  • 2012: ZAC (zonta art contemporary)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Publication of the school , marianum-fulda.de
  2. ↑ Dorothee Baer-Bogenschütz: fear of infinity . In: Gießener Allgemeine from January 6, 2017
  3. ↑ Private Butterflies: Nadine Fraczkowski, Anne Imhof Festival of Young Talents , Messehalle Offenbach, 2003
  4. ↑ Anne Imhof receives graduate award from the Städelschule Portikus eV 2012 ( Memento from November 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Victoria Camblin: Openings - Anne Imhof . In: Artforum, October 2013 edition
  6. ^ Nicola Kuhn: Prize for Anne Imhof: On the jump . In: Der Tagesspiegel from September 19, 2015
  7. ↑ Free Listening on SoundCloud
  8. ^ Website Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart , accessed on September 26, 2016
  9. ↑ Anne Imhof: “I want it to be a celebration” Internet site Frankfurter Allgegemeine Zeitung
  10. ^ Artistic performance. In: sueddeutsche.de. April 29, 2016. Retrieved August 3, 2018 .
  11. ^ Anne Imhof designed the German pavilion for the 57th Venice Art Biennale. In: Deutsche Welle. October 26, 2016. Retrieved August 29, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Everything is so up-to-date in FAZ from May 12, 2017, page 13
  13. ^ Sandra Trauner: Venice Biennale: Golden Lions for German Artists. In: Spiegel Online. May 13, 2017. Retrieved May 15, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Press release: BMW Tate Live exhibition: Anne Imhof. Tate Modern unveils new work by Anne Imhof. . On: www.press.bmwgroup.com from March 21, 2019
  15. ^ Website Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart , accessed on September 26, 2016
  16. ↑ Portikus website
  17. ↑ Hessische Kulturstiftung website
  18. ↑ Internet page Feuilletonfrankfurt.de
  19. ↑ Internet page Feuilletonfrankfurt.de
personal data
SURNAME Imhof, Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German performance and multimedia artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH to water