“Every Anne Imhof piece is an encounter with raw humanity … in which she presides over a gallery hall
like an occult puppeteer, harnessing the effects of music, film, architecture, and improvised performance to capture and manipulate the attention of her audience.”
—Cultured
“Imhof invites us to visit her mind, draw parallels to our own life, and get lost in the human psyche”
—Flash Art
Anne Imhof has emerged over the past decade as one of the most acclaimed contemporary artists of her generation. While working prolifically across painting, drawing, video, music, and sculpture, she is best known as a world builder and scene setter creating large-scale endurance performances or tableaux vivants that unite these various media in singular compositions. After galvanizing the German pavilion with her exhibition and performance Faust, for which she was awarded the prestigious Golden Lion award at the 2017 Venice Biennale, the visual and performance artist has gone on to create exhibitions at the Tate Modern in London and Palais de Tokyo in Paris that received acclaim from critics and viewers alike while landing her at the top of Art Review‘s “Power 100” list. The radical art world superstar takes hold of the entirety of the Armory for her largest performative work to date.
Utilizing the Wade Thompson Drill Hall, this all-encompassing work fuses space, performers, sound, and scenography in response to our present in which anxiety and hope find a fragile balance between apathy, activism, and resistance. This sequential durational performance takes audiences on a journey to ultimately find a sense of community through our own shared experiences. The culminating happening serves as a seismographic meter of our times, while projecting into our own possible futures to find a new form of hope.
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Artist Talk: Anne Imhof
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 5:30pm
Tickets: $25 (plus fees)
Curation Klaus Biesenbach
Doom is made possible with the support of Agnes Gund and Tishman Speyer.
Public support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature as well as the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council under the leadership of Speaker Adrienne Adams.
Photo: Courtesy of the artist
March 3–12, 2025
Monday–Wednesday, Friday at 7:00pm
Saturday at 2:00pm
Performance Details
Wade Thompson Drill Hall
Please note that this event is general admission and audience members will be standing for the entire length of the show.
Tickets
$50 (plus fees)
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