The German artist Anne Imhof, who is known for her dark and elaborate performance pieces, will launch her first solo exhibition in Asia this autumn at the Tai Kwun culture complex in Hong Kong (26 September-3 January 2027).
“Imhof is arriving at Tai Kwun this fall, bringing together a significant survey of key works alongside a new commission, inviting audiences into her distinctive world,” says an online statement which goes on: “This ambitious presentation, where performance, image, sound and architecture converge to create charged, immersive encounters, offers audiences a rare opportunity to experience one of today’s most influential artistic voices in an expanded, embodied encounter.”
A spokesperson for Tai Kwun said that further details will later be announced. The show will be overseen by Ying Kwok, an independent Hong Kong-based curator, and Tiffany Leung, a curator and consultant based in Hong Kong and the UK.
At the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017, Imhof received the Golden Lion for her austere, compelling work Faust, staged at the German Pavilion. In bestowing the award, the then president of the prize jury, Manuel Borja-Villel, praised her show as “a powerful and disturbing installation that poses urgent questions about our time.”
Since winning the top honour in Venice, Imhof participated in a group show at Tai Kwun in 2019 entitled Performing Society: The Violence of Gender and has had institutional solo shows at 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.
Last year, Imhof told The Art Newspaper that her three-hour long performance and installation at the Park Avenue Armory in New York—Doom: House of Hope—was a “love letter to everyone who shares the belief that love is the ultimate universal power, much more powerful than racist and misogynist politics, laws against women, gay and trans people, and all minorities.”