Anne Imhof: Sex

Anne Imhof has emerged as one of the most provocative voices of her generation. Her work establishes a new exhibition paradigm and gives form to the alienation of today’s technology-oriented society. In Imhof’s durational performance and installation projects, isolation and identity are manifested in both the bodies of the performers and the architecture of the installation. Glass partitions, steel constructions, and uncanny structures become the arena in which a choreographed group of performers and musicians exist, both detached from each other and moving in unison.

Her work Faust was presented in the German Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennial in 2017, for which she was awarded the prestigious Golden Lion, and her groundbreaking installation Angst was shown in three parts at Kunsthalle Basel; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; and La Biennale de Montréal in 2016. At the Art Institute, Imhof builds on the aesthetic of these previous projects and combines music, choreography, painting, and sculpture to stage a new installation commissioned specifically for the museum.

This exhibition is the second of three chapters in a project commissioned by the Art Institute of Chicago, Tate Modern, London, and Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Turin.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website