Revered German artist Anne Imhof will present her largest performance work to date this March at New York’s Park Avenue Armory. The show, titled “DOOM: HOUSE OF HOPE,” is curated by Klaus Biesenbach and is scheduled to take place March 3-12 at the Armory’s Wade Thompson Training Hall.
DOOM: HOUSE OF HOPE is expected to take advantage of “the scale of the drill hall to create a An immersive parallel universe.” Each three-hour show will feature nearly 60 New York dancers, artists, musicians and performers. Among the performers were members of the Flexn and Line Dance communities.
This show promises to hold a mirror up to our current state of society. Performers will interact with audiences in a shared space while exploring themes of community, hope, anxiety and activism.
“DOOM is my love letter to New York, a city very close to my heart that has inspired me for years,” said Imhoff. “For this exhibition I was privileged to work with a diverse group of people from the city’s art scene. Another major inspiration for the show was the huge training hall, which both shaped the work and allowed me to create something much better than I have ever done before. Nothing I’ve ever done is bigger and more complex than a piece of work until the audience is there, and I’m looking forward to experiencing the energy that New York brings to it.”
Following a solo exhibition at Sprüth Magers in Los Angeles in 2023, “DOOM” marks Imhoff’s most significant project in the United States to date. Imkhov’s most famous work is the exhibition and performance “Faust” at the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2017, for which he won the German Pavilion’s Golden Lion. Over the past decade, the Berlin- and Los Angeles-based artist has exhibited at Kunsthalle Bregenz (2024), Palais de Tokyo (2021), Tate Modern (2019) and MoMA PS1 (2015) Large-scale institutional solo exhibitions have been held in places such as China.
“Anne Imhoff has proven herself to be one of the most astute and creative artists in seismology of our time,” Biesenbach said. “She possesses an insightful and at the same time transformative Quality, the ability to move bodies, images and sounds across exhibition spaces that resonate powerfully with audiences and performers alike – a special journey she plans to make through this March at the Armory.”
