CONVERSATION SERIES: MAKING SPACE AT THE ARMORY ARTIST TALK: ANNE IMHOF
tuesday, march 11, 2025 at 5:30pm veterans room featuring acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Anne Imhof in conversation with writer, curator, and Director at David Zwirner Gallery Ebony L. Haynes
DOOM: House of Hope is made possible with the support of Cadillac, Agnes Gund, and Tishman Speyer.
Making Space at the Armory is made possible with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF).
Citi and Bloomberg Philanthropies are Park Avenue Armory’s 2025 Season Sponsors. Leadership support for the Armory’s artistic programming has been generously provided by the Charina Endowment Fund, Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust, the Pinkerton Foundation, and the Thompson Family Foundation.
Major support was also provided by the Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Marc Haas Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, and Wescustogo Foundation. Additional support has been provided by the Armory’s Artistic Council. 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. Armory board members include Chairman Emeritus Elihu Rose, PhD; Co-Chairs Adam R. Flatto and Amanda J.T. Riegel; President Rebecca Robertson; Vice Presidents David Fox and Pablo Legorreta; Vice President and Treasurer Emanuel Stern; Marina Abramović; Abigail Baratta; Joyce F. Brown; Cora Cahan; Hélène Comfort; Paul Cronson; Jonathan Davis; Tina R. Davis; Jessie Ding; Sanford B. Ehrenkranz; Roberta Garza; Kim Greenberg; Branden Jacobs-Jenkins; Samhita Jayanti; Edward G. Klein, Brigadier General NYNG (Ret.); Ralph Lemon; Jason Moran; Janet C. Ross; Stephanie Sharp; Joan Steinberg; Dabie H. Tsai; Avant-Garde Chair Adrienne Katz; Directors Emeriti Harrison M. Bains, Jr. and Angela E. Thompson; and Wade F.B. Thompson, Founding Chairman, 2000–2009.
Cover image: Nadine Fraczkowski.
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ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS
ANNE IMHOF
Anne Imhof lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles. Her paintings, sculptures, and performances have been shown internationally since 2012. Imhof’s work has been the subject of monographic exhibitions at Kunsthaus Bregenz (2024); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2022); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (Carte Blanche, 2021); Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art (2020); Tate Modern, London (2019); The Art Institute of Chicago (2019); the German Pavilion at the 57th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2017); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2016); Kunsthalle Basel (2016); MoMA PS1, New York (2015); Carré d’Art – Musée d’Art Contemporain de Nîmes (2014); and Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (2013). Her work has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including at Tai Kwun, Hong Kong (2019); La Biennale de Montréal (2016); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015); the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2015); and the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main (2014). She represented Germany at the 2017 Venice Biennale, where she was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation, and won the Absolut Art Award (2017) and the Preis der Nationalgalerie (2015). Imhof was a guest professor and artist-in-residence at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich (2015) and a visiting artist at Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main; Yale University, New Haven; and the ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, among others. Imhof co-writes the music for her performance pieces, including Angst, Faust (both together with Franziska Aigner, Billy Bultheel, and Eliza Douglas) and Sex (together with Bultheel, Douglas, and Ville Haimala). In 2017, Galerie Buchholz released her debut single, “Brand New Gods.” Her debut album, Faust, was released by PAN in 2019.
EBONY L. HAYNES
Ebony L. Haynes is a writer and curator from Toronto, Canada. She is presently based in New York where she is Senior Director at David Zwirner and curates the gallery’s 52 Walker space in Tribeca. Haynes is the co-curator of the 2024 Triennial at MOCA Toronto and the 2024 Editor in Residence for Topical Cream. She sits on the boards of Artists Space, New York and the New Art Dealers Alliance. Haynes also runs Black Art Sessions, an online “school” that offers free professional practice classes to Black students worldwide.
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