Palais de Tokyo

Natures Mortes

"Carte blanche" to Anne Imhof

22 May - 24 Oct 2021

On the left :
ANNE IMHOF, PASSAGE (2021)
Glass, steel, wood, acrylic
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz and Sprüth Magers
On the right :
WOLFGANG TILLMANS, AN DER ISAR II (2008)
C-print mounted on Dibond, in artist’s frame ; 181 × 258 × 6 cm
Courtesy Galerie Buchholz (Berlin, Cologne, New York)
Photo credit : Andrea Rossetti
On the right :
ANNE IMHOF, UNTITLED (NATURES MORTES) (2021)
Oil on canvas ; Seven panels, 250 × 175 cm (each)
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz and Sprüth Magers
On the left :
ANNE IMHOF, PASSAGE (2021)
Glass, steel, wood, acrylic
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz and Sprüth Magers
Photo credit : Andrea Rossetti
On the left :
ANNE IMHOF, UNTITLED (NATURES MORTES) (2021)
Oil on canvas ; Seven panels, 250 × 175 cm (each)
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz and Sprüth Magers
Center :
ANNE IMHOF, PASSAGE (2021)
Glass, steel, wood, acrylic
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz and Sprüth Magers
On the right :
WOLFGANG TILLMANS, AN DER ISAR II (2008)
C-print mounted on Dibond, in artist’s frame ; 181 × 258 × 6 cm
Courtesy Galerie Buchholz (Berlin, Cologne, New York)
Photo credit : Andrea Rossetti
A gauche / On the left :
WOLFGANG TILLMANS, AN DER ISAR II (2008)
C-print mounted on Dibond, in artist’s frame ; 181 × 258 × 6 cm
Courtesy Galerie Buchholz (Berlin, Cologne, New York)
Center :
ANNE IMHOF, PASSAGE (2021)
Glass, steel, wood, acrylic
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz and Sprüth Magers
On the right :
STURTEVANT, FINITE INFINITE (2010)
Four-channel video installation (colour, sound) 3 min 35 s (loop);
Courtesy Air de Paris (Romainville); © Estate Sturtevant (Paris)
Photo credit : Andrea Rossetti
On the left :
ANNE IMHOF, UNTITLED (NATURES MORTES) (2021)
Oil on canvas ; Seven panels, 250 × 175 cm (each)
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz and Sprüth Magers
Center :
ANNE IMHOF, PASSAGE (2021)
Glass, steel, wood, acrylic
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz and Sprüth Magers
On the right :
WOLFGANG TILLMANS, AN DER ISAR II (2008)
C-print mounted on Dibond, in artist’s frame ; 181 × 258 × 6 cm
Courtesy Galerie Buchholz (Berlin, Cologne, New York)
Photo credit : Andrea Rossetti
On the left :
ANNE IMHOF, UNTITLED (NATURES MORTES) (2021)
Oil on canvas ; Seven panels, 250 × 175 cm (each)
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz and Sprüth Magers
Center :
ANNE IMHOF, PASSAGE (2021)
Glass, steel, wood, acrylic
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz and Sprüth Magers
Photo credit : Andrea Rossetti
On the left :
ANNE IMHOF, UNTITLED (NATURES MORTES) (2021)
Oil on canvas ; Seven panels, 250 × 175 cm (each)
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz and Sprüth Magers
Center :
ANNE IMHOF, PASSAGE (2021)
Glass, steel, wood, acrylic
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz and Sprüth Magers
Photo credit : Andrea Rossetti
On the left :
ANNE IMHOF, UNTITLED (NATURES MORTES) (2021)
Oil on canvas ; Seven panels, 250 × 175 cm (each)
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz and Sprüth Magers
Center :
ANNE IMHOF, PASSAGE (2021)
Glass, steel, wood, acrylic
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz and Sprüth Magers
On the right :
STURTEVANT, FINITE INFINITE (2010)
Four-channel video installation (colour, sound) 3 min 35 s (loop);
Courtesy Air de Paris (Romainville); © Estate Sturtevant (Paris)
Photo credit : Andrea Rossetti
On the foreground :
ANNE IMHOF, DIVE BOARD (I) (2021)
Galvanised steel
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz and Sprüth Magers
Down :
Anne Imhof, Track, 2021
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz and Sprüth Magers
Up :
ELIZA DOUGLAS & ANNE IMHOF, SOUND RAIL II (2021)
Steel, speakers
Music by Eliza Douglas
Sound installation by Eliza Douglas and Anne Imhof
Soundtrack : Silver ; Black Metal Mermaid ; The Corner of the Sky; Lucifer’s Lullaby (Trabende Trabanten (Anne’s poem)); Tiny Vixen ; Divide the Water (whipping waves soundtrack); (Ocean sound)
Courtesy of the artists, Galerie Buchholz and Sprüth Magers
Photo credit : Andrea Rossetti
On the foreground :
Anne Imhof, Track, 2021
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz and Sprüth Magers
Up :
ELIZA DOUGLAS & ANNE IMHOF, SOUND RAIL II (2021)
Steel, speakers
Music by Eliza Douglas
Sound installation by Eliza Douglas and Anne Imhof
Soundtrack : Silver ; Black Metal Mermaid ; The Corner of the Sky; Lucifer’s Lullaby (Trabende Trabanten (Anne’s poem)); Tiny Vixen ; Divide the Water (whipping waves soundtrack); (Ocean sound)
Courtesy of the artists, Galerie Buchholz and Sprüth Magers
On the background :
ANNE IMHOF, DIVE BOARD (I) (2021)
Galvanised steel
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz and Sprüth Magers
Photo credit : Andrea Rossetti
After laying siege to the German pavilion with her exhibition and performance Faust, for which she was awarded the Golden Lion at the 2017 Venice Biennale, Anne Imhof takes hold of the entirety of the Palais de Tokyo to create an all-embracing, polyphonic work. Here, she fuses space and bodies, music and painting, and her own works with those of accomplices, especially the artist and musical composer Eliza Douglas, and thirty invited guest artists.

Natures Mortes online:
https://naturesmortes-palaisdetokyo.com/en

After training in Frankfurt am Main at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste-Städelschule, one of Germany’s most prestigious art schools, while immersed in the city’s club and music scene, the artist has established herself over a decade as a prominent figure in contemporary art through her radical work. Within the bared structure of the Palais de Tokyo, stripped down to its fragile carcass with its topography exposed, she fits a glass-walled maze that simultaneously fragments the space and generates new perspectives.

Haunted by painting, the fleeting cycle of life and the disruptions of the present moment, she composes therein her Natures Mortes [still lifes]-memento mori to the here and now. We are encouraged to walk the space between life and nonlife, darkness and light, past and present, stillness and action, intensity and disenchantment, and to freely trace our own path across this vast, open scene.

Artists:
Anne Imhof, Alvin Baltrop, Mohamed Bourouissa, Eugène Delacroix, Trisha Donnelly, Eliza Douglas, Cyprien Gaillard, Théodore Géricault, David Hammons, Eva Hesse, Mike Kelley, Jutta Koether, Klara Lidén, Joan Mitchell, Oscar Murillo, Eadweard Muybridge, Cady Noland, Precious Okoyomon, Francis Picabia, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Sigmar Polke, Paul B. Preciado, Bunny Rogers, Sturtevant, Yung Tatu, Paul Thek, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rosemarie Trockel, Cy Twombly, Adrián Villar Rojas.

Commissaires: Emma Lavigne et Vittoria Matarrese
Music : Eliza Douglas
Sound installation : Eliza Douglas, Anne Imhof