Anne Imhof (*1978) has emerged over the past decade as one of the most acclaimed artists of her generation. Today based between Berlin and New York, Imhof spent her formative years in Frankfurt am Main, where she taught herself to draw and make music while working as a bouncer at a local night club. Before eventually enrolling at the city’s academy of fine arts, Städelschule, she staged what she later designated the first entry to her catalogue raisonné: a one-night only performance in a red light district bar. She invited two boxers to take part and recruited a band. The boxers were told that the fight should last for as long as the music was playing, while the band were instructed to play for as long as the boxers were fighting. Imhof explained: “It was all pretty red—the table dance bar and the noses. Looking back on it I realized that it had been one way to create a picture.”
Reinhard Mucha, Mutterseelenallein / „Die Verwandlung“, [2018], [2009], [1991] 1989 / [2018] 2016 (partial view)
All Alone / “The Metamorphosis”
Installation view, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, photo Mucha
All Alone / “The Metamorphosis”
Installation view, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, photo Mucha
Ouverture 2024
Group Exhibition
Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin
Ongoing
Ouverture 2024 celebrates 40 years of activity of Castello di Rivoli. The title Ouverture intentionally references the one used for the inaugural exhibition curated by Rudi Fuchs, the first Director of Castello. Opened to the public on 19 December 1984, the exhibition was conceived as a hypothesis for a future collection. Focused on works that were new or recent at the time, the exhibition recognised the value of individual artistic research rather than adherence to specific art historical movements. Ouverture 2024 reactivates the same principles, presenting the exceptional collection the institution has since built.
