Conversation with Anne Imhof, "Medusa's Voice"

Film

The impact of Anne Imhof’s performative works unfolds not least in their use of music and singing. Following her presentation Forever Rage (2015) and her piece Angst II (2016), performed as the winner of the Preis der Nationalgalerie at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, she was awarded the Golden Lion at the 57th Biennale in Venice for her work Faust (2017) in the German Pavilion. 

This recorded conversation between Anne Imhof and the curator Anna-Catharina Gebbers is taking place on the occasion of an untitled screen print from the work Faust being presented for the first time outside the pavilion as part of the exhibition Magical Soup, Media Art from the Nationalgalerie Collection, the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof and Loans. We will hear tracks from Imhof’s eponymous record Faust, released in 2019 on the label PAN in Berlin, as well as from the as-yet-unreleased album for her new work trilogy Sex on which the human voice is audible in its most diverse forms.