Imhof anne

performance in the age of social networks

photography by NADINE FRACZKOWSKI
interview by JÉRÔME SANS

COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND THE GERMAN PAVILION 2017

‘Faust,’ venice biennale 2017

JÉRÔME SANS — Your work is multifaceted. I feel that it explodes art’s many frames: you deal with painting, sculpture, performance, and music, but also cinematographic images and fashion. So, there are no more categories. Everything seems to have the same value and to interpenetrate each other. How would you define your work?

ANNE IMHOF — I am doing painting and performance. Drawing is another thing I do, which in a way precedes and mediates the two practices. I draw almost every day, and this is usually how ideas for a new piece first start to develop. I always admired master drawers, and I started copying their techniques and studying their sketches for paintings when…