Anne Imhof - Citizen - London

Across performance, sculpture, painting and film, Anne Imhof’s work returns relentlessly to the body: how it moves through space, how it is observed, what it can and cannot occupy—and how fleeting experience might be translated into enduring form. On the occasion of London Gallery Weekend, Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present _Citizen_, a solo exhibition that evolves the ideas explored in Imhof’s recent projects _DOOM: House of Hope_ and _Fun ist ein Stahlbad_ at Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (both 2025). The show is anchored by new large-scale _Wave_ paintings, joined by a four-channel film, site-specific crowd barrier sculptures, oil pastel drawings on canvas, and her latest bronze reliefs. An impressive diptych depicting a head, enlarged from a previous drawing and rendered through accumulative mark-making, pushes her figurative work into new territory. Among the art-historical currents running through these figures, one reaches back to the _danse macabre_, the medieval death dance in which figures from all walks of life are led toward their end. In Imhof’s hands, this tradition opens onto the question: how to give form to what will not stand still.