World Premiere – A Park Avenue Armory Commission
DOOM: House of Hope
Anne Imhof
March 3, 2025 - March 12, 2025
Wade Thompson Drill Hall
Anne Imhof has emerged over the past decade as one of the most acclaimed contemporary artists of her generation. While working prolifically across painting, drawing, video, music, and sculpture, she is best known as a world builder and scene setter creating large-scale endurance performances or tableaux vivants that unite these various media in singular compositions. After galvanizing the German pavilion with her exhibition and performance Faust, for which she was awarded the prestigious Golden Lion award at the 2017 Venice Biennale, the visual and performance artist has gone on to create exhibitions at the Tate Modern in London and Palais de Tokyo in Paris that received acclaim from critics and viewers alike while landing her at the top of Art Review‘s “Power 100” list. The radical art world superstar takes hold of the entirety of the Armory for her largest performative work to date.
Utilizing the Wade Thompson Drill Hall, this all-encompassing work fuses space, performers, sound, and scenography in response to our present in which anxiety and hope find a fragile balance between apathy, activism, and resistance. This sequential durational performance takes audiences on a journey to ultimately find a sense of community through our own shared experiences and features a cast of nearly 60 performers including actors, skaters, and dancers—including members from the Flexn and Line Dance communities—who create an experience that blurs the lines between observer and participant.. The culminating happening serves as a seismographic meter of our times, while projecting into our own possible futures to find a new form of hope.
Performances
Monday–Wednesday, Friday at 7:00pm
Saturday at 2:00pm
Run Time & Content Advisory
This performance is approximately 3 hours and is general admission. Audience members are encouraged to move freely throughout the space during the performance and may re-enter the Drill Hall as needed. The performance includes theatrical haze as well as strobe and flashing light effects.
“Every Anne Imhof piece is an encounter with raw humanity … in which she presides over a gallery hall like an occult puppeteer, harnessing the effects of music, film, architecture, and improvised performance to capture and manipulate the attention of her audience.”
Cultured
“Imhof invites us to visit her mind, draw parallels to our own life, and get lost in the human psyche”
Flash Art
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Creative Team
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Artist, Direction
Anne Imhof
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Curation
Klaus Biesenbach
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Scenography
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Choreography
Josh Johnson
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Music Direction
Ville Haimala
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Sound Design
Mark Grey
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Lighting Design
Urs Schönebaum
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Assistant Direction, Costume Design
Eliza Douglas
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Playwriting
Talia Ryder, Levi Strasser
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Dramaturgy and Text Development
Jakob Eilinghoff
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Design, Art Direction
Zak Group
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Casting
Midland Casting
Related Event
Making Space at the Armory
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Artist Talk: Anne Imhof
Multidisciplinary artist and creator Anne Imhof is joined by writer and curator Ebony L. Haynes to examine the creative process and development of this latest Armory commission and the experience of fully realizing it in the Wade Thompson Drill Hall.
Support
DOOM: House of Hope is made possible with the support of Cadillac, Agnes Gund, and Tishman Speyer.
Public support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature as well as the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council under the leadership of Speaker Adrienne Adams.
