{"id":89146,"date":"2026-09-30T19:55:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T11:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=89146"},"modified":"2026-09-30T19:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T11:55:21","slug":"review-german-artist-anne-imhofs-hong-kong-show-is-as-ambitious-as-it-is-disjointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=89146","title":{"rendered":"Review | German artist Anne Imhof\u2019s Hong Kong show is as ambitious as it is disjointed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/09\/30\/f9ef0851-b418-4c0e-af76-3befb0f47431_24a47b4b.jpg?itok=pdmQ07aW&amp;v=1790762277\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">That is partly due to the venue\u2019s capacity of 150 visitors per show, but also because the German visual artist, choreographer and performer has a sizeable following across both the art and fashion worlds.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At the 2017 Venice Biennale, her transformation of the German Pavilion, adding raised glass floors, barricades and caged Dobermans in a critique of modern power structures, won her the prestigious Golden Lion award.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In 2025, her memorable show <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Doom: House of Hope<\/em> at New York\u2019s Park Avenue Armoury featured a reversed version of <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Romeo and Juliet<\/em> performed in a bleak, prom-themed drill hall with Balenciaga models and ballet dancers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/arts\/article\/3369317\/german-artist-anne-imhofs-hong-kong-show-ambitious-it-disjointed?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is partly due to the venue\u2019s capacity of 150 visitors per show, but also because the German visual artist, choreographer and performer has a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[11257,13931,1785,30865,4868,3569,30864,5231,28,616],"class_list":["post-89146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-ambitious","tag-anne","tag-artist","tag-disjointed","tag-german","tag-hong","tag-imhofs","tag-kong","tag-review","tag-show","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}