12 Dec 2025 – 19 Apr 2026
Porto, Portugal
serralves.pt
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Fun ist ein Stahlbad (Fun is a steel bath) is Anne Imhof’s first solo exhibition in Portugal, presenting a group of largely new works made for the Museu de Serralves. A large-scale sculpture installed in the Pátio do Ulmeiro engages directly with Álvaro Siza’s architecture and leads into the galleries, where sculptures, paintings, and moving-image works evoke fragility, abandonment, and the unsettled conditions of contemporary life.
The exhibition takes the idea of a ‘steel bath’ as a material and conceptual thread, reflecting Imhof’s sustained interest in bodies, endurance, and exposure. Drawing on the affective charge of queer and youth culture, the works echo the intensity of her performances, attentive to desire, visibility, and vulnerability. The title references Adorno and Horkheimer’s writing on fun as discipline, a tension that quietly runs through the project.
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