Anne Imhof, born in 1978 in Giessen, Germany, is a visual artist, choreographer, and performance artist who lives and works between Frankfurt, Paris, and Los Angeles. She is best known for her endurance-based performances, often referred to as durational art, though she considers painting and drawing to be central components of her practice. Imhof’s work stages intense physical and emotional encounters, using time, space, and the body to examine power structures, control, vulnerability, and contemporary conditions of existence. In 2015, she was awarded the Preis der Nationalgalerie. In 2017, she received the Golden Lion for her work Faust at the German Pavilion of the Venice Biennale and was ranked number one on Monopol magazine’s Top 100 list. She was a visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich in 2015.