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About
Rebecca Horn, born 1944 in Michelstadt, and died in 2024, Bad König, Hesse, Germany, since the early 1970s developed an autonomous, internationally renowned position beyond all conceptual, minimalist trends. Her work ranges from sculptural environments, installations, drawings, paintings to video and performance and manifests abundance, theatricality, sensuality, poetry, feminism and body art. While it was mainly through her early performances that she explored the relationship between body and space, in her later work, the human body was replaced by kinetic sculptures. The element of physical danger that comes from machines, knives, and electricity is a constant theme throughout the artist’s work.
Having studied in Hamburg and London, from 1989, Rebecca Horn herself taught at the University of the Arts in Berlin for almost two decades. In 1972, she was the youngest artist to be invited by curator Harald Szeemann to present her work in documenta 5. Her work was later also included in documenta 6 (1977), 7 (1982) and 9 (1992) as well as in the Venice Biennale (1980; 1986; 1997; 2022), the Sydney Biennale (1982; 1988) and as part of Skulptur Projekte Münster (1987; 1997). Throughout her career she has received numerous awards including Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße (1979), Arnold-Bode-Preis (1986), Carnegie Prize (1988), Kaiserring der Stadt Goslar (1992), ZKM Karlsruhe Medienkunstpreis (1992), Praemium Imperiale Tokyo (2010), Pour le Mérite for Sciences and the Arts (2016) and, most recently, the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Prize (2017). A first mid-career retrospective of her work was organized in 1993 by the Guggenheim Museum, New York, traveling to the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Nationalgalerie Berlin, Kunsthalle Wien, Tate Gallery and Serpentine Gallery, London, and the Musée de Grenoble. Further retrospectives were presented at the Hayward Gallery in London in 2005, at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin in 2006, at Centre Pompidou Metz and simoultaneously at Museum Tinguely in Basel in 2019. On the occasion of her 80th birthday, a retrospective was presented at Haus der Kunst München in 2024.
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Works
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Selected Works
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Exhibitions in the gallery
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CONCERT OF SIGHS
Rebecca Horn 11 September TO 9 November 2024 CHARLOTTENSTRASSERebecca Horn’s Concert of Sighs fills the space of Galerie Thomas Schulte, with the echoes...View Exhibition -
THE PEACOCK MACHINE
REBECCA HORN 11 June TO 20 August 2022 CHARLOTTENSTRASSEThe summer of 2022 marks the 40th anniversary of Rebecca Horn’s iconic work, Peacock Machine,...View Exhibition -
BEES' PLANETARY MAP
REBECCA HORN 28 April TO 26 June 2021 CHARLOTTENSTRASSEAs part of this year’s Gallery Weekend Berlin, Galerie Thomas Schulte presents a solo exhibition...View Exhibition -
LISTEN TO A HEART BEAT
GROUP SHOW 23 May TO 11 July 2020 CHARLOTTENSTRASSEThe group exhibition Listen to a heart beat at Galerie Thomas Schulte brings together works...View Exhibition
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Artist News
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In Memoriam: Rebecca Horn
1944 - 2024 9 September 2024We are deeply saddened by the passing of Rebecca Horn on Friday, 6 September, 2024. With her we lose one of the truly great artists...Read more -
Rebecca Horn / Straßenbahndepot Weimar & Lichthaus Kino, Weimar, Germany
Installation, Discursive Event Saturday, 7 September, & Sunday, 8 SeptemberThe spatial installation “Concert for Buchenwald” by Rebecca Horn has been on display in a historic streetcar depot in the disused E-Werk Weimar since 1999....Read more -
Rebecca Horn / Museum Wiesbaden, Germany
Permanent Loan of 60 works 20 March 2024Shortly before Rebecca Horn's 80th birthday, it was announced that a large complex of her works will remain in Hesse. In the exclusive cooperation between...Read more -
Rebecca Horn / Kunstforum Hermann Stenner, Bielefeld, Germany
Group Exhibition 17 March to 1 September 2024With 21 informal, conceptual and calligraphic positions in contemporary art, the exhibition Die Schrift ist weiblich. Bild und Text in der internationalen Kunst (Writing is...Read more -
Rebecca Horn / The Cloud Foundation, Nanjing, China
Group Exhibition 6 November 2023 to 31 May 2024The Cloud Collection - Contemporary Art Center, founded in 2017, has so far collected artworks by more than 140 Chinese and international artists, covering different...Read more -
Rebecca Horn / Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Solo Exhibition / Symposium, Performance & Screening Closing Event on 12 October, Exhibition until 13 October 2024The exhibition Rebecca Horn is focused on performativity, from the artist’s earliest works to her most recent productions. Horn uses the idea of incorporation to...Read more -
Rebecca Horn, Katharina Sieverding / Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Group Exhibition 18 November 2023 to 28 September 2025The art of the second half of the twentieth century is marked by an enormous diversity of materials, mediums, and methods. At the same time,...Read more -
Rebecca Horn / Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
Group Exhibition / Conference 22 September 2023 to 21 January 2024The exhibition Le temps de Giacometti (1946-1966) at Les Abattoirs, co-organised with the Fondation Giacometti, takes an unprecedented look at the art and life of...Read more -
Rebecca Horn / Hua International, Beijing, China
Solo Exhibition 25 May to 12 August 2023On the occasion of Gallery Weekend Beijing, in collaboration with Galerie Thomas Schulte, Hua International presents The Journey to China, Rebecca Horn’s first solo exhibition...Read more -
Rebecca Horn / Art basel Unlimited
From 16 JUNE, 2022Conceived during the height of the Balkan War, which forcibly displaced millions across the region, Bees' Planetary Map evokes themes of dislocation, fractured movement, and...Read more -
Rebecca Horn / Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
Group exhibition 2 June 2022 to 15 January 2023The exhibition Future Bodies from a Recent Past—Sculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s brings to life a hitherto little-noticed phenomenon in art, and...Read more -
Rebecca Horn / Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien, Vienna, Austria
Solo exhibition 28 September 2021 to 23 January 2022Rebecca Horn is one of the most extraordinary and versatile artists of her generation. The Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien is presenting her first comprehensive retrospective...Read more -
Rebecca Horn, Idris Khan/Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
group exhibition 29 September 2020 to 24 January 2021The Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna presents, in cooperation with the Archive of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, an unusual homage to Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827),...Read more
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