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About
Franka Hörnschemeyer, born 1958 in Osnabrück, studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg in 1987 and subsequently went to New York with a DAAD scholarship. Her work is rooted in the minimalist and in conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s, but also relates to and comments on art movements like institutional critique and Arte Povera. In 1990, she was the recipient of the Kunstfonds scholarship. In 1992, she was awarded the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Stipendium, and in 1994, she was awarded the Friedrich Vordemberge-Stipendium of the city of Cologne. In 2006, she was a fellow at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. In 2011, she was awarded the mfi Preis Kunst am Bau for her public commission Trichter in Dresden. She is currently a professor of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Düsseldorf.
Important solo exhibitions include the Grüntuch Ernst Lab, Berlin (2016), ADN Pförtnerhaus, Berlin (2013), Albertinum Dresden (2011), Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen (2011), and Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (2007), Jewish Museum, Athens (2008), Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2002), and Kunsthalle Hamburg (2000). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions in institutions such as Museum Kurhaus Kleve (2022), Philara Foundation (2021), Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin (2019), Museum unter Tage, Bochum (2019), Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2017), Kunstsaele, Berlin (2016), Kunstverein Hannover (2015), Museum Marta, Herford (2011), Hamburger Kunsthalle (2009), Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin (2010), National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul (2002), National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (2001), Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2000), Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (1999), and Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen (1998). Franka Hörnschemeyer lives and works in Berlin.
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Works
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Selected works
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Exhibitions in the gallery
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BLINDTEXT
Franka Hörnschemeyer 23 November 2024 TO 11 January 2025 CHARLOTTENSTRASSE -
FOUR WINDS
Group Show 18 March TO 15 April 2023 CHARLOTTENSTRASSEThe group exhibition Four Winds at Galerie Thomas Schulte brings together works by Angela de...View Exhibition -
NOISE SPHERE
FRANKA HÖRNSCHEMEYER 27 November 2021 TO 5 February 2022 CHARLOTTENSTRASSE“Information and structure are mutually dependent. I think that information is much more decisive for...View Exhibition -
Franka Hörnschemeyer
Franka Hörnschemeyer 26 April TO 29 June 2013 CHARLOTTENSTRASSEAs part of this year’s Gallery Weekend Berlin (April 26–28, 2013), Galerie Thomas Schulte will...View Exhibition
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Artist News
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Franka Hörnschemeyer / Museum Schnütgen, Cologne, Germany
Audio Installation 19 October 2023 to 21 January 2024At three stations in different room areas of the collection exhibition at intervals of 22 seconds you will hear a word from the artist's book...Read more -
Franka Hörnschemeyer, Julian Irlinger / Monopol Berlin, Germany
Group Exhibition 14 to 17 September 2023What is the role of art in modern industrial societies? On the one hand, it is fundamentally linked to the socio-economic drivers of these societies,...Read more -
Franka Hörnschemeyer / Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Group Exhibition 7 August to 21 September 2023For the first time, the artists' association at Haus der Kunst is dedicating the 6th Biennale 2023, with the title resetNow! exclusively to women: Women...Read more -
Franka Hörnschemeyer / Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany
Group Exhibition 23 July to 20 November 2022The Museum Kurhaus Kleve, one of the important art museums in North Rhine-Westphalia, celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2022. This provides a welcome occasion with...Read more
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