Franka Hörnschemeyer

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.