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About
Rebecca Horn, born 1944 in Michelstadt, Germany, since the early 1970s has 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. A second retrospective was presented at the Hayward Gallery in London in 2005. Another retrospective took place at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin in 2006. In 2019, two major exhibitions of her work took place simultaneously at Centre Pompidou Metz and at Museum Tinguely in Basel. Rebecca Horn lives and works in Bad König, Germany.
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Works
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Selected Works
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Video
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Exhibitions in the gallery
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THE PEACOCK MACHINE
REBECCA HORN 11 June TO 20 August 2022The summer of 2022 marks the 40th anniversary of Rebecca Horn’s iconic work, Peacock Machine,...View Exhibition -
BEE'S PLANETARY MAP
REBECCA HORN 28 April TO 26 June 2021As 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 2020The 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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Rebecca Horn / Hua International, Beijing, China
Solo Exhibition 26 May 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
16 June 2022Conceived during the height of the Balkan War, which forcibly displaced millions across the region, Bee's Planetary Map evokes themes of dislocation, fractured movement, and...Read more -
Rebecca Horn / Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
Group exhibition 2 June 2022The 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 2021Rebecca 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 2020The 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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