Rebecca Horn Hon RA (1944 - 2024)
From the beginning of the 1970s, Rebecca Horn created an oeuvre which constitutes an ever-growing flow of performances, films, sculptures, spatial installations, drawings and photographs. The essence of their imagery comes out of the tremendous precision of the physical and technical functionality she used to stage her works each time within a particular space.
In the first performances, the body-extensions, she explored the equilibrium between body and space. In later works she replaced the human body with kinetic sculptures which took on their own life. Her newer works defined and cut through spaces with reflections of mirrors, light and music.
The objects used and specially made for her installations such as violins, suitcases, batons, ladders, pianos, feather fans, metronomes, small metal hammers, black water basins, spiral drawing machines and huge funnels together build the elements for kinetic sculptures that are liberated from their defined materiality and continuously transposed into ever-changing metaphors touching on mythical, historical, literary and spiritual imagery.
Rebecca Horn lived in Berlin and Paris.
Profile
Honorary RA
Born: 24 March 1944 in Michelstadt, Germany
Died: 6 September 2024
Nationality: German
Elected Hon RA: 10 March 2009
Gender: Female
Preferred media: Sculpture, Installation art, Performance, and Film making
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Gallery
![Rebecca Horn Hon RA, Turm der Namenlosen / Tower of the Nameless]()
Rebecca Horn Hon RA, Turm der Namenlosen / Tower of the Nameless, 1994.
![Rebecca Horn Hon RA, Turm der Namenlosen / Tower of the Nameless]()
Rebecca Horn Hon RA, Turm der Namenlosen / Tower of the Nameless, 1994.
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![Rebecca Horn Hon RA, Revelation of a Tree]()
Rebecca Horn Hon RA, Revelation of a Tree, 2014.
![Rebecca Horn Hon RA, Concert for Buchenwald: Part 1 / Tram Depot – Weimar / Germany]()
Rebecca Horn Hon RA, Concert for Buchenwald: Part 1 / Tram Depot – Weimar / Germany, 1999.
![Rebecca Horn Hon RA, Konzert der Seufzer, Venedig, Concerto dei Sospirti]()
Rebecca Horn Hon RA, Konzert der Seufzer, Venedig, Concerto dei Sospirti, 1997.
![Rebecca Horn Hon RA, Between The Knives The Emptiness]()
Rebecca Horn Hon RA, Between The Knives The Emptiness, 2014.
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Selected CV – Rebecca Horn Hon RA
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Selected solo shows
2010 Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil
2009 Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2006 Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
1994 Nationalgalerie, Berlin
1994 Tate Gallery, London
1993 Guggenheim Museum, New York
1972 Documenta 5, Kassel -
Selected awards
2010 Praemium Imperiale, Tokyo
Hessischer Kulturpreis
2004 Barnett and Annalee Newman Award -
Selected bibliography
Rebecca Horn, Glowing Core, with a forword by José Ramón Bauzá Díaz, texts by Joachim Sartorius, Iso Camartin Josè, Palma Mallorca, 2015
Rebecca Horn, The Vertebrae Oracle, texts and poems by Rebecca Horn, Hatje Cantz, 2014
Rebecca Horn, The Maribor Project, Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition: Rebecca Horn and Guests, 2012
Rebecca Horn, with text by Philippe Büttner and poems by Rebecca Horn, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 2006
Rebecca Horn / Hayden Chisholm, music for Rebecca Horn’s Installations, with text by Doris von Drathen, poems by Rebecca Horn and two Audio-CDs with music composed by Hayden Danyl Chisholm, Holzwarth Publications, Berlin, 2005
Rebecca Horn, all these black days – between, postcard collages and text by Rebecca Horn, Scalo Verlag, Zurich, Berlin and New York, 2001
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