Artist Biography

Born in Michelstadt, Germany, 1944.
Lives and works in Bad König.

Education
1974
Teaching at the California Art Institute, University of San Diego, CA, USA

1972 – 1981
Living in New York, USA

1971
DAAD-scholarship at Saint Martins College of Art, London, United Kingdom

1963
Studying at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany

Solo Exhibitions
2019
Rebecca Horn. Körperphantasien, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
Rebecca Horn. Theater of Metamorphoses, curated by Emma Lavigne and Alexandra Müller, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France

2017
Hauchkorper als lebenszyklus, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Prize 2017, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany

2016
Films, 1970–2016, Tate Modern, London

2015
Glowing Core, La Llotja, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
The Vertebrae Oracle in Napoli 2015, Studio Trisorio, Naples, Italy
Will o’ the Wisps of the Warriors, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland

2014
Rebecca Horn: des arts plastiques au cinéma, 7èmes Journées Internationales du Film sur l’Art, Louvre, Paris
The Vertebrae Oracle, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Between the Knives the Emptiness, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
Rebecca Horn: Black Moon Mirror, Galerie Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
Flying Books under Black Rain Painting, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Havard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA (permanent installation), USA

2013
The Suitcase of Escape, Multimedia Art Muzey Moscow, Russia
A Chemical Wedding in Istanbul, Galerie Artist, Istanbul, Turkey

2012
Federn tanzen auf den Schultern, Weserburg Museum, Bremen, Germany
Capuzzelle, Studio Trisorio, Naples, Italy
Passage through Light, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
Maribor Projekt – Rebecca Horn and Guests, UGM Maribor Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia

2011
Moon Mirror Journey, Internationales Literaturfestival, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, Germany. World Premiere.
Moon Mirror Journey, 4th Moscow Biennale, Pioner Cinema, Moscow, Russia. Opening Film.
Moon Mirror Journey, Artecinema, 16. International Film Festival of Documentaries, Naples, Italy
Ravens Gold Rush, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Moon Mirror Journey, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, USA. United States Film Premiere.

2010
Luci mie traditrici, MaerzMusik 2010, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, Germany. Opera by Salvatore Sciarrino, direction, stage and costumes by Rebecca Horn
Rebelião em Silêncio, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro and Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Sao Paulo (with catalogue), Brasil
Elektra, Staatstheater Wiesbaden. Opera by Richard Strauss, text by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, directions by Rebecca Horn

2009
Rebecca Horn, Galleria Marie Laure Fleisch, Rome, Italy
Fata Morgana, Liebesflucht, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa and Teatro La Fenice, Venice (with catalogue), Italy
Luci mie traditrici, Operadhoy, Madrid, Spain. Opera by Salvatore Sciarrino, direction, stage and costumes by Rebecca Horn (with catalogue)
Aigües Tortes, with Jannis Kounellis, Pelaires Centro Culturale Contemporanei, Palma de Mallorca (with catalogue), Spain
Mots sous les pierres, with Giuseppe Penone, Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland
Rebellion in Silence. Dialogue between Raven and Whale, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (with catalogue), Japan

2008
L’Amour cosmique-fou du faucon rouge, Galerie Lelong Paris, France
Cosmic Maps, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York (with catalogue), USA
Luci mie traditrici, Salzburger Festspiele 2008, Kollegienkirche, Salzburg, Austria. Opera by Salvatore Sciarrino, direction, stage and costumes by Rebecca Horn (with catalogue)
Love and Hate, MdM Rupertinum Museum der Moderne, Salzburg (with catalogue), Austria
Amore – Continental, Studio Trisorio, Rome, Italy

2007
Jupiter im Oktogon, Museum Wiesbaden (with catalogue), Germany
Rebecca Horn, Rodin Gallery, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (with catalogue), South Korea

2006
Time Goes By, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, and RMIT Gallery, Melbourne (with catalogue), Australia
Rebecca Horn, Galerie Beyeler, Basel (with catalogue), Switzerland
Lotusschatten, Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst, Unna, Germany
Rebecca Horn. Zeichnungen, Skulpturen, Installationen, Filme 1964 – 2006, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (with catalogue), Germany

2005
Bodylandscapes, Fundação Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal, and Hayward Gallery, London (with catalogue), United Kingdom
Bodylandscapes, Galerie de France, Paris, France
Moon Mirror, St Paul’s Cathedral, London, United Kingdom
Rebecca Horn, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart in connection with the Hans Molfenter Award, Stuttgart (with catalogue), Germany
Twilight Transit, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Time Goes By, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin (with catalogue), New Zealand

2004
Light imprisoned in the belly of the whale, Es Baluard, Palma, Mallorca (with catalogue), Spain
Moon Mirror, St Johannes-Evangelist-Kirche, Berlin, Germany
Bodylandscapes. Zeichnungen, Skulpturen, Installationen 1964 – 2004, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf (with catalogue), Germany

2003
Moon Mirror, Església del convent de Sant Domingo, Pollença, Mallorca (with catalogue), Spain
Rebecca Horn, Galleria Trisorio, Naples, Italy
Belle du vent, Galerie de France, Paris, France

2002
Installation with Jannis Kounellis, Galleria Nova Pesa, Rome, Italy
Heart Shadows, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Light imprisoned in the belly of the whale, Palais de Tokyo site de création contemporaine, Paris (with catalogue), France
Spiriti di Madreperla, Installation Piazza Plebescito, Naples (with catalogue), Italy

2001
Rebecca Horn, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (with catalogue), Ireland
Blue Bath, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich, Switzerland
The Burning Bush, Galerie de France, Paris, France

2000
Where Rock and Ocean Meet, CGAC Centro Galégo de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela (with catalogue), Spain
Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain, Nimes (with catalogue), France
Spiriti blu, light installation, Turin, Italy
Sighing Stones, Galerie de France, Paris, France

Group Exhibitions (selected)
2018
Traces écrites, MLF | MARIE-LAURE FLEISCH, Brussels, Belgium
BLACK MIRROR, Gallery MAM, Salzburg, Austria

2017
Pro(s)thesis, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, Austria
Infinite Garden: From Giverny to Amazonia, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
Kairos Castle: The Art of the Moment, Kasteel van gaasbeek, Lennik, Belgium
Selected, Sean Kelly, New York, U.S.A.
Restless Gestures: Works from the Hubert Looser Collection, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
Entering the Landscape, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada

2016
The Body Extended: Sculpture and Prosthethics, Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds, England
Seeing Round Corners, Turner Contemporary, Margate, England
Lines of Passage, Municipal Art Gallery of Mytilene, Greece
An der Oberfläche_On Surface: Von Rodin bis De Bruyckere, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany

2015
Making Traces, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
What We Call Love, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

2014
7èmes Journées Internationales du Film sur l’Art, Louvre, Paris
Spuren der Moderne, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Art or Sound, Fondazione Prada, Venice, Italy
50 Years: Living with Art, Galerie Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany

2013
On Nature, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Meret Oppenheim parle à Annette Messager, Rebecca Horn, Judith Hopf, Galerie de France, Paris, France

2012
Art is Liturgy, Kolumba Museum, Cologne, Germany
TRANSART, Festival zeitgenössischer Kultur in cooperation with Museion, Bozen, Italy

2011 
Rebecca Horn, Jannis Kounellis, Domenico Bianchi, Miguel Navarro – Afinitats i diferències, Galeria Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

2010
I Love You, Aros Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
Starter – Vehbi Koc Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Arter, Istanbul, Turkey
Everything Is Connected, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
The Surreal House, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom
Thrice Upon a Time, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
The Private Museum, Galleria d´Arte Moderna, Bergamo, Italy
Just Love Me, Musée d´Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg
Tenir, debout, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes, France
Art on Paper 2010, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, USA
Encounter Stage: Indoors and Outdoors, KunstGarten Graz, Austria
Islands Never Found, Musée d´Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France; State Museum of Contemporary Art and Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece

2009
Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
1968. Die Große Unschuld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
Odes to Common Things / Oda a las cosas, Galeria Arnes + Röpke, Madrid, Spain
Kunst und Öffentlichkeit, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
aus/gezeichnet/zeichnen, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
60 Jahre – 60 Werke: Kunst aus der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
elles@centrepompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Kunst und Kalter Krieg: Deutsche Positionen 1945 – 1989, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, Nuremberg
DURCHdRINGEN, kunstGarten Graz, Austria
Kunst und Kalter Krieg: Deutsche Positionen 1945 – 1989, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
Taswir – Islamische Bildwelten und Moderne, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany

2008
40jahrevideokunst.de / L’héritage digital: l’Art vidéo en allemagne de 1963 jusqu’à aujourd’hui, MAMCS Strasbourg, Austria
40 Years Video Art in Germany, Sofia Art Gallery und Goethe-Institut Bulgaria, Sofia, Bulgaria
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, P.S.1 MoMA, Long Island, NY, USA
Kunstmaschinen – Maschinenkunst, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
Visite – Von Gerhard Richter bis Rebecca Horn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle, Bonn, Germany
Zerbrechliche Schönheit. Glas im Blick der Kunst, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
traces du sacré, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Biennale of Sydney 2008, Sydney, Australia
Sound of Art, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria
traces du sacré, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
40jahrevideokunst.de, Museo Villa Croce, Geneva, Switzerland
Die verborgene Spur – Jüdische Wege durch die Moderne, Felix-Nussbaum-Haus, Osnabrück, Germany

2007
You’ll Never Know, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Lights, Camera, Action: Artists’ Films for the Cinema, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Pontus Hultén – Künstler einer Sammlung, hlmd – Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt and Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway
Tanzen, Sehen, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen and Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain
Fondation Beyeler: EROS in der Kunst der Moderne, BA-CA Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, USA
Visit(e) – Art contemporain en Allemagne – Sélection de la collection d’art contemporain de la République Fédérale d’Allemagne, Bozar – Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels, Belgium
Dalla terra alla luna – metafore di viaggio (parte I), Museo d’arte contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Vertigo – The century of off-media art from Futurism to the web, MAMbo – Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy
Rouge baiser, FRAC – Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
Poetry in Motion, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Der unendliche Raum dehnt sich aus, Kolumba, Cologne, Germany
Kunstmaschinen – Maschinenkunst, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Face to Face – The Daros Collections, Part 1, Daros Exhibitions, Zurich, Switzerland

2006
Schattenspiel. Schatten und Licht in der zeitgenössischen Kunst – Eine Hommage an Hans Christian Andersen,Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria
Walking & Falling, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Eros in der Kunst der Moderne, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Pontus Hultén. Artisti da una collezione, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy
Verrückte Liebe – Von Dalí bis Bacon, BA-CA Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria
40jahrevideokunst.de – Digitales Erbe, Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus, Düsseldorf, Germany
40jahrevideokunst.de – Die 60er, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
40jahrevideokunst.de – update 06, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
40jahrevideokunst.de – Revision.zkm, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
40jahrevideokunst.de – Revision.ddr, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany
You’ll Never Know, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, The Lowry, Salford and The New Art Gallery, Walsall, United Kingdom
Tokyo Blossoms: Deutsche Bank Collection meets Zaha Hadid, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
A Short History of Performance IV, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Kunst und Photographie, Photographie und Kunst, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
Transformation. Aus eigener Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
All the Best – The Deutsche Bank Collection and Zaha Hadid, Singapore Art Museum, Republic of Singapore
Contemporary sculpture, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, USA
DISEGNI, Studio Trisorio, Naples, Italy
The Subverted Object, Ubu Gallery, New York, USA
busy going crazy – the Sylvio Perlstein collection, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France

2005
Behind the Facts. Interfunktionen 1968 – 75, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Bewegliche Teile. Formen des Kinetischen, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Germany
Sammel-Leidenschaften, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
(my private) Heroes, MARTa Herford, Germany
Kunst und Cover / Lettre International, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Schattenspiel. Schatten und Licht in der zeitgenössischen Kunst – Eine Hommage an Hans Christian Andersen, Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany
Körper – Leib – Raum, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Germany
UdK Berlin – Fakultät Bildende Kunst, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2004
The Pontus Hultén Collection, Moderna Museet Stockhlom, Sweden
TanzMediale, Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany
Behind the Facts. Interfunktionen 1968 – 75, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, and Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Bewegliche Teile, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Gegenwelten, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
100 Artists See God, ICA London, United Kingdom

2003
Live Culture, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
Phantom der Lust, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
Open the Curtain – Kunst und Tanz im Wechselspiel, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
Berlin – Moskau / Moskau – Berlin 1950 – 2000, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, and Tretjakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2002 
Kunst und Schock – der 11. September und das Geheimnis des Anderen, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany
Tempo, The Museum of Modern Art, Queens, New York, USA
100 Artists See God, Independent Curators International, New York, USA
Drehen, Kreisen, Rotieren, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Kunst-Museum Ahlen in der Theodor F. Leifeld-Stiftung, Ahlen, Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany

2001 
Celebrating a Decade, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

2000
Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
Über die Wirklichkeit, Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum, Cologne, Germany
La Beauté, Palais des Papes, Avignon, France
Contemporary Art from Germany – German Festival in India 2000 – 2001, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta, India
Regarding Beauty: A View of The Late Twentieth Century, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
New Works, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich, Switzerland

Awards

2017
Awarded The 2017 Wilhem Lehmbruck Prize, Duisburg, Germany

2011
Grande Médaille des Arts Plastiques, Académie d’Architecture de Paris, France

2010
Premium Imperiale, Tokyo, Japan

2010
Hessischer Kulturpreis, Wiesbaden, Germany

2009
Alice Salomon Poetik Preis, Berlin, Germany

2007
Awarded the 'Alexej von Jawlensky-Preis der Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden'

2006
Awarded the 'Piepenbrock Preis für Skulptur', Berlin, Germany

2005
Awarded the 'Hans-Molfenter-Preis', Stuttgart, Germany

2004
Awarded the Barnett and Annalee Newman Award, New York, USA

1992
Awarded the 'Kaiserring der Stadt Goslar' and the 'Medienkunstpreis Karlsruhe'

1989
Begins teaching at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, Germany

1988
Awarded the Carnegie Prize at Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, PA, USA for The Hydra Forest, Performing Oscar Wilde

1986
Awarded the 'Documenta-Preis', Kassel, Germany

1979
Awarded the 'Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße', Bremen, Germany

1977
Awarded the 'Kunstpreis der Glockengasse', Cologne, Germany

1975
Deutscher Kritikerpreis (German Critic’s Award) for her film Berlin – Exercises in nine parts: Dreaming under water of things afar