Rebecca Horn
Rebecca Horn ( born March 24, 1944 in Michel City ) is a German sculptor, performance artist and filmmaker. Their work moves often the crossroads between different artistic disciplines and includes installations, performances, sculptural space installations, kinetic objects, poetic texts, film and drawing. Rebecca Horn is regarded internationally as one of the most prominent German artists.
- 3.1 Solo exhibitions (selection )
- 3.2 Group exhibitions ( selection)
- 3.3 retrospectives
- 6.1 Museums Rebecca Horn
- 6.2 Current Exhibitions
Life
Childhood and youth
Rebecca Horn was born on 24 March 1944 as a daughter of a merchant and textile designer in the Hessian town of Michel, Odenwald.
Already at an early age she dreamed of becoming an artist. She was inspired by her Romanian nanny, a painter who taught Rebecca in drawing, as well as by her uncle, who was an artist and also led a varied life.
After a long-time boarding school, Rebecca should study economics to assume parental textile factory, which had been around for several generations in the family. But she abandoned his studies after six months and began in 1963, initially without the knowledge of parents, a philosophy and art studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg.
Study time
Of importance, the literary works of Jean Genet The Thief's Journal, Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel, Johann Valentin Andreae had Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosencreuz or even the works of Franz Kafka and films of Luis Buñuel and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
In 1967, she began casts for a sculpture of glass fibers and polyester resin manufacture (fiberglass reinforced plastic ), but they were not warned of toxic fumes and be encouraged to use a respirator, so Rebecca Horn and two other fellow suffered a severe lung toxicity, which she in a long time hospital and a year spent in the sanatorium.
When she returned after the interruption to the University, Rebecca Horn used then only lighter and mainly organic materials such as cotton, bandages, and in particular springs.
Between 1968 and 1972, resulting in a range of actions and performances that were only a small group of persons reserved. Their first project in 1968 was the arm extension, in the she explores the balance between man and space.
1969 ended Rebecca Horn her studies at the Hamburg College of Art. A one-year DAAD scholarship at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design made it possible to study in London.
Artist's career
Since the beginning of the 70's Rebecca Horn sets of sculptural environments, installations and drawings with video and performance and Fotoübermalungen together a work.
In 1972 her work was exhibited at the Documenta 5 for the first time under the direction of Harald Szeemann. This is considered the single most important Documenta. Fluxus and Happening art that have not yet occurred at the documenta 4, found, inter alia, their place here. Non-art and image contributions from psychiatry issued and publicly discussed controversially. She was here the youngest artist in the exhibition.
In the same year Rebecca moved to New York's SoHo, a neighborhood in Manhattan, which was increasingly occupied in the course of the 1960s by young artists and freelancers. Here met the protagonists of the Fluxus and experimental film scene, to their meetings with poetry readings, happenings, performance art hold in run-down and empty factory floors etc.. Nearly ten years were spent between Berlin and New York.
In 1984 she was on the group exhibition from here on - represented two months new German art in Dusseldorf. In 1993, Horn became the first woman a solo exhibition at New York's Guggenheim Museum.
In 1997, she designed the kennel in Münster in the Skulptur.Projekte into a memorial to the Nazi violence.
She worked among others with the Arte Povera artist Jannis Kounellis and made some film projects, including movies La Ferdinanda: Sonata for a Medici villa with the actors Valentina Cortese, Richard Sutherland, Hans Peter Hall wax and Buster's Bedroom (1990 ) to screenplay by Martin Mosebach with actors Donald Sutherland, Geraldine Chaplin and Martin Wuttke, who in 1992 received the German film Award for his outfit by Nana Hugo.
Horn noted several times on the Documenta in Kassel and was awarded with important art prizes. So it was in 1992 the first woman recipient of the emperor ring of Goslar. Since 1993, Rebecca Horn is a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. Here is her room installation The Three Graces in the three skylights the foyer of the Federal Council since the move of the institution and the reopening of the building in September 2000 part of the artistic redesign of the former Prussian House of Lords.