Rebecca Horn

Michelstadt, Germany, 1944 -

BiographyEducation: Academy of Fine Arts, Hamburg, Germany, 1963

Awards: Trägerin des Kaiserring der Stadt Goslar and the Medienkunstpreis Karlsruhe, Germany, 1992
Carnegie Prize, Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for "The Hydra Forest, Performing Oscar Wilde," 1988
Documenta-Preis (Arnold Bode), Kassel, Germany, 1986
Kunstpreis Böttcherstraße, Bremen, Germany, 1979
Kunstpreis Glockengasse, Cologne, Germany, 1977
Deutscher Kritikerpreis for film "Berlin Exercises: Dreaming Under Water," 1975
DAAD Fellowship, St. Martin's School of Art, London, England, 1971-72

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2001-00
Carré d'Art Musée d'art contemporain, Nîmes, France

1998
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

1997
"Rebecca Horn. The Glance of Infinity," Kestner Gesellschaft, Das Neue Haus, Hannover, Germany

1994
"The Turtle Sighing Tree," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
The Tate Gallery and the Serpentine Gallery, London, England
Vienna Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
Berlin Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany

1993
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
Stedelijk Van Abbesmuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

1991
"High Moon," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

1990
"Amerika," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Diving through Buster's Bedroom," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California

1989
"Missing Full Moon," Artsite Gallery, Bath International Festival, Bath, England
Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany

1988
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

1986
ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

1985
Galerie Eric Franck, Geneva, Switzerland
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
"Prommenade," Parc Lullin, Geneva, Switzerland

1983
John Hansard Gallery, University of Southhampton, Southhampton, England
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

1982
Gewad, Ghent, Belgium
Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany

1981
Saman Gallery, Genoa, Italy
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany

1979
Kunstverein, Münster, Germany
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

1978
Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany

1977
Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany

1975
Anthology Film Archives, New York, New York
Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Paris Biennial, Paris, France

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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

2000-99
"Regarding Beauty: A View of The Late Twentieth Century," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

1999
"Inner Eye, Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection," Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York

1998
"Breaking Ground," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

1997
47th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
Skulptur Projekte Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany

1996
"Everything That's Interesting is New," The Dakis Joannou Collection, an exhibition organized by The Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece in conjunction with the Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

1995
Site Sante Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1993
"A Group Show," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

1992
Documenta 9, Kassel, Germany

1991
"Mechanika," The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
"This Land...," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Arte & Arte," Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy

1990
Domaine de Kerguehennec, Centre d'Art Contemporaine, Bignan, France

1989-90
"Blickpunkte," Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec

1989
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Departures: Photography 1924-1989," Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, New York
"Magiciens de la Terre," Musée National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

1988
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Bank of Boston Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
ROSC '88, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia

1987
"Stations, 3rd 100 Days of Contemporary Art," Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec
Skulptur Projekte Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany
"From the Europe of Old," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Die Gleichzeitigkeit des Anderen," Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland

1986
"Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945-1986," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
"Images of the Unknown," P.S.1/Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York
"Wien Fluss," Theater am Steinhof, Vienna Festival, Vienna, Austria
"Falls the Shadow: Recent British and European Art," The 1986 Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London, England
"Androgyn," Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Sonsbeek '86. International Sculpture Exhibition, Arnhem, The Netherlands
42nd Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy

1985
"The European Iceberg," Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario

1984
"Von hier aus," Messegelände Hall 13, Düsseldorf, Germany
Japan Biennial, Toyama, Japan

1982
Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany
Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia

1980
Design Forum, Linz, Austria
"Icontri 1980," 23rd Festival di Spoleto, Spoleto, Italy
"Umanesimo-Disumanesimo," Expositions des Medicis, Florence, Italy

1978
"Videosymposium," Tokyo, Japan

1977
Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany
Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

1975
Berliner Festwochen, Berlin, Germany
Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
9th Paris Biennial, Paris, France
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany

1974
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Projekt 74, Kunsthalle/Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany

1973
Kunstverein, Hannover, Germany

1972
Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany

FILMOGRAPHY

"Buster's Bedroom" (a coproduction of Metropolis Filmproduktion, Berlin, Germany; Les Productions des Versau, Canada; and Prole Film, Lisbon, Portugal), 1989-90, 35 mm, color, 112 minutes
"La Ferdinanda-Sonate für eine Medici Villa," 1981, 35 mm, color, 90 minutes
"Der Eintänzer," 1976, 16 mm, color, 45 minutes
"Paradieswitwe (Paradise Widow)," 1975, 16 mm, color (unfinished)
"Berlin Excercises-Dreaming Underwater," 1974-75, 16 mm, color, 45 minutes
"Flamingos," 1974, 16 mm, color (unfinished)
"Performances 2," 1973, 16 mm, color, 45 minutes
"Performances 1," 1972, 16 mm, color, 22 minutes
"Mata Hari," 1971, super-8 mm, color
"Körperfarbre (Body Painting)," 1971, super-8 mm, color
"Schwarze Hörner (Black Horns)," 1971, super-8 mm, color, 15 minutes
"Einhorn (Unicorn)," 1971, super-8 mm, color, 12 minutes

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