Education: 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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