Artists

Rebecca Horn

Press release

Rebecca Horn, born 1944 in Michelstadt, Germany, since the early 1970s has developed an autonomous, internationally renowned position beyond all conceptual, minimalist trends. Her work ranges from sculptural environments, installations, drawings, paintings to video and performance and manifests abundance, theatricality, sensuality, poetry, feminism and body art. While it was mainly through her early performances that she explored the relationship between body and space, in her later work, the human body was replaced by kinetic sculptures. The element of physical danger that comes from machines, knives, and electricity is a constant theme throughout the artist’s work.