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Childhood and studies

Rebecca Horn was born on March 24, 1944 in the Hessian Michelstadt. During her childhood, she came into contact with art. Through several books, drawing lessons, and her uncle, who was an artist, she decided early on to pursue artistic path. She attended a boarding school and began to study economics after her graduation, in order to take over the familyâs textile factory. However, this she broke off after half a year. Then she applied at the Hochschule fÃ¼r bildende KÃ¼nste in Hamburg and began to study art and philosophy.

In addition to her studies, she took issue with numerous writings of Locus Solus, Kafka, Pasolini, Jean Genet and numerous other authors. This influenced her and her art greatly.

In 1967 she created replicas made of glass fibres. Thereupon Horn suffered of pulmonary poisoning. She was hospitalized for one year. Since this incident, she made her sculptures only with organic material. In 1971 the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) granted he Â a scholarship for St. Martinâs School of Art in London. There she spent a year. During this time she designed several body-related sculptures.

Teaching activity

In 1972 she moved to the USA and lived in New York until 1981. During this time, she held a position as a visiting professor at the California Art Institute in San Diego. From the early 1980s, she was back in Germany and in 1989 she began teaching at the UniversitÃ¤t der bildenden KÃ¼nste Berlin (UdK).This she practised until 2009. Since 2007 Rebecca Horn lives and works in Berlin and Paris.

Motives und Themes

Since the 1970s Rebecca Horn assembled her work with different media like installations, performances, drawings, films and sculptures. In 1972, she participated at documenta 5, which was headed by Harald Szeemann. She was the youngest of the participating artists. During that time she made numerous body-related sculptures. The theme of this sculptures were field extensions and renewals. Her first body-related sculpture was in 1968 Arm-Extensions.

For Horn, it was really important that the viewer found out a new experience of space. She provided herself to make these experiences possible. Her own body became an experiment.

The years in America influenced Horn enormously. She lived in New York in SoHo district where she was part of the American Fluxus movement. From there on, performances and actions were her common artist repertoire. Horn also made numerous films in addition to her performance art. In her artistic career she received several prizes for them. Among others, she was awarded with the Deutscher Kritikerpreis for her film Unter dem Wasser schlafen und Dinge sehen, die sich in weiter Ferne abspielen in 1975. Her films were accompanied with poetic and psychological sequences so that they got some momentum.

Hornâs works changed over the time. Her body-related works had been replaced by acting alive sculptures such asÂ PfauenmaschineÂ in 1979/80. Kinetic art replaced the body-related art.

She was part of documenta 5, 6, 7 and 9. In 1986 she was awarded with the documenta prize in Kassel.

In 1987 she designed the Zwinger in MÃ¼nster in a memorial against Nazi violence. For her exhibitionÂ Skulptur-ProjekteÂ Horn helped with the sculptureÂ Das gegenlÃ¤ufige KonzertÂ to change the Zwinger in an interesting place for the public.

Through her art Horn wanted to attract the viewer, but then dissociate him again. She used boundaries between space and time to direct the viewer. Body and distance characterized horns entire oeuvre. She used various mechanisms and alienated perspectives. One example is the workÂ Concert for AnarchyÂ from 1990. In this a piano is inversely from the wall.Â

In 1994, Rebecca Horn was the first woman which had a retrospective solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. This was one of the highlights of Horns career. The exhibition with her oeuvre was later shown again in the National Gallery in Berlin and at the Kunsthalle Wien.
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