Rebecca Horn was one of the most important artists of the second half of the 20^th century and early 21^st century. This multidisciplinary artist mainly worked with installations, performance, cinema, photography and drawings.

Her early work (1970s) is rather radical as well as socially and politically loaded. Her famous performances explore her obsession with the imperfect human body and the balance between figure, object and space. In her youth she was marked by a traumatic disease that influenced her first years of artistic activity, when Horn mainly drew on paper due to her physical limitations. In the 1980s she replaced the human body with kinetic installations that offer powerful visual plays through mirrors, lens, lights and music, using elements such as violins, suitcases, batons, ladders, pianos, feather fans, metronomes, small metal hammers, black water basins, spiral drawing machines and large funnels. Her installations are conceived to be staged in specific places of historical and political significance. Sex, desire, mysticism, poetry and music (she collaborates regularly with musician Hayden Chisholm) materialise through works that reveal her incredible scientific and technological skills.

Rebecca Horn studied at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg and at Saint Martin's School of Art in London. He lived in New York from 1972 to 1981, when he moved to Berlin, where he worked as a teacher since 1989. In the last years, he lived near his foundation, the Moontower Foundation in the forest of Oden.

Throughout his prolific career, he exhibited in important public and private spaces around the world. In 1993, the Guggenheim Museum in New York hosted the first major retrospective of his work, which then traveled to the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Kunsthalle in Vienna, the Tate and Serpentine in London and the Musée de Grenoble. A second major retrospective was held at the Hayward Gallery in London in 2005 and a third in 2006 at the Martin Gropius-Bau in Berlin. In 2019, his work was exhibited simultaneously at the Pompidou Metz and the Tinguely Museum in Basel. In 2021, the first major retrospective in 30 years was held at the Kunstforum Wien (Austria), organized by the Bank Austris Kustforum Wien.

In 2024, on the occasion of her 80th birthday, the most recent retrospective of the artist was held at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, an exhibition that covered six decades of work (between 1960 and her most recent works) and offered a tour for his career, starting with his first drawings, performances and films, passing through mechanical sculptures and spatial installations, until his last works. References virtuously intertwined with literature, art history and cinema run through his entire work.

She was the youngest artist to be invited by the curator Harald Szeemann to exhibit her work in Documenta 5, being later presented in Documenta 6 (1977), 7 (1982) and 9 (1992). His work was also present in the Venice Biennale (1980, 1988, 1988, 1997, 2022), the Sydney Biennale (1982, 1988) and other international events of great artistic quality, such as the Skulptur Projekte Münster (1997).

Horn received numerous awards, including: Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse (1979), Arnold-Bode-Preis, Kassel (1986), Carnegie Prize, Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (1988), Kaiserring der Stadt Goslar (1992), ZKM Karlsrue Medienkunstpreis (1992), Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Award, New York (2004), Praemium Imperiale Prize for Sculpture, Japan Art Association, Japan (2010), Grande Médaille des Arts Plastiques de l'Académie d'Architecture de Paris (2011) and the Premio Wilhelm Lehmbruck (2017), among others.

His work is included in important collections around the world, such as the Guggenheim in New York, the Centre Pompidou in France, the MCA in Chigago, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, the Tate Collection in London, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museu d'Art Contemporani in Barcelona.

Rebecca Horn maintained a deep personal bond with Mallorca, making it her second residence and the place where she established her studio. This relationship was not only significant on a personal level, but had a great impact on the artistic scene of the island and the rest of Spain. Her presence in Galeria Pelaires was key to inspiring and energizing local artists, since her influence, as one of the most important female figures in contemporary art, transcended borders.

Rebecca Horn also contributed to the collaboration and the creation of new dynamics between the artists. Her collaboration with Jannis Kounellis on the exhibition "Aigüestortes" in 2009, held at Pelaires, was an example of this. "Aigüestortes" was not only the result of the synergy between two world-renowned artists, but also an expression of the friendship that had united them for more than 52 years. This is, to date, the only collaboration in Spain between the two artists who developed their careers in parallel since they met at the 1972 Documenta in Kassel. This project, which coincided with the 40th anniversary of Pelaires, was the only joint collaboration of both artists in Spain, an event that marked the history of the gallery and the Spanish art scene.

The documentary about this meeting, made by Pablo Bujosa Rodríguez and Pilar Rubí in 2011 (Filmin), reflects not only the creative processes that both artists shared, but also the way in which Horn and Kounellis understood the role of art in the social and cultural context.

In 2022, Galeria Pelaires also presented "Exterior Reflection", a solo exhibition dedicated to the work of Rebecca Horn. This monographic exhibition brought together a set of 12 pieces that span her production from 1997, with the work Madame Bovary c'est moi - dit Monsieur Flaubert, to the most recent Erinnerung an Donald, from 2020. In this exhibition, some of Rebecca Horn's main interests as a creator were explored: memory, the body, mechanization and spirituality, recurring themes throughout her vast and profound artistic career.

In addition to her relationship with Pelaires, Rebecca Horn carried out two important projects on the island. In 2003, Horn presented the installation "Moon Mirror" at the Convent de Sant Domingo de Pollença. On the other hand, in 2015, Rebecca Horn presented "Glowing Core" at Sa Llotja, a project carried out by Galeria Pelaires and dedicated to Ramon Llull in the framework of his VII Centenary.