REBECCA HORN
HAUS DER KUNST, MUNICH, GERMANY
From April 26 of 2024 to October 13 of 2024
On April 26 of 2024, a retrospective exhibition by Rebecca Horn was opened at Haus der Kunst in Munich. Pelaires has represented the artist for more than 20 years.
Spanning six decades, the multimedia oeuvre of Rebecca Horn (b. 1944, Germany) deals with the theme of existence, and the blurring of boundaries between nature and culture, technology and biological capital, and the human and the non-human. Whether one describes the artist as an inventor, director, author, composer, or poet, she sees herself first and foremost as a choreographer. Horn describes her artistic practice as carefully calculated relationships of space, light, physicality, sound, and rhythm, which come together to form an ensemble. In her performative, sculptural, and film works, the acts of becoming a machine, becoming an animal, or becoming the Earth present life as a visible, tangible, and audible existence that can be experienced through the body.
The exhibition Rebecca Horn is focused on performativity, from the artist's earliest works to her most recent productions. Horn uses the idea of incorporation to create corporeal interconnectedness, from the first works on paper in the 1960s and the early performances and films of the 1970s, through to the mechanical sculptures of the 1980s, and the spacial installations of the 1990s to the present. Virtuously interwoven references to literature, art history, and film run throughout her body of work. Horn's practice is a lifelong and topical exploration in the decentralisation of humanity.
Curated by Jana Baumann with Radia Soukni.
More information on Haus der Kunst website.
Images from the Rebecca Horn retrospective exhibition, Haus der Kunst, Munich, April 2024. (Images by Karin Weyrich, courtesy of Rebecca Horn's workshop)
