Exhibitions

All catalogues raisonnés presented as lists – organized by categories.

Solo Exhibitions (Selection)

1973

Körperraum, Galerie René Block, Berlin

 

1974

Dreaming Under Water, René Block Gallery, New York

 

1975

Berlin (Nov 10, 1974 – Jan 28, 1975): Dreaming Under Water, Anthology Film Archives, New York

Berlin – Übungen in neun Stücken, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, in collaboration with Berliner Festspiele, Berlin

Rebecca Horn, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne

 

1976

The Chinese Fiancée, René Block Gallery, New York

Come una scimmia, che barcolla su un elefante, scrutando il mio sorgere, Saman Galleria, Genoa

Rebecca Horn: Steirischer Herbst ’76: Drawings, Photos, Film, Video, Galerie H., Graz (with catalogue)

 

1977

Drawings, Objects, Video, Films, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, and Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (with catalogue)

The Unrelated Twin, Galleria Salvatore Ala, Milan

 

1978

Performances 2, Berlin, Folkwang Museum, Essen

Der Eintänzer, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster (with catalogue)

Dialogo tra due archi, Saman Galleria, Genoa

 

1979

Dialogue Between Two Swings, Galleria Salvatore Ala, Milan

 

1981

La Ferdinanda: Sonata for a Medici Villa, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (with catalogue)

Ci mettemmo attorno a questo grande e bell’uovo bianco come la neve..., Saman Galleria, Genoa

 

1982

Der Eintänzer, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

Rebecca Horn, Vereniging Aktuele Kunst, Ghent (with catalogue)

 

1983

Rebecca Horn, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; Kunsthaus Zürich; John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton (with catalogue)

 

1984

Rebecca Horn, Serpentine Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (with catalogue)

Sculptures, Galerie Eric Franck, Geneva

 

1985

The Golden Waterfall, Galerie Eric Franck, Geneva

 

1986

The Gold Rush, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

Die sizilianische Palastreise, Theater am Steinhof, Vienna (with catalogue)

Nuit et jour sur le dos du serpent à deux têtes, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (with catalogue)

 

1987

Rebecca Horn, Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf

Rebecca Horn, Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zurich

 

1988

An Art Circus, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

A Rather Wild Flirtation, Galerie de France, Paris (with catalogue)

Dedicated To Oscar Wilde, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin

The Hydra Forest, Carnegie International, Pittsburgh

 

1989

Missing Full Moon, Bath International Festival, Bath (with catalogue)

 

1990

Diving through Buster’s Bedroom, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (with catalogue)

Kafka’s America, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

 

1991

Chor der Heuschrecken 1 & 2, Galerie Franck & Schulte, Berlin

Buster’s Bedroom, Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Basel

Films 1978–1990, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover (with catalogue)

High Moon, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

La Lune Rebelle, Galerie de France, Paris

 

1992

El Rio de la Luna, Fundació Espai Poblenou and Hotel Peninsular, Barcelona

Rebecca Horn, Mayor Gallery, London

 

1993

Rebecca Horn, Guggenheim Museum, New York; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (with catalogue)

 

1994

Rebecca Horn, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Kunsthalle Wien; Tate Gallery; Serpentine Gallery, London (with catalogue)

Bibliothek des sibirischen Raben, Galerie König, Vienna

Turm der Namenlosen, Vienna

The Turtle Sighing Tree, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

 

Group Exhibitions (Selection)

1972

Befragung der Realität, Bildwelten Heute – Prozesse, documenta 5, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel

 

1973

Art from Photography, Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover

 

1974

Kunst bleibt Kunst. Projekt 74. Aspekte internationaler Kunst am Anfang der 70er Jahre, Kunsthalle Köln/Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, later shown in a modified form as Video Tapes, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, organized in collaboration with Davis Ross

Projects: Video II, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

 

1975

Video Art, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Contemporary Arts Center, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

Magna Feminismus: Kunst und Kreativität, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna

Hamburger Künstler, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg

Edinburgh Film Festival, Edinburgh

9. Biennale de Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Musée Galliera, Paris

Körpersprache, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main

 

1976

Made in Berlin, René Block Gallery, New York

Frauenkunst, INTERKUNST Fair, Vienna

KP Brehmer, KH Hödicke, Rebecca Horn, René Block Gallery, New York

 

1977

Mise en scène d’espace, Urbach Gallery, New York

Bookworks, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

documenta 6, Orangerie, Kassel (Paradieswitwe)

Neun Bewerber um das Annemarie- und Will-Grohmann-Stipendium, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden

Video Symposium, Tokyo

 

1979

Exhibition on the occasion of the awarding of the Böttcherstraße Art Prize, Ausstellungsraum Böttcherstraße, Bremen

Zeichnungen heute. 1. Internationale Jugendtriennale der Zeichnung, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg

New American Filmmakers Series: Horn – Weiner, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Weich und plastisch: Soft Art, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich

 

1980

L’arte negli anni ’70, 39th Biennale di Venezia, Venice

Incontri 1980: 20 interventi di artisti contemporanei a Spoleto, 13th Festival, Spoleto

Forum Design, Austrian Institute for Visual Design, Linz

Künstlerfilme der sechziger und siebziger Jahre, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; Theater am Turm, Frankfurt am Main

Umanesimo, desumanesimo nell’ arte europea 1890/1980, Palazzo Frescobaldi, Florence (Das Goldene Bad)

 

1982

Vision in Disbelief, Fourth Biennale of Sydney, Sydney

Künstler verwenden Fotografie – Heute, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; Centre Culturel André Malraux, Nancy; Thomas Mann Library, Luxembourg; Museum van Heedendaagse Kunst, Ghent; and further venues in Europe, Asia, and America until November 1992

Videokunst in Deutschland 1963 – 1982, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; Kunsthalle Hamburg; Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe; Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; Kunsthalle Nürnberg/Norishalle, Nuremberg; Nationalgalerie, Berlin; later shown in a modified form as German Video from 1963 – 1982 / Ulrike Rosenbach, Ulay und Marina Abramovic, Rebecca Horn, Herbert Wentscher, Barbara Hammann, Dieter Froese, Bernd Kracke, Ingo Günther, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

documenta 7, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel

International Video Festival, Goethe Institute, San Francisco; Long Beach Museum of Art Station/Annex, Long Beach, as part of the LBMA Video Night: PAL Video

Junge Kunst in Deutschland, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

 

1983

Kunst mit Photographie, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich; Kunsthalle der Christian-Albrechts-Universität and Brunswiker Pavillon, Kiel

Sculpture from Germany, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; University of Houston, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, Houston; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario; University of Texas, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin; Queens Museum, Flushing, New York

 

1984

Eröffnungsausstellung Elisabeth Kaufmann Zürich, Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zurich

Toyama Now ’84: A New Map of a New Art, Japan Biennale, Toyama

Von hier aus: Zwei Monate neue deutsche Kunst in Düsseldorf, Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst, Düsseldorf, Messegelände, Düsseldorf

 

1985

Das Selbstportrait: im Zeitalter der Photographie – Maler und Photographen im Dialog mit sich selbst, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne; Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart

The European Iceberg: Creativity in Germany and Italy Today, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Promenades, outdoor exhibition, Centre d’Art Contemporain and Parc Lullin, Geneva

Kunst in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1945 – 1985, Nationalgalerie, Berlin

 

1986

Falls the Shadow: Recent British and European Art, Hayward Gallery, London

Images of the Unknown, P.S.1, Long Island City

Wien Fluss. 1986, Wiener Festwochen, Theater am Steinhof, Vienna

Internationale Beelden Tentoonstelling, International Sculpture Exhibition, Sonsbeek ’86, Arnhem

Arte e scienza – Wunderkammer: Artisti di oggi e camere delle meraviglie, Arte e alchimia, 42nd Biennale di Venezia, Venice

Kunst als Kultur. Art as Culture: Recent Art from Germany, Wesleyan University, Ezra and Cecile Zilka Galleries, Middletown, Connecticut

Androgyn: Sehnsucht nach Vollkommenheit, Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover

Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art 1945 – 1986, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

 

1987

Wechselströme: Kontemplation-Expression-Konstruktion, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn

Die Gleichzeitigkeit des Anderen. Materialien zu einer Ausstellung, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern

Les Mécaniciens de l’imaginaire, La Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, La Villette, Paris

Manierismus subjektiv, Forum für aktuelle Kunst, Innsbruck; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna

Skulptur.Projekte in Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, Münster

Stations: Les Cents Jours d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Centre International d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal

From the Europe of Old, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Edinburgh International: Reason and Emotion in Contemporary Art, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

Nachtvuur, Foundation De Appel, Amsterdam

 

1988

Boltanski, Fabro, Horn, Nauman, Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zurich

From the Southern Cross: A View of World Art, 1940 – 88, Seventh Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, organized in collaboration with the Australian Bicentennial Authority, later shown at the Biennial of Melbourne, Melbourne

A Sculpture Show, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

Water Works, Visual Arts Ontario, Toronto

ROSC ’88, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin

New Sculpture / Six Artists, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis

Eröffnungsausstellung Elisabeth Kaufmann Basel, Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Basel

Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

 

1989

Electricity in Art, Mayor Rowan Gallery, London

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

Material + Spirit, Davis / McClain Gallery, Houston

150 Jahre Kunstvermittlung, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne

Magiciens de la terre, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, and La Grande Halle, La Villette, Paris

Dahn, Horn, Penone, Ruthenbeck, Elisabeth Kaufmann, Basel

Blickpunkte, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal

Departures: Photography 1924 – 1989, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York

 

1990

Galerie Silvia Menzel, Berlin

It Must Give Pleasure: Erotic Perceptions, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York

Territory of Desire, Louver Gallery, New York

Rebecca Horn, Willi Kopf, Richard Long, Alison Wilding, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan

A Group Show, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

Die Endlichkeit der Freiheit Berlin 1990: Ein Ausstellungsprojekt in Ost und West, Berlin

Von mir aus, Dany Keller Galerie, Munich

Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne

Multiples, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

 

1991

De l’électricité dans l’air, Galerie Eric Franck, Geneva

Arte e Arte, Castello di Rivoli, Turin

This Land ..., Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

Interferenzen: Kunst aus West Berlin 1960 – 1990, National Museum of Art, Riga; Manege Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg

Mechanika, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati

Group Show, Galleria Weber Alexander y Cobo, Madrid

Devices, Josh Baer Gallery, New York

A Group Show, Pascal de Sarthe Gallery, Los Angeles

 

1992

Œuvres sur papier du XXe siècle, Galerie Eric Franck, Geneva

Der gefrorene Leopard, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich

A Changing Group Exhibition, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

Bild: Objekt und Skulpturen, Elisabeth Kaufmann, Basel

documenta 9, Kassel

Zeichnungen 1976 – 1990, Galerie Franck & Schulte, Berlin

La Collection du FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes

Performing Objects, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

 

1993

A Group Show, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

 

1994

Das Jahrhundert des Multiple – Von Duchamp bis zur Gegenwart, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg

The Box from Duchamp to Horn, Ubu Gallery, New York

 

1995

Non-Photographers, Galerie Franck & Schulte, Berlin

Wiederbegegnung mit Unbekanntem, Archdiocesan Museum, Cologne

Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Das Sisyphos-Syndrom – Hommage für Joseph Beuys, Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus, Plüschow

Leiblicher Logos – 14 Künstlerinnen aus Deutschland, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; Altes Museum, Berlin; Sara Hilden Museum, Tampere; National Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; and further venues in Europe and Asia until June 1999

 

1996

Falls the Shadow – Recent British and European Art, Hayward Gallery, London

Rebecca Horn and Jannis Kounellis, Galerie Franck & Schulte, Berlin

Everything That’s Interesting is New, The Dakis Joannou Collection, The Deste Foundation, Athens, in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen

Zeitströmungen – Kunst der Gegenwart aus der Sammlung der Niedersächsischen Sparkassenstiftung, Sprengel Museum Hannover

 

1997

Gille Aillaud, Christian Boltanski, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Rebecca Horn, Magdalena Jetelová, Jannis Kounellis, Mark Lammert, Centro Cultural de Belém, Centro de Exposições, Lisbon

No Small Feat, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago

47th Biennale di Venezia, Venice

Helmhaus, Zurich

Sequences – A portfolio of work by 29 artists, Edition Schellmann, New York

Skulptur.Projekte in Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, Münster

Masters of Contemporary Sculpture, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich

 

1998

Der unendliche Raum dehnt sich aus, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden

Breaking Ground, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

 

1999

Gesammelte Räume – Gesammelte Träume – Kunst aus Deutschland von 1960 – 2000, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

Inner Eye, Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York

25 Jahre – 25 Years, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich

 

2000

Kunstverein München

Über die Wirklichkeit, Archdiocesan Museum, Cologne

La Beauté, Palais des Papes, Avignon

Contemporary Art from Germany – German Festival in India 2000 – 2001, National Gallery of Modern Art, Bombay; Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta; and other venues

Regarding Beauty: A View of The Late Twentieth Century, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Haus der Kunst, Munich

New Works, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich

 

2001

Celebrating a Decade, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

 

2002

Kunst und Schock – der 11. September und das Geheimnis des Anderen, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin

Tempo, The Museum of Modern Art, Queens, NY

100 Artists See God, Independent Curators International, New York

Drehen, Kreisen, Rotieren, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim; Kunst-Museum Ahlen in der Theodor F. Leifeld Foundation, Ahlen; Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern

 

2003

Live Culture, Tate Modern, London

Phantom der Lust, Neue Galerie, Graz

Open the Curtain – Kunst und Tanz im Wechselspiel, Kunsthalle zu Kiel

TV, Cinema, Video, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne

Berlin – Moskau / Moskau – Berlin 1950–2000, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; State Historical Museum at Red Square, Moscow

 

2004

The Pontus Hultén Collection, Moderna Museet, Stockholm

TanzMediale, German Dance Archive Cologne / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne

Behind the Facts. Interfunktionen 1968 – 75, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Museu Serralves, Porto

Bewegliche Teile, Kunsthaus Graz

Gegenwelten, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

100 Artists See God, ICA London

 

2005

Behind the Facts. Interfunktionen 1968 – 75, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel

Bewegliche Teile. Formen des Kinetischen, Museum Tinguely, Basel

Sammel-Leidenschaften, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen

(my private) Heroes, MARTa Herford

Kunst und Cover / Lettre International, Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt am Main

Schattenspiel. Schatten und Licht in der zeitgenössischen Kunst – Eine Hommage an Hans Christian Andersen, Kunsthalle Kiel

Körper – Leib – Raum, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl

UdK Berlin – Fakultät Bildende Kunst, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin

 

2006

Schattenspiel. Schatten und Licht in der zeitgenössischen Kunst – Eine Hommage an Hans Christian Andersen, Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz

Walking & Falling, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm

Eros in der Kunst der Moderne, Fondation Beyeler, Basel

Pontus Hultén. Artisti da una collezione, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice

Verrückte Liebe – Von Dalí bis Bacon, BA-CA Kunstforum, Vienna

40jahrevideokunst.de – Digitales Erbe, Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus, Düsseldorf

40jahrevideokunst.de – Die 60er, Kunsthalle Bremen

40jahrevideokunst.de – update 06, Lenbachhaus, Munich

40jahrevideokunst.de – Revision.zkm, ZKM, Karlsruhe

40jahrevideokunst.de – Revision.ddr, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig

You’ll Never Know, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea; The Lowry, Salford; The New Art Gallery, Walsall

Tokyo Blossoms: Deutsche Bank Collection meets Zaha Hadid, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

A Short History of Performance IV, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

Kunst und Photographie, Photographie und Kunst, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich

Transformation. Aus eigener Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz

All the Best – The Deutsche Bank Collection and Zaha Hadid, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

Contemporary sculpture, Zwirner & Wirth, New York

DISEGNI, Studio Trisorio, Naples

The Subverted Object, Ubu Gallery, New York

busy going crazy – the Sylvio Perlstein collection, La Maison Rouge, Paris

 

2007

You’ll Never Know, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle

Lights, Camera, Action: Artists’ Films for the Cinema, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Pontus Hultén – Künstler einer Sammlung, hlmd – Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt; Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden

Tanzen, Sehen, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen; Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville

Fondation Beyeler: EROS in der Kunst der Moderne, BA-CA Kunstforum, Vienna

WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles

Visit(e) – Art contemporain en Allemagne – Sélection de la collection d’art contemporain de la République Fédérale d’Allemagne, Bozar – Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels

Dalla terra alla luna – metafore di viaggio (parte I), Museo d’arte contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin

Vertigo – The century of off-media art from Futurism to the web, MAMbo – Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna

Rouge baiser, FRAC – Pays de la Loire, Carquefou

Poetry in Motion, Galerie Beyeler, Basel

Der unendliche Raum dehnt sich aus, Kolumba, Cologne

Kunstmaschinen – Maschinenkunst, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main

Face to Face – The Daros Collections, Part 1, Daros Exhibitions, Zurich

 

2008

40jahrevideokunst.de / L’héritage digital: l’Art vidéo en allemagne de 1963 jusqu’à aujourd’hui, MAMCS Strasbourg

40 Years Video Art in Germany, Sofia Art Gallery and Goethe-Institut Bulgaria, Sofia

WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, P.S.1 MoMA, Long Island

Kunstmaschinen – Maschinenkunst, Museum Tinguely, Basel

Visite – Von Gerhard Richter bis Rebecca Horn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle, Bonn

Zerbrechliche Schönheit. Glas im Blick der Kunst, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf

traces du sacré, Centre Pompidou, Paris

Biennale of Sydney 2008, Sydney

Sound of Art, Museum der Moderne Salzburg

traces du sacré, Haus der Kunst, Munich

40jahrevideokunst.de, Museo Villa Croce, Genoa

Die verborgene Spur – Jüdische Wege durch die Moderne, Felix-Nussbaum-Haus, Osnabrück

 

2009

Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

1968. Die Große Unschuld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld

Odes to Common Things / Oda a las cosas, Galeria Arnes + Röpke, Madrid

Kunst und Öffentlichkeit, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

aus/gezeichnet/zeichnen, Akademie der Künste, Berlin

60 Jahre – 60 Werke: Kunst aus der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

elles@centrepompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris

Kunst und Kalter Krieg: Deutsche Positionen 1945 – 1989, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg

DURCHdRINGEN, kunstGarten Graz

Kunst und Kalter Krieg: Deutsche Positionen 1945 – 1989, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin

Taswir – Islamische Bildwelten und Moderne, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

 

2010

I Love You, Aros Kunstmuseum, Aarhus

Starter – Vehbi Koc Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Arter, Istanbul

Everything Is Connected, Castello di Rivoli, Turin

The Surreal House, Barbican Centre, London

Thrice Upon a Time, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm

The Private Museum, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bergamo

Just Love Me, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg

Tenir, debout, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes

Art on Paper 2010, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro

Encounter Stage: Indoors and Outdoors, kunstGarten Graz

Islands Never Found, Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Étienne; State Museum of Contemporary Art and Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki

 

2011

Rebecca Horn, Jannis Kounellis, Domenico Bianchi, Miguel Navarro – Afinitats i diferències, Galeria Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca

 

2012

Art is Liturgy, Kolumba Museum, Cologne

TRANSART, Festival of Contemporary Culture in cooperation with Museion Bolzano

 

2013

Meret Oppenheim parle à Annette Messager, Rebecca Horn, Judith Hopf, Galerie de France, Paris
On Nature, Sean Kelly, New York

 

2014

7èmes Journées Internationales du Film sur l’Art, Louvre, Paris
Spuren der Moderne, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Art or Sound, Fondazione Prada, Venice
50 Years: Living with Art, Galerie Thomas Modern, Munich

 

2015

By the Book, Sean Kelly, New York

Making Traces, Tate Modern, London

What We Call Love, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

 

2016

 

The Body Extended: Sculpture and Prosthetics, Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds

Seeing Round Corners, Turner Contemporary, Margate

Lines of Passage, Municipal Art Gallery of Mytilene

An der Oberfläche_On Surface: Von Rodin bis De Bruyckere, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg

 

2017

Pro(s)thesis, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Infinite Garden: From Giverny to Amazonia, Centre Pompidou-Metz

Kairos Castle: The Art of the Moment, Kasteel van Gaasbeek, Lennik

Selected, Sean Kelly, New York

Restless Gestures: Works from the Hubert Looser Collection, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo

Entering the Landscape, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg

 

Bibliography (Selection)

Timothy Baum, Rebeccabook I, Nadada Editions, New York, 1975

 

Rebecca Horn, Dialogo della Vedova Paradisica (Dialogue of the Paradise Widow), Samanedizioni, Genoa, 1975

 

Thomas Deecke, “Rebecca Horn – ‘Unter den Wassern schlafen …’”, in: Künstler – Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Weltkunst, Munich, 1988

 

Rebecca Horn, with a foreword by Sean F. Kelly and a text by Lynne Cooke, Artsite Gallery, Bath, 1989

 

Bice Curiger, Rebecca Horn: Buster’s Bedroom, A Filmbook, Parkett Publishers, Zurich, Frankfurt am Main, and New York, 1991

 

Rebecca Horn, with texts by Giuliana Bruno, Germano Celant, Katharina Schmidt, Nancy Spector, and Rebecca Horn, with interviews conducted by Germano Celant and Stuart Morgan, editions in English and German, Guggenheim Museum, New York, and Cantz, Ostfildern, 1993

Rebecca Horn, La Lune Rebelle, with texts by Rebecca Horn, editions in German and English, Cantz, Ostfildern, 1993

 

Rebecca Horn, The Glance of Infinity, with texts by Carsten Ahrens, Lynne Cooke, Doris von Drathen, Bruce W. Ferguson, Carl Haenlein, Katharina Schmidt, and Rebecca Horn, editions in German and English, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, and Scalo Verlag, Zurich, Berlin, and New York, 1997

 

Rebecca Horn, Tailleur du Cœur, drawings and poems by Rebecca Horn, editions in German, English, French, and Italian, Scalo Verlag, Zurich, Berlin, and New York, 1999

 

Rebecca Horn, Konzert für Buchenwald, with texts by Doris von Drathen, Boris Groys, Bernd Kauffmann, Martin Mosebach, and a poem by Rebecca Horn, editions in German and English, Scalo Verlag, Zurich, Berlin, and New York, 1999

 

Rebecca Horn, with texts by Doris von Drathen, Sergio Edelsztein, Carl Haenlein, Martin Mosebach, and Rebecca Horn, editions in German, English, French, and Spanish, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., Stuttgart, 1999/2000

 

Rebecca Horn, all these black days – between, postcard collages and texts by Rebecca Horn,
Scalo Verlag, Zurich, Berlin, and New York, 2001

 

Rebecca Horn, Notebook Samarkand 2001. Dornen in der Auster des Halbmondes, photo-paintings and poems by Rebecca Horn, editions in German, English, and French, Holzwarth Publications in collaboration with Galerie de France, Berlin, 2001

 

Rebecca Horn, Lumière en prison dans le ventre de la baleine (Licht gefangen im Bauch des Wales), with texts by Rebecca Horn, poems by Jacques Roubaud (in French), and an audio CD with music composed by Hayden Danyl Chisholm, French / English / German, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2003

 

Rebecca Horn, Moon Mirror, with a text by Doris von Drathen, a poem by Rebecca Horn, and an audio CD with music composed by Hayden Danyl Chisholm, Spanish / English, Ajuntament de Pollença, Pollença, 2003

 

Rebecca Horn, Spiriti di Madreperla, with texts by Eduardo Cicelyn, Doris von Drathen, Teresa Marcí, Marino Niola, a poem by Rebecca Horn, and an audio CD with music composed by Hayden Danyl Chisholm, Italian / English, edizioni ID.art, Naples, 2003

 

Rebecca Horn, La llum presonera en el ventre de la balena, with a text by Doris von Drathen, a poem by Rebecca Horn, and an audio CD with music composed by Hayden Danyl Chisholm, Spanish / Catalan / English, Fundació Es Baluard, Palma de Mallorca, 2004

 

Rebecca Horn, Bodylandscapes. Drawings, Sculptures, Installations 1964 – 2004, with texts by Doris von Drathen, Anette Kruszynski, Katharina Schmidt, Armin Zweite, and Rebecca Horn, with a conversation between Joachim Sartorius and Rebecca Horn, editions in German, English, and Portuguese, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf; Fundação Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon; Hayward Gallery, London; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; and Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2004

 

Rebecca Horn / Hayden Chisholm, Music for Rebecca Horn’s Installations, with a text by Doris von Drathen, poems by Rebecca Horn, and two audio CDs with music composed by Hayden Danyl Chisholm, German / English, Holzwarth Publications, Berlin, 2005

 

Rebecca Horn, Mondspiegel. Site-Specific Installations 1982 – 2005, with texts by Richard Cork, Doris von Drathen, Steven Henry Madoff, and Rebecca Horn, editions in German and English, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart and Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2005

 

Martin Mosebach / Rebecca Horn, Das Lamm, with 24 photo-paintings by Rebecca Horn, Holzwarth Publications, Berlin, 2005

 

Rebecca Horn / Jacques Roubaud, 53 Poèmes pour Rebecca Horn, with 54 photo-paintings by Rebecca Horn, Yvon Lambert, Paris, 2006

 

Rebecca Horn, with a text by Philippe Büttner and poems by Rebecca Horn, German / English, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 2006

 

Rebecca Horn, with a foreword by Joachim Sartorius and a text by Armin Zweite, Kulturstiftung Hartwig Piepenbrock, Berlin, 2006

 

Rebecca Horn. Jupiter im Oktogon, with texts by Jörg Daur, Hildebrand Diehl, Doris von Drathen, Volker Rattemeyer, Thomas von Stenglin, and Rebecca Horn, Museum Wiesbaden and Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg, 2007

 

Rebecca Horn, Cosmic Maps, with texts by Doris von Drathen and poems by Rebecca Horn, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, and Edizioni Charta, Milan, 2008

 

Rebecca Horn: Love and Hate, with a foreword by Toni Stooss and a text by Peter Stephan Jungk, German / English, MdM Rupertinum Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, 2008

 

Rebecca Horn: In einer Perle gespiegelt, poems by Rebecca Horn, Matthes & Seitz, Berlin, 2009

 

Rebecca Horn: Fata Morgana, with a foreword by Angela Vettese, a text by Iso Camartin, and a conversation between Rebecca Horn and Doris von Drathen, photographs from the opera Luci mie traditrici by Attilio Maranzano and Gunter Lepkowski, English / Italian / German, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Galleria di Piazza San Marco, Venice; Edizioni Charta, Milan; and Moontower Foundation, Bad König-Zell, 2009

 

Horn Rebecca: The Moontower Foundation, with texts by Iso Camartin, Haydn Chisholm, Rebecca Horn, Peter Raue, and Nicholas Serota, and a conversation between Joachim Sartorius and Rebecca Horn, German / English, Moontower Foundation, Bad König, 2013

 

Rebecca Horn, with a foreword by Silke Thomas, a text by Joachim Sartorius, and poems by Rebecca Horn, German / English, Galerie Thomas Modern, Munich, 2014

 

Rebecca Horn: Between the Knives the Emptiness, with a text by Doris von Drathen, French / English, Galerie Lelong, Paris and New York, 2014

 

Rebecca Horn: Das Maribor Projekt, with a foreword by Ronald Grätz and Nina Bingel, with texts by Jamila Adeli, Joachim Sartorius, and Breda Kolar Sluga, with poems by Hayden Chisholm, Rebecca Horn, Yang Lian, Rod Mengham, Tomaž Šalamun, Joachim Sartorius, and Aleš Šteger, and a conversation between Aleš Šteger and Rebecca Horn, editions in German, English, and Slovenian, ifa Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart; Moontower Foundation, Bad König; Umetnostna galerija Maribor; and Steidl, Göttingen, 2014

 

Rebecca Horn: Das Wirbelsäulen Orakel, poems by Rebecca Horn and an afterword by Joachim Sartorius, editions in German and English, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2014

Filmography (Selection)

1970

Einhorn, Super 8 mm, color, 12 minutes

 

1971

Schwarze Hörner, Super 8 mm, color, 15 minutes

 

Körperfarbe, painting actions; Super 8 mm, color

Mata Hari, Weiß 1, Weiß 2, Yoni, Schwarz 1, Schwarz 2, Super 8 mm, color

 

1972

Performances 1, documentation of eight performances: Rote Glieder, Rotbrust, Zunehmendes Schwarz, Hahnengefieder, Balancestab, Schwarze Hörner, Federkleid, Simon-Sigmar; 16 mm, color, 22 minutes; camera: B. Liebner, K. P. Brehmer; in the video copy supplemented with further performances from 1970 and 1971

 

1973

Performances 2, documentation of nine performances: Einhorn, Kopf-Extension, Weißer Körperfächer, Handschuhfinger, Federfinger, Gavin, Hahnenmaske, Bleistiftmaske, Kakadu-Maske; 16 mm, color, sound, 38 minutes; realization: Helmut Wietz; with D. Finke, Gavin, Karin Halding, E. Mitzka

 

1974

Flamingos, 16 mm, color, unfinished

 

1974/75

Berlin (10. 11. 1974 – 28. 1. 1975) – Übungen in neun Stücken: Unter dem Wasser schlafen und Dinge sehen, die sich in weiter Ferne abspielen, documentation of eight performances with an epilogue: Mit beiden Händen gleichzeitig die Wände berühren, Blinzeln, Federn tanzen auf den Schultern, Die untreuen Beine festhalten, Zwei Fischchen, die sich an einen Tanz erinnern, Räume berühren sich in Spiegeln, Zwischen den feuchten Zungenblättern die Haut abstreifen, Mit zwei Scheren gleichzeitig die Haare schneiden, Wenn die Frau und ihr Geliebter auf der Seite liegen, sich ansehn, und sie mit ihren Beinen die Beine des Mannes umschlingt – bei weit geöffnetem Fenster – ist es die OASE; 16 mm, color, sound, 42 minutes; realization: Helmut Wietz; with Rebecca Horn, Guido Kerst, Lisa Liccini, Otto Sander, Veruschka von Lehndorff, Michel Würthle

 

1975

Paradieswitwe, 16 mm, sound, unfinished; realization: Helmut Wietz; with Ingrid Erdmann

 

1976

Die Chinesische Verlobte, 16 mm, color; camera: Ed Bowes, sound: Tom Bowes

 

1978

Der Eintänzer, 16 mm, color, sound, 47 minutes, feature length and in English; screenplay and direction: Rebecca Horn, film production and camera: Bodo Kessler; assistant: Peter Schnall, editing: Inge Kuhnert, sound: Morning Pastorak, voice-over: Rebecca Horn, collaboration on the objects: Dieter Müller; with Timothy Baum (Max), Greta Konstantinescu (Geta), Elisabeth Martin (Mary), Kathleen Martin (Kathleen), Nada (sushi chef), David Warrilow (Frazer), and Kim Araki, Lisa Friedmann, Kristina Maria Jaroshenka, Susanne Diana Lee, Donna Ritchie

 

1981

La Ferdinanda: Sonate für eine Medici-Villa, 35 mm, color, sound, 85 minutes, feature length and in German, a co-production with Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Cologne; screenplay and direction: Rebecca Horn, assistant director: Fabio Jephcott, camera: Jiri Kadanka, assistant: Rainer März, editing: Inge Kuhnert, assistant: Ulrike Zimmermann, music: Ingfried Hoffmann, lighting: Heinz Stellmacher, Gerhard Lange, sound: Christian Moldt, Norman Engel, objects and concept: Rebecca Horn, set design: Ida Gianelli, costumes: Janken Jansen, make-up: Cesare Paciotti, hair: Luciana Maria Constanzi, production management: Sarah Blum, Cesare Landriccina; with Valentina Cortese (Caterina de Dominicis), Javier Escriba (Dr. Marchetti), Gisela Hahn (Paola), Hans Peter Hallwachs (Commissar Bella), Michael Maisky (Mischa Boguslawsky), Daniele Passani (Larry Jones), Rita Poelvoorde (Simona), David Warrilow (Richard Sutherland), and Maurizio Caratozzolo, Pietra and Armona Pistoletto, Renate Reiche, Francisco Ricasoli

 

1990

Buster’s Bedroom, 35 mm, color, sound, 104 minutes, feature length and in English, a co-production of Metropolis Filmproduktion GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Les Productions du Verseau, Montréal, and Prole Film LDA., Lisbon, in collaboration with Limbo Film AG, Zurich, and Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Cologne; directed by Rebecca Horn, screenplay by Rebecca Horn and Martin Mosebach, based on a story by Rebecca Horn, producer: George Reinhart; camera: Sven Nykvist, editing: Barbara von Weitershausen, sound editing: Gisela Lüpke, assistants: Oliver Gieth, Carla Bogalheiro, set design: Nana von Hugo, music: Sergej Kuryokhin, Ingfried Hoffmann, sound: Uwe Kersten, costumes: Françoise Laplante, fabrication of the objects: Hasje Boeyen, production: Luciano Gloor, production management: Udo Heiland; with Donald Sutherland (O’Connor), Geraldine Chaplin (Diana Daniels), Valentina Cortese (Serafina Tannenbaum), Taylor Mead (James), Amanda Ooms (Micha Morgan), Ari Snyder (Lenny Silver), David Warrilow (Mr. Warlock), Martin Wuttke (Joe), and Maria Dulce, Abel Fernandes, Nina Franoszek, Tilly Lauenstein, Lena Lessing, Steve Olson, Mary Woronow

 

1995

Cutting Through the Past, a documentary by Rebecca Horn on the retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, including a conversation between Donald Sutherland and Rebecca Horn; 16 mm, color, sound, 55 minutes

 

2003

Rebecca Horn Films, box set with all surviving films by the artist on 3 DVDs (PAL) and a signed C-print Hahnenmaske, Performances 2, 1973/2003, edition of 300 plus 30 APs

 

2011

Moon Mirror Journey. In this film, the internationally renowned artist Rebecca Horn looks back on her most important works created over the past 25 years. A project of the Moontower Foundation; direction and texts: Rebecca Horn, music: Hayden Chisholm, editing: Oliver Gieth, 72 minutes, DVD