Rebecca horn artist biography

From the beginning of the 1970s, Rebecca Horn created an oeuvre which constitutes an ever-growing flow of performances, films, sculptures, spatial installations, drawings and photographs.

The essence of their imagery comes out of the tremendous precision of the physical and technical functionality she used to stage her works each time within a particular space.

In the first performances, the body-extensions, she explored the equilibrium between body and space.

In later works she replaced the human body with kinetic sculptures which took on their own life. Her newer works defined and cut through spaces with reflections of mirrors, light and music.

The objects used and specially made for her installations such as violins, suitcases, batons, ladders, pianos, feather fans, metronomes, small metal hammers, black water basins, spiral drawing machines and huge funnels together build the elements for kinetic sculptures that are liberated from their defin