Rebecca Horn

Rebecca Horn was born on 24 March 1944 in Michelstadt, Germany.{{Cite web |url=http://rogallery.com/Horn_Rebecca/Horm_zenith_bio.htm |title=Rebecca Horn: Biography |website=Ro Gallery |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140920142902/http://rogallery.com/Horn_Rebecca/Horm_zenith_bio.htm |archive-date=20 September 2014}} Horn's grandfather owned a textile factory in nearby Bad König.{{cite web | title=Beginning again | website=rolex.org | date=18 October 2019 | url=https://www.rolex.org/rolex-mentor-protege/visual-arts/beginning-again | access-date=8 September 2024}} Her parents were Jewish and the family hid in the Black Forest during her infancy.{{Cite web |last=Mechling |first=Lauren |title='She conducted her life like it mattered': the bold drawings of Rebecca Horn |website=The Guardian |date=12 January 2023 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jan/12/she-conducted-her-life-like-it-mattered-the-bold-drawings-of-rebecca-horn |access-date=8 September 2024}} She was taught to draw by her Romanian governess.{{cite web | last=Weiss | first=Christina | title="Es ist Bewegung, was mich inspiriert" | website=Die Welt | date=22 November 2011 | url=https://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/kultur/article13369357/Es-ist-Bewegung-was-mich-inspiriert.html | language=de | access-date=8 September 2024 | archive-date=22 June 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210622024643/https://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/kultur/article13369357/Es-ist-Bewegung-was-mich-inspiriert.html | url-status=live }}{{cite web | last=McVey | first=Kurt | title=The Backbone of Rebecca Horn | website=Interview Magazine | date=15 May 2014 | url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/rebecca-horn-vertebrae-oracle | access-date=8 September 2024 | archive-date=20 April 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420101559/https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/rebecca-horn-vertebrae-oracle | url-status=live }} Living in Germany after the end of World War II greatly affected the liking she took to drawing. "We could not speak German. Germans were hated. We had to learn French and English. We were always traveling somewhere else, speaking something else. But I had a Romanian governess who taught me how to draw. I did not have to draw in German or French or English. I could just draw."{{Cite news|author=Jeannette Winterson|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2005/may/23/art|title=The Bionic Woman|date=23 May 2005|work=The Guardian}} She contracted tuberculosis as a teenager and drew in her hospital bed.{{Cite news |last=Winterson |first=Jeanette |date=23 May 2005 |title=Rebecca Horn creates 'machines with souls' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2005/may/23/art |access-date=8 September 2024 |work=The Guardian}} Horn studied economics and philosophy initially at university on the advice of her parents, but after six months she decided to study art.{{cite web | title=Rebecca Horn | website=Infinite Women | date=10 June 2022 | url=https://www.infinite-women.com/women/rebecca-horn/ | access-date=8 September 2024}}

In 1963 she attended the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts).[http://www.rebecca-horn.de/pages/biography.html "Rebecca Horn Biography"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016195103/http://www.rebecca-horn.de/pages/biography.html |date=16 October 2017 }}, Rebecca Horn, Retrieved 13 November 2014. In 1964, she had to pull out of art school because she had contracted severe lung inflammation due to fiberglass. "In 1964 I was 20 years old and living in Barcelona, in one of those hotels where you rent rooms by the hour. I was working with glass fibre, without a mask, because nobody said it was dangerous, and I got very sick. For a year I was in a sanatorium. My parents died. I was totally isolated."

After leaving the sanatorium Horn began using soft materials, creating sculptures informed by her illness and long convalescence.{{cite web |title=Rebecca Horn |url=https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/Rebecca-Horn |website=Guggenheim |access-date=22 December 2019 |archive-date=22 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222013220/https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/Rebecca-Horn |url-status=live }}

In 1972 Horn was the youngest participant of the documenta in Kassel. Until 1981, Horn lived in New York. After 1981 she mostly lived in Paris. From 1989 to 2004 she took over a professorship at the Berlin University of the Arts. She retired from teaching in 2009. In 2008 and 2009, she mentored Japanese artist Masanori Handa as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. In 2007,{{efn|Other sources state 2010 and 2012.{{cite web | last=Hubacher | first=Hanna | title=Künstlerin Rebecca Horn im Alter von 80 Jahren gestorben | website=Watson | date=8 September 2024 | url=https://www.watson.ch/leben/kunst/852787767-kuenstlerin-rebecca-horn-im-alter-von-80-jahren-gestorben | language=de | access-date=11 September 2024}}}} Horn founded the Moontower Foundation in Bad König, which includes a museum and studios.{{Cite web |title=Lebenswerk Rebecca Horns erhält eine Heimat in Hessen |website=hessen.de |date=20 March 2024 |url=https://hessen.de/presse/lebenswerk-rebecca-horns-erhaelt-eine-heimat-in-hessen |language=de |access-date=8 September 2024}}

Horn was one of a generation of German artists who came to international prominence in the 1980s.[http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=26592&tabview=text Rebecca Horn, Concert for Anarchy (1990)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710172122/http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=26592&tabview=text |date=10 July 2011 }} Tate Collection. She practiced body art, but worked in different media, including performance art, installation art, sculpture and film.{{cite book|title=WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution|publisher=MIT Press|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|pages=247|editor=Lisa Gabrielle Mark|title-link=WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution}} She also wrote poetry. Sometimes her poetry was influenced by her work and sometimes vice-versa. When she returned to the Hamburg academy she continued to make cocoon-like things.{{cite web | title=Stichelnde Zärtlichkeit | website=Journal21 | date=25 June 2019 | url=https://www.journal21.ch/artikel/stichelnde-zaertlichkeit | language=de | access-date=8 September 2024}} She worked with padded body extensions and prosthetic bandages.{{Cite web |url=https://www.hausderkunst.de/uploads/newsroom/Ausstellungen-und-Veranstaltungen/2024/Rebecca-Horn/PDFs/HDK_Katalog_Essay_JackHalberstam_DE.pdf |title=Rebecca Horn, 26.4.–13.10.24, Essay von Jack Halberstam |access-date=8 September 2024 |archive-date=11 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511091527/https://www.hausderkunst.de/uploads/newsroom/Ausstellungen-und-Veranstaltungen/2024/Rebecca-Horn/PDFs/HDK_Katalog_Essay_JackHalberstam_DE.pdf |url-status=live }} In the late 1960s she began creating performance art and continued to use bodily extensions.{{cite web | title=Rebecca Horn Art, Bio, Ideas | website=The Art Story | date=24 March 1944 | url=https://www.theartstory.org/artist/horn-rebecca/ | access-date=8 September 2024 | archive-date=3 April 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240403193823/https://www.theartstory.org/artist/horn-rebecca/ | url-status=live }}

In 1968 Horn produced her first body sculptures, in which she attached objects and instruments to the human body, taking as her theme the contact between a person and his or her environment. Einhorn (Unicorn) is one of Horn's best known performance pieces: a long horn worn on her head, its title a pun on her name. She presented Einhorn at the 1972 documenta 5.{{cite web | title=Grande Dame der deutschen Kunst: Rebecca Horn ist tot | website=Die Presse | date=8 September 2024 | url=https://www.diepresse.com/18840072/grande-dame-der-deutschen-kunst-rebecca-horn-ist-tot | language=de | access-date=8 September 2024}} Its subject is a woman who was described by Horn as "very bourgeois", "21 years-old and ready to marry. She is spending her money on new bedroom furniture". She walks through a field and forest on a summer morning wearing only a white horn protruding directly from the front of the top of her head, held there by straps. These straps are almost identical to the ones in Frida Kahlo's painting The Broken Column. The image, with wheat floating around the woman's hips, is simultaneously mythic and modern.

Pencil Mask is another body extension piece, made up of six straps running horizontally and three straps running vertically. Where the straps intersect a pencil has been attached. When moving her face back and forth on a near a wall the pencil marks that are made correspond directly with her movements.{{cite web | title='Pencil Mask', Rebecca Horn, 1972 | website=Tate | date=2 November 2021 | url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/horn-pencil-mask-t07847 | access-date=8 September 2024 | archive-date=8 September 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240908102927/https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/horn-pencil-mask-t07847 | url-status=live }}{{cite journal | last1=Erkenez | first1=Semin | last2=Ciravoğlu | first2=Ayşen | title=Performative Reading of Slow House as an Attempt to Conceptualise Architectural Space | journal=Periodica Polytechnica Architecture | volume=53 | issue=2 | date=12 September 2022 | issn=1789-3437 | doi=10.3311/PPar.19856 | pages=160–173| doi-access=free }}

In 1972 she created Finger Gloves, a performance piece and the main prop of that performance piece. They are worn like gloves, but the finger form extends with balsa wood and cloth. By being able to see what she was touching and the way in which she was touching it, it felt as if her fingers were extended and in her mind the illusion was created that she was actually touching what the extensions were touching. A similar work called "Scratching Both Walls at Once" was part of her 1974 Berlin Exercises series. In this piece, the finger extension gloves she created were longer, measured to specifically fit the performance space. If the chosen participant stood in the middle of the room, they could exactly touch opposing walls simultaneously.{{cite web | title='Finger Gloves', Rebecca Horn, 1972 | website=Tate | date=12 January 2022 | url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/horn-finger-gloves-t07845 | access-date=8 September 2024 | archive-date=8 September 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240908102938/https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/horn-finger-gloves-t07845 | url-status=live }}{{cite web | title=Finger gloves, 1972, printed 2000 by Rebecca Horn | website=Art Gallery of NSW | date=24 March 1944 | url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/10.2003/ | access-date=8 September 2024 | archive-date=10 December 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231210011728/https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/10.2003/ | url-status=live }}{{cite web | title=Finger Gloves | website=Google Arts & Culture | url=https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/finger-gloves-rebecca-horn/zwELgy0mTVgyyQ?hl=en | access-date=8 September 2024 | archive-date=8 September 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240908102958/https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/finger-gloves-rebecca-horn/zwELgy0mTVgyyQ?hl=en | url-status=live }}

Another piece that involves the illusion of feeling with one's hand is Feather Fingers. (1972). A feather is attached to each finger with a metal ring. The hand becomes "as symmetrical (and as sensitive) as a bird's wing". When touching the opposite arm with these feather fingers one can feel the touch on the left arm and of the fingers on the right hand moving as if to touch the left arm, but it is instead the feathers which make contact. Horn described the effect: "It is as if one hand had suddenly become disconnected from the other like two utterly unrelated beings. My sense of touch becomes so disrupted that the different behavior of each hand triggers contradictory sensations." This piece focuses greatly on sensitivity.{{cite web | title=Rebecca Horn, Feather Fingers, 1972 | website=Are.na | url=https://www.are.na/block/14091891 | access-date=8 September 2024 | archive-date=8 September 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240908102840/https://www.are.na/block/14091891 | url-status=live }}{{cite web | last=Roth | first=Lynette | title=The (In)Animate World of Rebecca Horn | website=Flash Art | date=12 December 2019 | url=https://flash---art.com/article/the-inanimate-world-of-rebecca-horn/ | access-date=8 September 2024 | archive-date=25 May 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525232234/https://flash---art.com/article/the-inanimate-world-of-rebecca-horn/ | url-status=live }}

In her works of the 1970s and 1980s Horn continued to explore the image of feathers. Many of her feathered pieces wrap a figure in the manner of a cocoon, or function as masks or fans, to cover or imprison the body. Some of these pieces are Black Cockfeathers (1971),{{cite web | title=Rebecca Horn, Black Cockfeathers, 1971 | website=Galerie Thomas Schulte | date=8 September 2024 | url=https://www.galeriethomasschulte.com/content/feature/166/artworks-8024-rebecca-horn-black-cockfeathers-1971/ | access-date=8 September 2024 | archive-date=8 September 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240908102841/https://www.galeriethomasschulte.com/content/feature/166/artworks-8024-rebecca-horn-black-cockfeathers-1971/ | url-status=live }} Cockfeather Mask (1973),{{cite web | title='Cockfeather Mask', Rebecca Horn, 1973 | website=Tate | date=12 January 2022 | url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/horn-cockfeather-mask-t07849 | access-date=8 September 2024 | archive-date=8 September 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240908102843/https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/horn-cockfeather-mask-t07849 | url-status=live }} Cockatoo Mask (1973){{cite web | title='Cockatoo Mask', Rebecca Horn, 1973 | website=Tate | date=2 November 2021 | url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/horn-cockatoo-mask-t07850 | access-date=8 September 2024 | archive-date=8 September 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240908102916/https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/horn-cockatoo-mask-t07850 | url-status=live }} and Paradise Widow (1975).{{cite web | title=Horn, Rebecca: Paradise Widow | publisher=Media Art Net | date=8 September 2024 | url=http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/paradieswitwe/ | access-date=8 September 2024 | archive-date=19 May 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240519085422/http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/paradieswitwe/ | url-status=live }}

In the 1980s, various "machines" were the subjects of Horn's work. Among others, she created a machine to mimic the human act of painting in The Little Painting School Performs a Waterfall (1988). Thirteen feet above the floor on a gallery wall, three fan-shaped paint brushes mounted on flexible metal arms slowly flutter down into cups filled with blue and green acrylic paint. After a few seconds of immersion they snap backward, spattering paint onto the wall, the ceiling, the floor and canvases projected from the wall below. The brushes immediately resume their descent and the cycle is repeated until each canvas is covered in paint.[http://collections.walkerart.org/item/object/598 Rebecca Horn, The Little Painting School Performs a Waterfall (1988)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420043327/http://collections.walkerart.org/item/object/598 |date=20 April 2012 }} Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

In the 1990s a series of her sculptures were presented in places of historical importance. Examples are the Tower of the Nameless in Vienna (1994), Concert in Reverse in Munich (1997), Mirror of the Night in an abandoned synagogue in Cologne (1998) and Concert for Buchenwald at Weimar (1999). In Weimar, the Concert for Buchenwald was composed on the premises of a former tram depot. Horn layered 40 metre long walls of ashes behind glass, as archives of petrifaction.[http://www.skny.com/artists/rebecca-horn/ Rebecca Horn] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111155633/http://www.skny.com/artists/rebecca-horn/ |date=11 January 2012 }} Sean Kelly Gallery, New York. At the same time, the theme of bodily vitality, which she had been exploring since the 1970s, was developed in site-specific art installations that investigated the subject of the latent energy of places and the magnetic flows of space. This cycle comprises High Moon, New York (1991), El Reio de la Luna, Barcelona (1992) and Spirit di Madreperla, Naples (2002).{{Cite web|url=http://www.museomadre.it/bio_show.cfm?id=40|title=Museum MADRE – REBECCA HORN|date=22 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111122191632/http://www.museomadre.it/bio_show.cfm?id=40 |archive-date=22 November 2011 }} For the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Horn was commissioned to create the steel sculpture L'Estel Ferit.

Many Horn works also explore ambiguities in the idea of lenses. One would think that a large tinted lens exists for protection and cover, but it also has the effect of drawing attention to the person or figure behind it. The paradox of looking out and looking back is explored in her installation piece for Taipei 101, Dialogue between Yin and Yang (2002). The work sets up interactions between viewers, environment and sculpture as it uses binoculars and mirrors to suggest the passive and active energies.Publicly posted material, Floor 89, Taipei 101. 17 August 2007.

In what amounted to over ten years of life in New York, Horn undertook the production of highly narrative, full-length films, and incorporated the sculptures and movements from her earlier work into this new context of film, transforming their significance.[http://www.mot-art-museum.jp/eng/2009/rebecca/ Rebecca Horn: Rebellion in Silence Dialogue between Raven and Whale, 31 October 2009 – 14 February 2010] Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. Horn made her first feature-length film in 1978, Der Eintänzer, about a young man named Max, a blind man and twins.{{cite web | title=Online Collection | website=Hamburger Kunsthalle | url=https://online-sammlung.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/en/objekt/V-2004-04b/filme-2-der-eintaenzer-la-ferdinanda-sonate-fuer-eine-medici-villa?term=&start=55700&context=default&position=55700 | access-date=8 September 2024}} Her later films include La Ferdinanda: Sonata for a Medici Villa and Buster's Bedroom. La Ferdinanda is in German; the other films are in English.

In all of these films Horn's obsession with the imperfect body and the balance between figure and objects is apparent. She also collaborated with Jannis Kounellis and produced some films, including the film Buster's Bedroom (1990) which was shot by the Academy Award-winning Sven Nykvist and stars Donald Sutherland, Geraldine Chaplin and Martin Wuttke.William Wilson (2 October 1990), [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-10-02-ca-1463-story.html Rebecca Horn Clobbers Convention] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240908102949/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-10-02-ca-1463-story.html |date=8 September 2024 }} Los Angeles Times. For Buster's Bedroom{{cite web | title=Buster's Bedroom | website=filmportal.de | url=https://www.filmportal.de/film/busters-bedroom_7859fcd0825044d9b1beb28b5eb0cea1 | language=de | access-date=8 September 2024}} und Roussel, she collaborated with German writer Martin Mosebach on the respective screenplays.{{cite web | title=Mosebach | website=Akademie der Künste, Berlin | url=https://www.adk.de/de/akademie/mitglieder/index.htm?we_objectID=55041 | language=de | access-date=8 September 2024}}

A number of Horn's mechanised sculptures appeared in her films, notably The Feathered Prison Fan (1978)—covered in large overlapping fans that is big enough to enclose an adult inside—in Der Eintänzer and The Peacock Machine (1979–80), another sculpture that folds and unfolds white peacock plumage in La Ferdinanda.{{Cite web|url=https://ocula.com/artists/rebecca-horn/|title=Rebecca Horn|last=Paik|first=Sherry|date=16 December 2019|website=Ocula|access-date=30 October 2019|archive-date=8 September 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240908102843/https://ocula.com/artists/rebecca-horn/|url-status=live}}

When Harald Szeemann invited Horn to participate in the 1972 Documenta in Kassel, she was a virtually unknown twenty-eight-year-old artist. Szeeman had heard of her, because Sigmar Polke had performed in her piece Simon Sigmar in 1971.Mina Roustayi, [https://www.msu.edu/course/ha/452/rebeccahorn.htm Getting Under The Skin: Rebecca Horn's Sensibility Machines] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006112758/https://www.msu.edu/course/ha/452/rebeccahorn.htm |date=6 October 2011 }} Michigan State University. Horn had her first solo exhibition at the Galerie René Block, in West Berlin, in 1973. She participated in the Venice Biennale, Skulptur Projekte Münster and the Biennale of Sydney, and was one of very few artists who were selected to participate in Documenta on four occasions. Her solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, "Rebecca Horn: Diving through Buster's Bedroom", featured 18 large-scale mechanized sculptures that related to the themes and content from her feature-length film, Buster's Bedroom.[http://www.moca.org/library/archive/exhibition/detail/1990/rebeccahorn Rebecca Horn: Diving through Buster's Bedroom, 2 October 1990 – 6 January 1991] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100713192149/http://www.moca.org/library/archive/exhibition/detail/1990/rebeccahorn |date=13 July 2010 }} MOCA, Los Angeles. In 1993 the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, mounted a mid-career retrospective organized by Germano Celant and Nancy Spector, which traveled to the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Tate Gallery and Serpentine Gallery, London; and Musée de Grenoble. In 2005 the Hayward Gallery in London held a comprehensive Horn retrospective; in conjunction with this exhibition, St Paul's Cathedral showed Horn's installation Moon Mirror.[http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/hayward-gallery-and-visual-arts/hayward-gallery-exhibitions/past/rebecca-horn-bodylandscapes Rebecca Horn: Bodylandscapes, 26 May – 29 August 2005] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120428081002/http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/hayward-gallery-and-visual-arts/hayward-gallery-exhibitions/past/rebecca-horn-bodylandscapes |date=28 April 2012 }} Hayward Gallery, London.

Horn was honoured with museum exhibitions in Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, New Delhi and Moscow.

Horn lived in Hamburg until 1971, and in London for a brief time (1971–72).{{cite web | title=Künstlerin Rebecca Horn stirbt mit 80 Jahren | website=Monopol | date=8 September 2024 | url=https://www.monopol-magazin.de/kuenstlerin-rebecca-horn-stirbt-mit-80-jahren | language=de | access-date=8 September 2024 | archive-date=8 September 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240908102844/https://www.monopol-magazin.de/kuenstlerin-rebecca-horn-stirbt-mit-80-jahren | url-status=live }} In 1973, she moved to Berlin.{{cite web | title=Rebecca Horn | website=Claartje van Haaften | url=https://www.vanhaaften.de/de/rebecca-horn | language=de | access-date=8 September 2024 | archive-date=23 May 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523191209/https://www.vanhaaften.de/de/rebecca-horn | url-status=live }}{{cite web | title=Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: Rebecca Horn Installation 'Raum des verwundeten Affen' | website=Staatliche Museen zu Berlin | url=https://www.smb.museum/museen-einrichtungen/hamburger-bahnhof/sammeln-forschen/restaurierung/in-preparation/rebecca-horn-installation-raum-des-verwundeten-affen/ | language=de | access-date=8 September 2024}} A Buddhist, she also lived in Paris and New York.{{cite web | title=Rebecca Horn ist tot | website=DER SPIEGEL | date=8 September 2024 | url=https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/rebecca-horn-ist-tot-a-8ae8d445-8fab-40c9-b22d-5372390a3275 | language=de | access-date=8 September 2024}} After her teaching career ended, she worked out of a studio in her grandfather's former textile factory in Bad König.

After a stroke in 2015, Horn withdrew from the public. She died in Bad König, Hesse, Germany on 6 September 2024, at the age of 80.{{cite news | last=Keinath | first=Anja | title=Installationskünstlerin: Rebecca Horn ist tot | website=Die Zeit | date=8 September 2024 | url=https://www.zeit.de/kultur/kunst/2024-09/rebecca-horn-tot | language=de | access-date=8 September 2024}}{{cite web | last=Rakow | first=Christian | title=Künstlerin Rebecca Horn verstorben | website=nachtkritik.de | url=https://nachtkritik.de/meldungen/kuenstlerin-rebecca-horn-verstorben | language=de | access-date=8 September 2024 | archive-date=8 September 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240908103857/https://nachtkritik.de/meldungen/kuenstlerin-rebecca-horn-verstorben | url-status=live }}

Horn's work is in major public collections worldwide, including:

• Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge[http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/exhibitions/4972/rebecca-horn-work-in-progress "Rebecca Horn: Work in Progress"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206074945/http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/exhibitions/4972/rebecca-horn-work-in-progress |date=6 February 2015 }}, Harvard Art Museums, Retrieved 31 January 2015.
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
• The Museum of Modern Art, New York[http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=7502 "The Collection – Rebecca Horn"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129025036/http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=7502 |date=29 November 2014 }}, Museum of Modern Art, Retrieved 13 November 2014.
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles[http://www.moca.org/museum/pc_search_results.php?keywords=Rebecca+Horn&x=-561&y=-503 "Rebecca Horn"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902105655/https://www.moca.org/exhibitions?keywords=Rebecca+Horn&x=-561&y=-503 |date=2 September 2023 }}, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Retrieved 13 November 2014.
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco[http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/collection/artists/336/artwork "Works by Rebecca Horn"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129003733/http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/collection/artists/336/artwork |date=29 November 2014 }}, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Retrieved 13 November 2014.
• Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia[http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/?artist_id=horn-rebecca "Works by Rebecca Horn"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129014342/http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/?artist_id=horn-rebecca |date=29 November 2014 }}, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Retrieved 13 November 2014.
• Rivoli Castle Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy{{cite web | title=Rebecca Horn | website=Castello di Rivoli | date=7 February 2012 | url=https://www.castellodirivoli.org/en/artista/rebecca-horn/ | access-date=10 September 2024}}
• Tate Gallery, London[http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/horn-concert-for-anarchy-t07517 "Concert for Anarchy"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129085042/http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/horn-concert-for-anarchy-t07517 |date=29 November 2014 }}, Tate, Retrieved 13 November 2014.
• Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris{{cite web | title=Rebecca Horn | website=Sean Kelly Gallery | date=27 September 2021 | url=https://www.skny.com/artists/rebecca-horn | access-date=8 September 2024}}
• Centre for International Light Art, Unna, Germany{{cite web | title=Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst Unna | website=Lichtkunst Unna | url=https://www.lichtkunst-unna.de/en/centre | access-date=8 September 2024}}
• Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
• Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
• Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
• Walker Art Center{{cite web | title=Rebecca Horn | website=WalkerUi | url=https://walkerart.org/collections/artists/rebecca-horn | access-date=8 September 2024 | archive-date=3 August 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210803194437/https://walkerart.org/collections/artists/rebecca-horn | url-status=live }}
• Museum Wiesbaden

At the Carnegie International in 1988, Horn won the Carnegie Prize for an installation work titled The Hyra Forest/Performing: Oscar Wilde.Roberta Smith (2 July 1993), [https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/02/arts/review-art-fountains-of-mercury-a-piano-spitting-out-keys-sculpture-as-dramas.html Fountains of Mercury, a Piano Spitting Out Keys: Sculpture as Dramas] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701004256/http://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/02/arts/review-art-fountains-of-mercury-a-piano-spitting-out-keys-sculpture-as-dramas.html |date=1 July 2016 }} The New York Times.

In 1992, Horn became the first woman to receive the prestigious Goslarer Kaiserring, and was awarded the Medienkunstpreis Karlsruhe for achievements in technology and art. She was later awarded the 2010 Praemium Imperiale in Sculpture and the Grande Médaille des Arts Plastiques 2011 from the Académie d'Architecture de Paris.[http://www.skny.com/exhibitions/2011-10-28_rebecca-horn/pressrelease/ Rebecca Horn: Ravens Gold Rush, 28 October – 3 December 2011] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425131155/http://www.skny.com/exhibitions/2011-10-28_rebecca-horn/pressrelease/ |date=25 April 2012 }} Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.

In 2012, Horn received the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art. She was member of the order Pour le Mérite.{{cite web | title=Horn | website=ORDEN POUR LE MÉRITE | url=https://www.orden-pourlemerite.de/mitglieder/rebecca-horn | language=de | access-date=8 September 2024}} In 2019, she received the Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.{{cite web | title=Rebecca Horn | website=Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden | url=https://www.wiesbaden.de/kultur/museen/museum-wiesbaden/rebecca-horn.php | language=de | access-date=9 September 2024}}

• {{Cite book |editor-last=Haenlein |editor-first=Carl |date=1997 |title=Rebecca Horn, the Glance of Infinity |url=https://archive.org/details/rebeccahornglanc0000horn/mode/2up |location=Zürich |publisher=Kestner Gesellschaft; Scalo-Verl |isbn=978-3-931141-65-3 |oclc=921280427}}
• {{Cite book |last=Horn |first=Rebecca |date=2014 |title=Rebecca Horn. Das Wirbelsäulen Orakel |language=de |location=Ostfildern, Germany |publisher=Hatje/Cantz |isbn=978-3-7757-3888-0 |oclc=882898681}}

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• {{Cite web |title=Kunst im ewigen Fluss: Rebecca Horn wird 70 |website=Focus |date=22 March 2014 |url=https://www.focus.de/kultur/kunst/kunst-kunst-im-ewigen-fluss-rebecca-horn-wird-70_id_3708636.html |language=de |access-date=8 September 2024}}
• {{Cite web |title=Die Schöpferin der Drei Grazien wird 80 |website=German Bundesrat |url=https://www.bundesrat.de/SharedDocs/texte/24/20240324-rebecca-horn.html |language=de |ref={{sfnref |Bundesrat}} |access-date=8 September 2024}}
• {{Cite web |title=Pressemitteilung: Bundespräsident gratuliert Rebecca Horn |website=Der Bundespräsident |date=22 March 2024 |url=https://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/DE/2024/03/240322-Gratulation-Horn.html |language=de |access-date=9 September 2024}}

• {{Cite web |title=Rebecca Horn |website=Haus der Kunst |date=8 September 2024 |url=https://www.hausderkunst.de/eintauchen/rebecca-horn |language=de |access-date=8 September 2024}}
• {{Cite web |title=Rebecca Horn |website=Kulturstiftung des Bundes |url=https://www.kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de/de/projekte/bild_und_raum/detail/rebecca_horn.html |language=de |access-date=8 September 2024}}
• {{Cite web |last=Metzdorf |first=Julie |title=Federn, Flügel, Hörner: Rebecca Horn im Haus der Kunst |publisher=BR24 |date=26 April 2024 |url=https://www.br.de/nachrichten/kultur/federn-fluegel-hoerner-rebecca-horn-im-haus-der-kunst,UB1w2a9 |language=de |access-date=8 September 2024}}

• {{Cite web |last=Greenberger |first=Alex |title=Rebecca Horn, Legendary Artist Whose Sculptures Aspired Toward Alchemy, Dies at 80 |website=ARTnews.com |date=8 September 2024 |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/rebecca-horn-artist-dead-1234717036/ |access-date=9 September 2024}}
• {{cite web | last=Harris | first=Gareth | title='You must walk close to the edge'—the pioneering German artist Rebecca Horn dies, aged 80 | website=The Art Newspaper – International art news and events | date=9 September 2024 | url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/09/09/you-must-walk-close-to-the-edgethe-pioneering-german-artist-rebecca-horn-dies-aged-80 | access-date=11 September 2024}}
• {{cite web | last=Heinrich | first=Will | title=Rebecca Horn, Enigmatic Artist With Theatrical Flair, Dies at 80 | website=The New York Times | date=13 September 2024 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/arts/rebecca-horn-dead.html | access-date=14 September 2024}}
• {{Cite web |last=Kohler |first=Michael |title=Rebecca Horn gestorben: Kunst als Erweiterung des Körpers |website=Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger |date=8 September 2024 |url=https://www.ksta.de/kultur-medien/rebecca-horn-gestorben-kunst-als-erweiterung-des-koerpers-859115 |language=de |access-date=9 September 2024}}
• {{Cite web |last=Oltermann |first=Philip |title=German installation artist Rebecca Horn dies aged 80 |website=The Guardian |date=9 September 2024 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/sep/09/german-installation-artist-rebecca-horn-dies-aged-80 |access-date=9 September 2024}}
• {{Cite web |last=Strenger |first=Sebastian |title=Zum Tod von Rebecca Horn: Die Klarheit im Kosmischen |website=Der Tagesspiegel |date=8 September 2024 |url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/zum-tod-von-rebecca-horn-die-klarheit-im-kosmischen-12337184.html |language=de |access-date=8 September 2024}}
• {{Cite web |last=Trinks |first=Stefan |title=Künstlerin Rebecca Horn gestorben: Feinmechanikerin der Seele |website=FAZ.NET |date=8 September 2024 |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kunst-und-architektur/kuenstlerin-rebecca-horn-gestorben-feinmechanikerin-der-seele-19971147.html |language=de |access-date=8 September 2024}}
• {{cite web | title=Rebecca Horn – ein Rückblick | website=Freunde des Museums Wiesbaden | url=https://www.freunde-museum-wiesbaden.de/news/rebecca-horn-ein-rueckblick/ | language=de | access-date=11 September 2024}}
• {{Cite web |title=Odenwälder Künstlerin Rebecca Horn gestorben |publisher=Hessenschau |date=8 September 2024 |url=https://www.hessenschau.de/kultur/odenwaelder-kuenstlerin-rebecca-horn-gestorben-v3,rebecca-horn-104.html |language=de |access-date=8 September 2024}}
• {{Cite web |title=Kunstszene: Künstlerin Rebecca Horn stirbt im Alter von 80 Jahren |website=Die Welt |date=8 September 2024 |url=https://www.welt.de/kultur/article253415428/Kunstszene-Kuenstlerin-Rebecca-Horn-stirbt-im-Alter-von-80-Jahren.html |language=de |access-date=8 September 2024}}

• {{Official website|http://www.rebecca-horn.de}} {{in lang|de|en}}
• {{cite web | title=Horn | website=Akademie der Künste, Berlin | url=https://www.adk.de/de/akademie/sektionen/bildende-kunst/mitglieder_bk.htm?we_objectID=51821 | language=de | access-date=11 September 2024}}
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• {{discogs artist|Rebecca Horn (2)}}
• [http://metropolis.co.jp/arts/art-reviews/rebecca-horn/ Review of Horn's 2009 exhibition by C. B. Liddell]
• {{cite web | title=Rebecca Horn | publisher=The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation | date=8 September 2024 | url=https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/rebecca-horn | ref={{sfnref | The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation | 2024}} | access-date=8 September 2024}}
• [http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=2269&tabview=bio Biography of Horn] at Tate Modern; various works can also be viewed.
• {{YouTube|cWVLPBxQVQA|Rebecca Horn {{!}} Exhibition film – Haus der Kunst}}
• {{YouTube|Sz7ZR31QFmw|Rebecca Horn {{!}} Videopodcast zur Ausstellung – Kunstforum Wien}}

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