Rebecca Horn Bodylandscape
May 23 — September 15, 2025
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The exhibition features works on paper including some Bodylandscape, the largescale drawings characteristic of Horn’s work, whose dimensions correspond exactly to the full extension of her own body.
The Bodylandscape is created as performative acts capable of establishing a relationship between the artist’s inner external worlds, through the impulsive and immediate force of the gesture, which evokes images of both cosmic and inner landscapes on the surface. These works, intended not only as traces of physical movement but also as expressions of emotional and passionate energy, characterize Horn’s entire artistic journey. Though expressed in a different form, they maintain continuity with her body-centered performances of the 1970s.
As in all of Horn’s creations, one senses her poetics inspired by the energies of the universe in her works on paper. Each piece seems to emit a mysterious force that evokes dreamlike scenarios, triggering a connection between the viewer and the artist’s most intimate world.
The exhibition commemorates the artist, who passed away on September 2024, and coincides with the retrospective at the Castello di Rivoli in Turin from May 23 to September 21, 2025 — the first solo exhibition dedicated to Horn in a public museum in Italy.
Biography
Rebecca Horn (Michelstadt 1944 – Bad König 2024) exhibited in major museums worldwide and participated in the most prestigious international exhibitions, from Documenta in Kassel (1972, 1977, 1982, and 1992) to the Venice Biennale (1980, 1986, 1997, 2022). Her works are included in the collections of museums such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Nationalgalerie in Berlin. In Naples, her site-specific installations are part of the permanent collections of the Museo Madre and the Arco Mirelli Metro Station. In 2010, Rebecca Horn received the Praemium Imperiale for sculpture in Japan. In September 2016, she became a member of the Orden pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste, the highest honor bestowed on artists and scientists by the Federal Republic of Germany. In June 2017, she became the first woman to receive the prestigious Wilhelm Lehmbruck Prize in recognition of her work and poetics, which have deeply influenced sculpture between the 20th and 21st centuries. In 2019 the Centre Pompidou Metz and the Tinguely Museum in Basel dedicated a major retrospective to her entitled Théâtre des métamorphoses. In January 2022, her extensive retrospective concluded at the Bank Austria Kunstforum in Vienna. In 2024, the Haus der Kunst in Munich presented another significant retrospective curated by Jana Baumann. In Italy, she has been represented by Studio Trisorio since 2003.