Rebecca Horn

Rebecca Horn is a German visual artist best known for her installation art, film directing, and her body modifications such as Einhorn (Unicorn), a body-suit with a very large horn projecting vertically from the headpiece. She directed the films Der Eintänzer (1978), La ferdinanda: Sonate für eine Medici-Villa (1982) and Buster's Bedroom (1990). She currently lives and works in Paris and Berlin.

Horn's works have been shown in solo exhibitions at leading international institutions: at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, M.O.C.A. Los Angeles, the Guggenheim Museum New York, the Nationalgalerie Berlin, the Serpentine Gallery London, the Tate Gallery London, the Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover, and the Carré d'Art, Nimes, and the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. Horn has been distinguished on numerous occasions, counting among her awards the documenta Prize (1986), the Carnegie Prize for The Hydra Forest, Performing Oscar Wilde (1988), the Kaiserring from the city of Goslar (1992), and the Barnett and Annalee Newman Award (2004).