{"id":34857,"date":"2021-09-18T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=34857"},"modified":"2024-06-25T10:04:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T09:04:10","slug":"rebecca-horn-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/rebecca-horn-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Horn exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hornsmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"149\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hornsmall.jpg\" alt=\"Art exhibition poster\" class=\"wp-image-34858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hornsmall.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hornsmall-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It takes a certain kind of genius to produce world class art. And another level of genius to do so in different media. Like Rebecca Horn, for example, the subject of the 2021\/2022 exhibition at the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Comprehensive look at Horn&#8217;s interconnected oeuvre<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>First such exhibition in Austria for many years<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Runs Sept 28, 2021 &#8211; Jan 23, 2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/kunstforum-wien\/\">Kunstforum Wien visitor &amp; tickets info<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/exhibitions\/#modernart\">Contemporary art exhibitions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Multiple media and interconnectivity<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rebeccahorninstallation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rebeccahorninstallation.jpg\" alt=\"Rebecca Horn; Konzert der Seufzer (Venedig), 1997; photo: Attilio Maranzano; \u00a9 Rebecca Horn\" class=\"wp-image-34859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rebeccahorninstallation.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rebeccahorninstallation-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Rebecca Horn; Konzert der Seufzer (Venedig), 1997; photo: Attilio Maranzano; \u00a9 Rebecca Horn)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you immerse yourself in turn-of-the-century art in Vienna, you imagine the ability to create across multiple genres and media is a relic of the past, when folk like Otto Wagner could design a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/footsteps\/postsparkasse-building\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"32273\">building<\/a>, but also the furniture that went in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A brief look at Rebecca Horn&#8217;s biography teaches us otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The German-born artist has directed opera in Spain (and designed the sets and costumes). Her films have featured in a solo exhibition in London&#8217;s Tate Modern. Her permanent 3D <em>Flying Books Under Black Rain Painting<\/em> graces an entrance of the Harvard Art Museums. You can buy her poetry at Amazon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet, despite all the above, she is perhaps best known for her remarkable performance art, installations, and kinetic sculptures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exhibitions featuring Horn&#8217;s works appear in prestigious galleries and museums across the world. And her art appears in the collections of such institutions as Paris&#8217;s Centre Pompidou and New York&#8217;s Guggenheim and MoMA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vienna, however, has not seen a major examination of her work for many years. The Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien corrects that gap in the city&#8217;s artistic portfolio with a comprehensive exhibition that offers insight into her working process and the threads that run through her oeuvre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite its diversity, Horn&#8217;s art often reflects a degree of continuity and interconnectivity, for example through connections to exterior influences or through prevailing associations between her works across media and time: what storytellers might describe as a bundle of red threads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Horn herself put it in a 2014 interview:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>You try not to talk about the past too much as an artist. Instead, you focus on the continuity of your work.<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/art\/rebecca-horn-vertebrae-oracle\">Source<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition pays hommage to the diversity and interconnectedness of Horn&#8217;s output by incorporating, for example, graphic arts, sculptures, installations and films from across her career (including films that document earlier performances and artistic interventions).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dates, tickets &amp; tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Immerse yourself in Horn&#8217;s genius from September 28th, 2021 to January 23rd, 2022. A standard entrance ticket gets you into the exhibition (or use an appropriate<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/city-passes\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"30352\"> sightseeing pass<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that the Kunstforum Wien has no permanent exhibition, so only opens when a major exhibition is on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Autumn and early winter is prime time for art exhibitions in Vienna, so look out for top events at all the top art museums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, the Kunsthistorisches Museum has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/khm\/titian-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"29907\">Titian exhibition<\/a> (from October 5th), the Kunst Haus Wien showcases the work of photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/susan-meiselas-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"34542\">Susan Meiselas<\/a>, the Albertina gives us a remarkable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/modigliani-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"29814\">Modigliani exhibition<\/a>, and the Albertina Modern explores <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/egon-schiele-self-portrait\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"34480\">Schiele and self-portraiture<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to get to the Horn exhibition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the tips in the article about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/kunstforum-wien\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"21890\">Kunstforum Wien<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gallery is a throw of a medieval meat pie from the historical centre of Vienna. Which means the surrounds are anything but contemporary: they first consecrated the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/schottenkirche\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"27651\">church opposite<\/a> around 1200, for example, a time when performance art involved rather more juggling and mead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: Freyung 8, 1010 Vienna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1qE67z-6ZUivs0H9TxrZDHWDR9ObImqBL\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes a certain kind of genius to produce world class art. And another level of genius to do so in different media. Like Rebecca Horn, for example, the subject of the 2021\/2022 exhibition at the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien. 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