Roni Horn
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Roni Horn is an American visual artist and writer. Horn's oeuvre, which spans almost four decades, encompasses sculpture, drawing, photography, language, and site-specific installation. The granddaughter of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, she was born in New York and lives and works in New York. She received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design
and an MFA in sculpture from Yale University
.
. Horn’s work also embodies the cyclical relationship between humankind and nature—a mirror-like relationship in which we attempt to remake nature in our own image.
For the past 30 years, the work of Roni Horn has been intimately involved with the singular geography, geology, climate and culture of Iceland
. Since her first encounter with the island as a young arts graduate visiting on a fellowship from Yale, Horn has returned to Iceland frequently over the years. Iceland has been muse and medium to Roni Horn.
Reproducing 13 watercolour and graphite drawings, Bluff Life (1990) was produced in 1982 during a two month stay in a lighthouse off the southern coast of Iceland. The second book, Folds (1991), is a collection of photographs documenting extent sheepfolds; a unique indigenous structure found throughout the island. To Place: Verne’s Journey (1995), the fifth in the series, refers to the North Atlantic island where the book Journey to Center of The Earth (1864), by Jules Verne
, began. Horn’s volume opens with a series of aerial geographic views of Iceland, continues with multiple images of the island’s geological formations, and concludes with images of crashing waves. A photographic essay, the seventh volume Arctic Circles (1998) records the endless horizon of the North Sea, the feathers of an eider nest, and the rotating beacon of a lighthouse, invoking in form the very circumference of Iceland. Doubt Box (Book IX) (2006) is a collection of cards rather than a bound volume. Printed on both sides, the cards show pictures of glacial water, taxidermied birds, and of the same face, a little older.
In 2004-2006 the books were selected as some of the most important photobooks in history. A 2009 journal article stated that the nine To Place books "together constitute one of the most important groups of artists' books since Ed Ruscha
's 1960s books and Bernd and Hilla Becher
's publications on industrial architecture." Other publications include Dictionary of Water, This is Me, This is You, Cabinet of, If on a Winter's Night, Her, Her, Her, & Her, Wonderwater (Alice Offshore), and Index Cixous, 2003 – 05.
in Iceland, consists of 80 photographs of water dispersed throughout the university’s public spaces, echoing the ebb and flow of students and learning over time at the university. In 2007 she undertook Artangel
’s first international commission, creating Vatnasafn / Library of Water, a long-term installation in the town of Stykkisholmur
, Iceland. The installation is made up of water collected from Icelandic glaciers. “Weather,” observes Roni Horn, “is the key paradox of our time. Weather that is nice is often weather that is wrong. The nice is occurring in the immediate and individual, and the wrong is occurring systemwide.”
The "Library of Water" is housed in a former library building in the little town of Stykkisholmur on the west coast of Iceland. Roni Horn noticed the building during a trip through Iceland in the 1990s. It is located at the high point of the town, overlooking the harbour and the sea. The architecture is influenced by that of lighthouses. It was conceived by Horn in 2004 as a sculpture installation and a community center, offering both a space for quiet reflection and a room for meetings and gatherings.
) 2005, capture the iconic actress in many different moods and characters, a sustained paradox of fleeting expressions. In each sequence, Huppert slips into one of the characters she portrayed on screen – Erika, Lena, Claire, Charlotte, Dominique, Jeanne, Mika, Isabelle, Marie, Emma, Beatrice and others – so that her face expresses a personality that does not exist in reality but only in the film.
The gesture of doubling – as an aesthetic and conceptual strategy – has been a recurrent motif for Horn since 1980, a tool that invites careful scrutiny from the viewer. In 2008, Bird (1998–2007), the artist’s long-running photographic series of taxidermied Icelandic wildfowl were shown for the first time. Photographed at close range against white backgrounds (as though obeying the conventional format of studio portraiture) the birds are viewed from behind, their unique physiognomies and markings resulting in inscrutable shapes and patterns on the photographs’ surfaces. Despite the singular form of the title the birds in this series are all presented in pairs, images that are hung side by side one another highlighting the differences and similarities between the two.
Installed on all four walls of the gallery to form a continuous horizon line, the 45 color images of Horn's installation Pi (1998) create a band of syncopated glimpses of another world. Identical in height, slightly varying in width (square, vertical rectangle, horizontal rectangle), evenly spaced and united by a certain blueness of tone, the photographs are portraits of a middle-aged man and woman; close-ups of stuffed animals and feather-strewn birds' nests; stills from Iceland's favorite television soap opera, The Guiding Light; and the beam of a lighthouse cutting through the night. There are also images of the interior of a plain house near the Arctic Circle; expanses of tundra, and of ground scattered with feathers in some instances and with stuffed dead birds in others. Finally, there are immense expanses of open edgeless sea, shown in different weather and at various times of day.
The pictures were taken over a six year period in Iceland.
and Roni Horn in 1989. The work consists of two identical truncated cones that are 35 inches long, tapering from a diameter of 17 inches to 12 inches. The pair is part of a 1988 suite consisting of four sets of paired, solid copper forms, each hand-lathed to duplicate mechanical identity. The entire suite is titled Things That Happen Again, and also includes Piece for Two Rooms, For a Here and a There, and For Things that are Near.
In 1990 during Horn’s solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art
in Los Angeles, Félix González-Torres
encountered her sculpture Forms from the Gold Field (1980–82), two pounds of pure gold compressed into a luminous rectangular mat. In 1993, he made Untitled (Placebo-Landscape-for Roni). In response, Horn made a second gold field piece, Gold Mats, Paired-For Ross and Felix (1994-1995), dedicated to dedicated to the late González-Torres and his partner Ross Laycock.
Horn's 1993 series When Dickinson shut her eyes comprises eight square aluminium poles of different lengths leaning casually against the gallery wall, each bearing a line from Emily Dickinson
's poem A Wind that rose; following in the conceptual tradition started by Joseph Kosuth
and Lawrence Weiner
, Horn's homage to Dickinson investigates the possibilities of language as sculptural form. Other works in her series White Dickinson include sentences from the published letters of Dickinson.
galleries, Horn's career accelerated in the late 1980s. Horn received the CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts
in 1998, several NEA
fellowships, and a Guggenheim fellowship. She has had one-person exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago
(2004); Centre Georges Pompidou
, Paris (2003); Dia Center for the Arts
, New York, and Museu Serralves
, Porto (2001); Whitney Museum of American Art
, New York; Kunsthalle Basel
(1995); Rencontres d'Arles festival, France (2009) and Tate Modern
, London (2009). Group exhibitions include the Whitney Biennial
(1991, 2004); Documenta
(1992); and Venice Biennale
(1997), among others In 2004 she was a visiting critic at Columbia University
.
In November 2009, the Whitney Museum of American Art
opened a survey show of Horn’s work. Titled "Roni Horn aka Roni Horn", the show travelled to the Institute of Contemporary Art
in Boston (2010), the Tate Modern
, London (25 February - 25 May 2009), and the Collection Lambert in Avignon (21 June - 4 October 2009).
Horn is represented by Hauser & Wirth, Zürich/London; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; and Kukje Gallery, Seoul.
in New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection, and the Kunstmuseum in Basel.
Rhode Island School of Design
Rhode Island School of Design is a fine arts and design college located in Providence, Rhode Island. It was founded in 1877. Located at the base of College Hill, the RISD campus is contiguous with the Brown University campus. The two institutions share social, academic, and community resources and...
and an MFA in sculpture from Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
.
Art
Horn explores the mutable nature of art through sculptures, works on paper, photography, and books. She describes drawing as the key activity in all her work because drawing is about composing relationships. Horn’s drawings concentrate on the materiality of the objects depicted. She also uses words as the basis for drawings and other works. Horn crafts complex relationships between the viewer and her work by installing a single piece on opposing walls, in adjoining rooms, or throughout a series of buildings. She subverts the notion of ‘identical experience’, insisting that one’s sense of self is marked by a place in the here-and-there, and by time in the now-and-then. She describes her artworks as site-dependent, expanding upon the idea of site-specificity associated with MinimalismMinimalism
Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts...
. Horn’s work also embodies the cyclical relationship between humankind and nature—a mirror-like relationship in which we attempt to remake nature in our own image.
For the past 30 years, the work of Roni Horn has been intimately involved with the singular geography, geology, climate and culture of Iceland
Iceland
Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...
. Since her first encounter with the island as a young arts graduate visiting on a fellowship from Yale, Horn has returned to Iceland frequently over the years. Iceland has been muse and medium to Roni Horn.
To Place
In an interview, Horn was quoted as saying that "the entrance to all my work... which is extremely important to me" is the ongoing series of books entitled To Place (1990-) concerning Iceland. The books consider identity, site, and nature through photographs of landscapes, ice, rocks, swirling water, and people; most of the images are accompanied by descriptive, classificatory, or literary texts.Reproducing 13 watercolour and graphite drawings, Bluff Life (1990) was produced in 1982 during a two month stay in a lighthouse off the southern coast of Iceland. The second book, Folds (1991), is a collection of photographs documenting extent sheepfolds; a unique indigenous structure found throughout the island. To Place: Verne’s Journey (1995), the fifth in the series, refers to the North Atlantic island where the book Journey to Center of The Earth (1864), by Jules Verne
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , A Journey to the Center of the Earth , and Around the World in Eighty Days...
, began. Horn’s volume opens with a series of aerial geographic views of Iceland, continues with multiple images of the island’s geological formations, and concludes with images of crashing waves. A photographic essay, the seventh volume Arctic Circles (1998) records the endless horizon of the North Sea, the feathers of an eider nest, and the rotating beacon of a lighthouse, invoking in form the very circumference of Iceland. Doubt Box (Book IX) (2006) is a collection of cards rather than a bound volume. Printed on both sides, the cards show pictures of glacial water, taxidermied birds, and of the same face, a little older.
In 2004-2006 the books were selected as some of the most important photobooks in history. A 2009 journal article stated that the nine To Place books "together constitute one of the most important groups of artists' books since Ed Ruscha
Edward Ruscha
Edward Joseph Ruscha IV is an American artist associated with the Pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film. Ruscha lives and works in Culver City, California...
's 1960s books and Bernd and Hilla Becher
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Bernard "Bernd" Becher , and Hilla Becher, née Wobeser , were German artists working as a collaborative duo. They are best known for their extensive series of photographic images, or typologies, of industrial buildings and structures.- Biography :Bernd Becher was born in Siegen...
's publications on industrial architecture." Other publications include Dictionary of Water, This is Me, This is You, Cabinet of, If on a Winter's Night, Her, Her, Her, & Her, Wonderwater (Alice Offshore), and Index Cixous, 2003 – 05.
Installations
Weather, inspired by her experiences on Iceland, has played an important role in Roni Horn's work. She has created several public artworks, including You Are the Weather—Munich (1996–97), a permanent installation for the Deutscher Wetterdienst bureau in Munich. Yous in You (1997), a rubber-tiled walkway in Basel’s east train station, mimics an unusual basalt formation of Iceland. Some Thames (2000), a permanent installation at the University of AkureyriUniversity of Akureyri
The University of Akureyri is a young institution, founded on September 5, 1987 in the city of Akureyri in the north part of Iceland. It has grown since then, especially in the last few years as more facilities have been established...
in Iceland, consists of 80 photographs of water dispersed throughout the university’s public spaces, echoing the ebb and flow of students and learning over time at the university. In 2007 she undertook Artangel
Artangel
Artangel is a London-based arts organisation founded in 1985 by Roger Took. Directed since 1991 by James Lingwood and Michael Morris, it has commissioned and produced a string of notable site-specific works, plus several projects for TV, film, radio and the web...
’s first international commission, creating Vatnasafn / Library of Water, a long-term installation in the town of Stykkisholmur
Stykkishólmur
Stykkishólmur is a town and municipality situated in the western part of Iceland, to the north of the Snæfellsnes peninsula.With its 1,100 inhabitants, it is a center of services and commerce for the area. Most of the people make their living from fishing and tourism. A ferry called Baldur goes...
, Iceland. The installation is made up of water collected from Icelandic glaciers. “Weather,” observes Roni Horn, “is the key paradox of our time. Weather that is nice is often weather that is wrong. The nice is occurring in the immediate and individual, and the wrong is occurring systemwide.”
The "Library of Water" is housed in a former library building in the little town of Stykkisholmur on the west coast of Iceland. Roni Horn noticed the building during a trip through Iceland in the 1990s. It is located at the high point of the town, overlooking the harbour and the sea. The architecture is influenced by that of lighthouses. It was conceived by Horn in 2004 as a sculpture installation and a community center, offering both a space for quiet reflection and a room for meetings and gatherings.
Photo series
Horn's first photographic installation, You Are The Weather (1994-1996), a photographic cycle featuring 100 close-up shots of the same woman, Margret, in a variety of Icelandic geothermal pools, deals with the enigma of identity captured through a series of facial expressions dictated by imperceptible weather changes. Many of the images in You Are the Weather were published in one of the To Place volumes. You are the Weather, Part 2, follows the same form as ‘You are the Weather’ and features the same model, 15 years later. The series Untitled (Isabelle HuppertIsabelle Huppert
Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert is a French actress who has appeared in over 90 film and television productions since 1971. She has had 14 films in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and won the Best Actress Award twice, for Violette Nozière and La pianiste . She is also the most...
) 2005, capture the iconic actress in many different moods and characters, a sustained paradox of fleeting expressions. In each sequence, Huppert slips into one of the characters she portrayed on screen – Erika, Lena, Claire, Charlotte, Dominique, Jeanne, Mika, Isabelle, Marie, Emma, Beatrice and others – so that her face expresses a personality that does not exist in reality but only in the film.
The gesture of doubling – as an aesthetic and conceptual strategy – has been a recurrent motif for Horn since 1980, a tool that invites careful scrutiny from the viewer. In 2008, Bird (1998–2007), the artist’s long-running photographic series of taxidermied Icelandic wildfowl were shown for the first time. Photographed at close range against white backgrounds (as though obeying the conventional format of studio portraiture) the birds are viewed from behind, their unique physiognomies and markings resulting in inscrutable shapes and patterns on the photographs’ surfaces. Despite the singular form of the title the birds in this series are all presented in pairs, images that are hung side by side one another highlighting the differences and similarities between the two.
Installed on all four walls of the gallery to form a continuous horizon line, the 45 color images of Horn's installation Pi (1998) create a band of syncopated glimpses of another world. Identical in height, slightly varying in width (square, vertical rectangle, horizontal rectangle), evenly spaced and united by a certain blueness of tone, the photographs are portraits of a middle-aged man and woman; close-ups of stuffed animals and feather-strewn birds' nests; stills from Iceland's favorite television soap opera, The Guiding Light; and the beam of a lighthouse cutting through the night. There are also images of the interior of a plain house near the Arctic Circle; expanses of tundra, and of ground scattered with feathers in some instances and with stuffed dead birds in others. Finally, there are immense expanses of open edgeless sea, shown in different weather and at various times of day.
The pictures were taken over a six year period in Iceland.
Sculpture
Things That Happen Again: For a Here and a There (1986) was installed at the Chinati Foundation by Donald JuddDonald Judd
Donald Clarence Judd was an American artist associated with minimalism . In his work, Judd sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it, ultimately achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional hierarchy...
and Roni Horn in 1989. The work consists of two identical truncated cones that are 35 inches long, tapering from a diameter of 17 inches to 12 inches. The pair is part of a 1988 suite consisting of four sets of paired, solid copper forms, each hand-lathed to duplicate mechanical identity. The entire suite is titled Things That Happen Again, and also includes Piece for Two Rooms, For a Here and a There, and For Things that are Near.
In 1990 during Horn’s solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is a contemporary art museum with three locations in greater Los Angeles, California. The main branch is located on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, near Walt Disney Concert Hall...
in Los Angeles, Félix González-Torres
Félix González-Torres
Felix Gonzalez-Torres was an American, Cuban-born visual artist."For Felix it was much more powerful to assume that the gay and straight audience was the same audience, that being a Cuban-born American is the same as being an American. And being American was something he was extremely proud of."...
encountered her sculpture Forms from the Gold Field (1980–82), two pounds of pure gold compressed into a luminous rectangular mat. In 1993, he made Untitled (Placebo-Landscape-for Roni). In response, Horn made a second gold field piece, Gold Mats, Paired-For Ross and Felix (1994-1995), dedicated to dedicated to the late González-Torres and his partner Ross Laycock.
Horn's 1993 series When Dickinson shut her eyes comprises eight square aluminium poles of different lengths leaning casually against the gallery wall, each bearing a line from Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life...
's poem A Wind that rose; following in the conceptual tradition started by Joseph Kosuth
Joseph Kosuth
Joseph Kosuth , is an American conceptual artist. Kosuth lives in New York and Rome.-Early life and career:Kosuth was born in Toledo, Ohio. He attended the Toledo Museum School of Design from 1955 to 1962 and studied privately under the Belgian painter Line Bloom Draper. In 1963, Kosuth enrolled at...
and Lawrence Weiner
Lawrence Weiner
Lawrence Weiner was a central figure in the formation of conceptual art in the 1960s His work often takes the form of typographic texts.- Life and career :...
, Horn's homage to Dickinson investigates the possibilities of language as sculptural form. Other works in her series White Dickinson include sentences from the published letters of Dickinson.
Drawings
While at Yale, Horn also began her drawing practice, which she describes as “absolutely essential to me, although not to my viewer. My drawing was always about my relationship to it, not the audience’s.” Produced from the 1980s onwards, her drawings are collage-like blots of pigment applied to sometimes torn and (once again) diagrammatically pieced-together sheets of paper. Small markings – words and numbers – track the work’s progression built up with the recomposing of the image. In the 1990s, Horn's drawings grew in scale.Career
Horn quit high school a year early at 16 and enrolled in the Rhode Island School of Design. Since 1975 Horn has traveled often to Iceland, whose landscape and isolation have strongly influenced her practice. Her first solo exhibition (outside the university) was held in 1980 at the Kunstraum München. With two New York shows at the Paula Cooper and Leo CastelliLeo Castelli
Leo Castelli was an American art dealer. He was best known to the public as an art dealer whose gallery showcased cutting edge Contemporary art for five decades...
galleries, Horn's career accelerated in the late 1980s. Horn received the CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts
Alpert Awards in the Arts
The CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts was established in the 1994 by The Herb Alpert Foundation in collaboration with the California Institute of the Arts . The foundation provides $50,000 annual fellowship to five artists in the field of film and video, visual arts, theatre, dance, and music....
in 1998, several NEA
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
fellowships, and a Guggenheim fellowship. She has had one-person exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's largest accredited independent schools of art and design, located in the Loop in Chicago, Illinois. It is associated with the museum of the same name, and "The Art Institute of Chicago" or "Chicago Art Institute" often refers to either...
(2004); Centre Georges Pompidou
Centre Georges Pompidou
Centre Georges Pompidou is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais...
, Paris (2003); Dia Center for the Arts
Dia Art Foundation
Dia Art Foundation is a non-profit organization that initiates, supports, presents, and preserves art projects. It was established in 1974 as the Lone Star Foundation by Philippa de Menil, the daughter of Houston arts patron Dominique de Menil and an heiress to the Schlumberger oil exploration...
, New York, and Museu Serralves
Serralves Foundation
Serralves Foundation is an art foundation whose mission is to raise the general public's awareness concerning contemporary art and the environment. The foundation is located in Porto, Portugal.-Casa de Serralves:...
, Porto (2001); Whitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 18,000 works in a wide variety of...
, New York; Kunsthalle Basel
Kunsthalle Basel
Since opening in 1872, Kunsthalle Basel has examined various positions concerning contemporary art. This renowned exhibition space in the Swiss city of Basel has a very long tradition of supporting avant-garde artists and expanding the accepted boundaries of contemporary art. Contemporary art...
(1995); Rencontres d'Arles festival, France (2009) and Tate Modern
Tate Modern
Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London, England. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group . It is the most-visited modern art gallery in the world, with around 4.7 million visitors per year...
, London (2009). Group exhibitions include the Whitney Biennial
Whitney Biennial
The Whitney Biennial is a biennale exhibition of contemporary American art, typically by young and lesser known artists, on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, USA. The event began as an annual exhibition in 1932, the first biennial was in 1973...
(1991, 2004); Documenta
Documenta
documenta is an exhibition of modern and contemporary art which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. It was founded by artist, teacher and curator Arnold Bode in 1955 as part of the Bundesgartenschau which took place in Kassel at that time...
(1992); and Venice Biennale
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
(1997), among others In 2004 she was a visiting critic at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
.
In November 2009, the Whitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 18,000 works in a wide variety of...
opened a survey show of Horn’s work. Titled "Roni Horn aka Roni Horn", the show travelled to the Institute of Contemporary Art
Institute of Contemporary Art
The Institute of Contemporary Art is an art museum and exhibition space located in Boston, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The museum was founded in 1936 with a mission to exhibit contemporary art.-Mission:...
in Boston (2010), the Tate Modern
Tate Modern
Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London, England. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group . It is the most-visited modern art gallery in the world, with around 4.7 million visitors per year...
, London (25 February - 25 May 2009), and the Collection Lambert in Avignon (21 June - 4 October 2009).
Horn is represented by Hauser & Wirth, Zürich/London; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; and Kukje Gallery, Seoul.
Collections
Roni Horn’s works can be found in the collections of many institutions, including the Museum of Modern ArtMuseum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
in New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection, and the Kunstmuseum in Basel.
Books by Horn
- Horn, Roni. Bluff Life. (To Place, book I.) New York: Peter Blum, 1990. ISBN 0935875093
- Horn, Roni. Folds. (To Place, book II.) New York: Mary Boone Gallery, 1991. ISBN 0941863212
- Horn, Roni. Lava. (To Place, book III.) New York: Roni Horn, 1992. ISBN 1564660354
- Horn, Roni. Pooling waters. (To Place, book IV.) Cologne: Walther König, 1994. ISBN 3883751871
- Horn, Roni. Inner geography. (To Place, supplement.) Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1994. ISBN 0912298677
- Horn, Roni. Verne's journey. (To Place, book V.) Cologne: Walther König, 1995. ISBN 3883752193
- Horn, Roni. Haraldsdóttir. (To Place, book VI.) Denver, CO: Ginny Williams, 1996. ISBN 1880146169
- Horn, Roni. You are the weather. Zurich and New York: Scalo in collaboration with Fotomuseum Winterthur, 1997. ISBN 3931141454
- Horn, Roni. Arctic circles. (To Place, book VII.) Denver, CO: Ginny Williams, 1998. ISBN 1880146215
- Horn, Roni, Kathleen Merrill Campagnolo, and Jan Avgikos. Still water. Santa Fe, NM: SITE Santa FeSite Santa FeSITE Santa Fe is a non-profit contemporary arts organization based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Since its founding, SITE Santa Fe has gained worldwide recognition through a series of biennial exhibitions that have featured numerous famous artists...
, 2000. ISBN 0970077416 - Horn, Roni. Another water (the River ThamesRiver ThamesThe River Thames flows through southern England. It is the longest river entirely in England and the second longest in the United Kingdom. While it is best known because its lower reaches flow through central London, the river flows alongside several other towns and cities, including Oxford,...
, for example). Zurich and New York: Scalo, 2000. ISBN 390824725X - Horn, Roni. Becoming a landscape. (To Place, book VIII.) Denver, CO: Ginny Williams, 2001. ISBN 3882437979
- Horn, Roni. Dictionary of water. Paris: Edition 7L, 2001. ISBN 3882437537
- Horn, Roni. This is me, this is you. Paris: Edition 7L, 2002. ISBN 3882437987
- Horn, Roni. Cabinet of. Göttingen/New York: Steidl/Dangin, 2003. ISBN 3882438649
- Horn, Roni. Her, her, her & her. Göttingen/New York: Steidl/Dangin, 2004. ISBN 386521035X
- Horn, Roni, Louise BourgeoisLouise BourgeoisLouise Joséphine Bourgeois , was a renowned French-American artist and sculptor, best known for her contributions to both modern and contemporary art, and for her spider structures, titled Maman, which resulted in her being nicknamed the Spiderwoman...
, Anne CarsonAnne CarsonAnne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987....
, Hélène CixousHélène CixousHélène Cixous is a professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician. She holds honorary degrees from Queen's University and the University of Alberta in Canada; University College Dublin in Ireland; the University of York and University College...
, and John WatersJohn Waters (filmmaker)John Samuel Waters, Jr. is an American filmmaker, actor, stand-up comedian, writer, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films...
. Wonderwater (Alice Offshore). Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2004. ISBN 3865210058 - Horn, Roni, and Hélène Cixous. Rings of Lispector (Agua Viva). London: Hauser & WirthHauser & WirthHauser & Wirth is one of the world's leading contemporary art galleries. In addition to representing over 40 established and emerging artists, the gallery represents the estates of Eva Hesse, Allan Kaprow, Lee Lozano, Jason Rhoades, Dieter Roth and André Thomkins, as well as the Henry Moore Family...
; Göttingen: Steidl, 2005. ISBN 3865211496 - Horn, Roni. Index Cixous: cix pax. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2005. ISBN 3865211356
- Horn, Roni. Doubt box. (To Place, book IX.) Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2006. ISBN 386521276X
- Horn, Roni. Herðubreið at home: the Herðubreið paintings of Stefán V. Jónsson aka Stórval. Göttingen: Steidl, 2007. ISBN 9783865214577
- Horn, Roni. Weather reports you. London: Artangel/Steidl, 2007. ISBN 9783865213884
- Horn, Roni, and Philip Larratt-Smith. Bird. London: Hauser & Wirth; Göttingen: Steidl, 2008. ISBN 9783865216694
Selected exhibition catalogues and monographs
- Roni Horn: Glyptothek München, Kunstforum München, Kunstraum München eV. München: Kunstraum München, 1983. ISBN 3923874383
- Detroit Institute of ArtsDetroit Institute of ArtsThe Detroit Institute of Arts is a renowned art museum in the city of Detroit. In 2003, the DIA ranked as the second largest municipally owned museum in the United States, with an art collection valued at more than one billion dollars...
/ Galerie Lelong. Roni Horn: pair objects I, II, III. Detroit/New York: Galerie Lelong, 1988. ISBN 2855871573 - Roni Horn: the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los AngelesMuseum of Contemporary Art, Los AngelesThe Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is a contemporary art museum with three locations in greater Los Angeles, California. The main branch is located on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, near Walt Disney Concert Hall...
. Los Angeles: The Museum, 1990. ISBN 0914357204 - Kersting, Hannelore, and Rudolf Herman Fuchs. Things which happen again: Roni Horn. Mönchengladbach: Städtisches Museum Abteiberg; Münster: Westfälischer Kunstverein, 1991. ISBN 3924039070
- Schwarz, Dieter. Rare spellings: selected drawings 1985-1992. Düsseldorf, Germany: Richter, 1992. ISBN 3928762095
- Spector, Nancy. Roni Horn: including the installation Pair Field and selections from the work To Place. Tilburg, The Netherlands: De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, 1994. ISBN 9074529054
- Kellein, Thomas, and Roni Horn. Making being here enough: installations from 1980 to 1995. Basel: Kunsthalle Basel; Hannover: Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1995. ISBN 379659901X
- González-Torres, FélixFélix González-TorresFelix Gonzalez-Torres was an American, Cuban-born visual artist."For Felix it was much more powerful to assume that the gay and straight audience was the same audience, that being a Cuban-born American is the same as being an American. And being American was something he was extremely proud of."...
, Roni Horn, and Ingvild Goetz. Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn. München: Sammlung Goetz, 1995. - Tillman, Lynne. Gurgles, sucks, echoes. Cologne: Jablonka Galerie; New York: Matthew Marks GalleryMatthew Marks GalleryMatthew Marks is an art gallery located in the New York City neighborhood of Chelsea. Founded in the early 1990s by Matthew Marks, it specializes in modern and contemporary art in a variety of media: including painting, sculpture, photography, installation art, film, and drawings and prints...
, 1995. ISBN 188014610X - Koepplin, Dieter. Roni Horn Zeichnungen = drawings. Ostfildern, Germany: Cantz, 1995. ISBN 3893227776
- hooks, bellBell hooksGloria Jean Watkins , better known by her pen name bell hooks, is an American author, feminist, and social activist....
, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Judith Hoos Fox, Roni Horn, Amada Cruz, and Sarah J. Rogers. Earths grow thick. Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the ArtsWexner Center for the ArtsThe Wexner Center for the Arts is The Ohio State University’s multidisciplinary, international laboratory for the exploration and advancement of contemporary art...
, Ohio State University, 1996. ISBN 1881390128 - Schulz-Hoffmann, Carla, and Andreas Strobl. Roni Horn, Pi. Munich: Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst; Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. ISBN 3775709126
- Neri, Louise, Lynne CookeLynne CookeLynne Cooke is the curator at large for the Dia Art Foundation in New York, and chief curator at the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain. Born in Geelong, Australia, Ms. Cooke received a B.A. from Melbourne University and an M.A. and Ph.D...
, and Thierry de DuveThierry de DuveThierry de Duve is a Belgian professor of modern art theory and contemporary art theory, and both actively teaches and publishes books in the field...
. Roni Horn. London: Phaidon, 2000. ISBN 0714838659 - Storsve, Jonas, Paulo Herkenhoff, and Claire Blanchon. Roni Horn: dessins = Roni Horn: drawings. Paris: Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 2003. ISBN 2844262198
- Roni Horn, Ann Veronica Janssens, Mike Kelley, Mike Nelson. San Francisco: California College of Arts and Crafts, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, 2003. ISBN 0972508015
- Lingwood, James, and Frida Björk Ingvarsdóttir. Roni Horn. Some Thames/Haskólínn á Akureyri. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2003. ISBN 3882439645
- Stahel, Urs, Élisabeth Lebovici, bell hooks, Thierry de Duve, Paulo Herkenhoff, and Barbara KrugerBarbara KrugerBarbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist. Much of her work consists of black-and-white photographs overlaid with declarative captions—in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed...
. If on a winter's night ... Roni Horn.... Göttingen: Steidl Verlag; Winterthur: Fotomuseum, 2003. ISBN 3882439114 - Eskildsen, Ute. Roni Horn. To place: postcards from the first 8 books: 1990-2001. Göttingen: Steidl, 2004. ISBN 3865210422
- Dean, TacitaTacita DeanTacita Dean is an English visual artist who works primarily in film. She is one of the Young British Artists, and was a nominee for the Turner Prize in 1998.-Life and work:...
, and Angela Vettese. Roni Horn: Angie and Emily Dickinson. Edinburgh: Royal Botanic Garden, 2006. ISBN 1872291201 - Roni Horn: vatnasafn, library of water. London: Artangel, 2006.
- Cixous, Hélène, and Australian Centre for Contemporary ArtAustralian Centre for Contemporary ArtThe Australian Centre For Contemporary Art is a contemporary art gallery in Melbourne, Australia. The gallery is located on Sturt Street in the Melbourne Arts Precinct, in the inner suburb of Southbank....
. A kind of you: 6 portraits by Roni Horn. Göttingen: Steidl, 2007. ISBN 9783865215833 - Roni Horn: my Oz. Reykjavik, Iceland: Listasafn Reykjavikur, 2007. ISBN 9979769300
- De Salvo, Donna, Carter E. Foster, Mark Godfrey, and Roni Horn. Roni Horn aka Roni Horn. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art; London: Tate Modern in association with Steidl, Göttingen, 2009. ISBN 9783865218315
- Lingwood, James, Briony Fer, and Adrian Searle. Roni Horn: vatnasafn/library of water. London: Artangel; Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2009. ISBN 9783865219428
- Mézil, Éric. Roni Horn. Paris: Éditions Phébus, 2009. ISBN 9782752904270
Documentaries on Horn
Roni Horn was one of the artists featured on PBS' Art:21 series of biographies of contemporary artistsExternal links
- Mercurial Moments: experiencing Roni Horn at the ICA, Boston ArtsEditor.com article
- Roni Horn's VATNASAFN/Library of Water in Iceland
- Biography, interviews, essays, artwork images and video clips from PBSPublic Broadcasting ServiceThe Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
series Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century - Season 3 (2005). - Biography, bibliography, images and press on Roni Horn at Hauser & Wirth
- Roni Horn at Xavier HufkensXavier HufkensXavier Hufkens is a European gallery owner and dealer in contemporary art. Since its founding in 1987, his gallery has been committed to the long term representation of established, mid-career and emerging artists. The gallery deals in a combination of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography,...
, Brussels - Roni Horn on artnet.com