From March 14 to August 30, 2026, the Waldfrieden Sculpture Park in Wuppertal is presenting the cross-media work of German artist Rebecca Horn (1944-2024), who died in 2024. The comprehensive retrospective presents, among other things, her large-scale installations and kinetic sculptures, some of which generate sounds through mechanical movements and deal with the characteristic themes of movement, sound, body and space. It shows thirteen major works created between the 1980s and 2010s in the exhibition halls of the sculpture park and the historic Villa Waldfrieden.
Rebecca Horn is considered one of the most important German artists of the 20th century: she studied at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, developed the famous body extensions (mechanical body parts and extensions) in the 1960s and attracted international attention from the 1970s onwards - including her participation in documenta 5 (1972) and numerous solo exhibitions worldwide. Horn's oeuvre includes performances, mechanical sculptures, installations, film, painting, poetry and stage design, always characterized by fragility, poetry and the question of the physical and metaphysical conditions of being human. She has received international awards for her life's work such as the Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture (2010), the Grande Médaille des Arts Plastiques (2011), the Orden pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts (2016) and the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Prize (2017).
Services
- Admission to the exhibition "Rebecca Horn. Emotion in Motion"
- Access to all exhibition areas in the Waldfrieden Sculpture Park
