Peder Lund

For more than 30 years, Roni Horn (b. 1955, in New York, NY) has worked with a wide range of media, ranging from photography, drawing, sculptural installations and performance, to artist’s books and text. Horn’s work concernsmatters such as the mutable nature of identity and that of the natural world, and the relationship between subject and object inperception of art and nature. Across the multidisciplinary formal approaches she has employed throughout her oeuvre, Horn hasremained focused and her subject matterswell articulated.

Horn graduated with an MFA from Yale University in 1978, and had her first solo exhibition at Kunstraum in Munich in 1980. Shortly after, Horn traveled to Iceland where she traversed the country on a motorbike. Iceland became an important source of inspiration for Horn, and her continuous travels there have had a significant influence on her art. Between 1994 and 1996, Horn produced the photographic series You Are The Weather, which is made up of 64 photographs of a young woman’s face as she is bathing in various Icelandic hot springs in different weather conditions. Horn has also published a number of artist’s books in which she reflects on her relationship to Iceland.

Roni Horn’s numerous solo exhibitions include shows organised by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (2024); Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (2024); Pinakothek der Moderne Kunst, Munich, Germany (2018); Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (2004); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (2003); Dia Center for the Arts, New York, NY (2001); Muséed’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (1999). Peder Lund has presented the works of Roni Hornseveral times, most recently in 2021 with the exhibition Wits’ End Mash.

A major retrospective titled Roni Horn aka Roni Horn was organized by Tate Modern, London, England, and traveled to Collection Lambert, Avignon, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (2009-10). Her work has beenexhibited in several Reykjavik venues, as well as in group exhibitions including the Whitney Biennial (1991 and 2004); Documenta 9 (1992), Venice Biennale (1997 and 2003); and Biennale of Sydney (1998 and 2014). Horn has received various awards, among them a Ford Foundation grant (1978), and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1984, 1986, and 1990) and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1990). In 2013, she was awarded the Joan Miró Prize. Horn’s work is featured in numerous major international institutions and collections including the Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Tate Modern, London, England; Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland; and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France. The artist lives and works in New York and Reykjavik, Iceland.