Roni Horn

Roni Horn
April 1–September 10, 2023

Roni Horn’s diverse practice focuses on conceptually oriented photography, sculpture, drawing and books that defy any fixed classifications. Her intellectually rigorous and emotionally profound work reflects on the processes of becoming in relation to identity and location.

Since 1975, Horn has travelled extensively across Iceland’s remote landscapes—these solitary experiences in a geologically young landscape have long been important influences in her life and practice. Her works follow the mutability of water, weather and landscape, counteracting the possibility of fixed states and stability, existing in an androgynous realm. Although Horn´s work is not directly addressing identity politics or the climate emergency, it is evident that these urgent debates infused her quietly radical oeuvre.

This exhibition is carefully conceived by Horn in dialogue with Centro Botín’s exhibition rooms, architecture, light and visitors flow. It will be accompanied by a publication with newly commissioned texts by American author Carmen María Machado and Spanish curator, researcher and author Isabel de Naverán.

Curator: Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz, Director of Exhibitions and the Collection, Centro Botín