Photo © Rebecca Horn; Image courtesy of the artist
Photo © Rebecca Horn; Image courtesy of the artist
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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2014.199.4
People
Rebecca Horn, German (Michelstadt, Germany 1944 - 2024 Bad König, Germany)
Title
Berlin - Ubungen in Neun Stucken
Other Titles
Title: Berlin - Exercises in Nine Parts
Classification
Audiovisual Works
Work Type
audiovisual work
Date
1974-1975
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/351632

Physical Descriptions

Medium
16mm film on DVD
Dimensions
Dimensions vary with installation

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Rebecca Horn, sold; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2014.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
35/300

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase in memory of Eda K. Loeb
Copyright
© Rebecca Horn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
2014
Object Number
2014.199.4
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Berlin (10 Nov. 1974 – 28 Jan. 1975) – Exercises in nine parts: Dreaming under water of things afar, documentation of eight performances with an epilogue: Touching the walls with both hands simultaneously, Blinking, Feathers dance on the shoulders, Keeping hold of those unfaithful legs, Two little fish remember a dance, Rooms meet in mirrors, Shedding skin between moist tongue leaves, Cutting one’s hair with two pairs of scissors simultaneously, When a woman and her lover lie on one side looking at each other; and she twines her legs around the man’s legs with the window wide open, it is the oasis; 16mm, color, sound, 42 minutes; Production: Helmut Wietz; with Rebecca Horn, Guido Kerst, Lisa Liccini, Otto Sander, Veruschka von Lehndorff, Michel Würthle

Publication History

  • Suzanne Volmer, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Rebecca Horn, Sculpture, International Sculpture Center (June 2015), Vol. 34, No. 5, p. 71

Exhibition History

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