BIRTE HORN
Born 1972, Düsseldorf, Germany
Birte Horn in her studio.
Image courtesy of the artist.
Birte Horn is a German artist whose work combines hard-edge abstraction with minimalist, reductive art. She creates shaped canvases and reliefs that push traditional painting into three-dimensional space, challenging the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and architecture.
Using geometric forms and layered materials, Horn redefines the relationship between form, space, and perception. Her compositions often include industrial materials like stitched elements, encaustic layers, and textured surfaces, adding a tactile quality to her work. Horn contrasts precise geometry with organic, spontaneous color layering, creating tension between control and randomness.
The relief surfaces of her work disrupt flatness, inviting viewers to engage with edges, seams, and layers. This approach creates a real material depth, blending painting and sculpture. Horn’s minimalist approach explores perception, questioning reality and blurring the lines between the abstract and the familiar.
Her reductive art offers an immersive experience, inviting reflection on space, material, and meaning while exploring the shifting nature of reality through abstract forms.
Artist Statement
“I perceive the things I represent; everything is actually already there. It’s just that reality is so fast and changeable that I find it impossible to hold on to a holistic perception of reality. So, in my work, I focus on the principle of deconstruction and construction.
When I reflect, this principle is much more comprehensive for me and not only immanent to the work.
I extract, fragment, and assemble – in thought, with the eyes, the hands, language. We could talk about theories of perception at this point. There are no self-contained systems in reality, there are only parts and composite partial realities, and these are neither universally valid nor stable." Birte Horn.
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