REYKJAVÍK.- i8 Gallery is presenting Roni Horn: Mother, Wonder, a solo exhibition of new work by Roni Horn, on view from 22 May until 12 July 2025. The show, Horn’s sixth solo presentation at i8 Gallery, debuts a photographic series of Landbrot, an area in southern Iceland known for its mossy, undulating landscape.


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Featuring portraits of pseudocraters, a volcanic form created as lava flows through wetlands, Horn’s photographic compositions couple the rolling hills, emphasising an anthropomorphisation of the terrain. The acts of pairing and doubling, often used by Horn in her work, invite deeper consideration from the viewer and underscore the surreality and indeterminacy of the hills.

Initially printed in the eleventh volume of Horn’s ongoing publication project To Place (1990–ongoing), published in 2023 by Steidl, the images in Mother, Wonder were taken by Horn in multiple sessions between 2010 and 2012. Currently, the To Place series comprises eleven unique publications delving into the artist’s evolving experience of Iceland. Horn first travelled to Iceland in 1975, and her relationship with the country has been a defining aspect of her artistic practice.

Roni Horn (b. 1955, USA) lives and works in New York. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1975. In 1978, Horn graduated with a masters in sculpture from Yale University. Her practice focuses on conceptually oriented photography, sculpture, books and drawing. Since 1975, Horn has traveled extensively in the more remote landscapes of Iceland – these solitary experiences have long been important influences in her life and work. Literature and Horn’s prodigious reading have had a similarly profound impact on her work across various media. The sculpture is often paired or doubled, as are the drawings and photographs.

Horn’s work is included in institutional collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; the Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Foundation Jumex, Mexico City; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, among many others.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Tate Modern, London; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria; Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; De Pont Foundation, Tilburg; Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland; Glenstone Museum, Potomac, MD; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; The Drawing Institute at The Menil Collection, Houston, TX; the Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan; Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection, Paris; Winsing Arts Foundation, Taipei; Centro Botín, Santander; He Art Museum, Guangdong, China; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark.



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