 VAN HORN was founded by the german artist and photographer Daniela Steinfeld in Düsseldorf . It started as artist-space with an exhibition of the underground-cartoonist Robert Crumb, in his first solo-show in Germany, followed by the blackboard-drawings of Rudolf Steiner and works by Nicole Eisenman, also in her first-solo show in Germany. VAN HORN gallery was thereupon founded in 2006. In 2009 VAN HORN moved to the new Location at Ackerstr. 99. The gallery mixes particular historical with contemporary positions. In addition to the represented artists VAN HORN organized special exhibitions with e.g. Tracey Moffatt, Russ Meyer, Cady Noland, Wols and Reinhard Mucha, to name a few. The gallery name relates to Van Horn, a small town at the border of Texas and Mexico, near Marfa, the site of the Chinati Foundation founded by Donald Judd. In Chinati Judd realized his ideal place for art. The name reveals the attitude and energy of the gallery, playing with it's origin in a geographic location at the border of two very contrary countries, as well as it‘s closeness to Marfa.
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