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Van Horn is 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 idea of an ideal place for art. VAN HORN Dusseldorf wants to create an ideal place for artists and their art. The name VAN HORN symbolizes the energy of the gallery. Because of it's geographic location at the border of two very contrary countries, as well as it‘s closeness to Marfa. VAN HORN was founded by the german artist and photographer Daniela Steinfeld and is located in Dusseldorf . The special interest of the gallery lies in widening the artistic landscape and the communicative paths about art. This concerns the local discussion within Duesseldorf, as well as the possibility to work in national and international relations. The idea is to initiate an art space, which also functions as an open forum for artists and other interested people. It is crucial to provide a field for exchange, discussion and growth. VAN HORN started as artist-space with an exhibition of the underground-cartoonist Robert Crumb, followed by the blackboard-drawings of Rudolf Steiner and a solo-show of Nicole Eisenman. Thereupon the gallery was founded. The gallery mixes particular historical with contemporary positions. During the exhibitions thematically related events take place as, amongst other things, filmscreenings, talks and performances . In Dusseldorf the gallery presents solely very precisely selected solo-exhibitions of international artists. The space is conceived to be very open and hospitable. The aims are to bring people, artists and art lovers together and enable talks and the exchange of ideas. VAN HORN serves as catalyst for further developments. The whole space is like a big collaborative work of all participants. The exhibitions build on each other, different aspects of art communicate with each other and the spectator. Only the works are not shown together at the same time, but in the same space at different times. Each year the exhibition projects are interrelated and each work is like an answer or echo to the other presented works. VAN HORN shows also positions and attitudes which are relevant to art, but not necessarily created by people that work in the so-called "art context". The gallery's interest is with provocative, challenging art, like Underground Art, Grotesque Art, Psychological Art. Art by creators that cross the threshold between contemporary art and something else, be it comics, music, mysticism or their own obsessions. All this is the art that drives VAN HORN, makes us curious and conveys another picture of the human mind and it‘s diversity to the spectator. VAN HORN wants to do something that matters and that contributes a new flavour to the big dish of art. The exhibitions are the center and occasion for further activities in and around the VAN HORN space. VAN HORN is a concept, an attitude towards art, which can manifest itself in various ways. It shows this, amongst other things, through the variety of the participating artists.