Bio
Anaïs Horn, born in Graz (AT), lives and works in Paris and Lunigiana (IT).
Her multidisciplinary practice moves fluidly across media, creating intimate, often site-specific settings in which personal narratives – autobiographical fragments, rites of passage, or the biographies of historical female figures – unfold into broader reflections on contemporary existence while exploring how memories and (her)story/stories echo through the spectral presence of objects and spaces.
Next to personal narratives she is introducing elements of illusion and mystery, trying to situate her work in a space of the in-between that touches upon Jean Baudrillard’s radical thinking, that draws its power—similar to the real image that makes us aware of this "trembling of the world”—from the rejection of reality. Instead of creating transparency, the secret is reintroduced: Making mysterious what is clear, incomprehensible what is comprehensible, returning the world as we got it, incomprehensible.
Her projects often unfold through research, collaboration and publication, with the artist’s book forming an important part of her practice.
With a background in literature and a Master’s degree in Communication Design, Horn graduated from the Friedl Kubelka School for Fine Art Photography, Vienna, in 2015.
In 2022, together with Boah Kim, she co-founded the publishing house Drama Books, Paris.
In 2023 she co-founded, together with her partner Eilert Asmervik, the artist-run pop-up space Cabanon in her Parisian studio.
Photo: Anaïs Horn at ISCP, NY, 2025
Selected solo and 2-person-exhibitions
2026
High Expectations, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, New York, US
Anaïs Horn & Verena Walzl, Softness Controls Hardness, curated by Blerta Hoçia National Library of Kosovo, Prishtina, XK
2025
Talk to Me, Fotohof, Salzburg, AT
Apousia, Fotohof, Salzburg, AT
Anaïs Horn & Eilert Asmervik, Nothing in the World Is Single, Easter, Collesino, IT
2024
Castro Projects Crit #36, Anaïs Horn & Ohii Katya, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, IT
2023
Anaïs Horn & Pedro Zylbersztajn, The Afterwake, curated by Gabriela Rangel, RGR Gallery, Mexico City, MX
2022
Katharina Copony & Anaïs Horn, Unstable Intensities, curated by Francesca Lazzarini, MLZ Art Dep, Trieste, IT
Birke Gorm & Anaïs Horn, Blooming Simulacra, kunstGarten, Graz, AT
The Sun Had Not Yet Risen, four-channel video and sound installation, Styrian National Culture Award, Dom im Berg, Graz, AT
2021
Die Hand voller Stunden, so kamst du zu mir, curated by Reinhard Braun, Camera Austria, Graz, AT
2020
Eilert Asmervik & Anaïs Horn, How do you feel about “Lou”?, Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna, AT
2019
IN-BETWEEN, curated by Boris Kostadinov, FLUCA Austrian Cultural Pavilion, Plovdiv, BG
2017
Triptyque Parisien, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR
2016
Fragmente einer Sprache der Liebe, Fotogalerie Rathaus, Graz, AT
Anaïs Horn & Tobias Zielony, Fragmente einer Sprache der Liebe, Parallel Vienna, Vienna, AT
Selected group exhibitions
2026
Amelia, UNA Gallery, Piacenza, IT
2025
Under Lunar Influence, Cabanon, Paris, FR
Kunstraum Steiermark, Neue Galerie, Graz, AT
As It Unfolds, NADA Curated, curated by Fitsum Shebeshe, online
I Hear You in the Mirror, I See You in the Wind,
site-specific installation, Mozin’Arts, Montreuil, FR
Changing Perspectives, WestLicht, Vienna, AT
Touch Nature, curated by Sabine Fellner, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, AT
Summer Open Studios, ISCP, New York, US
Fall Show, curated by Christian Tony Norum, No Institute, Vienna, AT
2024
Touch Nature, curated by Sabine Fellner, Galerie du Planète Rouge, Paris, FR
Café Dasein, curated by Eilert Asmervik, No Institute, Vienna, AT
Dreamers Performance and Video Program, Contemporanea – Roma Gallery Weekend, Castro, Rome, IT
Habitat, Graz Museum, Graz, AT
2023
Die Zeit zerfällt oder das Maß der Unordnung, Kunsthaus Muerz, AT
Paperwork, Cabanon, Paris, FR + Paperwork X Homework, hosted by Gregory Tara Hari, Zurich, CH
Settlement, Sentiment, P.A.D., New York, US
Looking Forward, The Grand Chelsea, New York, US
2022
Intimacy / Privacy, curated by Clara Wildberger, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, AT
Afterglow, curated by Anaïs Horn, Felix Kindermann and Eilert Asmervik, The Grand Chelsea, New York, US
Day After (Pill) and selected video works, Printed Matter Chelsea, New York, US
Fall Open Studios, ISCP, New York, US
Very Naughty Super Trashy, Tutu Gallery, New York, US
Styrian Art Space, curated by Günther Holler-Schuster, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, AT
Premio Francesco Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee, Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo, IT
2021
The 2021 Book Awards, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Espace Van Gogh, Arles, FR
2020
Show-Off, MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, AT
2019
Styrian Art Space, curated by Günther Holler-Schuster, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, AT
2015
Pas de Deux, KUNST HAUS WIEN, Vienna, AT
Selected Art Fairs
Art Rotterdam 2026, Unseen Encounters, curated by Domenico de Chirico, two-person presentation with Sergio Scabar, MLZ Art Dep, Rotterdam, NL
NADA 2025, Projects, two-person presentation with Sonya Derman, P.A.D, NYC, US
Vienna Contemporary 2024, group presentation with MLZ Art Dep, Vienna (AT)
MiArt 2024, Solo booth with MLZ Art Dep, Milano, IT
ZONAMACO 2024, group presentation with RGR Gallery, Mexico City, MX
Arte in Fiera, 2023, group presentation with MLZ Art Dep, Rome, IT
Anaïs Horn & Carol Rama, MLZ ART DEP at Vienna Contemporary 2023, Vienna, AT
Paris Photo 2022, solo presentation with MLZ
Art Dep, Curiosa section, curated by Holly
Roussel, Grand Palais Ephemere, Paris, FR
Curatorial and Editorial Projects
Cabanon, Paris
Artist-run exhibition space co-founded in 2023 with Eilert Asmervik
Drama Books, Paris
Independent publishing house co-founded in 2022 with Boah Kim
Artist Books
Forthcoming 2027: Anaïs Horn, High Expectations, Drama Books, Paris
Forthcoming 2027: Anaïs Horn & Verena Walzl, Softness Controls Hardness, Stralli, Peja
Anaïs Horn: Talk to Me, Text by Wendy Vogel, Edition Fotohof, Salzburg, 2025
Anaïs Horn: Longing Ghosts in Deep Blue Paranoia, Drama Books, Paris, 2022. Texts by Estelle Hoy and Francesca Lazzarini, Designed and co-edited by Boah Kim.
Anaïs Horn: Die Hand voller Stunden, so kamst du zu mir, Edition Camera Austria, Graz, 2021. Texts by Attilia Fattori Franchini and Wendy Vogel.
Eilert Asmervik, Anaïs Horn: How do you feel about “Lou“?, Meta/Books, Amsterdam, 2020. 2nd edition, 2021.
Texts by Delphine Bedel, Anna Gien, Laura Schawelka, Andy Schumacher, Verena Walzl a.o.
Anaïs Horn: Je suis malheureuse et heureuse, Meta/Books, Amsterdam, 2020. Texts by Maren Lübbke Tidow, Jackie Wang, Verena Walzl. Original manuscripts by Anaïs Nin.
Anaïs Horn: Fading, Ed. by Katharina
Manojlovic, DCV, Berlin 2021. Texts by Katharina Manojlovic and Anna Gien.
Residencies
2025
ISCP – International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, US
2024
Castro Projects, Studio Program, Rome, IT
2022
ISCP – International Studio & Curatorial
Program, New York, US
2021
AiR Trieste, Trieste, IT
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR
2020
ISCP – International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, Online Residency
2019
FLUCA Austrian Cultural Pavilion, Plovdiv, BG
2017–2018
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR
Talks, Lectures, Teaching and Public Programs
2025
Artists at Work: Anaïs Horn in Conversation with Wendy Vogel, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, US
On Artists’ Books, artist talk with Markéta Adamcová and Eilert Asmervik, Czech Center New York, New York, US
Book launch and Signing, Talk to Me, New York Art Book Fair, Printed Matter Booth, MoMA PS1, New York, US
2024
Guest Lecturer, Artistic Photography, MA Programme in Art and Design, University College of Teacher Education Styria, Graz, AT
2022
Artist talk with Wendy Vogel and Eilert Asmervik, Printed Matter, New York, US
Guest lecture with Eilert Asmervik, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, US
Book presentation and signing with Delphine Bedel / META/BOOKS, ACCIDENT(S) Art Book Fair, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR
2021
Book presentation and signing, How do you feel about “Lou”?, Meta/Books, 2020/21, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, FR
Book presentation and signing, How do you feel about “Lou”?, Meta/Books, 2020/21, Polycopies, Paris, FR
Selected Publications, Press and Features
2026
Chiara Nuzzi, Amelia, exhibition text for Amelia, UNA Gallery, Piacenza, IT
Blerta Hoçia, Softness Controls Hardness, exhibition text for Softness Controls Hardness, National Library of Kosovo, Prishtina, XK
2025
Anya Harrison, Glimpses of You, Déjà Vu, ten-page artist feature, Camera Austria International, No. 171 / 2025; cover featuring a work from NYC Still Lifes / Ghost Monologues
Wendy Vogel, Inhabiting Secrets, In: Anaïs Horn, Talk to Me, Edition Camera Austria, Salzburg,
2025.
Unfolded Ways. Rome as Never Read Before, curated by Valentino Catricalà, D’ORO Collection, Rome, IT
Anya Harrison, Under Lunar Influence, exhibition text for Under Lunar Influence, Cabanon, Paris.
2024
Lydia Bißmann, ARTfaces Anaïs Horn: Poesie und Präzision, Kultur – Land Steiermark
2023
Gabriela Rangel, The Afterwake, exhibition text for The Afterwake, RGR Gallery, Mexico City, MX
Elles, Collectif Elles × Paris Photo, preface by Florence Bourgeois, contributions by Federica Chiocchetti, Fannie Escoulen, Nathalie Herschdorfer, Fiona Rogers a.o., Éditions Textuel, Paris.
2022
Estelle Hoy, Princess-Cut Diamonds, In: Anaïs Horn, Longing Ghosts in Deep Blue Paranoia, Drama Books, Paris, 2022.
Giulio Polita & Francesca Lazzarini, Everbody Wants to Be a Queen, In: Anaïs Horn, Longing Ghosts in Deep Blue Paranoia, Drama Books, Paris, 2022.
Paris Photo 2022 : cinq stands immanquables, Fisheye Magazine, 2022.
Paris Photo 2022: 10 femmes photographes à (re)découvrir, AD Magazine France.
Elles × Paris Photo: une exploration de la création photographique au féminin, Ministère de la Culture, France.
2021
Attilia Fattori Franchini, Hands Hanging Around in Oblique Participation, In: Anaïs Horn, Die Hand voller Stunden, so kamst du zu mir, Edition Camera Austria, Graz, AT
Alexandra Bondi de Antoni, VOGUE-Talent-Interview: Wie Anaïs Horn zarte Gefühle in starke Bilder übersetzt, VOGUE Germany, 9.12.2021
Federica Chiocchetti, review of Je suis malheureuse et heureuse, Camera Austria International, No. 154 / 2021
2020
Maren Lübbke-Tidow, Blinks of an Eye in History, In: Anaïs Horn, Je suis malheureuse et heureuse, Meta/Books, Amsterdam, 2020.
Verena Walzl, “I’m very happy, very contented and—oh, but it’s difficult to act happy!”, In: Anaïs Horn, Je suis malheureuse et heureuse, Meta/Books, Amsterdam, 2020.
Almuth Spiegler, Von Schmerzen und Tabus in Frauenlieben und -Leben, Die Presse, 17.12.2020
Awards, Grants and Public Collections
2025
Collection Acquisition, Neue Galerie, Graz, AT
Austrian Film Award – Best Costume Design, for Veni Vidi Vici, together with Marcus Karkhof, Austrian Film Academy, 2025.
2024
Austrian State Grant for Fine Art Photography, Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts and Culture
2022
Selection, Elles × Paris Photo, curated by Federica Chiocchetti, Paris Photo, Paris, FR
Selection, Curiosa Sector, curated by Holly Roussel, Paris Photo, Paris, FR; solo presentation with MLZ Art Dep
Selection, Les 20 coups de cœur de Thomas Girst, Interview for BMW Group Culture, Paris Photo, Paris, FR
Jury Mention, Premio Francesco Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee, Fondazione Francesco Fabbri, Pieve di Soligo, IT
Collection Acquisition, City of Graz Collection, Graz, AT
Austrian Federal Studio Abroad Grant, New York, US
2021
Je suis malheureuse et heureuse, shortlisted for the Photo-Text Book Award, Les Rencontres d’Arles, FR
Je suis malheureuse et heureuse, Official Selection, Oslo Fotobokfestival, NO
2019
Collection Acquisition, Neue Galerie, Graz, AT
2017
Austrian Federal Studio Abroad Grant, Paris, FR