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Anaïs Horn: High Expectations – Solo exhibition at the ACF New York

    I’m pleased to invite you to the opening of my first institutional solo exhibition in the United States:


    Anaïs Horn

    High Expectations

    Austrian Cultural Forum New York

    11 East 52nd Street


    Opening

    April 16, 6–8pm

    Introduction by Anaïs Horn, readings by Wendy Vogel and Katharina Manojlovic (Literature Museum, Vienna), and an artist conversation with Q&A, moderated by Dr. Stephanie Buhmann and Zoe Knable of the ACF, followed by a reception.


    On view

    April 16–May 31



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    Conceived as a site-specific installation in the Frederic Morton Library, High Expectations unfolds as a layered, immersive environment of textile, sound, image, and text.

    At its core is the 1931 fabric design Kokain (Cocaine) by Erika von Trauschenfels (Backhausen, Vienna), translated into a large padded floor piece that reconfigures the space as an intimate, physical environment. The installation brings together a polyphonic sound work (in collaboration with Eilert Asmervik), interweaving texts by Austrian women writers of the interwar period — Vicki Baum, Alice Schalek, Joe Lederer, among others — with contemporary responses by Avital Ronell and Wendy Vogel, as well as German-speaking writers Alexandra Bondi de Antoni, Anna Gien, Katharina Manojlovic, and Verena Walzl, alongside two new series of mixed-media works.

    The exhibition reflects on the cultural and political transformations of the interwar period while opening a space where female voices resonate and insist, in dialogue with the present. 



    "Talk to Me" in dialogue with works by Sergio Scabar at Art Rotterdam 2026 / Encounters – curated by Domenico de Chirico

      Anaïs Horn’s body of work Talk to Me, 2025, — spanning paintings, mixed-media works and objects will be presented with MLZ Art Dep as part of Unseen Encounters, curated by Domenico de Chirico, and unfolds as a dialogue with works by Sergio Scabar (1946–2019).


      Art Rotterdam 2026

      Rotterdam Ahoy

      Booth E17

      27–29 March 2026

      Opening 

      26 March 2026

      4:00–9:00 pm


      Engaging personal archives and an ongoing investigation into the spectral presence of objects and spaces, the works draw on research on the evil eye through amulets, jewelry and altered images, tracing a space between protection, memory and absence.


      Image: Anaïs Horn, Act of Love, 2024, egg tempera, inkjet print on Hahnemuehle Fine Art Baryta, 50 × 40 cm, in artist’s frame.


      Anaïs Horn & Verena Walzl: Softness Controls Hardness, National Library of Kosovo, Prishtina

        Anaïs Horn & Verena Walzl

        Softness Controls Hardness

        Curated by Blerta Hoçia

        National Library of Kosovo, Prishtina

        Opening: 13 March 2026, 19:00


        Taking the practice of judo as its point of departure, the exhibition reflects on heroism, discipline, and the intelligence of softness. Rather than confronting force with force, judo operates through balance, attentiveness, and the redirection of energy.

        Moving away from the monumental figures that dominate traditional, often patriarchal narratives of national heroism, the project turns its attention to young girls practicing the sport. In their gestures of training, repetition, and concentration, the exhibition observes another figure of strength — one that emerges through patience, adjustment, and the ongoing process of becoming.

        “Softness is not the absence of force, but a different intelligence of resistance — one that understands that the path, the gesture, and the method shape the outcome more profoundly than the pursuit of victory itself.” (Blerta Hoçia)

        The exhibition will be on view until 15 May 2026.




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