Gender and art

The Fundació Joan Miró and Obra Social “la Caixa” present the exhibition Roni Horn. Everything was sleeping as if the universe were a mistake. In her first monographic exhibition in Barcelona, Roni Horn uses her work to question the reality that surrounds her, her own identity, and her relationship with the environment. The works in the show include her latest sculptural installation, exhibited in Europe for the first time.

Roni Horn. Everything was sleeping as if the universe were a mistake

20 June–28 September 2014

Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona

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BARCELONA.- The exhibition Roni Horn. Everything was sleeping as though the universe were a mistake is organised by the Fundació Joan Miró and Obra Social ”la Caixa”. It will be open to the public from 20 June to 28 September 2014 at Fundació Joan Miró, and from 13 November 2014 to 1 March 2015 at CaixaForum Madrid. The press conference was held with the presence of the artist Roni Horn, winner of the 2013 Joan Miró Prize, Elisa Duran, Deputy Executive Officer of Fundació ”la Caixa”, and Rosa Maria Malet, Director of the Fundació Joan Miró.

The show has been conceived by the artist herself, and explores the different media and approaches that she has used over the past twenty years. It covers the major themes and formats that make up her work: sculptural installations, photographic series, working drawings, and a floor piece entitled Rings of Lispector (Água Viva) that combines drawing and literary quotes. The title of the exhibition Everything was sleeping as if the universe were a mistake is taken from Fernando Pessoa’s Livro do desassossego, published in 1935.