Sabine Hornig

In her practice spanning three decades, Sabine Hornig (b. 1964, Pforzheim, West Germany) has combined the use of photography, sculpture, and installation to produce images and environments that immerse the viewer in a reimagined world. Her works explore the tension between surface plane and three-dimensional space, often treating transparent architectural mediums such as glass simultaneously as a surface, subject, and portal. Hornig’s densely collaged compositions overlap divergent photographic perspectives to reveal new perceptual and conceptual terrain. Layering images steeped in cultural and political significance, she examines the structures and histories that continue to inform our collective experience.

Hornig’s solo exhibitions include Patterns of In-Security, Kunsthalle Tbilisi, George (2023); Passage, Fraunhofer Institut, Mainz, Germany (2022); Nomadcity, Museo Nivola Orani, Italy (2015); Double Transparency, Sensory Spaces 2, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2013–14); and Through the Window, Pinakothek der Moderne and alte Pinakothek, Munich (2011). Notable group exhibitions include In the Now: Gender and Nation in Europe, Brooklyn, Museum (2024); Transparency in Architecture and Beyond, the Museum of Modern Art, New York City (2022); S.I.L.K., Kochi-Muziris-Biennale, Kochi, India (2014/15); and At the Window, J. Paul Getty Musuem, Los Angeles (2013). Her public art commissions include Café Shadow, German Parliament building, Berlin (2025) and Shadows, Sydney International Towers. Hornig lives and works in Berlin.