Channa Horwitz
Channa Horwitz’s (1932 – 2013, Calilfornia, US) work was informed by experimenting with numerical sequences, the exploration of systems and the usage of self-formulated rules. Living on the West Coast of the USA in the late 1960s she developed an artistic language using very few and very simple rules. This conscious restriction allowed her the freedom to translate space-time relations in infinite variations in drawings, paintings and multimedia-based sculptures. From this time every one of her hand drawn algorithms was based on numbers from one to eight, often each number corresponding to a certain colour code. These minimalistic graphic notations allowed the conceptual and performance artist to visualize time, rhythm and movement of bodies, objects and instruments and constitute the substructure for multimedia-based performances. Howitz adhered to this precisely coded language on the basis of logic and system for decades, especially in recent years her work has found posthumous recognition.
Channa Horwitz was part of the 55th Biennale in Venice in 2013 and subsequently of the Whitney Biennale in New York in 2014. In 1970 her project was the first and only female proposal to be included in the catalogue of the renowned Art and Technology Programme of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León in Léon (2019), at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver (2018), at Raven Row in London (2016), at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin (2015) und at the Brandenburgischer Kunstverein in Potsdam (2009) et al. Her works were included in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2018), at the Kunsthalle Wien (2016), at the Itaú Cultural in São Paulo (2015), at the Museum Tinguely in Basel (2015), at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2015), at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2013) and at the Hammer Museum of Art in Los Angeles (2012).
Works from the Estate Channa Horwitz are presented in collaboration with Lisson Gallery, London, New York und Shanghai.
