Studio portrait ©Finja Sander

Rebekka’s work is ruled by force and its ambiguity, both in its physical sense and applied to human relations: Force we subject others and are ourselves subjected to. Sculpture becomes a way to materialize these tensions and give them physical form. Interpersonal debt, obligations, economic conditions and interdependence manifest in the merging of industrial objects with support structures as well as elements from horseriding gear. Emerging from personal narrative and exercised in sculpture and animated video, the horse as “Beast of Burden” becomes a symbolic body between need, use and care. Present in all of Rebekka’s work are the complexity and social implication of labour – out of necessity, compulsion or as an act of love.

Recent exhibitions and projects

2026
Bück dich hoch, 3CA, Berlin group
X, Galerie Stephanie Kelly, Dresden group
From Monsters to Monuments, Frappant Galerie, Hamburg group
2025
Beast of Burden, Chilli Gallery, London solo
Look at this if you love me, Set Lewisham, London group
eins.3, Haus der Stadtgeschichte, Offenbach a.M. group
Not A House but a Memory, Gallery Rosenfeld, London group
On view, Gallery Rosenfeld, London solo
It fit on the way here, Barbican Arts group trust, London group
Every separation is a link, Kunsthalle Ost, Leipzig duo