About

Rebekka Kühnis (b. 1976) grew up in Windisch, Switzerland. She studied at the Hochschule der Künste, Bern, where she obtained a master’s degree in Art & Education. She has since worked as an artist and teacher.
When she was 20 years old, she spent two summers working on a holiday farm in the southwest of Iceland. Instantly, she felt a strong connection to the country, describing it as a feeling of coming home. However, it took her nearly twenty more years to come back, this time to explore the country on foot, hiking with her tent for several months. The impressions and sensations she …