Cosima von Bonin

Cosima von Bonin (born 1962 in Mombasa, Kenya ) is a German artist. She lives and works in Cologne. She is a prominent representative of conceptual art and works among others textiles, films, installations, and social relations.

Von Bonin is married since 1992 with the German artist Michael Krebber, which they in Cologne, where lives of Bonin for a long time, about Martin Kippenberger, whose assistant Krebber was then, met.

Since 2000 von Bonin in contact with the German musician Dirk von Lowtzow and frequently works together with it. So it happens every now and then to interactions between von Bonin ' work and that of of Lowtzow, such as when von Bonin one of their shows after Tocotronic song We are many names. From the press often Lowtzow written texts for von Bonin exhibitions.

Since about 2009 works of Bonin nor with another German musicians together: Moritz von Oswald. Among other things, von Bonin responsible for the cover artwork of his three appeared on the label Honest Jon's albums and used his music in their shows.

Your last Exhibitions The Fatigue Empire and The Lazy Susan Series are to be understood as praise to exhaustion in a society that is characterized by pressure to perform.

As influences or artists who very much appreciates, called Cosima von Bonin: Marcel Broothaers, André Cadere, Cady Noland, Genzken, Michael Clark, Jacques Tati, George A. Romero.

For some time von Bonin a teaching position at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg, having already completed several visiting professorships there.

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions:

  • Do you have some time today - I do not, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, 1995
  • Lion in bonsai forest, Palais Attens, Styrian Autumn 98, Graz
  • Wyoming, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, 1999
  • The cousins, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2000
  • Brother Poul puts to sea, Kunstverein Hamburg, 2001
  • Fund -related equipment, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, 2002
  • Relax, it's only a ghost, Friedrich Petzel Gallery in New York, 2006.
  • The Fatigue Empire, Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2010
  • Cosima von Bonin 's Cut! Cut! Cut! for Museum Ludwig 's Sloth section, Loop # 04 of the Lazy Susan Series, A Rotating Exhibition, Museum Ludwig, 2010-2012
  • Tba. , MUMOK Vienna, 2014

Group Exhibitions:

  • The first Grazer subjects Festival, Graz, 1995
  • Heetz, Nowak, Rehberger, Municipal Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, 1996
  • NowHere, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, 1997
  • German Open, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 1999
  • Make Your Own Life - Artists In and Out of Cologne, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, 2006
  • Documenta 12, Kassel, 2007
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