Cosima von Bonin

(German, born 1962)

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Cosima von Bonin

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Biography

Timeline

1962
Born in 1962, Mombasa, Kenya
1998 - 2000
Scholarship of the Günther-Peill-Stiftung, Düren, Germany
2000 - 2001
Guest professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg
Lives and works in Cologne, Germany

Exhibitions

2011
Character Appropriation, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis (solo)
Cosima von Bonin’s Bone Idle for Arnolfini’s Sloth Section, Loop #02 of the Lazy Susan Series, A Rotating Exhibition 2010-2012, Arnolfini, Bristol (solo)
Cosima von Bonin’s Zermatt! Zermatt! Z…Ermattet! For Mamco’s Sloth Section, Loop #03 of the Lazy Susan Series, A rotating Exhibition 2010-2012, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva (solo)
Cosima von Bonin’s Cut! Cut! Cut! For Museum Ludwig’s Sloth Section, Loop #04 of the Lazy Susan Series, A Rotating Exhibition 2010-2012, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (solo)
Quodlibet III - Alphabets and Instruments, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin, Germany
THE JUXTAPOSITION OF NOTHINGS, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2010
Galerie Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Cosima von Bonin’s FAR NIENTE FOR WITTE DE WITH’S SLOTH SECTION (loop # 1 of the lazy susan series / a rotating exhibition / 2010 – 2011), Witte de With, Rotterdam (solo)
The Fatigue Empire, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (solo)
The Idler’s Playground, Sculpture International Rotterdam, Rotterdam (solo)

Literature

2006
Samman, Nadim, Cosima von Bonin: The bomb drops, The Art Newspaper/Frieze Art Fair Daily, October 12, 2006 (ill.)
Rattemeyer, Christian, “Die Möglichkeiten Einer Insel: Über Cosima von Bonin in der Galerie Friedrich Petzel, New York”, Texte Zur Kunst, September 2006, pp. 225-227 (ill.)
Graw, Isabelle, "Von Hier Aus", Texte Zur Kunst, September 2006, pp. 48-65, p. 50 (ill.)
“Art Pilgrimage: Philadelphia, ICA”, ArtReview, Issue 03: September, 2006, p. 85 (ill.)
Velasco, David, “Cosima von Bonin”, Artforum.com, June 30, 2006
Johnson, Ken, “Cosima von Bonin”, The New York Times, June 30, 2006, p. E28
Saltz, Jerry, “Cash, Clowns & Carnivals”, Modern Painters, July-August 2006, pp. 32-33
Saltz, Jerry, “Cash, Clowns, and Carnivals”, The Village Voice, June 22, 2006 (ill.)
Smith, Roberta, “Cologne as Mythic Hot Spot (Cue the Background Music)”, The New York Times, June 2, 2006, pp. E27, 30
Rattemeyer, Christian, “Make Your Own Life: Artists In & Out of Cologne”, Artforum, Summer 2006, pp. 344- 345 (ill)