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Cosima von Bonin
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German
, born 1962)
Cosima von Bonin
Mushroom
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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)
Le Printemps de Septembre – à Toulouse, “Là où je suis n’existe pas”, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse
Don’t Perish, curated by Joseph Montgomery and Jesse Willenbring, Leo Koenig Inc. Projekte, New York
Quodlibet II, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Compass at Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, MoMA, New York
2009
Collection History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, MOCA, Los Angeles
Entr'acte, curated by Fionn Meade, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson
Eyes Wide Open, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam
Painting Now and Forever, Part II, Matthew Marks Gallery, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Vertrautes Terrain – Aktuelle Kunst in & über Deutschland, ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe (solo)
The Pierres at the Petzelette, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2008
If? if?, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne, Germany (solo)
Kunst Im Heim, Capitain Petzel Gallery, Berlin
2007
Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
documenta 12, Kassel, Germany
Cosima von Bonin, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)
2006
Relax, It’s Only a Ghost, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Optik Schröder. Werke aus der Sammlung Schröder, Kunstvereine Braunschweig, Braunschweig
und Moderne im Dialog. 1500-2000, Ausstellung der Sammlung K-raum Daxter / Lorenz in der Fränkischen Galerie Kronach, Festung Rosenberg, Kronach
HaubrokShows. B Sharp, Xantener Straße 7, Berlin
It takes some tie to open an oyster, Centre Cultural Andratx, Mallorca
Herbert Fuchs (1987-2005), Kunsthalle Wien, Project Wall, Vienna
2005
The Blake Byrne Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Across the Border, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Belgium
Cosima von Bonin, Galeria Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid
Film and video works by Cosima von Bonin, The Mountain Bar, Los Angeles
Rhinegold: Art from Cologne, Tate Liverpool
Huts, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2004
Sammlung Taubengasse, Kunsthaus Hamburg
2 Positionen auf einmal, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
2003
Outlook. International Art Exhibition, Athens
Actionbutton, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Cosima von Bonin, Galerie Ascan Crone / Andreas Osarek, Hamburg
Fat, Female, Forty, Fade, Galerie Neu, Berlin
Kalt Modern Teuer, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2002
Fondorientierte Ausstattung, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Künstlerhaus Graz
Too Quick for Binoculars, Galerie Gabriele Senn, Vienna
Vom Eindruck zum Ausdruck, Grässlin Collection, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
2001
Bruder Poul sticht in See, Kunstverein Hamburg (solo)
Free Port, Magasin 3, Stockholm
2000
Favorit Lokaler Raum, 1/7, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne (solo)
The Cousins, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (solo)
1999
Wyoming, Kunsthalle St. Gallen (solo)
Gegenwartskunst in Deutschland, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Die Schule von Athen - deutsche Kunst heute, Athens
1998
mai 98, Kunsthalle Köln, Cologne
Löwe im Bonsaiwald, Palais Attems, Graz (solo)
Justus, Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg / with Michael Krebber
1997
Heetz, Nowak, Rehberger, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Sao Paulo with Kai Althoff and Tobias Rehberger
Display, Charlottenborg Ausstellungshalle, Kopenhagen
1996
Heetz, Nowak, Rehberger, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach with Kai Althoff and Tobias Rehberger
1995
The Museum of Modern Art, Syros with Christopher Williams and Stephen Prina. / organized by Martin Kippenberger
Hast Du Heute Zeit? - Ich Aber Nicht, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart / with Kai Althoff
1994
Museum Fridericianum, Kunstverein Kippenberger, Kassel (solo)
1993
American Fine Arts, New York (solo)
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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)