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Cosima von Bonin    (German, 1962)

 Cosima von Bonin - LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO STUFF A MUSHROOM (dressed version) (Installations)
Cosima von Bonin
LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO STUFF A MUSHROOM (dressed version) 2002-2004
 
 Cosima von Bonin - Photo: Thomas Borgmann
Cosima von Bonin
Photo: Thomas Borgmann
 
 Cosima von Bonin - The Pierres at the Petzelette (Installations)
Cosima von Bonin
The Pierres at the Petzelette 2008
 
 Cosima von Bonin - Therapy (#67) (Sculptures) h: 66.1 x w: 34.6 x d: 34.6 in / h: 167.9 x w: 87.9 x d: 87.9 cm
Cosima von Bonin
Therapy (#67) 2002
 
 Cosima von Bonin - Untitled
Cosima von Bonin
Untitled
 
 Cosima von Bonin - WHEN ARDOUR IS REPLACED BY ENNUI (Paintings)
Cosima von Bonin
WHEN ARDOUR IS REPLACED BY ENNUI 2006
 

Biography
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
2007 documenta 12, Kassel, Germany
2007 Cosima von Bonin, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)
2006 Relax, It’s Only a Ghost, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2006 Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
2006 Optik Schröder. Werke aus der Sammlung Schröder, Kunstvereine Braunschweig, Braunschweig
2005 The Blake Byrne Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2005 Herbert Fuchs (1987-2005), Kunsthalle Wien, Project Wall, Vienna
2005 HaubrokShows. B Sharp, Xantener Straße 7, Berlin
2005 It takes some tie to open an oyster, Centre Cultural Andratx, Mallorca
2005 und Moderne im Dialog. 1500-2000, Ausstellung der Sammlung K-raum Daxter / Lorenz in der Fränkischen Galerie Kronach, Festung Rosenberg, Kronach
2004 Sammlung Taubengasse, Kunsthaus Hamburg
2004 Huts, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2004 2 Positionen auf einmal, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
2004 Film and video works by Cosima von Bonin, The Mountain Bar, Los Angeles
2004 Cosima von Bonin, Galeria Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid
2003 Cosima von Bonin, Galerie Ascan Crone / Andreas Osarek, Hamburg
2003 Fat, Female, Forty, Fade, Galerie Neu, Berlin
2003 Kalt Modern Teuer, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2002 Fondorientierte Ausstattung, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Künstlerhaus Graz
2002 Too Quick for Binoculars, Galerie Gabriele Senn, Vienna

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