biography of Cosima VON BONIN (1962)

Personal data

Birth : 1962 - Mombasa, Kenya
Sex : F
Nationality/Affiliation : Germany - Kenya

Address

Cologne, Germany

Representatives

Friedrich Petzel Gallery – 535 West 22nd Street – New York NY, United States
Galerie Christian Nagel – Richard-Wagner-Strasse 28 – Cologne, Germany
Galleria Emi Fontana – Viale Bligny 42 – Milan MI, Italy

Professional data

Work and Life

Lives and works in Cologne, Germany.
Has collaborated with Kai ALTHOFF.

Work

Categorie and medium


Sculpture-Volume : Installation - Object
Audiovisual-Multimedia : Video
Performing Art : Performance

Movements and styles

Cologne Group

Works

Little Door slides back
Date of creation : 2000
Medium : Installation
Materials : plastic-wood-synthetic lacquer-paper
Size : 230 x 255 x 550 cm
 
Robbing Peter to pay Paul
Date of creation : 1998
Medium : Sculpture
Materials : felt-wood
Size : 150 cm
 
Lion dans la forêt de bonsaï
Date of creation : 1997
Medium : Installation
 
Löwe im Bonsaiwald
Date of creation : 1997
Medium : Installation
 
Heetz, Nowak, Rehberger
Date of creation : 1996
Medium : Performance
 
Hast du heute Zeit - ich aber nicht
Date of creation : 1995
Medium : Installation
 

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)

Solo exhibitions

2006

Relax, it’s only a ghost
Friedrich Petzel Gallery – New York NY, United States
06/02/2006 – 06/30/2006

2001

Bruder Poul sticht in See
Kunstverein in Hamburg – Hamburg, Germany
2001

2000

Galerie Christian Nagel – Cologne, Germany
05/2000 – 06/2000

Rabbit at Rest
Ursula Blickle Stiftung – Kraichtal, Germany
09/17/2000 – 10/15/2000

The Cousins
Kunstverein Braunschweig – Brunswick, Germany
02/05/2000 – 03/26/2000

1999

Verein Kunsthalle – Saint Gallen SG, Switzerland
09/1999 – 10/1999

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

Art shows / fairs

2006

Frieze Art Fair
Regent’s Park – London, United Kingdom
10/12/2006 – 10/15/2006
Represented by : Galerie Christian Nagel – Richard-Wagner-Strasse 28 – Cologne, Germany

2004

Art 35 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/16/2004 – 06/21/2004
Represented by : Galleria Emi Fontana – Viale Bligny 42 – Milan MI, Italy

2003

Art Basel Miami Beach
Miami Beach Convention Center – Miami Beach FL, United States
12/04/2003 – 12/07/2003
Represented by : Galerie Christian Nagel – Richard-Wagner-Strasse 28 – Cologne, Germany

Art Forum Berlin, n° 8
Messegelände Berlin / Exhibition Grounds Berlin – Berlin, Germany
10/01/2003 – 10/05/2003
Represented by : Galerie Christian Nagel – Richard-Wagner-Strasse 28 – Cologne, Germany

Art 34 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/18/2003 – 06/23/2003
Represented by : Galleria Emi Fontana – Viale Bligny 42 – Milan MI, Italy

Art Frankfurt – Die europäische Messe für junge Kunst, n°15
Frankfurt, Germany
04/27/2003 – 05/01/2003
Represented by : Texte zur Kunst – Berlin, Germany

The Armory Show 2003
Piers 88 & 90 – New York NY, United States
03/07/2003 – 03/10/2003
Represented by : Gabriele Senn Galerie – Vienna, Austria

2002

Art Basel Miami Beach
Miami Beach Convention Center – Miami Beach FL, United States
12/05/2002 – 12/08/2002
Represented by : Galerie Christian Nagel – Richard-Wagner-Strasse 28 – Cologne, Germany

Art Forum Berlin, n° 7
Messegelände Berlin / Exhibition Grounds Berlin – Berlin, Germany
09/26/2002 – 09/30/2002
Represented by : Galerie Christian Nagel – Richard-Wagner-Strasse 28 – Cologne, Germany

Art 33 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/12/2002 – 06/17/2002
Represented by : Galleria Emi Fontana – Viale Bligny 42 – Milan MI, Italy

The Armory Show 2002
Piers 88 & 90 – New York NY, United States
02/22/2002 – 02/25/2002
Represented by : Galerie Christian Nagel – Richard-Wagner-Strasse 28 – Cologne, Germany

2001

ARTissima – Arte Contemporaneo a Torino, n° 8
Palazzo del Lavoro – Turin TO, Italy
11/15/2001 – 11/18/2001
Represented by : Galleria Emi Fontana – Viale Bligny 42 – Milan MI, Italy

Art Forum Berlin, n° 6
Messegelände Berlin / Exhibition Grounds Berlin – Berlin, Germany
10/03/2001 – 10/07/2001
Represented by : Galerie Ascan Crone – Kochstr.60 – Hamburg, Germany

Art 32 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/13/2001 – 06/18/2001
Represented by : Galleria Emi Fontana – Viale Bligny 42 – Milan MI, Italy

The Armory Show 2001
Piers 88 & 90 – New York NY, United States
02/23/2001 – 02/26/2001
Represented by : Galerie Christian Nagel – Richard-Wagner-Strasse 28 – Cologne, Germany

2000

ARTissima – Arte Contemporaneo a Torino, n° 7
Palazzo del Lavoro – Turin TO, Italy
10/05/2000 – 10/08/2000
Represented by : Galleria Emi Fontana – Viale Bligny 42 – Milan MI, Italy

1999

Art Cologne, n° 33
Cologne, Germany
11/07/1999 – 11/14/1999
Represented by : Galerie Ascan Crone – Kochstr.60 – Hamburg, Germany

1998

Art Moscow – III International Art Fair
Moscow, RUSSIAN FEDERATION
03/05/1998 – 03/09/1998
Represented by : Galerie Christian Nagel – Richard-Wagner-Strasse 28 – Cologne, Germany

Festivals

1998

Steirischer Herbst
Sackstrasse 17 – Graz, Austria
09/26/1998 – 10/26/1998

Group exhibitions

2001

Free Port
Magasin 3 – Stockholm, Sweden
09/15/2001 – 12/09/2001

1999

German Open
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg – Wolfsburg, Germany
11/13/1999 – 03/26/2000

1998

Stefan Banz, Cosima von Bonin, Matti Braun
Kunstraum – Kreuzlingen TG, Switzerland
1998

1997

Heetz, Nowak, Rehberger
Museu de Arte Contemporanea da USP – São Paulo, Brazil
1997

La Côte d’Azur et la Modernité
Villa Arson – Nice, France
06/27/1997 – 10/05/1997

1996

Heetz, Nowak, Rehberger
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg – Mönchengladbach, Germany
1996

NowHere : Work in Progress
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art – Humlebæk, Denmark
05/15/1996 – 09/08/1996

1995

Hast du heute Zeit – ich aber nicht
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart – Stuttgart, Germany
1995

It’s not a picture
Galleria Marabini – Bologna BO, Italy
05/09/1995 – 06/15/1995

1991

Eine Ausstellung mit Fareed Armaly, Cosima von Bonin, Michael Krebber und Christian Philipp Müller
K-Raum Daxer – Munich, Germany
1991

Bibliography (Selected)

On the artist

Books

2002

Art Now
Publisher: Taschen – Hohenzollernring 53 – Cologne, Germany
Author: Grosenick Uta – Cologne, Germany
Author: Riemschneider Burkhard
2002
ISBN : 382281444X

2001

Women Artists in the 20th and 21st century
Publisher: Taschen – Hohenzollernring 53 – Cologne, Germany
Author: Grosenick Uta – Cologne, Germany
2001
ISBN : 3822858544

Exhibition catalogues

2000

German Open, Gegenwartskunst in Deutschland
Publisher: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg – Porschestrasse 53 – Wolfsburg, Germany
2000
ISBN : 3775709045

Cosima von Bonin. The Cousins.
Publisher: Kunstverein Braunschweig – Haus Salve Hospes Lessingplatz 12 – Brunswick, Germany
2000

1996

Heetz, Nowak, Rehberger
Publisher: Museum Abteiberg – Abteistrasse 27 – Mönchengladbach, Germany
1996

Periodicals

2002

MENIN Samuele & POLITI Gea – Focus Germany
in: Flash Art n° 224 p. 114 vol. 34
Milan MI, Italy
05/2002-06/2002

Legals