21.03.2024 | Here you can find the exhibition texts on the exhibition "COSIMA VON BONIN".
COSIMA VON BONIN. FEELINGS
MARCH 21 – JUNE 9, 2024
Cosima von Bonin (b. 1962) creates transformations of the everyday. For her expansive exhibitions she draws on numerous references from popular culture as well as from film, fashion, music, and art. Evoking exhausted cuddly toys, soft fences, rockets, or cartoon figures like Daffy Duck and Bambi—Bonin combines a variety of protagonists to form an ensemble, a community of social connections. Her artistic strategies comprise alienation, appropriation, cooperation, and delegation.
The Schirn is presenting a unique scenario in which Cosima von Bonin contrasts recent works previously unseen in Germany with familiar pieces
On view are sculptures, installations, performances, and a selection of her characteristic Lappen, which are textile canvases stitched from exquisite fabrics in accordance with the artist’s instructions. Vacillating between humor and darkness, playfulness and urgency, fantasy and frightening reality, Bonin’s constant concerns remain contradiction, relationships, and self-reflection.
The exhibition “Cosima von Bonin: feelings” is supported by the Friends of the Schirn Kunsthalle e. V.
KATALOG
COSIMA VON BONIN: FEELINGS, edited by Katharina Dohm, with contributions by Diedrich Diederichsen, Katharina Dohm, and Clara Drechsler, as well as a foreword by the director of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Sebastian Baden. German-English edition, 224 pages, approx. 130 illustrations, 22 × 28 cm, softcover with flaps, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, ISBN 978-3-7533-0600-1, €35 (Schirn), €38 (bookstore)
Press information of the exhibition "COSIMA VON BONIN"
21.03.2024 | From March 21 to June 9, 2024, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting a unique scenario in which the artist contrasts recent works previously unseen in Germany with familiar piece
Cosima von Bonin. feelings, exhibition view, © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, photo: Norbert Miguletz
Cosima von Bonin. feelings, exhibition view, © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, photo: Norbert Miguletz
Cosima von Bonin. feelings, exhibition view, © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, photo: Norbert Miguletz
Cosima von Bonin. feelings, exhibition view, © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, photo: Norbert Miguletz
Cosima von Bonin. feelings, exhibition view, © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, photo: Norbert Miguletz
Cosima von Bonin. feelings, exhibition view, © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, photo: Norbert Miguletz
Cosima von Bonin. feelings, exhibition view, © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, photo: Norbert Miguletz
Cosima von Bonin. feelings, exhibition view, © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, photo: Norbert Miguletz
Cosima von Bonin. feelings, exhibition view, © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, photo: Norbert Miguletz
Cosima von Bonin. feelings, exhibition view, © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, photo: Norbert Miguletz
Cosima von Bonin, Emporkömmling, 2023, Silk, cotton, silk velvet, fleece, 198 x 126 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Petzel, New York, © Courtesy of the artist and Petzel, New York, Photo: Dan Bradica
Cosima von Bonin, Blame Shifting, 2020, Steel, plastic, wood, cardboard, cotton, Bugs Bunny soft toys, 86 x 86 x 70 cm, Private collection, Photo © Dan Bradica / Courtesy of the artist and Petzel, New York
Cosima von Bonin, Open Your Shirt Please 9, 2019, Velvet and cotton, 155 x 185 cm, Collection Julien Wolf, Paris, © Courtesy of the artist and Gaga Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Los Angeles, Photo: Omar Olguin
Cosima von Bonin, Open Your Shirt Please 5, 2019, Metal and crochet, 148 x 141 x 86 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Gaga, Mexico City, Guadalajara and Los Angeles, © Courtesy of the artist and Gaga Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Los Angeles, Photo: Omar Olguin
Cosima von Bonin, What If It Barks 5 (Petite Version With Blue Ukulele), 2018, Kunststoff, Stoff, Holzsockel, Kette, Gummi, Schal, Ukulele, 107 x 61 x 46 cm, Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art, Stockholm, Sweden, Foto © Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art, Stockholm
"Cosima von Bonin, Petit Saint Bernard Avec Box (Linen Eyepatch Version), 2016, Dog: linen, cotton-fleece, cotton, silk, ca. 76,2 x 32 x 59 cm, Box: wood, lacquerx, 16 x 52 x 82 cm, Edition 13 + IV, each unique, Private collection, Frankfurt am Main, Photo © Lena Deinhardstein / mumok"
Cosima von Bonin, 2016, 2007/2016, 143 books, 13 DVDs, 1 VHS cassette, stuffed animals, 150 x 180 x 60 cm, Private collection, Photo © Simon Vogel