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Cosima von Bonin

GEORGE

2007

Wool, cotton, loden, velvet

109.45 x 120.08 inches

278 x 305 cm

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Cosima von Bonin

MAY AND JUNE 1 + SMOKE (CVB & MICHEL WÜRTHLE)

steel, plateglass, lacquer, light bulb, spruce, perspex, lacquer, neon tube, light emitting diode

161.42 x 55.12 x 35.43 inches

410 x 140 x 90 cm

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Cosima von Bonin

AXE 152

2022

Epoxy resin and lacquer

59 3/4 x 17 3/4 x 4 inches

151.8 x 45.1 x 10.2 cm

Edition 1/12, 2AP

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Cosima von Bonin

WHAT IF THEY BARK 04

2022

Glass reinforced plastic (GRP), guitar, fabric, chains, steel stand

98.43 x 39.37 x 39.37 inches

250 x 100 x 100 cm

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Cosima von Bonin

AU PAIRS

2018

Cotton and wool covering cardboard, wooden table

55 x 72 x 84 inches

139.7 x 182.9 x 213.4 cm

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Cosima von Bonin

KILLER WHALE WITH LONG EYELASHES I (RHINO* VERSION)

*Rhino by Renate Mueller, Germany, 1960s

2018

fabric, leather, canvas, wooden chair

42 x 105 x 39 inches

106.7 x 266.7 x 99.1 cm

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WHAT IF IT BARKS 4 (BLACK UKULELE VERSION)

2018

Glass reinforced plastic (GRP), wool fabric, scarfs, trolley, steel base, ukulele and chains

81 x 36 x 45 inches

205.7 x 91.4 x 114.3 cm

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Cosima von Bonin - - Viewing Room - Petzel Gallery

Installation view from Character Appropriation, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, 2011

“It is impossible not to be entranced with Cosima von Bonin’s playful works. Her huge, floppy stuffed animals, outsized rockets, and large-scale textile ‘paintings’ exude a certain seductiveness and absurdity though one shot through with sardonic wit."

Meredith Malone, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

Cosima von Bonin (b. 1962, Mombasa, Kenya) lives and works in Cologne. In 2010, the Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria presented The Fatigue Empire, a comprehensive one-person exhibition of the artist’s recent works. It was shortly followed by von Bonin’s Lazy Susan Series, A Rotating Exhibition, with venues at the Witte de With Rotterdam (Oct. 2010-Jan. 2011); Arnolfini Bristol (Feb.-April 2011); MAMCO, Geneva (June-Sept. 2011); and Museum Ludwig, Cologne (July-Oct. 2011).

Von Bonin’s first major U.S. survey, Roger and Out, opened in 2007 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Other institutional one-person exhibitions have taken place at MUMOK, Vienna, Austria (2014); Artipelag, Gustavsberg, Sweden (2013); Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis (2011); Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2011); Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva (2011); Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2004); Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany (2001); Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (2000); and Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland (1999). In addition, von Bonin has participated in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; Les Abbatoirs in Toulouse, France; and Documenta XII in Kassel, Germany, among many others.

Her work is included in many notable collections worldwide, including the Tate Britain in London; the Museum für Neue Kunst im ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany; and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.