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