SCHIRN NEWSROOM: 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.

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

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.

CURATOR

Katharina Dohm, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

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

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)

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Wall panels of the exhibition "COSIMA VON BONIN"

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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

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