Kim Schoen’s work in video installation, photography, and text engages the rhetoric of display. Her absurdist, experimental approach takes on objects and language that try to persuade or convince us of something, using them as raw materials to say something new.
Schoen has exhibited her work at MMoCA; Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles; Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Roma; BAM; South London Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, MOT International, London; Kunstverein Springhornhof; Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin; and Young Projects and Richard Telles Fine Art, in Los Angeles. Her work is included in private and public collections, and has been written about in Artforum, Mousse, Art in America, The Los Angeles Times, and Hotshoe International. Her own writing (‘Cracking Walnuts: Nonsense and Repetition in Video Art’, ’The Serial Attitude Redux', 'The Expansion of the Instant: Photography, Anxiety, Infinity') can be found in X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly. Kim is also the co-founder, publisher and editor of MATERIAL, a journal of writing by artists.
She lives and works in Berlin.
2020: LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) acquires ‘SPREAD’, an installation of 24 photographs by Kim Schoen
2020: Awarded 10,000 euro grant from Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst in Lower Saxony to produce a new video installation, which will premiere in April 2021.
2021: New Essay forthcoming in X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, Spring 2021:
“Cracking Walnuts: Nonsense and Repetition in Video Art”
LANGUAGE FOR SALE
Edith Russ Haus für Medienkunst
April—June, 2021
OBJECTS OF DESIRE
LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
July 2022
SOMETHING ABOUT PICTURES
Rampe, Berlin
June 2019
YOU SAY I SAY
(solo)
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
April—June, 2019
HAVE YOU NEVER LET ANYONE ELSE BE STRONG?
MACRO ASILO: Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Roma
Rome
November 1, 2018
THE HYSTERIC’S DISCOURSE
(solo)
Young Projects, Los Angeles
January 25—May 18, 2018
LOSS FOR WORDS
BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music
Next Wave Art Festival
November 2017
HAWAII
(solo)
Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles
March 11 – April 22, 2017
DUH! ART & STUPIDITY
Focal Point Gallery, U.K.
November 9, 2015—April 2, 2016
Tariq Alvi, BANK, Michael Bracewell, Archie & Edith Bunker, Werner Büttner & Albert Oehlen, Bonnie Camplin, Cecelia Condit, The Cockettes, Claude Faraldo, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Ryan Gander, Mario Garcia Torres, Isa Genzken, Gaylen Gerber, Judith Hopf, Larry Johnson, Erik van Lieshout, Kalup linzy, Clunie Reid, Kim Schoen, Lily van der Stokker, Annika Ström, Sturtevant, Rosemarie Trockel, Tomi Ungerer, Andy Warhol. Curated by Anna Gritz and Paul Clinton.
HAVE YOU NEVER LET ANYONE ELSE BE STRONG?
(solo)
MMoCA
September 19, 2015—January 10, 2016
IN AN ABSOLUT WORLD TRUE TASTE COMES NATURALLY
April 29- June 5, 2015
Camberwell Space, London
Brian Bress / Marcel Broodthaers / Pavel Büchler / Ami Clarke / Tyler Coburn / Anita diBianco / Tim Etchells / Sonja Gerdes / Vlatka Horvat / Ann Lislegaard / Ken Lum / Masood Kamandy / Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel / Mark Manders / Josh Mannis / Poetic Research Bureau / Kim Schoen / Carol Szymanski / Stephanie Taylor
REMEMBERING FORWARD
Conversations on photography
March 8 & 22, 2015
LA><ART
Los Angeles, California
Rhea Anastas, Becky Beasley, Phil Chang, Zoe Crosher, Shannon Ebner, Victoria Fu, John Houck, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Farrah Karapetian, Ryan Linkof, James Nisbet, Gina Osterloh, Matthew Poole, Olivier Richon, Kim Schoen, Chris Sharp, A.L. Steiner, John Stezaker, Joanna Szupinska-Myers, and John Tain.
Website
OBJECTIVE CONSIDERATIONS OF CONTEMPORARY PHENOMENA
Nicole Bachmann, Kenneth Goldsmith, Patrick Goddard, Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Kim Schoen with contributions from Nina Power, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
Curated by John Bloomfield and Cicely Farrer
MOTInternational, London
November 2014 — January 2015
Website
STUPIDIOUS
Mel Brimfield, Cecelia Condit, Erik van Lieshout, Clunie Reid, Kim Schoen, Ryan Trecartin,
Rosemarie Trockel
South London Gallery, London
February 8, 2014