Curated by Karola Kraus

From its inception in the early 1990s, Cosima von Bonin’s practice has relied on the input and influx of others, a fact evidenced in both the mnemonic matrix of art-historical references manifest in her stuffed-animal sculptures, textile paintings, and labyrinthine installations, and in the number of her projects to which various of her network of peers and colleagues has contributed. Thus, this comprehensive survey will hardly read as a one-woman show, but rather as a display of delegated authorship and enforced collaboration. Alongside reconstructions of her own exhibitions, the artist will incorporate works from MUMOK’s collection by the likes of André Cadere, Isa Genzken, Mike Kelley, and Cady Noland; stage concerts (involving longtime confidant Dirk von Lowtzow); and present a selection of cherished movies (e.g., by Tati and Romero)—all of which are prone to be implicated in von Bonin’s allegorical explorations of the lingering promises of participation and post-Fordist ennui.

— André Rottmann