Corner of Bonk
Corner Bonk (* 1953 in Cairo ) lives and works in Austria and New Zealand and is a concept artist ( concept art ). Bonk studied history of science and philosophy in Vienna , Munich and Heidelberg , painting with Raimer Jochims , typography with Herbert Bayer in Aspen , Colorado (USA). Corner Bonk deals with sign systems as an interdisciplinary expression of art , science , typography and philosophy in order to reflect the conditions and connections of cultural achievements.
Projects
- 2001 Founding of typosophes sans frontières
- In 1994 he founded the typosophic society in Primersdorf / Lower Austria , which deals with the fundamentals of the formation of symbols and the aesthetics of information
- 1988 Cooperation with NASA in Houston as a consultant for questions relating to the labeling of the Command Module of the Space Shuttle mission
Research and Teaching
- 2004/2005 University of Fine Arts, Hamburg
- 2004 Zeppelin University , Friedrichshafen
- 2003 Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg
- 1999/2000 Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht
- 1995 Research Fellow, Edinburgh School of Art
- 1985 Research project at the Lhasa Military Academy in Tibet ( stereoscopy and drawing)
Exhibitions
- 2013 Only here - Collection of Contemporary Art of the Federal Republic of Germany. Acquisitions from 2007 to 2011 , Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn
- 2012 Car Culture. The car as a sculpture , Lentos Art Museum Linz, Linz
- 2011 Corner Bonk , Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg
- 2011 Car Culture. Media of Mobility , Center for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe
- 2011 Convergence: Literary Art Exhibitions , Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Ireland
- 2011 vision. Seeing , Neues Museum Weimar, Weimar
- 2009 Corner Bonk , Schirmer / Mosel Showroom, Munich
- 2008 Familiar Terrain , Center for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe
- 2008 Gloss and Verderben , Kunsthaus Muerz, Mürzzuschlag
- 2008 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, Guangdong
- 2007 Un Fair / trade - The Art of Justice , Neue Galerie Graz - Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz
- 2007 Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator , Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, IN
- 2006 3rd Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Niigata, Japan
- 2005 Making Things Public , Center for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe
- 2005 Light art as artificial light , Center for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe
- 2005 corner Bonk / Owen Griffith. typosophes sans frontières. Monte Carlo Method , Neue Galerie, Graz
- 2005 Pattern Language. Clothing as Communicator , Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Mass.
- 2004 Ein-Leuchten , Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
- 2004 The algorithmic revolution , Center for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe
- 2003 Utopia Station , 51st Biennale di Venezia , Venice
- 2002 book of words | random reading , Documenta11 , Kassel
- 2002 Iconoclash , Center for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe
- 2002 Retinal.Optical.Visual.Conceptual. (with Sarat Maharaj and Richard Hamilton ), Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam
- 2001 This side and beyond of the dream. 100 years of Jacques Lacan , Galerie Charim / Sigmund Freud-Museum, Vienna
- 1999 Open fields of action , 49th Biennale di Venezia, Venice
- 1997 typosophic pavilion (with Richard Hamilton ), documenta X , Kassel
Fonts
- Corner of Bonk and Owen Griffith: Monte Carlo Method. A Typosophic Manual , exhibition cat. Neue Galerie Graz, Munich: Schirmer / Mosel, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8296-0337-9
- "New Germany Fund", in: Exh. Cat. Making Things Public , ZKM Karlsruhe, Boston: MIT Press, 2005, ISBN 0-262-12279-0
- 05-03-44 Greetings from Odessa - for / for / à Peter Weibel , editor (with Margit Rosen and Peter Gente), Berlin: Merve, 2004, ISBN 3-88396-194-9
- Marcel Duchamp. Notes et / and notations , editor (in collaboration with Jackie Matisse), Karlsruhe: typosophes sans frontières, Cologne: Walther König, 2002, ISBN 978-3-88375-542-7
- Marcel Duchamp. À l 'infinitif / In the infinitive , editor (with Richard Hamilton), Cologne: Walther König, 1999, ISBN 3-88375-457-9
- Open fields of action , exhibition cat. Austrian Pavilion, 48th Venice Biennale, Cologne: DuMont, 1999, ISBN 978-3-7701-5049-6
- Hermann Helmholtz. Epistemology writings. Small library for the 21st century , Vol. 2, editor, Vienna: Springer, 1998, ISBN 3-211-82770-6
- Maschinenzeichen , Vienna: Passagen Verlag, 1996. 2nd revised edition, ISBN 978-3-85165-188-1
- "In <> Formation. The speech of Weimar", in: Exh. Cat. Information myth: Welcome to the Wired World , Ars Electronica Linz, Vienna: Springer, 1995, ISBN 978-3-2118-2709-3
- Gustav Theodor Fechner. Atomic theory. Small library for the 21st century , vol. 1, editor, Vienna: Springer, 1995, ISBN 3-2118-2708-0
- Marcel Duchamp. The big box: de ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy. Inventory of an edition , Munich: Schirmer / Mosel, 1989, ISBN 978-3-8881-4235-2
- (with Floris Neusüss), Six Pictures and Thirty-Six Words , Wahlershausen: Ed. Margotow, 1988 ISBN 978-3-92817-200-4
- [x] Work: Frankfurt. Berlin 1 A Primazeichen May / June 1979 , Berlin: H. Hoffmann, 1979
literature
- Hans Belting, "Monte Carlo Method. Towards an Archeology of Chance", in: Corner Bonk and Owen Griffith: Monte Carlo Method. A Typosophic Manual , exhibition cat. Neue Galerie Graz, Munich: Schirmer / Mosel, 2007, pp. 19–27
- Paolo Bianchi, Walter Eckermann, "The Monte Carlo Method", in: Kunstforum , Vol. 179, 2006
- Vitus H. Weh, "Ecke Bonk: There are only micro-evaluations on the individual level", in: Kunstforum , Vol. 160, 2002
- Holger Fuß, "The Typosophist", in: brand eins , No. 10, 2000
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.bundeskunsthalle.de/ausstellungen/archivierte-ausstellungen/nur-hier-sammlung-zeitgenoessischer-kunst-der-bundes Republik-deutschland-ankaeufe-von-2007-bis- 2011.html
- ↑ http://www.lentos.at/html/de/81.aspx
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://goldenthreadgallery.co.uk/event/convergence-literary-art-exhibitions/
- ↑ http://www.klassik-stiftung.de/ausstellungen-und-veranstaltungen/?tx_lombkswterm1_pi1%5Bevent%5D=1532&tx_lombkswterm1_pi1%5BselectedDayString%5D=2011-08-01&tx_lombkswterm1_pi1%5BbackArray%5D%5Baction%5D=eventList&tx_lombkswterm1_pi1%5BbackArray% 5D% 5BcategoryId% 5D = 1 & tx_lombkswterm1_pi1% 5BbackArray% 5D% 5BmonthStart% 5D = 2011-08-01 & tx_lombkswterm1_pi1% 5Bdate% 5D = 7961 & tx_lombkswterm1_pi1% 5Baction% 5D = Eventdetail & tx_lombkswterm1_pi1% 5Bcontroller% 5D = FeDate & cHash = f1e65acca1642444be145d4aa21e2b9f
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.zkm.de/event/2008/05/vertrautes-terrain
- ↑ http://www.kunsthausmuerz.at/detail.php?id=313
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ ZKM
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Tufts University Art Gallery
- ↑ Ein-Leuchten , Museum der Moderne Salzburg ZKM ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 51st Venice Biennale ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ documenta 11 ( Memento of the original of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Iconoclash ( Memento from December 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ This side and beyond of the dream. 100 Years of Jacques Lacan , Charim Gallery / Sigmund Freud Museum ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Corner Bonk, Protect from All Elements , 2002
- Literature from and about Ecke Bonk in the catalog of the German National Library
- Corner Bonk on kunstaspekte.de
- Corner Bonk shows German words . In: FAZ of June 27, 2002
- Corner Bonk, About Typosophy . Lecture at the Institute for Music and Media, Düsseldorf, on May 18, 2006
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bonk, corner |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German concept artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1953 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cairo |