Kim Gordon

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Kim Gordon at the Primavera Sound Festival 2005
Kim Gordon at the Primavera Sound Festival 2005
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Kim Gordon (* 28. April 1953 in Rochester , New York ) is an American musician, including bassist and singer of No Wave - / noise rock - band Sonic Youth , visual artist and curator. She co-founded several rock bands and occasionally worked as a music producer (including Erase Errata ). She also ran a clothing label called X-Girl.

biography

The daughter of a professor of sociology and a seamstress, grew up in Los Angeles , where she attended University High School and later studied art at Otis College for Art and Design. In the early 1980s she worked as an art critic for the American art magazine Artforum and worked in various New York galleries.

Kim Gordon married Thurston Moore , the singer of Sonic Youth, in 1984 , with whom she has a daughter. The family lived in Northampton, Massachusetts . In October 2011, the couple announced their separation. The breakdown of marriage became a reason to write an autobiography, Girl in a Band (2015).

Artistic creation

Kim Gordon performing at Sonic Youth in 2005

The musician and co-founder of the rock bands CKM, Free Kitten and Harry Crews is best known as a bassist , often also a singer and guitarist, for Sonic Youth, but also always worked as a visual artist . Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions in the USA, Europe and Japan. In Germany, her works were exhibited for the first time in May 2012 at the Mathew gallery in Berlin.

The befriended concept artist and art and pop music critic Dan Graham engaged her with her first band CKM for one of his performances . In 1981 the New York White Columns Gallery showed their first solo exhibition Design Office and in 1982 invited them to curate an exhibition in which the then little-known artists Mike Kelley and Tony Oursler were represented. In 2000, she curated an exhibition at the MU Art Foundation in Eindhoven , Netherlands, titled Kim's Bedroom , in which works by Jessica Wood , Jutta Koether , Rita Ackermann , Spike Jonze , Sophia Coppola , Richard Kern and Raymond Pettibon as well as works by herself were represented.

Since 2003 she has worked repeatedly with the Hungarian-American painter Rita Ackermann and the German painter and music and art critic and Spex co-editor Jutta Koether . Along with Spike Jonze, she turned the video clip for Cannonball by The Breeders .

In 2012 YOKOKIMTHURSTON was released , a joint album by Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore and Yoko Ono .

In October 2019 Gordon released her first solo album: No Home Record on Matador .

Trivia

A friendly band with the controversial name Rapeman dedicated the song Kim Gordon's Panties to her . She has a small role as an English teacher in the film Der Nachtmahr, made by AKIZ in 2015 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Kim Gordon  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: UK US
  2. ↑ Karl Fluch: At the end there is a new beginning. Review. In: The Standard. March 10, 2015, accessed March 13, 2015.
  3. ↑ Publishing information Dey Street Books
  4. ↑ a b Kim Gordon - Biography. 303 Gallery, New York (accessed December 24, 2016).
  5. ↑ Monika Baer, ​​Kim Gordon, Nick Mauss . Mathew Gallery, April 27 - May 26, 2012.
  6. ↑ Today it's cool to be a nerd. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. May 20, 2012, p. 27.
  7. ↑ Back to art! ( Memento from December 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Book review of Kim Gordon's autobiography in Art , April 13, 2015.
  8. ↑ Kim's bedroom . MU Artspace, March 17th - April 24th, 2000.
  9. ↑ Tobi Müller: A woman, at home in the unhoused. October 10, 2019, accessed October 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gordon, Kim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American bassist, singer, guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochester , New York , United States