Christian Schoen


Christian Schoen is a German art historian and curator. He works on classical art and contemporary art phenomena. From 2000 to 2003 he co-curated the municipal gallery Lothringer13 in Munich. In 2005 he was appointed director of the Center for Icelandic Art, which he ran until 2010. As Commissioner he was responsible for the Icelandic Pavilion at the Biennale di Venezia 2007 and 2009. 2006 to 2008 he was member of the advisory board and the acquisition committee of the Reykjavík Art Museum. He co-founded the art festival Sequences in 2006. Since 2001 he is director of Osram Art Projects and assistant professor for transdisciplinary methods at the University St. Gallen.

Publications (selection)

GAEG: Thomas Huber/Wolfgang Aichner: passage2011, Hirmer, München 2012 Rúrí,, Hatje-Cantz, Ostfildern 2011 Osram Seven Screens, Hatje-Cantz, Ostfildern 2011 Icelandic Art Today,, Hatje-Cantz, Ostfildern 2009 Ragnar Kjartansson - The End,, Hatje-Cantz, Ostfildern 2009 LIST icelandic art news, Reykjavik 2008, Osram Art Projects 2007, Munich 2007, Homesick,, Akureyri 2006, Apfelböck oder über das Töten, Belleville, Munich 2005, Albrecht Dürer. Adam und Eva Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2001, lothringer13/halle. Aktuelle Kunst und neue Medien. Dokumentation 2000-2003, Norderstedt 2004,

Essays

Prolog für eine erfahrbare Zukunft/Prolog For a Future That Can be Experienced; in: repair. sind wir noch zu retten, Cat. Ars Electronica Festival, Ostfildern 2010, S. 216fFinnbogi Pétursson. Earth; in: ebda., S. 220fBenjamin Bergmann. Never Ever; in: ebda., S. 222Icelandic identity; in: Vanessa Adler, Egill Saebjörnsson – The Book, Berlin 2009The Dead King; in: Christian Schoen, Ragnar Kjartansson – The End, Ostfildern 2009, p. 63-78Iceland stuck between a rock and hard place; in: The Art Newspaper, #202, May 2009The End; in: Making Worlds - Fare Mondi, Cat. 53rd International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, Verona 2009, p. 68/69Finnbogi Pétursson; in: Christian Schoen, Icelandic Art Today, Ostfildern 2009, p. 90-95Georg Guðni; in: Christian Schoen, Icelandic Art Today, Ostfildern 2009, p. 102-107Rúrí; in: Christian Schoen, Icelandic Art Today, Ostfildern 2009, p. 258-263Sigurður Árni Sigurðsson; in: Christian Schoen, Icelandic Art Today, Ostfildern 2009, p. 276-293Carolee Schneemann: The Icelandic Muse – Interview, LIST #18, 2008 Vito Acconci – Interview, LIST #18, 2008 and LIST 2008, p. 8Ragnar Kjartansson – Interview, LIST 2008, p. 16-17Rúrí – Interview, LIST 2008, p. 20-21Art Is Alchemy Is Art. Notes on Húbert Nóí’s Work, LIST 2008, p. 24Human Nature - Helgi Þorgils Fríðjónsson; in: Helgi Þorgils Fríðjónsson, Nordatlantens Brygge / North Atlantic House, Kopenhagen, Reykjavík 2008, p. 50-51 Telling the Truth: Interview with Helgi Þorgils Friðjónsson; in: Helgi Þorgils Fríðjónsson, Nordatlantens Brygge / North Atlantic House, Kopenhagen, Reykjavík 2008, p. 52 ff 65 00 N, 18 00 W. Observation from Inside and Out, LIST 2007, p. 4-5The Golden Plover Has Arrived – Eyfjörd’s Venice Project, LIST 2007, p. 14-15Steina Vasulka – Interview, LIST #4, #5 und LIST 2007, p. 23Roni Horn, Interview, LIST 2007, p. 26-28Monika Tress – Cadavres Exquis. Remnants of Existence, Nürnberg/Reykjavik 2007Tinsel Town/Mader, Stublic & Wiermann; in: DAMn, 10 – Design, Art & Architecture Magazine 2007
  • Introduction Cat. Icelandic Pavilion at Biennale di Venezia: Steingrimur Eyfjörd: The Golden Plover Has Arrived, Reykjavik 2007Off With Their Heads. Interview with Diana Thater; in: OSRAM ART PROJECTS 2007Mader, Stublic, Wiermann: reprojected; in OSRAM ART PROJECTS 2007, Munich 2007Óðauðleg fegurð, Morgunblaðið, 8. Dezember 2007Ragnar Kjartansson: The Great Unrest; in: A Prior Magazine, 12, 2006, p. 141-163Flora Islandica: Junge Kunst in Island, in: Kunst und Kirche, 1/2006, p. 33-39Die Zeichen der Dinge. Zur Bedeutung der Fotografie im Werk Rodins; in: Auguste Rodin. Der Kuss. Die Paare, Ausst. Kat. Hypo-Kunsthalle München/ Museum Folkwang Essen, Munich 2006, S. 60Tobias Regensburger: Kunst – Leben – Überleben, Documentation of the project CAMP 2004 Tobias Regensburger: Art – Life – Survival; in: NYartsmagazine November/December 2004Adam und Eva, nach Albrecht Dürer, in: Beutekunst unter Napoleon. Die französische Schenkung an Mainz 1803, Ausstellungskatalog Landesmuseum Mainz 2003, p. 299 – 304Adam und Eva, Achille Calzi und Ludovico Ferretti, in: Beutekunst unter Napoleon. Die französische Schenkung an Mainz 1803, Ausstellungskatalog Landesmuseum Mainz 2003, p. 304 – 305Adam und Eva, Johann Wierix, in: Beutekunst unter Napoleon. Die französische Schenkung an Mainz 1803, Ausstellungskatalog Landesmuseum Mainz 2003, p. 305 – 307

Exhibitions

  • Ragnar Kjartansson. The End, 2009, Icelandic Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia
  • The Chrono-Files 2003, Städtische Kunsthalle lothringer13, München