Sonic Youth Gossip - Kim in Make Your Own Life Exhibit

Kim along with Reena AKA Jutta Koether/ Bernadette Corp. will be apart of the art exhibit Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Colonge at the power plant gallery in toronto from sept 22- december 3. if your lucky enough to live in or be in toronto you should go.

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Make Your Own Life: Artists In & Out of Cologne
Artists included in this exhibition are: Bernadette Corporation, Cosima von Bonin, Merlin Carpenter, Stephan Dillemuth, Michaela Eichwald, Roe Ethridge, Andrea Fraser, Kim Gordon, Charline von Heyl, Gareth James, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Jutta Koether, Michael Krebber, Louise Lawler, Hans-Jörg Mayer, Lucy McKenzie, Nils Norman, Albert Oehlen, Christian Philipp Müller, Stephen Prina, Josephine Pryde, Blake Rayne, Reena Spaulings, Josef Strau, Rosemarie Trockel, Filmgruppe West, Christopher Williams, and Christopher Wool, among others.
This groundbreaking exhibition looks at the mythic and art historical significance of Cologne, Germany, bringing together three generations of highly influential European and American artists.
In the1980s and early 90s, Cologne was one of the most important centers for contemporary art in Europe, if not the world. With its many galleries, artist-run spaces, and artist bars, the city assumed an almost mythological dimension as a place where artists showed, sold, socialized, and distinguished themselves and their work on levels symbolic and real. Highlighting the work of over twenty five artists from Cologne, Los Angeles, New York, London, and Berlin, Make Your Own Life explores one of the defining legacies of this time: the privileging of the artist's life and context as a basis for understanding artistic practice. How to make art in relation to a set of communities, histories, market conditions and social attitudes was at the core of the Cologne scene. Fiercely debated, dramatized in exaggerated behavior, art works and exhibitions, the performance of an artistic persona contributed to Cologne’s aura as a city of extreme self-consciousness and audacity.
Make Your Own Life was curated by Bennett Simpson for The Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania.