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SCHOEN/STADT Curated by Yann Perreau / Here is Elsewhere & Joshua Oduga / Central Server Works at EC3 Studio, Venice, CA. November 3 - December 14, 2024.
Opening November 3, 2-6 pm. Artist Talk 3pm.
When Kim² woke up that morning, they didn’t know where they were and who they were. Was it a dream, or was it real? They just remember having a beautiful shoe before all this and losing it somewhere, in a black forest. First, they noticed a building on the other side of the road—a mind-blowing, tactile, experiential, hybrid living and exhibition space. It was so intriguing that they had to get inside.
Once inside, as they struggled to remember their name, they noticed something familiar in a frame: their faces, two distinctive faces as if a state surveillance machine had cut them in two and put them back together. But they knew they were one, and not two individuals. Continuing their journey, in the next room, posters were hung like portals into other universes. Lemons cut in two with orange, yellow and red paint. Dozens of geese escaping a farm and running against the glass. And the strangest of all, a huge snail on a cruise boat. Still, as written on a t-shirt, it was “all true.”
Dizzy, they walked further into the building and this time, they wondered if they were drunk. A lamppost was there, inside the building! Weren’t lampposts supposed to be outside, lighting up streets? Worse, this lamppost was twisted and curved as if it couldn’t stand still. Were they drunk or.... Was the lamppost drunk? Only then did they notice a tether and a ball attached to it. That lamppost was also a game of tetherball. Their right hand immediately hit the ball hard clockwise and felt a bit ridiculous. It didn’t go that far. The left one hit counterclockwise. They thought the ball would wind all the way around the pole, but it stayed there, up in the air, as frozen in time & space.
They ran into a list of names, and doorbells, probably related to apartments or rooms somewhere. • VASILIOS ALLAHO • FILIA KLEVEN • MUNDY GEORGENE • LOUIS LAMOTHE C • ZEPHYRINE ADEY® • CONCETTA BAAKE • OISTIN FETTERLY • OBAFEMI LYNNA. Eventually, they rang one of them, Louis Lamothe, and it started an absurd conversation with a metallic voice, questioning who they were, finally refusing to let them in.
Exhausted, they turned their faces and saw two framed photographs of the same book. It read “Hawaii” on the spine, in nice yellow lettering on a flashy pale blue jacket. Though it wasn’t the same book. On one photo, the title was up, and on the other, it was down. The laws of gravity didn’t seem to apply in this building. But they felt strangely euphoric in that state. They understood that these photographs of books were meant for looking, as one looks at an image. The double “ii” in “Hawaii” was proof of their existence. Yes, they were double, and not exactly twins. Two and one at the same time. It didn’t matter either where they came from. It was as if they had been multiplied, freed from the illusion of the self, the pretentiousness of the “Artist”, that bourgeois Western notion of an individual self-creator. They were not individuals anymore, but dividuals. Free, at last.
Other books were there, not photos of books but real ones, displayed on a wood bookshelf, with titles they loved: Carmela Ciuraru’s Nom de plume, a (secret) history of pseudonyms, Greil Marcus’ Lipstick Traces, Correspondence by the Brontë sisters, Incognito by Yann Perreau, The legendary 1975 Schizo-Culture conference, conceived by the early Semiotext(e) collective, The Coming Community by Giorgio Agamben.
Finally, they woke up from this and wondered: did we make all this up?
For artwork and press inquiries email Joshua Oduga: info@centralserverworks.com Yann Perreau: yannperreau@gmail.com
Here Is Elsewhere and Central Server Works are delighted to introduce the first solo exhibition in Los Angeles of Rexigenian-Landauer-American artist Kim2 Schoen/Stadt. Born in Rexingen or possibly in Landau, or maybe Chicago or Princeton, Schoen/Stadt’s multidisciplinary work spans painting, sculpture, video installation, photography, large-scale wall drawings, and experimental text. Their conceptual practice melds the rhetoric of display, architecture, and historical research with a feminist and absurdist lens. Schoen/Stadt’s work is marked by an engagement with the blank repetitions of consumer culture, which collides with research and architectural influences. This exploration reflects their use of objects and speech as raw materials, manipulating them to craft new narratives that challenge conventional notions of space, identity, and representation.
Schoen/Stadt's work has been exhibited internationally, with notable solo shows at Elsewhere Museum (France), Doppelgänger Art Institute (Dortmund), Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst (Oldenburg) and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, (Hartford, CT), among others. Their work has also been featured in thematic exhibitions such as "Incognito" at the ICALA. Their works are held in prominent collections such as LACMA (Los Angeles), MoMA NY, and private collections in Los Angeles, New York, London, and Köln. Recipient of numerous awards including the Edwin Chan Prize, The Thames & Hudson Artbook Prize, the Volta/Baha Mar Art Prize and The Hammett-Warshof. Schoen/Stadt’s projects continually push the boundaries of how we perceive language, identities, and the narratives embedded within our cultural and social structures. Public art installations have been commissioned for major locations such as the Maraya Art Centre in Sharjah, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) and the Not-funded-by-Elon-Musk Space Center (Boston).
CSW Venice, an exhibition space in a Live-Work building is a collaboration between Central Server Works and architect Edwin Chan - Founder and Creative Director of EC3, a local architecture and design office whose international work draws from his extensive experience in museum architecture and exhibition design, as well unique cultural and urban projects. The roughly 500 square-foot ground floor space will offer an accessible, indoor-outdoor environment that invites artists to explore new and immersive ways to present their work in a flexible, non-white box setting.
MAKE UP Covid Pie Siorée Opening Saturday, August 17, 4-6 pm
Not in town? We will also have a closing reception on September 14!
Kim Schoenstadt & David McDonald
Further Empirical Data on the Physical Properties of Colors in the Known World
August 3 - September 14, 2024
New paintings and sculptures by two Los Angeles artists where color feels like a raw physical ore. Where colors and forms define each other equally, there is no clear indication of which came first.
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7424 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
IMAGE Kim Schoenstadt, Boundaries Series: West Elevation (E-1027) , 2024, Acrylic and hand embroidery on Belgian linen 40 x 40 x 1¾ inches
Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA.
June 6 2024 – April 20, 2025
Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
The work, Enter Slowly, will be in the group show at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. Unfortunately, I won’t be at the opening but I will go to see the show this summer. Reach out if you are in the Bay Area and want to connect while I’m in town!
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IMAGE Kim Schoenstadt, No Laughing Series: Entrez Lentement (Enter Slowly), 2022, Acrylic and hand embroidery on Belgian linen, Diptych, 19.5 x 32 x 1.75 inches each.
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elsewhere, curated by Yann Perreau, Show Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. October 25 - extend until December 15th with private appointments through January Link to make an appointment
Show Gallery 1515 N. Gardner Street., Los Angeles, CA. 90046 BOOK APPOINTMENT
Artists: Vanessa Atlan, Amanda Beech, André Breton, Barbara Carrasco, John Divola, Yacony Abreu Dutour, Percival Everett, Francesca Gabbiani, Harry Gamboa Jr., Eric Ernest Johnson, Seffa Klein, Alexander Kroll, Will Lemon III, David Quadrini, Eddie Ruscha, Kim Schoenstadt, Robert Schwan, Gregory Weingarten.
Yann's writing about the show:
In 2011, I created Here Is Elsewhere at the Pacific Design Center, a project space dedicated to bringing artists from “Here” (Southern California) with artists from “Elsewhere” (the rest of the world). There, I exhibited more than fifty artists from around the world. After ten years of traveling the globe, I am back in Los Angeles with an exhibition centered around “Elsewhere.” A place may be a physical setting or a mental and emotional space within us, which can bring us to unexpected destinations. This exhibition features artists from here (L.A) that I have exhibited elsewhere (mainly in Europe) or been inspired by. I have asked each of the selected artists to reflect on the notion of “Elsewhere”, guided by two sentences from two of my favorite writers: “Life is elsewhere” (La vie est ailleurs) as French-Czech novelist Milan Kundera put it in his eponymous novel of 1973. And “It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere" stated Surrealist artist Andre Breton.
October 7, 2023 - December 30, 2023
HERE: Metro K Line Art Exhibition, Museum of African American Art located at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza.
3650 W Martin Luther King Jr Bl, Level 2, Suite 283
Los Angeles, CA 90008
Museum Hours: Wed – Sun, 11AM – 5PM
Artists: Alexis Hunley, Giovanni Solis, Jason Williams, Mobolaji Olambiwonnu, Motherland Music, Russell Hamilton, Carlson Hatton, Dean Erdmann, Eileen Cowin, E rwin Redl, Geoff McFetridge, Ingrid Calame, Jaime Scholnick, Kenturah Davis, Kim Schoenstadt, Mara Lonner, Michael C. Hsiung, Mickalene Thomas, Moses X. Ball, Rebeca Méndez, Sam Pace, Sherin Guirguis, Shinique Smith, Wakana Kimura
Here honors what has been, what is present and what is possible. Along with the exhibition, a companion publication has been developed to celebrate arts and culture along the K Line through Metro Art commissions and collaborations shaped by over 150 arts and cultural organizations, artists and creatives responding to distinct neighborhoods with bold imagination. The publication is available for free at the museum, while supplies last.
October 28 - December 17, 2022
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LACMA/Hammer Acquisition!
Thanks to a generous donation by Jonathan Schurgin facilitated by LACMA curator Leslie Jones and organized by Annie Wharton and Alex Couri, we are very excited to share that the first three (of nine) prints from the Sightline Series: Inglewood/ Malibu/ Los Angeles, are a promised gift for the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, a collection of prints shared between the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
About the Lapis Press prints:
For this project, Schoenstadt uses a series of nine original 19th-century lithographs of various views of Los Angeles County, adding architectural mash-ups of buildings from Inglewood and unrealized LA architecture. The fantastic futuristic elements from John Lautner’s 1961 proposed Akers Residence and Thom Mayne’s 2009 Children's Museum proposal (among others) are built up through layers of glass emerging from the views of the past into the future in each unique work. By building upon existing antique prints and exploding the different layers of the print, Schoenstadt is playing with the very essence of what the printmaking process is about today as well as where it came from.
Curious about the Original Book from which the prints were removed?
History of Los Angeles County, California, with illustrations descriptive of its scenery, residences, fine blocks and manufactories by Wilson, John Albert, 1899- ; Thompson & West
Let's Have a Talk: Conversations with Women on Art and Culture, Lauren O'Neill-Butler, Published by Karma, NY
This massive volume comprises nearly 90 interviews published across a 13-year span of Lauren O’Neill-Butler’s career as a writer, educator, editor, and co-founder of November magazine. The majority of the interviews first appeared on Artforum’s interviews column, which O’Neill-Butler edited for 11 years.
Interviewees include:
Adrian Piper, Agnes Varda, Aki Sasamoto, Alex Bag, Amy O’Neill, Andrea Fraser, Anohni, Aura Rosenberg, Beryl Korot, Beverly Semmes, Carol Bove
Carolee Schneemann, Catherine Christer Hennix, Claudia Rankine, Constance De Jong, Dianna Molzan. Donna J. Haraway, Dorothea Rockburne, Ebony G. Patterson, Elaine Reichek, Eleanor Antin, Ellie Ga, fierce pussy, Frances Stark, Georgia Sagri, Hong-Kai Wang, Howardena Pindell, Iman Issa, Jeanine Oleson, Jennifer West, Jessamyn Fiore, Jesse Jones, Jo Baer, Joan Jonas, Joan Semmel, Judy Chicago, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Karla Black, Kathryn Andrews, Katy Siegel, Lisa Tan, Lisi Raskin, Liz Deschenes, Lorraine O’Grady
Lorrie Moore, Lucy Dodd, Lucy McKenzie, Lucy R. Lippard, Lucy Skaer, Lynda Benglis, Lynne Tillman, Marlene McCarty, Mary Beth Edleson, Mary Ellen Carroll, Mary Heilmann, Mary Kelly, Mary Mattingly, Mimi Thi Nyugen, Mira Schor, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Nan Goldin, Nancy Goldring
Nell Painter, Pauline Oliveros, Polly Apfelbaum, Rachel Foullon, Rachel Mason
Rebecca Solnit, Rebecca Warren, Renee Green, Rhonda Lieberman
Rita McBride and Kim Schoenstadt, Ruby Sky Stiler, Sakiko Sugawa
Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Sarah Crowner, Shannon Ebner, Sophie Calle
Sturtevant, Sue Coe, Suzanne Lacy, Tauba Auerbach, Virginia Dwan, W.A.G.E.
Yoko Ono
I joined ArtCenter's President Lorne Buchman on the Change Lab Podcast! Lorne and I discuss the critically acclaimed Enter Slowly project.
2021 Glendale Community College Public Art Invitational!
Very excited to share that I was awarded the GCC public Art Invitational. It will be on view until 2026 so you have time to go check it out!
The college address is 1500 North Verdugo Road, Glendale, CA 91208. Public parking is available in Glendale City Lot 32 directly west of the front of the college campus. There is a bridge from the parking lot that crosses Verdugo Road and provides access to the campus. After crossing the bridge, people should continue walking east and take the walkway between the Cimarusti Science building on the north (left) and the Administration building on the south (right). As you know, the mural is on the south side of the Administration Building on the elevator tower. While on campus they can view two other murals – one on the west side of the Library entrance and one on the south side of the Administration Building.
New Sculpture Edition with Beyer Editions
This is the working model for Tetherball for Kippenberger, 2020
Steel, glass, nylon, and synthetic rubber, 98 x 48 x 15 inches. It will be an outdoor sculpture with a working light and functional tetherball. There will be 5 made. Please contact us if you would like to purchase or exhibit. We are looking for a place to primer the sculpture in the US and in Europe.
Hank's Mini Mart Collaboration February 2-June 6, 2022
As part of my commission with LA Metro for the Fairview Height Station of the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project, I have been co-planning a community-led activation called #MemoryFutureLabs with Kelli Jackson, owner of Hank’s Mini Market, and Arianne Edmonds, archivist and founder of the JL Edmonds Project. This long-term activation encourages people who are personally connected to the Hyde Park and Inglewood neighborhoods to contribute their stories, memories, and hopes related to their communities. The activation will take place at Hank’s—a grocery store and cultural hub in Hyde Park that hosts interactive arts activities for the neighborhood—and also extend onto the market’s Instagram. The stories gathered will eventually be archived with the Los Angeles Public Library. Click here to contribute a memory.
National Arts Action Summit - Monday, April 5, 2021, 10am PST
On Monday April 6, I will be speaking about The Artist-Museum Partnership Act originally introduced by John Lewis in 2000.
The Artist-Museum Partnership Act would allow creators of original works to deduct the fair market value of self-created works given to and retained by a nonprofit institution.
Join Americans for the Arts, organizational partners, and hundreds of advocates from April 5-9, 2021 for the National Arts Action Summit. Over these five days, advocates will gain a depth of knowledge from policy experts at Americans for the Arts and many organizational Partners. Everyone who wants can attend the National Arts Action Summit! You can learn more about that HERE
Pitzer College Alumni Talk
Tuesday, April 6, 2021, 3 p.m., PST
I'm very excited to be giving a talk about my work and social practice projects for my alma mater, Pitzer College. I have had the pleasure of working with two paid curatorial interns from Pitzer College this term on outreach for Now Be Here.
This talk will share my larger museum installations and social practice projects including the progression of Now Be Here from a moment in time to a living archive. As Carmen Hermo from the Brooklyn Museum said " "It is so essential to keep the work and archives of women artists alive, especially in the first years after their deaths. I have seen this play out before, as the internet tends to erase those who are not alive or supported by others, whether that is estates, galleries, or institutions. I love how this resource transforms a moment into a searchable and highly useful online archive."
7till8 Collaboration
One of two artist collaborations with California based wetsuit brand, 7till8, exclusively released through Garey The Third.
7Till8 is well known for their high quality wetsuits and one of very few brands with access to the highly sought after Yamamoto Neoprene—a Japanese neoprene made from 100% limestone and considered to be one of the best wetsuit materials available.
Kim Schoenstadt is an L.A. based artist who creates three dimensional drawings based off of architectural plans to reimagine and activate our relationship to the space.
Wetsuit Jackets are currently available in Men’s and Women’s sizes
Metro Station coming soon! Fairview Heights station solo project
Schoenstadt references both iconic buildings (look for a shout-out to the Forum when the art is in place) and lesser-known structures in the area. The architecture love extends to the blue “snap lines,” which represent a place’s timeline as well as the phone lines, traffic markings, and, now, train tracks that bisect the area.
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Drive By Art Exhibition
Saturday and Sunday, May 30-31, 2020 12-6 pm (west of western artist group) Public Art in This Moment of Social Distancing
If you're near Venice please drive by The Tasting Kitchen on Abbot Kinney who are generously hosting my work for the weekend. Around the corner, you can see local superstar architect Kulapat Yantrasast's work (Saturday only) and Charles Arnoldi, Nina Waisman, and Nicole Nadeau are also within walking distance. Plenty of other amazing artists to find and support: MAP LINK
For Drive-By-Art I have created a new work (pictured), based on a 2017 commission for The Tasting Kitchens upstairs dining area. Since I already had a contact at the restaurant, I just 'poured myself a cup of ambition' and contacted them to see if they would be open to hosting me for this project. They were super receptive and welcomed me back. The work combines parts of the 2017 commission with color patterning based on a needlepoint chair cushion my mother made in the ‘70s. The architecture included is from El Segundo, Venice Beach, Westchester, and proposed lifeguard station by local architect Thom Mayne.
Since 'Safer At Home' began, I’ve been spending time with the needlepoint chairs my mom made. Memories of my mom (who passed in 2012), her artistic skills, and intellectual curiosity have been swirling in my mind. She had an indomitable spirit and in addition to her masters in social work, she would take night classes at the University of Chicago including an Albers based color theory class and multiple Charles Dickens courses.
This new work is an homage to her spirit and a reflection of the odd new rhythms life is taking in this pandemic moment. Echoing the ebbs and flows of our reconstructed ideas of connectivity, space, and time.
In this moment of multiple simultaneous traumas, it felt weird to continue to do my job, it felt less important. Yet in a year where all my projects have dried up overnight this opportunity to continue to do my work was important. What I can do is commit to a percentage of the sale of this work to go towards Black Lives Matter and Asian Americans Advancing Justice.