Shannon Bool
Shannon Bool
Non-verbal dialogues between bodies, architecture and materials are key to Shannon Bool’s work. The connection between highly technologized and historical production processes and materials construct complex experiences of material, space and bodies, resulting in the permeability of seemingly fixed definitions of gender, culture and identity. In the process, the body literally becomes the “site of images.”
Shannon Bool, born 1972 in Canada, lives and works in Germany since 2001. Her works are part of renowned museum collections such as Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Metropolitan Museum New York, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Musée d´Art Contemporain de Montréal, Lenbachhaus Munich or The National Gallery of Canada. She currently produces a site specific art piece for the new building of the Opera in Cologne. Recent solo exhibitions were dedicated to her at the Kunstmuseum Krefeld, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (both 2023), Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston (2020), the Kunstverein Braunschweig, Centre Culturel Canadien in Paris (both 2019) or Musée Joliette Canada (2018). She has participated at numerous internationally renowned group exhibitions such as „Räume Hautnah“, Draiflessen Collection, "Pop and Politics in Contemporary Textile Art", Kunstmuseum Ravensburg & Kunstssammlungen Chemnitz (2022/21), „INTERTWINGLED – The Role of the Rug in Arts, Crafts and Design“, Galleria Nazionale d‘Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, „Dip in the past“, Lehnbachhaus, Munich (both 2022), „Now or Never“, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (2021), „In the Picture: Overpainted Photography“ at Sprengel Museum Hannover, 2019 or „Le Grand Balcon“ La Biennale de Montréal. Her works are currently on view at the exhibitions "Infinite Regress: Mystical Abstraction from the Permanent Collection and Beyond", Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas, "Mehr als Malerei. Blick in die Sammlung #8", Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, DE, Black and White and Everything In Between: A Monochrome Journey", Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA and „Im Herzen wild. Sammlung+“, Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr.
