Christian Schoen is a Germanart 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
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. 216f
Finnbogi Pétursson. Earth; in: ebda., S. 220f
Benjamin Bergmann. Never Ever; in: ebda., S. 222
Icelandic identity; in: Vanessa Adler, Egill Saebjörnsson – The Book, Berlin 2009
The Dead King; in: Christian Schoen, Ragnar Kjartansson – The End, Ostfildern 2009, p. 63-78
Finnbogi Pétursson; in: Christian Schoen, Icelandic Art Today, Ostfildern 2009, p. 90-95
Georg Guðni; in: Christian Schoen, Icelandic Art Today, Ostfildern 2009, p. 102-107
Rúrí; in: Christian Schoen, Icelandic Art Today, Ostfildern 2009, p. 258-263
Sigurður Árni Sigurðsson; in: Christian Schoen, Icelandic Art Today, Ostfildern 2009, p. 276-293
Carolee Schneemann: The Icelandic Muse – Interview, LIST #18, 2008
Vito Acconci – Interview, LIST #18, 2008 and LIST 2008, p. 8
Ragnar Kjartansson – Interview, LIST 2008, p. 16-17
Rúrí – Interview, LIST 2008, p. 20-21
Art Is Alchemy Is Art. Notes on Húbert Nóí’s Work, LIST 2008, p. 24
Human 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. 4-5
Introduction Cat. Icelandic Pavilion at Biennale di Venezia: Steingrimur Eyfjörd: The Golden Plover Has Arrived, Reykjavik 2007
Off With Their Heads. Interview with Diana Thater; in: OSRAM ART PROJECTS 2007
Mader, Stublic, Wiermann: reprojected; in OSRAM ART PROJECTS 2007, Munich 2007
Óðauðleg fegurð, Morgunblaðið, 8. Dezember 2007
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Great Unrest; in: A Prior Magazine, 12, 2006, p. 141-163
Flora Islandica: Junge Kunst in Island, in: Kunst und Kirche, 1/2006, p. 33-39
Die 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. 60
Tobias Regensburger: Kunst – Leben – Überleben, Documentation of the project CAMP 2004
Tobias Regensburger: Art – Life – Survival; in: NYartsmagazine November/December 2004
Adam und Eva, nach Albrecht Dürer, in: Beutekunst unter Napoleon. Die französische Schenkung an Mainz 1803, Ausstellungskatalog Landesmuseum Mainz 2003, p. 299 – 304
Adam und Eva, Achille Calzi und Ludovico Ferretti, in: Beutekunst unter Napoleon. Die französische Schenkung an Mainz 1803, Ausstellungskatalog Landesmuseum Mainz 2003, p. 304 – 305
Adam 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
