Fabian Schöneich is the founder and director of CCA Berlin – Center for Contemporary Arts. He was curator of Portikus in Frankfurt (2014–18) and worked as an assistant curator at Kunsthalle Basel and Kunstinstituut Melly (formerly known as Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art) in Rotterdam.
Who Are We Are Who
Igshaan Adams, Loretta Fahrenholz, Rochelle Goldberg, Piotr Lakomy, Sandra Mujinga, R.H. Quaytman, Erna Rosenstein, Cinga Samson, Bruno Serralongue, Amy Sillman, Tobias Spichtig, Jessica Vaughn
Braunsfelder, Cologne
19 November 2020–3 April 2021
Yes, and the body has a memory.
Sondra Perry, Julia Phillips, Lerato Shadi
I never read, Art Book Fair Basel
19 September 2020
Zigzag, Offspring 2020
Cecilia Bjartmar Hylta, Eleye Boerenkamps, Ghita Skali, Jan Hüskes, Leo Arnold, Minne Kersten, Paula Förster, Piotr Urbaniec, Sam Hersbach, Sarah Ksieska
De Ateliers, Amsterdam
4 September–20 September 2020
Unterschiedswesen
Heidi Bucher, Julia Haller, Imi Knoebel, Oliver Laric, Caroline Mesquita, Sam Moyer, Sarah Oppenheimer, Danh Vo
von Bartha Galerie, S-chanf
28 December 2019–29 February 2020
Portikus, Frankfurt/Main (2014-2018):
Moyra Davey
Hell Notes
9 December 2017–28 January 2018
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel
The Mammal and the Sap
16 September –12 January 2017
Portikus XXX
A city-wide exhibition mit Shannon Bool,
Pure Fiction, Dara Friedman, Anne Speier, Kerstin Cmelka, Peles Empire, Tobias Rehberger & Rirkrit Tiravanija
18 July –14 October 2017
Michael Dean
Teaxths and Angeruage
1 July–3 September 2017
Slide show
Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat,
Susanne Kriemann, Yutaka Sone
29 April–11 June 2017
Marina Rosenfeld
Deathstar
18 Febuary–16 April 2017
House of Commons
Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Fikret Atay, Sven Augustijnen, Monika Baer, Yto Barrada, Eric Baudelaire, Rossella Biscotti, Mohamed Bourouissa, Banu Cennetoğlu, Keren Cytter, Michael Dean, Claire Fontaine, Ferenc Gróf, Shadi Habib Allah, Roni Horn, Kapwani Kiwanga, Jonathan Monk, Charlotte Posenenske, Bruno Serralongue, The Propeller Group & Superflex, Danh Vo
Co-curated with Vivien Trommer (Kadist Curatorial Fellow 2016)
03 December 2016–29 January 2017
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys
White Suprematism
24 September–20 November 2016
Amy Sillman
the ALL-OVER
02 July–04 September 2016
Shahryar Nashat
Model Malady
23 April–19 June 2016
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Earshot
13 February–10 April 2016
Jana Euler
In it
28 November 2015–24 January 2016
Ade Darmawan
Magic Center
19 September–15 November 2015
Otobong Nkanga
Crumbling Through Powdery Air
16 July–6 September 2015
Minouk Lim
United Paradox
14 May–5 July 2015
Zin Taylor
Stripes and Dots on the Isle of Portikus
25 April 2015
Meyer Vaisman
In History – In Future – Meyer Vaisman –
Meir Ben David – 5774
14 February–19 April 2015
Hassan Khan
Taraban
5 February 2015
LISTE 19 Performance Project [*.pdf]
Calla Henkel, Max Pitegoff, Tobias Spichtig, Paolo Thorsen-Nagel, Eleanor Bauer, Anne Imhof, Alexander Baczynski-Jenkins, Ligia Lewis, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Michael Dean
LISTE Art Fair, Basel
17 June–22 June 2014
LISTE 18 Performance Project [*.pdf]
Saâdane Afif, Zin Taylor, Adam Linder, Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda, Lubomyr Melnyk, Juliette Blightman, Hannah Weinberger
LISTE Art Fair, Basel
11 June–16 June 2013
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Dirty Evidence
Edited by Fabian Schöneich
With texts by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Natasha Ginwala, Ruba Katrib, Andrea Lissoni, Ramona Naddaff, Fabian Schöneich, Yasmine Seale, Theodor Ringborg, Eyal Weizman
Published by Bonniers Konsthall and Lenz, 2022
ISBN 979-12-80579-08-9
Melike Kara
Where We Meet
Edited by Fabian Schöneich
With texts by Jana Baumann, Melike Kara, Anne-Claire Schmitz, Fabian Schöneich
Published by Wiels and Koenig Books, 2021
ISBN 978-3-3-7533-0010-3
Raphael Hefti
Salutary Failures
Edited by Fabian Schöneich
With texts by Carina Bukuts, Elena Filipovic, Raphael Hefti, Adam Jasper, Nora N. Khan, Dieter Roelstraete, Fabian Schöneich, Carmen Van Pamel
Published by Kunsthalle Basel and Lenz,
2021
ISBN 978-88-945353-0-3
Portikus XXX
Edited by Fabian Schöneich and Franz Hempel
With texts by Sabine Maria Schmidt, Pure Fiction, Levi Easterbrooks, Sofia Leiby, Fabian Schöneich, Franz Hempel
Published by Portikus, 2019
ISBN 978-3-928071-93-2
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel
Body of Work
Edited by Fabian Schöneich
With texts by Liene Aerts, Michael Capio, Dorothée Dupuis, Elena Filipovic, Zoë Gray, Anne Langlois Charlotte Laubard, Alice Motard, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Samuel Saelemakers, Fabian Schöneich, Michael Van den Abeele, Véronique Wiesinger
Published by Portikus and Koenig Books, in collaboration with KIOSK, Kunsthalle Basel, and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 2019
ISBN 978-3-96098-486-3
Ade Darmawan
Magic Centre
Edited by Fabian Schöneich and Philippe Pirotte
With texts by Ade Darmawan, Agung Hujatnikajennong, Philippe Pirotte
Published by Mousse Publishing, 2019
ISBN 978-88-6749-355-5
Amy Sillman
the ALL-OVER
Edited by Karen Kelly, Fabian Schöneich, Barbara Schroeder
With texts by Manuela Ammer, Yve-Alain Bois, Fabian Schöneich, Amy Sillman
Published by Dancing Foxes Press and Mousse Publishing, 2017
ISBN 978-88-6749-288-6
Otobong Nkanga
Luster and Lucre
Edited by Clare Molloy, Philippe Pirotte and Fabian Schöneich
With texts by Denise Ferreira da Silva, Natasha Ginwala, Philippe Pirotte, Clare Molloy, Otobong Nkanga, Fabian Schöneich
Published by Sternberg Press, 2017
ISBN 978-3-95679-318-9
Helke Bayrle
Portikus Under Construction
www.portikusunderconstruction.de
Helke Bayrle
Portikus Under Construction 1992–2016
Edited by Fabian Schöneich
With texts by Helke Bayrle, Kirsty Bell, Daniel Birnbaum, Sunah Choi, Nikola Dietrich, Nikolaus Hirsch, Brigitte Kölle, Kasper König, Angelika Nollert, Melanie Ohnemus, Sophie von Olfers, Philippe Pirotte, Fabian Schöneich, Jochen Volz
Published by Sternberg Press, 2017
ISBN 978-3-95679-305-9
Minouk Lim
United Paradox
Edited by Fabian Schöneich
With texts by Sunghoon Han, Minouk Lim, Fabian Schöneich, Hyunsuk Seo
Published by Sternberg Press, 2017
ISBN 978-3-95679-304-2
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
[inaudible] A Politics of Listening in 4 Acts
Edited by Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Fabian Schöneich
With texts by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Emily Apter, Giovanni Carmine, Omar Kholeif, Fabian Schöneich
Published by Sternberg Press, 2016
ISBN 978-3-95679-241-0
Mike Bouchet, Paul McCarthy
Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey Sport Dick Drink Donkey Dong Dongs Sunscreen Model
Edited by Sophie von Olfers, Philippe Pirotte and Fabian Schöneich
With texts by Sophie von Olfers, Philippe Pirotte, Antje Krause-Wahl, Eyal Weizman, Marie Sophie Beckmann, Viktoria Draganvoa, Sebastian Schneider, Anuschka Berthelius, Felix Bröcker
Published by Mousse Publishing, 2016
ISBN 978-88-6749-143-8
Hadi Fallahpisheh and Kyle Thurman, in: Sophie Tappeiner gallery, Wien, 2020, *.pdf
Berenice Olmedo, in: CURA. Magazine, issue #33, Rome, 2020, *.pdf
Virginia Overton and the Beauty of Broken Businesses, in: Frieze magazine, issue #210, London, 2020, *Link
Your Guide to Brussels Gallery Weekend, in: Frieze magazine, London, 2019, *Link
Toy Story: Geumhyung Jeong’s Cyborg Erotics, in: Frieze magazine, issue #206, London, 2019, *.pdf
Labour Party: Choreographer Adam Linder’s Performance of Work, in: Frieze magazine, issue #203, London, 2019, *.pdf
Incomplete Narratives, Basel Abbas, Ruanne Abou-Rahme, and Fabian Schöneich in Conversation, in: Mousse, issue 57, 2017, *.pdf