Kim Gordon

Kim Gordon, an icon of the American alternative scene and cofounder of experimental post-punk band Sonic Youth, will be the musical headliner for the opening weekend of MSN Warsaw’s new headquarters. 

Kim Gordon’s career spans over four decades. The artist has performed all over the globe, collaborating with some of the music world’s most exciting names. In January 2024, Gordon unveiled “I’m a Man,” the latest preview of her second solo album, The Collective, which was released in March. The album brings the collaboratively created world to a new level, combining producer Justin Raisen’s devastated and blown-out dub and trap constructions with intuitive spoken-word collages and mantras.

Ben Ratliff of the New York Times has called Gordon “the conscience of the 80s and 90s alternative rock scene, a role model for an entire generation of musicians, especially women.” And recently Rolling Stone wrote: “Kim Gordon is at the height of her powers right now, making music that’s both noisy and liberating, and unremittingly challenging any expectations that listeners still have for her.”

Her work has been exhibited at Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles and 303 Gallery in New York, among other venues. She received a commission for the Museum im Bellpark in Kriens, Switzerland, in collaboration with artist Josephine Pryde, and a dance and music stage performance with choreographer Dimitri Shambles. Elsewhere, Gordon hosted a public sale of her iconic wardrobe, with all proceeds going to the Downtown Women’s Center in Los Angeles. 

Since cofounding the seminal Sonic Youth in the early 80s, Gordon has remained at the nexus of music, art and (more recently) books and film. She debuted in the #1 spot on the New York Times Bestseller List with her 2015 memoir Girl in a Band, acted under the direction of Gus Van Sant (in the 2018 film Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot), and released music and performed as one half of Body/Head alongside Bill Nace. Released in 2019, Kim Gordon’s debut solo album No Home Record received wideranging critical acclaim.

The concert will be held in the museum’s biggest exhibition space, which can hold up to 400 people at a time. The event will also be livestreamed on the façade of the building, on the side of the Palace of Culture.