We obtain the existence of ground state solution for the nonlocal problem $$
m\left(\int_{R^2}(|\nabla u|^2 + b(x)u^2) dx\right)(-\Delta u
- b(x)u) = A(x)f(u) \ \ \ in \ \ \ R^2, $wherem$ is a
Kirchhoff-type function, b may be negative and noncoercive, A is locally
bounded and the function f has critical exponential growth. We also obtain
new results for the classical Schr"odinger equation, namely the local case
m≡1. In the proofs we apply Variational Methods beside a new
Trudinger-Moser type inequality.