Monica Bonvicini

Monica Bonvicini (born 1965 in Venice) is an Italian artist. She lives and works in Berlin.

Biography

Bonvicini studied at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin and at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. From 1998 to 2002 Bonvicini lived and worked in Los Angeles, where she also taught at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. Since 2003 Bonvicini has been Professor of Sculpture and Performance at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna. In her work Bonvicini investigates the relationship between power structures, gender and space. Bonvicini works intermediately with installation, sculpture, video, photography, and drawing.

Her work has been featured in several biennals, such as the Berlin Biennale (1998, 2003), the Istanbul Biennial (2003), and the Venice Biennale (2001, 2005, 2011 and 2015), and had solo presentations in renown institutions worldwide. Her work is represented in numerous public collections.

Bonvicini won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1999, the National Gallery Prize for Young Art in Berlin in 2005 and the Rolandpreis für Kunst in Bremen in 2013.

Sculptures by Bonvicini are permanently installed in the Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park in London, the harbour at the Oslo Opera House and the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2016: BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, her hand around the room
• 2014: Witte de With - Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Crime was almost perfect
• 2013: Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Wall Works
• 2013: Kunsthalle Mainz, Monica Bonvicini Sterling Ruby
• 2012: Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, und Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Desire, Desiese, Devise – Zeichnungen 1986–2012.
• 2011: Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Malága
• 2010: Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel; Both Ends
• 2009: The Art Institute of Chicago
• 2009: Kunstmuseum Basel
• 2002: Palais de Tokyo, Paris
• 2002: Museum of Modern Art, Oxford

Works in public collections (selection)

• T-B A21 - Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Wien
• Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
• FRAC Lorraine, Metz
• Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin
• Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich
• Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York
• Lenbachhaus, München

Bibliography

• Alexander Alberro, Janet Kraynak and Juliane Rebentisch, Monica Bonvicini, Phaidon Press, London, 2014.
• Harald Falkenberg, Susanne Titz and Bettina Steinbrügge, Monica Bonvicini: Disegni, Distanz, Berlin, 2012.
• Vanessa Joan Müller and Ursula Maria Probst, Monica Bonvicini: BOTH ENDS, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2010
• Jan Verwoert, Matthias Mühling and Nikola Dietrich, Monica Bonvicini, DuMont, Cologne, 2009.
• Dan Cameron and Susanne von Falkenhausen, Monica Bonvicini, Hopefulmonster, Turin, 2000.

Works

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  Satisfy Me, 2010
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  She Lies, 2010

References

External links

• Green, Kate (September 3, 2013). "INTERVIEW: ARTIST MONICA BONVICINI". Neoaztlan. Retrieved 22 May 2015.