Monica Bonvicini
Works
Installation view, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin
Neon
Installation view, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Installation view, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Installation view, “I do You”, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlino
2 components lacquer, mirror, aluminum
150 × 100 × 1,7 cm
Paint on mirror
150 × 100 × 3,6 cm
Paint on mirror
150 × 100 × 3,6 cm
Paint on mirror
150 × 100 × 3,6 cm
Installation view, Galleria Raffaella Cortese
Installation view, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
mirror, MDF
90 × 80 × 2,6 cm
Installation view, Belvedere 21, Vienna
Silkscreen on aluminum
400 × 620 cm
Installation view, Art Basel | Unlimited, 2019
Steel structure, compressed air cylinder, compressor, rope, synthetic fiber, leather belts
Dimensions variable
Installation view, Art Basel | Unlimited, 2019
Steel structure, compressed air cylinder, compressor, rope, synthetic fiber, leather belts
Dimensions variable
Installation view, Art Basel | Unlimited, 2019
Steel structure, compressed air cylinder, compressor, rope, synthetic fiber, leather belts
Dimensions variable
Black leather men’s belts
45 × 210 × 45 cm
Men’s black leather belts, bolts
275 × 220 cm
Installation view, Galleria Raffaella Cortese
Installation view, Galleria Raffaella Cortese
Sideboard Thonet B 108, bronze
90 × 134 × 39 cm
Diptych
Tempera and spray paint on Fabriano paper mounted on canvas
198 × 307 cm overall; 2 pieces 198 x 153 cm
Tempera and spray on Fabriano paper
150 × 100 cm
Tempera and spray paint on Fabriano paper, mounted on aluminum
150 × 100 cm; 155,7 × 105,7 × 5 cm framed
Tempera and spray paint on Fabriano paper
150 × 100 cm
Bronze
5 × 25 × 14,5 cm
LED tubes, wire, rubber caps, electric cable, silver tape, chrome bar, troughed sheets
230 × 232 × 35 cm
Leather, leather string, hammer
3 × 28,3 × 16,5 cm
Ink and tempera marker on paper
71,5 × 90 cm; 76 x 95 x 4,5 cm framed
brass, iron, wood
190 × 20 × 57 cm
brass, iron, leather
190 × 20 × 57 cm
Pigment print on paper
59 × 79,5 cm; 60,5 × 81 × 3,5 cm framed; 39 x 59,5 cm image size
Pigment print on paper
59 × 79,5 cm; 60,5 × 81 × 3,5 cm framed; 39 x 59,5 cm image size
Pigment print on paper
59 × 79,5 cm; 60,5 × 81 × 3,5 cm framed; 39 x 59,5 cm image size
Installation view, 2019, OGR Torino
Tempera marker on Fabriano paper
150 × 130 cm; 160 × 141 × 5,5 cm framed
Tempera marker on Fabriano paper
150 × 130 cm; 160 × 141 × 5,5 cm framed
Installation view at Italian Cultural Institute Stockholm
Red neon tube letters, aluminum frames, electric cables
330 x 300 cm
Installation view at Museo del Novecento, Milan, 2019
Wood, silver PVC
167 × 222 × 131 cm
Biography
Monica Bonvicini was born in Venice in 1965. She lives and works in Berlin.
She works with Galleria Raffaella Cortese since 2017.
Monica Bonvicini emerged as visual artist and started exhibiting internationally in the mid-1990s. Her multifaceted practice—which investigates the relationship between architecture, power and gender—is translated into works that question the meaning of making art, the ambiguity of language, the limits and possibilities attached to the ideal of freedom. Dry-humored, direct, and imbued with historical, political and social references, Bonvicini’s art never refrains from establishing a critical connection with the sites where it is exhibited, the materials that comprise it, and the roles of spectator and creator. This approach, which has been at the core of her production since her first solo exhibition at the California Institute of the Arts in 1991, has formally evolved over the years without betraying its analytical force and inclination to challenge the viewer’s perspective while taking hefty sideswipes at socio-cultural conventions.
Her work has been featured in many prominent biennials, including Berlin (1998, 2004, 2014), La TriennaIe Paris (2012), Istanbul (2003, 2017), Gwangju (2006), New Orleans (2008), Venice (1999, 2001, 2005, 2011, 2015) and Busan (2020). She has had solo exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2002); Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK (2003); Secession, Vienna, Austria (2003); Staedtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany (2005, 2012); SculptureCenter, New York, NY, USA (2007); Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA (2009); Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland (2009); Frac des Pays de la Loire, France (2009); Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (2011); Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Malága, Malága, Spain (2011); Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany (2012); Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany (2013); BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (2016); Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (2017); Belvedere 21, Vienna; Austria (2019); OGR Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Turin, Italy (2019); Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany (2021), Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria (2022); Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland (2022); Bauhaus Dessau, Germany (2022); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany (2022). Recent group exhibitions include Women House, La Monnaie de Paris, France, traveled to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, USA (2018); The Street. Where the World Is Made, MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy (2018); States of Mind: Art and American Democracy, Moody Art Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA (2020), There I Belong. Hammershøi by Elmgreen & Dragset, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark (2020); Punto di equilibrio, MAXXI L’Aquila, Italy (2021); Minimalism-Maximalism-Mechanissmmm Act 1–Act 2, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea (2022); Il giardino dell’arte, Centro Pecci, Prato, Italy (2022); & Liberation, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany (2024). Among others, Bonvicini’s artworks are permanently installed in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, UK; on the waterfront at Bjørvika, before the Den Norske Opera & Ballett House, Oslo, Norway; Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany.
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