| Dates: | born 1965
| | Biography: | (artist biography as of 2006)
Born 1965, Venice, Italy. Lives and
works in Berlin, Germany. Laureate of
Preis der National Galerie fur Junge
Kunst 2005, Berlin
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Monica Bonvicini, 2007, NY
Sculpture Center, New York, USA
Monica Bonvicini, 2007, Bonniers
Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Monica Bonvicini, 2006,
Kunstraum, Innsbruck, Austria
Monica Bonvicini, 2006, West of
Rom/Galleria Emi Fontana, Los
Angeles, USA
Monica Bonvicini: Never Again,
2005, Museum Abteigberg
Monchengladbach, Germany
Monica Bonvicini, 2004, Galleria
Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy
Monica Bonvicini: Elmgreen und
Dragset, 2004, Sprengel Museum,
Hannover, Germany
Anxiety Attack, 2003, Modern Art
Oxford, Oxford, UK
Shotgun, 2003, Tramway,
Glasgow, UK
Break it/Fix it, 2003, Wiener
Secession with Sam Durant. Vienna,
Austria
Add Elegance to your Poverty,
2002, Anton Kern Gallery, New York,
USA
Monica Bonvicini, 2002, Palais
de Tokyo, Paris, France
Scream & Shake, 2001, Le
Magazine. Grenoble, Switzerland
i>Run. Take one square or two.
2000, Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
How to live together. 2006, XXVII
Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Taipei Biennale, 2006, Taiwan
The Experience of Art, 2005, 51st
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Center of Gravity. 2005. Istanbul
Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
Performative Architektur, 2004,
Galerie fiir Zeitgenossische Kunst,
Leipzig, Germany
3rd Berlin Biennale, 2004, Berlin,
Germany
L'air du Temps, 2004, Migros
Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
Art & Industry Biennial, Christchurch,
New Zealand
Poetic Justice. 2003, 8th Istanbul
Biennial, Turkey
Living Inside the Grid, 2003, New
Museum of Contemporary Art, New
York, USA
Public Affairs, 2002, Kunsthaus
Zurich, Switzerland
Arte in Video, 2002, Castello di
Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Inside Space: experiment in
redefining rooms, 2001, MIT List
Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA
HausSchau - Das Haus in der
Kunst, 2000, Deichtorhallen,
Hamburg, Germany
FURTHER READING
Jager, Joachim (ed.), Preis der
Nationalgalerie fur Junge Kunst,
Berlin: Verein der Freunde der
Nationalgalerie, 2005, pp. 37-56, ill,
(exh, cat,)
Monica Bonvicini: Anxiety
Attack, Oxford: Modern Art Oxford/
Glasgow: Tramway, 2003 (exh. cat.)
Wiener Seccesion (ed.), Monica
Bonvicini/Sam Durant: Break it /Fix
it. Vienna: Wiener Secession/
Frankfurt: Revolver, 2003 (exh, cat.)
Monica Bonvicini: Scream &
Shake, Grenoble: Le Magasin, 2001
(exh. cat.)
Monica Bonvinci: What does your
wife/girlfriend think of your rough and dry
hands?, Los Angeles: SITE Sante
Fe Museum of Contemporary Art, 1999
| | | Source: | International 06, Liverpool Biennial exhibition catalogue | | | Date of source: | 2006 |
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| | Description: | Monica Bonvicini is a deconstructionist
of modern architecture and the white
cube, especially regarding their gender
biases and the sexist underpinnings of
the building-body relationship. Over the
years, she has offered versions of this
critique that share strategies of
perversion, subversion and inversion.
She states: 'I would like to strip away
the apparent objectivity and strictness of
form that symbolises power and control
to reveal those elements that escape
this rigidity.' So statements and
structures from modern master builders
such as Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier are
caricatured, sculptures of the
minimalists whose movement has been
so 'male' are parodied. Even construction
workers, the builders for these masters,
are enlisted to expose the political and
social-psychological difficulties in
coming to terms with a reality whereby
these muscular heterosexual men share
their private lives with women, and
inadvertently act as desirable role
models in gay erotica and pornography.
Bonvicini targets the multi-layered
meanings of the wall as skin, poring over
its delimiting power by breaking it apart,
or altering its usage to nullify its powers,
thereby creating new possibilities. She
examines the sexual charges of the wall
in relation to women in cinema history
and in her own video work. Poignant,
aggressive and humorous, Bon-vicini's
work marks an important advance in
conceptual art.
Manray Hsu
| | Description Source: | International 06, Liverpool Biennial exhibition catalogue | | Description Source Date: | 2006 | | Gender: | female | | Type: | person |
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