Regine Bonke

Regine Bonke (* 1948 in Kiel ) is a German object artist . She is a representative of Concrete Constructivist art .

life and work

After graduating from high school in 1967, Bonke studied art education, art history and biology a. a. at the Muthesius Art College in Kiel and the Universities of Kiel and Tübingen . Since 1985 she has been living as a freelance artist near Lübeck. Strictly reduced objects and architecture- related installations form Bonke's main focus. Since 1990 these have been made of a material that is unusual in this context, namely hand-made paper. In addition, there are lead sheet and neon contours, and since 2003 also Plexiglas, Corten steel and other materials. In addition to her exhibition activities, she is increasingly realizing art in public spaces , such as B. 2001 the large sculpture in the Gothic castle monastery in Lübeck.

“Bonke focuses on the plastic installation and almost completely dispenses with other artistic media. A catharsis that not only leads to surprising results, but above all also forms the decisive basis for approaching the unequivocal and unbound, pure thinking that is expressed in the constellation of numbers and in geometry.
The huge “Blue Square” from 2001 shown in the inner courtyard of the Lübeck Castle Monastery may be of paradigmatic importance in this context. It shows a self-sufficient form, which was placed in such a way that it makes the existing architecture appear subordinate and overcomes everything physically heavy and burdensome in favor of a spherical remoteness, as if it were the manifestation of an idea that pervades reality, in relation between sensual appearance and its inner being. "

- Uwe Haupenthal : Regine Bonke - Aletheia , catalog, Verlag der Kunst Dresden, 2011

In 2001 Bonke was nominated for the Daniel Henry Kahnweiler Prize and in 2008 for the Schleswig-Holstein State Art Prize. In 2007 and 2010 she was the winner of the Gabriele Münter Prize . In recent years photography has also played an increasingly important role in the series of "Afterimages". The first virtual object was created in 2009. In February 2014, Regine Bonke was awarded the art prize of the BBK Schleswig-Holstein as part of the 60th state show in the state museum at Gottorf Castle .

Exhibitions

(since 1985 approx. 220 exhibitions in Germany and abroad, small selection since 2001) [E] = solo exhibition, (K) = catalog

• 2018 Kunsthalle St. Annen (K) Museumsquartier, Lübeck;
• 2017 64th State Show of Schleswig-Holstein Artists (K) - North Friesland Museum - Nissenhaus, Husum;
• 2017 Glaube.Orte.Kunst.- "not necessary, but free" Schleswig-Holstein modern art in the soft image of the Reformation (K) - Richard Haizmann Museum, Niebüll;
• 2017 Artists 'Books for Everything (K) Center for Artists' Publications - Weserburg, Bremen;
• 2016 63rd State Show of Schleswig-Holstein Artists (K) - Stadtgalerie Kiel;
• 2016 Kunsthalle St. Annen (K), Museumsquartier, Lübeck;
• 2015 "Entbegrenzt" - Collection presentation (K) - Sparkassenstiftung Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel;
• 2014 "Field Research" | State Show Art Prize (K) [E] - Brunswiker Pavillon, Kiel;
• 2014 “If we could as we wanted” | 20 years of art in public Room - Brunswiker Pavillon, Kiel;
• 2013 “Looking back and ahead” (K) - 20 years of Forum Konkrete Kunst, Erfurt;
• 2013 "Grenzlandausstellung" (K) - Sønderjyllandshallen, Aabenraa (DK);
• 2012 “Thinking in Space” [E] - concrete paper objects - Angermuseum Erfurt ;
• 2012 “The Rationale III” - Space and Building (K) Architecture and Concrete Art, Women's Museum Bonn ;
• 2011 “Aletheia” - concrete paper objects (K) [E] - Richard Haizmann Museum , Niebüll;
• 2011 "design, research and invent ..." - VG-Initiative, Osnabrück;
• 2010 "constructive-concrete - two generations" - Richard Paul Lohse | Regine Bonke [E] - Art Quarter and VG Initiative, Osnabrück;
• 2010 6th Gabriele Münter Prize (K) - Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin and Women's Museum Bonn;
• 2009 “Telling about thinking in space” [E] Association of artistic projects - Bellevuesaal, Wiesbaden;
• 2009 "Kennfaden Kunst" (K) - Marstall Ahrensburg cultural center and Trittau watermill;
• 2007 5th Gabriele Münter Prize (K) - Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin and Women's Museum Bonn;
• 2005 "Objects for Intellectual Use" [E] - Museum for Art and Industry Hamburg;
• 2004 "NordKunst - Schleswig-Holstein in the 20th century" (K) - North Frisian Museum , Husum,
• 2004 Sønderjyllands Kunstmuseum, Tondern, (DK) and St. Petri Culture Church in Lübeck;
• 2004 “Facets of Abstraction” - Angermuseum Erfurt;
• 2003 Kunst-Museum Ahlen (K) [E];
• 2003 Schleswig-Holstein State Museum - Cismar Monastery (K);
• 2003 “10-ten-X” - Concrete Art Forum, Erfurt (K);
• 2001 "Eigen-Sinn" (K) [E] - Kulturforum Burgkloster zu Lübeck and Forum Konkrete Kunst, Erfurt;
• 2001 State Art Gallery Sopot (K), Poland;

Publications (selection)

• Wolfram Morath in "RB - The Irritation of Harmony", catalog, Lübeck, 1993;
• Roswitha Siewert in "Moments", catalog, Lübeck, 1996;
• Hajo Schiff in “RB - The Pleasure of Reason”, catalog, Hamburg, 1997;
• Magnus Staak in “nordskulptur 2 - the third and fourth dimensions”, cat., Neumünster, 1999;
• Jens Rönnau in “Kunstforum international”, vol. 147, p. 377, 1999;
• Petra Bosetti in “art”, 7, art magazine, Hamburg, 7/2001;
• Hans-Dieter Sommer “Asceticism and Sensuality” in “RB - Eigen-Sinn”, cat., Lübeck, 2001;
• Heidi Bierwisch u. a. “10-ten-X” - Forum Concrete Art, catalog, Erfurt, 2003;
• Uwe Hauptenthal - RB in "NORD-KUNST Schleswig-Holstein in the 20th century", Neumünster, 2003;
• Helmer-Heichele, Mond, Pitzen (ed.) - RB in “Gabriele Münter Prize 2007”, Bonn 2007;
• Marianne Pitzen (Ed.) - RB in “Die Rationale II”, Bonn, 2008;
• Helmer-Heichele, Mond, Pitzen (ed.) - RB in "Gabriele Münter Prize 2010", Bonn 2010
• Helen Koriath (Hrsg.) - RB in "design, research and invent ...", catalog, Osnabrück, 2011;
• Uwe Haupenthal in "RB - Aletheia", catalog, Verlag der Kunst Dresden, 2011;
• Ingrid Scheller (Ed.) - RB in “AUF.WIND”, St. Georgen, Wismar, catalog, Bonn 2011;
• Dörte Beier, Caesar Bauer (ed.) - RB in “Photo Reflections 04”, catalog, Schleswig, 2012;
• Marianne Pitzen (Ed.) - RB in "Die Rationale III Bau + Raum", Bonn 2012;
• Susanne Knorr - RB in “Looking back and ahead” 20 years of Forum Konkrete Kunst, Erfurt, 2012;
• Bente Sonne - RB in “Grenzlandausstellung 2013”, catalog, Haderslev (DK), 2013;
• Roswitha Steinkopf - RB "Landesschaukunstpreis 2013", digital catalog, Kiel 2013;
• Regine Bonke “Afterimages | Photography ”, catalog, Kiel, 2014;
• Bernd Brandes-Druba (Ed.) - RB in "Entbegrenzt", documentation of the art collections of the Sparkassenstiftung Schleswig-Holstein, catalog vol. 02, Kiel 2015;
• Seventy Years of Community of Lübeck Artists, Almanach, Lübeck 2016;
• Anne Thurmann-Jajes (Ed.) - RB in “Artists 'Books for Everything” - Center for Artists' Publications, Weserburg, Bremen 2017;
• Michael Fuhr, Museumsberg Flensburg (ed.) - RB in "Glaube.Orte.Kunst." Catalog, German / Danish, Flensburg 2017;
• Hanseatic City of Wismar (Ed.) - RB in "Kunstraum St. Georgen", catalog book, Wismar 2017;
• Hayo Heye and Jens Martin Neumann - RB in “Where art is made. Artists' studios in Schleswig-Holstein ”, Kiel 2018;

Web links

• Official website of Regine Bonke
• Literature by and about Regine Bonke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Materials by and about Regine Bonke in the documenta archive
• Literature by and about Regine Bonke in the virtual catalog art history

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gabriele Münter Prize 1994 to 2007. Accessed on October 21, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Gabriele Münter Prize 2010. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 27, 2015 ; accessed on October 21, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ State Secretary for Culture Schmidt-Elsaeßer congratulates Regine Bonke on the BBK State Show Art Prize. (No longer available online.) In: Landesportal Schleswig-Holstein. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on October 21, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.