Monica Bonvicini

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Monica Bonvicini (* 1965 in Venice , Italy ) is an Italian artist and university professor . She lives in Berlin. In her work, Bonvicini examines the interplay of power relations, gender roles and space. She uses different media such as drawing , sculpture , installation , video and photography . Permanently installed sculptures by Monica Bonvicini are in Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park, London; on the Oslofjord in front of the Oslo Opera House and in the Museum of Modern Art , Istanbul.

biography

Study and teaching

Monica Bonvicini studied at the Berlin University of the Arts and at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia . Bonvicini spent a year in London from 1995 to 1996 as part of a residency program. From 1998 to 2002 she lived in Los Angeles, where she taught at the Art Center College of Design , Pasadena , among others .

In 2003 she took over the professorship for Performative Art and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . Since 2017 she has been a professor of sculpture at the Berlin University of the Arts .

Career

Bonvicini began exhibiting her work internationally in the mid-1990s. She describes her artistic practice as an investigation of the relationship between architecture and space, gender, sexuality, control and power. Her works reflect the importance of art production from the point of view of the mutability of language, the idea of ​​freedom and the limitation and possibility of words. Her work has been presented at biennials around the world, including the Berlin Biennale (1998, 2003, 2014), Istanbul Biennale (2003, 2017) and Venice Biennale (1999, 2001, 2005, 2011, 2015) and is in public collections. The artist has had solo exhibitions around the world.

Monica Bonvicini works across media with installations , sculptures, video, photography and drawing. In her work, she deals with power structures as they manifest themselves in architecture or everyday objects. In their formal language, the works often refer to Minimal Art and Conceptual Art .

In 1999 Bonvicini won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale , in 2005 the National Gallery Prize for Young Art in Berlin and in 2013 the Roland Prize for Art in Bremen, and in 2012 she was awarded the title of Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

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Bonvicini works with materials such as polyurethane, metal, chains, wood, spray paint, aluminum, ink, tempera, concrete and glass. Her works of art often deal with language and text, humor and irony.

I Believe the Skin of Things as in That of Women, 1999

The work entitled I Believe the Skin of Things as in That of Women was created by Bonvicini in 1998 for a gallery exhibition in Vienna . Harald Szeemann , who saw the work at the time, invited Bonvicini to the upcoming Venice Biennale , where she received the Golden Lion award the following year . The work of art examines gender roles that are manifested in the field of architecture and construction. Bonvicini describes this work as a confrontation with the “boys club” attitude that can often be found in the world of architecture. The installation is an architectural space constructed from drywall. Quotes from famous male architects such as August Perret and Adolf Loos are written on the walls in a graffiti-like style. The title of the work is a well-known quote from Le Corbusier . [7] The quotes are interwoven with comic-style compositions of naked men performing a variety of sexual acts while looking at women. This work of art is an example of Bonvicini's dry humor and fearless content that can also be found in many of her other works.

She Lies, 2010

The permanent installation She Lies was presented to the public on May 11, 2010. The work, commissioned by Public Art Norway, hovers on the Oslofjord in front of the Norwegian Opera & Ballet building . The work is made of Styrofoam, stainless steel, reflective glass panels, glass splinters and stands on a concrete pontoon, which is equipped with an anchor system. The monumental sculpture (12 × 17 × 16 meters in size) is an interpretation of Caspar David Friedrich's painting Das Eismeer (1824). As a symbolic reference to Romanticism and its ideals, which has created various generally accepted and fixed clichés that relate to the art and the professionalization of art, but also to nature and scientific exploitation, Bonvicini takes up the pictorial representation of the ice masses in Friedrichs Painting back on.

RUN, 2012

The permanent installation was erected in the Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park in London for the 2012 Summer Olympics . The design and title of the work are based on texts and the language of popular music. The work refers to songs such as "Run, Run, Run" by The Velvet Underground , "Running Dry" by Neil Young or "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen . Each letter, made of steel and reflective glass, measures nine meters and weighs ten tons each. Bonvicini's work is on the square in front of the London Handball Arena, also known as the Copper Box , and is the largest installation in the entire park. Bonvicini uses the reflective properties of the glass to reflect the environment that changes over the course of the day. The installed LED lights create a radiant effect that runs through the entire work of art thanks to the reflective surface of the letters. In response to the gentrification processes and the changing urban sceneries that could be observed in preparation for the Olympic Games in London, she draws references to music, alternative and pop culture.

Hurricanes and other Catastrophes, 2006 - ongoing

In 2006 Bonvicini began a series of black and white drawings that deal with natural disasters, their architectural ruins and social consequences. The drawings from the first few years juxtapose the destroyed houses with quotations from authors such as Anaïs Nin and Julia Kristeva .

In preparation for her participation in the 2008 New Orleans Biennale, Bonvicini toured the New Orleans area and took photos of houses that were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 . These formed the basis for another cycle in the series.

In the following, Bonvicini increasingly used images from the news reports as the basis for the development of the motif, the accompanying texts of which cite global warming as the cause of the natural disasters.

Works

She Lies in Oslofjord , in front of the Oslo Opera House, Norway.
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Honourings and prices

Exhibitions (selection)

Works in public collections (selection)

Permanently installed works in public space

Monographs and exhibition catalogs (selection)

  • Belvedere 21 (Ed.), I CANNOT HIDE MY ANGER, König Books, 2019
  • Berlinische Galerie (Ed.), Monica Bonvicini , Kerber Verlag, 2017
  • Monica Bonvincini. Survey by Janet Kraynak, Interview by Alexander Alberro, Focus by Juliane Rebentisch, Artist's Writing by Monica Bonvicini. Phaidon Press, 2014,
  • Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Deichtorhallen Hamburg / Falckenberg Collection (Ed.): Monica Bonvicini - Disegni. Distance Verlag, Berlin 2012.
  • Kunsthalle Fridericianum (Ed.): Monica Bonvicini. Both ends. Kunsthalle Fridericianum and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bio | Monica Bonvicini. Retrieved on August 9, 2018 (German).
  2. ↑ Does Berlin Need a New Art School? Retrieved August 9, 2018 .
  3. ↑ ] a [- Performative Art & Sculpture. Retrieved August 9, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Appointment: Monica Bonvicini takes on a professorship for sculpture - Berlin University of the Arts. Retrieved August 9, 2018 .
  5. ↑ LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 1999 at La Biennale di Venezia Venice - Artmap.com. Retrieved August 9, 2018 .
  6. ^ Prize 2005 - Friends of the National Gallery. Retrieved August 9, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Monica Bonvicini is Roland Prize winner 2012. (No longer available online.) In: Stiftung Bremer Sculptor Prize. November 19, 2012, archived from the original on August 9, 2018 ; accessed on October 16, 2019 .
  8. ^ Segretariato generale della Presidenza della Repubblica - Servizio sistemi informatici: Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana. Retrieved August 9, 2018 (Italian).
  9. ↑ Extended Stage: Monica Bonvicini •. In: Mousse Magazine. September 26, 2019, accessed April 15, 2020 (it-IT).
  10. ↑ Monica Bonvicini · Hans Platschek Prize Winner 2019 - Hans Platschek Foundation | Hamburg, Germany. Retrieved October 16, 2019 (German).
  11. ↑ Oskar Kokoschka Prize goes to Monica Bonvicini. In: ORF.at . January 10, 2020, accessed January 10, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Der Spiegel , Kulturspiegel, 8/2010.
  13. ↑ Press release She Lies , Bjørvika Fjord, Oslo Opera House  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.koro.no
personal data
SURNAME Bonvicini, Monica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian sculptor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice , Italy