TransArts – Monica Bonvicini: Performative Architektur
TransArts
- Transdisciplinary Art
Since the beginning of her career, working in space and with space has been one of
the starting points of Monica Bonvicini's work. Her work moves in the field of tension between architecture, power structures,
gender and space. Bonvicini's works are not only an expression of aesthetic and conceptual considerations, but also of in-depth
analyses of the history and social meanings of the places in which they are installed.
Starting
with early works, she will also provide insights into the development of her most recent installations, including ‘I Cannot
Hide My Anger’ at Belvedere 21 in Vienna in 2019, ‘I do You’ at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin in 2022 and the current
installation ‘And Rose’ in the former church of San Carlo in Cremona.
This raises the question of what constitutes interaction
with the space. To what extent does research influence the work? And how does this knowledge become visible in installations?
Monica Bonvicini is considered one of the most influential artists of her time. In her multimedia practice, she examines
the relationship between architecture, space, power structures and gender.
Her work has been honoured many times:
in 1999 she received the Golden Lion at the Biennale di Venezia, in 2005 the National Gallery Prize for Young Art, in 2013
the Roland Prize for Art in Public Space, in 2019 the Hans Platschek Prize for Art and Writing and in 2020 the Oskar Kokoschka
Prize. In 2012, she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
Bonvicini's works have been shown in
numerous international solo and group exhibitions in renowned institutions, including Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Kunsthaus
Graz; Belvedere 21, Vienna; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead; Kunsthalle Fridericianum,
Kassel; KW Institute
for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; New Museum, New York; Lenbachhaus, Munich; Palais de Tokyo, Paris;
Art Sonje Center, Seoul; The Art Institute of Chicago, and many other venues. She has been represented at the world's most
important
biennials, e.g. in Berlin, Venice, New Orleans, Gwangju, São Paulo, Istanbul, Shanghai and Santa Fe, as well
as at the Paris Triennial. Permanently installed sculptures by Bonvicini can be found in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London,
on the Bjørvika Fjord in front of the Oslo Opera House and on the façade of the Weserburg Museum, Bremen.
Monica
Bonvicini was born in Venice and studied art at the Berlin University of the Arts and the California Institute of the Arts,
Los Angeles. From 2003 to 2017, she taught Performative Art and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Since 2017
she has held the professorship for sculpture at the Berlin University of the Arts. She lives and works in Berlin.
