SHORT BIOGRAPHY:
Monica Bonvicini is an internationally recognized artist and professor of Sculpture at UdK Berlin since 2017 who works across media with spatial installations, sculptures, video, photography and drawing. In her work she investigates the relationship between power structures, gender and space, as they manifest themselves in architecture or everyday objects. In her highly praised permanent installation in Bjorvika Fjord in Norway entitled She lies (2010), she re-interprets Caspar David Friedrich’s 1824 painting Das Eismeer through symbolic references to symbols of power and change.
Selected Publications:
a) Solo Exhibitions
1. Bonvicini, M. Monica Bonvicini 3612,54 M3 VS 0,05 M3. Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany, 2017/18.
2. Bonvicini, M. her hand around the room. BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, 2016.
3. Bonvicini, M. Sterlin Ruby. Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany, 2012.
4. Bonvicini, M. Desire Desiese Devise. Deichtorhallen, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany, 2012
5. Bonvicini, M. BOTH ENDS. Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany 2010
6. Bonvicini, M. untitled/Tom Burr. Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland 2009
7. Bonvicini, M. Focus: Monica Bonvicini–Light Me Black. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA , 2009
8. Bonvicini, M. NEVER MISSING A LINE, Sculpture Center, Long Island, New York, USA 2007
b) Texts
9. Bonvicini, M. This Hammer Means Business. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2009.
10. Bonvicini, M. What Does Your Wife / Girlfriend Think of Your Rough And Dry Hands? Los Angeles: SITE Santa Fe Museum of Contemporary Art, 1999.