Lecture Monica Bonvicini:

Lecture Monica Bonvicini

Monday, 31.05.2010, 19:00h
IKA Lecture Room R211a, 2.OG

SOME MORE OR LESS SUCCESSFUL PROJECTS

In this lecture Monica will show some of her recent projects and address the materialisation of her ideas of projects which have grown in scale to also become veritable structural, climatical and technical challenges.

One of those projects is called SHE LIES

SHE LIES is an autonomous, sculptural artwork that is permanently placed in the harbour basin just outside the Opera House in Oslo, Norway. The sculpture is a three-dimensional interpretation of Caspar David Friedrich’s painting Das Eismeer from 1823-1824. The size of the sculpture is 12 x 17 x 16m. SHE LIES is an open steel construction, partly covered with reflective, semi-transparent diagonal panels. The parts of the sculpture that are not covered by these panels reveal the construction, allowing the viewer to see straight through. Weather and lighting conditions change the sculpture, and simultaneously become part of it.

Born in Venice in 1965, lives in Berlin. Since 2003 Prof. for Sculpture and Performative Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Since 1986 she’s been living, studying and working in Berlin, studying and teaching in Los Angeles, letting her language open to many different contaminations. The art of Monica Bonvicini explores the relationships among space, gender and power, using different media as drawing, video, installation. A pivotal aspect of Bonvicini’s work is her formal and expressive research in the field of environment sculpture: through a reflection on the gender issues, often mixed up with sharp humour, her work concentrate on the problem of building, both from the architectonic and from the social point of view. Bonvicini’s work is internationally recognized as one of the most interesting and original contribute to the art of the last years.

She won important prizes as the Preis der Nationalgalerie fuer junge Kunst in Berlin (2005) and the Leone d’Oro at the 48 Biennale di Venezia (1999). She was visiting professor at the Pasadena Art center and Cal Arts.

Monica Bonvicini’s work was shown in prestigious private and public spaces: Biennale di Carrara, New Décor, Hayward Gallery, London, Max Hetzler Galerie (2010), Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Scorpio’s Garden, Berlin, Jumex Collection Mexico, Nothingness and Being, Mexico City, Museum für Gegegnwartskusnt Basel, Basel(2009) KW, Institute for Contemporary Art, Political Minimal, Berlin, Pinakothek der Moderne, Female Trouble, The Camera as Mirror and Stage of Female Projection in Photography and Video Art, Munich (2008), Bonniers Konsthall Stockholm, Sculpture Center New York, Triennale Bovisa, Milano (2007); 27th Sao Paulo Biennial, Galerie f?r Zeitgen?ssiche Kunst Leipzig, Kunstraum Innsbruck (2006); Biennale d’Arte Contemporanea di Goeteborg, 51 Biennale di Venezia, Castello di Rivoli (2005); Migros Museum Zurigo, Sprengel Museum Hannover (2004); Secession Vienna, Museum of Modern Art Oxford, 8 Biennale di Istanbul, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Torino (2003); Palais de Tokio Parigi, Hamburg Kunstverein, Kunsthaus Zurigo (2002); Le Magasin Grenoble, List Visual Arts Center Cambridge (2001); Salzburger Kunstverein Salisburgo, Kunsthaus Glarus (2000); GAM Torino, De Appel Amsterdam, PS1 New York (1999).