01/05/2020
I came across Monica Bonvicini’s work browsing my Instagram feed.
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Monica Bonvicini
Bent and Winded
2017
LED tubes, wire, steel, electric cable
120 x 165 x 30 cm
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Kleine Lichtkanone
2009
10 fluorescent lights, tie wraps, electric cables, electronic ballasts, circular crimp connectors, heat shrink tubing
Approx. 16 x 70 x 12 cm, height variable
Light Me Black
2009
144 fluorescent lights, white metal fixtures, steel structure, electrical cables, 2 breakers, steel chains
Approx. 160 cm x 550 cm x 140 cm
height variable
© photo Photo: Jens Ziehe, © Monica Bonvicini
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Monica Bonvicini studied art in Berlin and at Cal Arts, Valencia, CA. Since 2003 she holds a position as Professor for Performative Arts and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Beginning in October 2017 she assumes the professorship for sculpture at the Universität der Künste, Berlin. She lives and works in Berlin.
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Monica Bonvicini emerged as visual artist and started exhibiting internationally in the mid-1990s. Her multifaceted practice—which investigates the relationship between architecture, power, gender, space, surveillance and control—is translated into works that question the meaning of making art, the ambiguity of language, and the limits and possibilities attached to the ideal of freedom.
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