Monica Bonvicini

Born 1965 in Venice, Italy. Lives and works in Berlin.

Since 2003, Bonvicini works as a Professor for Performative arts and sculpting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Surreal versus Surrealism in Contemporary Art, IVAM, Valencia; Satisfy Me, Centro de Art Contemporaneo, Malaga; Beziehungsarbeit – Kunst und Institution, Künstlerhaus, Vienna; and the Biennale de Venetië (all 2011); Bet Your Sweet Life, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin; BOTH ENDS, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel; Under Destruction. Destruction in Art – 50 Years after HtNY, Museum Tinguely, Basel; and The New Décor, Hayward Gallery, London (all 2010); Focus Monica Bonvicini – Light Me Black, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Monica Bonvicini, MUSEION, Bolzano; Bonvicini / Burr, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel and Lehnbachhaus, Munich (2009); Prospect.1 Biennial, New Orleans; and Female Trouble, The Camera as Mirror and Stage of Female Projection in Photography and Video Art, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (both 2008); Monica Bonvicini, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; and NEVER MISSING A LINE, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY (both 2007); Jenseits des Kinos: Die Kunst der Projektion, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2006). She also exhibited in the 1998 and 2004 Berlin Biennales, and the 1999 and 2005 Biennales de Venetië. In 2007, she was assigned the public commission for HUN LIGGER – SHE LIES (a site-specific sculpture floating on the water in front of the New Opera House), Oslo. In 2010, Bonvicini won the public competition of the Handball Plaza Light Art Commission in the framework of the London Olympic Games 2012, where she will realize a large-scale, permanent outdoor sculpture by the end of 2011.

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