Monica Bonvicini
| Monica Bonvicini | |
|---|---|
| Born |
3 February 1965 Venice, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Education | Hochschule der Künste, Berlin; CalArts |
| Known for | Conceptual art, installation art, sculpture |
| Awards | Golden Lion |
Monica Bonvicini (born 1965 in Venice) is an Italian artist. She lives and works in Berlin.
Bonvicini studied at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin and at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. From 1998 to 2002 Bonvicini lived and worked in Los Angeles, where she also taught at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. Since 2003 Bonvicini has been Professor of Sculpture and Performance at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna. In her work Bonvicini investigates the relationship between power structures, gender and space. Bonvicini works intermediately with installation, sculpture, video, photography, and drawing.
Her work has been featured in several biennals, such as the Berlin Biennale (1998, 2003), the Istanbul Biennial (2003), and the Venice Biennale (2001, 2005, 2011 and 2015), and had solo presentations in renown institutions worldwide. Her work is represented in numerous public collections.
Bonvicini won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1999, the National Gallery Prize for Young Art in Berlin in 2005 and the Rolandpreis für Kunst in Bremen in 2013.
Sculptures by Bonvicini are permanently installed in the Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park in London, the harbour at the Oslo Opera House and the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art.
Satisfy Me, 2010
She Lies, 2010
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