Monica Bonvicini
Monica Bonvicini emerged as a visual artist and started exhibiting internationally in the mid-1990s. Her multifaceted practice investigates the relationship between architecture, power structures, gender and space. Her research is translated into works that question the meaning of making art, the ambiguity of language, and the limits and possibilities connected to the ideal of freedom.
Among others, Bonvicini’s artworks are permanently installed in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London; on the waterfront at Bjørvika, before the Den Norske Opera & Ballett House, Oslo; Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen. In 2012 Bonvicini was appointed Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
Monica Bonvicini studied art at UdK in Berlin and at the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles. As a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Bonvicini led the Performative Arts and Sculpture courses from 2003 until 2017 where she helped to consolidate the city as one of the new artspot in Europe at the time. In October 2017, she assumed the professorship for Sculpture at the Universität der Künste, Berlin. She lives and works in Berlin.