MONICA BONVICINI (b. 1965, Venice, Italy) lives and works in Berlin.
Since the mid-1990s, Monica Bonvicini has worked on large-scale installation and sculptural pieces that explore architecture and the built environment and their relationships to gender. Her installations and sculptures, which often utilize the architecture in which they are shown, aggressively address the values inherent in the Western tradition, revealing the ways that ideas about sexuality and gender infuse every building block of our constructions.
Bonvicini has had solo exhibitions at many prominent institutions around the world, such as Le Magasin, Grenoble; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Kunstraum, Innsbruck, Austria; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Wiener Secession, Vienna; and recently at the Sculpture Center, New York. She has participated in important group exhibitions including the São Paulo Biennial (2006); the Venice Biennale (1999/2005); and the Taipei and Gwangju Biennials in 2006. In 2005, she received the Nationalgalerie Prize for Young Art, one of Europe’s most prestigious art awards. Most recently she won a contest for the public commission of a sculpture to be placed in the fiord in front of the New Opera House in Oslo.
Bonvicini is represented by Galleria Emi Fontana in Milan.