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(Venice, Italy, 1965; lives and works in Berlin, Germany)

Monica Bonvicini's works investigate the relationships between space, gender and power. Utilizing different media, including drawing, collage, video and sculpture, her individual artworks are also steps in the process toward creating large-scale installations. An outstanding aspect of Bonvicini's work is her conceptual and formal exploration of environmental sculpture. Her critique of minimalism focuses on the incorporation of its forms in the bourgeois aesthetic of everyday structures. Through a reflection on gender issues, often reinforced by biting humor, her work addresses the problem of "building", both architectural and social.

Her work has been shown at prestigious institutions including the National Gallery of Island, Art against Architecture, Reykjavik, 2008), Pinakothek der Moderne, (Female Trouble, The camera as mirror and stage of female projection in photography and video art, Munich, 2008), Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY (2007), Kunstraum, Innsbruck; Galerie für Zeitgenössiche Kunst, Leipzig; Kunstmuseum, St Gallen; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; San Paolo Biennale, Brazil (2006); Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2005); Migros Museum, Zürich; Sprengel Museum, Hannover (2004); New Museum, New York ; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Tramway Glasgow; Secession, Wien (2003); Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Art Museum; Kunstmuseum Aahrus (2002); Magasin, Grenoble (2001); Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus; Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (2000); Venice Biennial, Venice (1999, 2005); GAM, Turin (1999)

Monica Bonvicini was assigned in 2007 the public commission for HUN LIGGER (SHE LIES), a site-specific sculpture floating in the water in front of the New Opera House in Oslo. She also has won in 2005 the Preis der Nationalgalerie für Junge Kunst in Berlin. She teaches at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna since 2003.