Solo show
Solo show
This February, Bonniers Konsthall opened the main exhibition for the spring,
featuring Italian born/ Berlin based artist Monica Bonvicini. We are very proud to
be the first institution in Sweden to present a solo exhibition of this
internationally renowned artist.
Since the mid-1990s, Monica Bonvicini has worked on pieces that explore architecture
and the built environment from a gender-perspective. Her large-scale installations
and sculptures, which often use the art institution’s own architecture, aggressively
address the inherent values of the western architectural tradition, revealing the
ways that ideas about sexuality and gender infuse every last building block of our
constructions.
Monica Bonvicini often uses industrial materials like glass, metal, and chains, and
explores and redefines their meanings. A reoccurring theme in her art is the
fetishistic value these materials hold, and the way the art object, especially in
our culture, functions as a fetish.
The exhibition at Bonniers Konsthall features several of Monica Bonvicini’s
prominent works, all reference points in the contemporary discourse on art. Her
floor-piece Plastered will cover a large part of the konsthall. The ongoing work
What does your wife/girlfriend think of your rough and dry hands? is exhibited in
its totality, with additional questionnaires filled out in Stockholm. The exhibition
also features a series of Monica Bonvicini’s later works, like the text-based large
scale sculpture Not For You and one of her double swings.
Monica Bonvicini has had solo-exhibitions at established institutions around the
world, like Kunstwerke in Berlin, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Wiener Seccesion in
Vienna, and recently at the Sculpture Center in New York. She participates
frequently in biennials all over the world, and she received the Nationalgalerie
Prize for Young Art, one of Europe’s most prestigious art awards, in 2005. Bonvicini
is represented by Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan - West of Rome Inc., Los Angeles.
A catalogue will be published in conjunction with the exhibition.
Bonniers Konsthall in the centre of Stockholm is a new venue for Swedish and
international contemporary art. With exhibitions, seminars, publications, a studio
for guest artists and much more, Bonniers Konsthall aims to support the emergence of
and to promote encounters with new art. Jeanette Bonnier is the founder of Bonniers
Konsthall. Sara Arrhenius has been Director since 2005. The Konsthall is run on a
non-profit basis by the Bonnier family under the auspices of The Bonnier Group. The
Bonnier Group is one of Scandinavia’s biggest media concerns with operations in the
daily press, magazines, books, film and television.
Bonniers Konsthall
Torsgatan 19 - Stockholm