Jonathan Monk
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Jonathan Monk's work includes a wide range of media including installations, photography, film, sculpture and performance. His tongue-in-cheek methods often recall procedural approaches typical of 1960's Conceptualism, but without sharing their utopian ideals and notions of artistic genius. Instead, Monk grounds his conceptual approach in more commonplace concerns, that of personal history, his family, even pets, whilst still alluding to the types of systems and processes that artists such as Sol LeWitt employed so rigorously. While much of his work is gently playful and tinged with nostalgia for the late 1960's, it also challenges the idea of purity in modern art, demystifying the creative process and suggesting alternative models for how art and the role of the artist can be interpreted.
Lives and works in Berlin.
Artist Contact
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Artist News
Traces du sacré
Haus der Kunst, München
Group exhibition
19 September 2008 - 11 January 2009
Haus der Kunst
Die Wahrnehmung von Ideen führt zu neuen Ideen (#21)
Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Group exhibition
2 August 2008 - 28 September 2008
Kunstverein Düsseldorf
XV. Rohkunstbau Drei Farben - Rot
Group exhibition
Villa Kellermann, Potsdam
17 July 2008 - 5 November 2008
XV. Rohkunstbau
LESS
Haubrokshows, Berlin
Group exhibition
21 June 2008 - 2 August 2008
Haubrokshows
Private/Corporate V
Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
Group exhibition
20 June 2008 - 21 September 2008
Daimler Contemporary
Call it what you like!
Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, Denmark
Group exhibition
14 June 2008 - 28 September 2008
Art Centre Silkeborg Bad
Jonathan Monk
Palais de Toyko + Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris
29 May - 24 August 2008
Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris
Artist Press
The distance between my mother and my sisterBy Adam Carr
Published in: Um-Kehrungen (About-Turn), Kunstverein Braunschweig.
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Artist Exhibitions
Jonathan Monk November 29, 2006 - January 20, 2007View Exhibition
"The distance between me and you." July 9 - September 6, 2003
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Jonathan Monk January 30 - March 8, 2003
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A Shot in the Head July 14 - September 9, 2000
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Jonathan Monk October 24 - November 21, 1998
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Ideal Standard Summertime July 17 - September 30, 1995
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Artist Images
Chinese Crackers, 2006 16 mm film projection Dimesions variable
What is Seen is Described, what is Described is Seen (Rothko) Version 1, 2006 Oil on canvas 183 x 165 cm
What is Seen is Described, what is Described is Seen (Rothko) Version 1, 2006 Oil on canvas 183 x 165 cm
Second Hand Daily Exchange, 2006 Wax hands 20 x 10 x 10 cm
Nine Measurements in White, 2005 Painted aluminium Dimensions variable
Gallery Opening Hours, 2005 Neon sign 64.3 x 178 x 6 cm
Big Ben Piece, 2003 35mm Slide Projection with timer Dimensions variable
Lost Days, 2002 16mm film loop Projection size 9.5 x 8 cm
Sol Lewitt: 100 cubes Cantz/ Slow slow quick quick slow / front to back back to front / on its side, 2000 16mm film loop Dimensions variable
Closed, 1998 Black & white phototgraphic print 34 x 41 cm
No. 88 (Tenerife), 1992 Oil on canvas 85 x 57 x 4.5 cm