Image: Jonathan Monk, Deflated Sculpture II, 2009 Stainless steel, 71.1 x 73.7 x 39.4 cmCourtesy the artist. Photo: Ken Adlard.
Through a site-specific installation created especially for the exhibition, Monk investigates the question of what defines the success of an exhibition or an artist. Is there a model for success? What happens without the support of collectors, galleries and exhibition budgets? What should an artist expect when realising a solo show that coincides with an internationally renowned art fair?
Essentially an exhibition of his exhibitions, Monk’s show at Kunsthaus Baselland covers the walls of the museum in photographs of his previous artworks and exhibitions. The show engages explicitly with the conditions of an exhibition through this new work, which should be read and understood in relation to the opening of leading international art fair Art Basel (16 – 19 June 2016).
Monk will be in conversation with Ines Goldbach, Director of Kunsthaus Baselland and curator of the exhibition, at 10am on Thursday 16 June. kunsthausbaselland.ch
About The Artist
Jonathan Monk was born in Leicester in 1969 and lives and works in Berlin. He has a BFA from Leicester Polytechnic (1988) and an MFA from Glasgow School of Art (1991). Solo exhibitions include Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin, Ireland (2014), Centro De Arte Contemporáneo (CAC) Málaga (2013), Kunstraum Dornbirn, Austria (2013), Palais de Tokyo and Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris (2008), Kunstverein Hannover (2006), Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2005) and Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf (2003). His work has been included in many group exhibitions, including Whitney Biennial (2006), the 50th and 53rd Venice Biennales (2003, 2009), Berlin Biennale (2001) and Taipei Biennial (2000). He was awarded the Prix du Quartier Des Bains, Geneva in 2012.
