Jonathan Monk (B. Leicester in 1969) is a Britsh artist currently living and working in Berlin

 

Monk replays, recasts and re-examines seminal works of Conceptual and Minimal art by variously witty, ingenious and irreverent means as well as with autobiographical elements. Speaking in 2009, he said, “Appropriation is something I have used or worked with in my art since starting art school in 1987. At this time (and still now) I realized that being original was almost impossible, so I tried using what was already available as source material for my own work.”

 

Through wall paintings, monochromes, ephemeral sculpture and photography he reflects on the tendency of contemporary art to devour references, simultaneously paying homage to figures such as Sol LeWitt, Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman and Lawrence Weiner, while demystifying the creative process.

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Selected public collections:

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Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (2023)

Design Museum Holon, Holon, Israel (2022)

Museo Macro, Roma, Italia (2022)

Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2019)

Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany (2018)

Whitney Biennial, NYC (2006)

50th and 53rd Venice Biennales (2003, 2009)

Berlin Biennale (2001)

Taipei Biennial (2000)

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Selected public collections:

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC, US

MoMA, New York, US

Collection Lambert, Avignon, France

Statens museum for kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark

Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany

Tate Britain, London, UK

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden 

Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy

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