Jonathan Monk

Overview

Jonathan Monk born 1969, Leicester, Great Britain. Lives and works in Berlin.

British artist Jonathan Monk replays, recasts and re-examines seminal works of Conceptual and Minimal art by variously witty, ingenious and irreverent means. 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.

Jonathan Monk presented in numerous institutions: among others, in the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), MoMA, New York, Musée national d’Art Moderne — Centre Georges Pompidou, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, CCA – Center of Contemporary Art (Tel Aviv), Kunsthaus Baselland (Muttenz/Basel), Museo d’arte contemporanea (Rome), IMMA (Dublin), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery (Saratoga), Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt am Main), Museo Jumex (Mexico City), Kunsthalle Zürich, Zacheta – National Gallery of Art (Warsaw), Centre d’edition contemporaine (Geneva), Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Edinburgh), Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich), Israel Museum (Jerusalem). Monk won the Prix du Quartier Des Bains in 2012.

His works are featured in many prestigious collections such as The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, MoMA New York, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Statens museum for kunst (Copenhagen), Daimler Contemporary (Berlin), Tate Britain (London), Moderna Museet (Stockholm).

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Works

Metallic Sunset with Additional Information X, 2022
Metallic Sunset with Additional Information XI, 2022
Metallic Sunset with Additional Information XII, 2022
Metallic Sunset with Additional Information VIII, 2022
Exhibit Model Detail with Additional Information IV, 2020
Exhibit Model Detail with Additional Information XIII, 2020
A Mirrored Carpet Reversal With Segmented Cheese And Underside Reveal, 2018
WE ARE HERE TO CLARIFY THE SITUATION [Light pink], 2018
WE ARE HERE TO CLARIFY THE SITUATION [Rose], 2018
WE ARE HERE TO CLARIFY THE SITUATION [Tomato red], 2018
Il cane di Pistoletto 4, 2017
Il cane di Pistoletto 5, 2017
Sketch for Name Used to Fill Space, 2017
The Performance Tape, 2017
Butterflies Cut Out And Encouraged To Fly Away (11-40, 2016
Butterflies Holding Advert In Place (Bechers), 2016
Violent Shadow VI, 2016
Violent Shadow VII, 2016
Wool Piece III (Sell the House), 2016
Wool Piece IV (Prankster), 2016
Hand holding negative, 2015
Poster of Sol Lewitt wall painting C. Untitled pasted onto wall painting, 2015
Poster of Sol Lewitt wall painting E. Untitled pasted onto wall painting, 2015
Parkett Piece, 2014
The World Without The World in Grey, 2014
Wool Pattern Piece, 2014
All the possible ways of switching 8 torches on one at a time (silver up-lighting), 2013
The USA Made From The Remains of Other Worlds II, 2013
The World in gay pride Flags II, 2013
All the possible ways of lighting eight candles, 2012
Still Life II, 2011
Still Life III, 2011
Still Life IV, 2011
Still Life V, 2011
A Copy Of Deflated Sculpture V, 2009/2020
Cigarette and Bucket Piece with the Sound of The Smiths, 2000-2005