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kurimanzutto, Mexico City presents “Wall,” a solo exhibition by Monika Sosnowska.
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Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles is presenting the first solo exhibition of noted Polish artist Monika Sosnowska in Los Angeles through September 17, 2017.
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Srihatta-Samdani Art Centre and Sculpture Park includes artist residency spaces and a gallery for international and regional art
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Exhibitions
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At a dinner in Venice on Thursday night, the Samdani Art Foundation, established by the Bangladeshi collectors Nadia and Rajeeb Samdani, unveiled plans for a permanent space.
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A report and the highlights from a show themed around fluidity, flux, botany and the subterranean.
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Habitat is a collection of recent sculptures by the Polish artist Monika Sosnowska, best known for her enormous skeletal architectural forms.
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The exhibition ‘Habitat’ by Monika Sosnowska runs through February 26, 2017 at Contemporary Austin, USA.
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10 Exhibitions Opening This Week
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Art Berlin Contemporary (abc) returns to Station Berlin, Gleisdreieck for its ninth edition from September 15-18, 2016 with more than 60 local and international galleries.
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For the past few months, The Contemporary Austin’s Jones Center has been undergoing a major $3 million renovation.
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COMMON AFFAIRS was conceived as a cooperation project between the Deutsche Bank KunstHalle in Berlin, the Polish Institute Berlin, and the Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw.
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10 Exhibitions Opening This Week
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The sculptures will be installed this summer as part of a renovation that will be finished by June 2017. The Walker is paying for the art, valued at $
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Cahiers d’Art’s solo exhibition of internationally renowned polish artist Monika Sosnowska focuses on a series of architecture-inspired paper models as well as a selection of maquettes produced by the artist during a three-month residency at the Atelier Calder in Saché.
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Mónica Manzutto and José Kuri opened their gallery together over fifteen years ago. Today kurimanzutto has become one of Mexico’s foremost galleries.
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10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch
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With the recent closing of Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, Beth Campbell is currently without a home-base, but she is taking New York by storm with three recent shows around the city.(full version)
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Mr. di Suvero, something of a dying breed in art, has been a flag-bearer for American Modernist sculpture since the early ’60s. As a young man, he took up welding in order to recuperate from a traumatic construction accident
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Monika Sosnowska’s “Tower,” a massive steel sculpture that cuts a 110-foot swath across the main gallery of Hauser & Wirth, is a cautionary symbol
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Capitain Petzel is presenting the second solo exhibition by Monika Sosnowska. The Warsaw-based artist shows the major installation “Stairway“, (2010).
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New York Times’ Carol Vogel reported earlier today that the six artist finalists for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s 2012 Hugo Boss Prize have
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This year’s Venice Biennale has been curated by Tate Etc. magazine’s editorial director Bice Curiger. Laid out in the Central Pavilion in the Giardini
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Last week Artpace San Antonio unveiled its 10.2 international artist-in-residence projects from Monika Sosnowska (Warsaw, Poland), Corey McCorkle
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Next Thursday evening, artstars and fans will gather at the Guggenheim in New York City for a ceremony and party announcing the winner of the Hugo Boss
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The Aspen Art Museum features the artwork of Monika Sosnowska in an exhibition that includes a new series of works that continue her investigations into the relationship between form and function, ornament and structure, recognition and confusion.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art is continuing its practice of grazing the art market for fresh purchases by steering away from the mainstream or seeking
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Monika Sosnowska has created a building that consists of nothing but gaps. Her sculpture called Wall sits uncomfortably in a corner at ACCA, leaving another gap behind it
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ILLUMInations, the 54th Venice Biennale, is an overwhelming presentation of revealing contemporary art by a mostly young roster of artists.
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- Miami Art Museum is commissioning works by four renowned international artists to be presented at the Museum’s reopening
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Monika Sosnowska, best known for her enormous skeletal architectural forms, exploits the engineering gifts of these elements and the imperceptible grace of their designs. Her sculptures of mutilated building elements are not creative approximations of architecture; they are fabricated building elements distorted and reassembled. Sosnowska’s structures crumple like paper, bend, and contort to the demands of historical time and the force of an ideological gravity. Their specificity is earned by separation from what they are developed out of. Structures of support—distinctly to support people—are malleable and flimsy when removed from their context, ungrounded, unhinged, they become purposeless. Intended to enclose, protect, and assist us, they are the most telling when they fail. A broken step doesn’t go unnoticed. But something animates these truncated forms; something ghostly resonates from the cold industrial material. Reminiscent of something familiar, something known, but not in reality—only in memory or constructed out of it. Our ability to deal with the present as a distinct point in history is disjointed. We are asking ourselves to understand the present as a continuation of time and history that we only vaguely understand. The present infinitely repeats itself as a continuous trajectory of vanishing.
Monika Sosnowska studied at five years at Poznan's Academy of Fine Arts in the painting department. In 1998 she went on to complete two years of postgraduate studies in Amsterdam, at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. In 2003 Sosnowska was awarded the prestigious Baloise Art Prize in Basel, Switzerland, as well as the Polityka's Passport award given by Poland's most influential weekly, and in 2012 she was a nominee of The Hugo Boss Prize.
Her most important exhibitions include Habitat, The Contemporary Austin, Texas, United States (2016); Architectonisation, Fundaçao De Serralves, Porto, Portugal (2015); Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (2013); Regional Modernities, Australian Center for Contemporary Art ACCA, Melbourne, Australia (2013); Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, United States (2013); Monika Sosnowska: Fir Tree, Public Art Fund, New York, United States (2012); Stairway, K21 Düsseldorf, Germany (2010); 1:1, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland (2008); Polish Pavilion, 52th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (2007); LOOP, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein (2007); Projects 83: Monika Sosnowska, Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States (2006). Additionally, her work has been included in group exhibitions at institutions such as the Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw, Poland (2012); MCA Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, United States (2012); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (2010); South London Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2007); Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland (2006) among others.
She has participated in various biennials, such as the 13th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (2017); 9th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai, China (2013) and the 54th Biennale di Venezia, Italy (2011).
Monika Sosnowska currently lives and works in Warsaw, Poland.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
