Milena Bonilla
Milena Bonilla was born in 1975 in Bogota
She lives and works in Amsterdam
Milena Bonilla’s research-based practice is currently invested in epistemological colonialism and the different ways it affects organisms, language and social structures. By identifying patters, gaps and silences within specific historical narratives, the artist draws tensions between predetermined political templates and uses of cognition. These conceptual and perceptual exercises appear weaved across the manifold material manifestations of her work.
After studying visual arts at the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogota, she studied at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam (2009-2010).
Her work has been presented in several international institutions and events, such as Framer/Framed, Amsterdam (2019); Garage, Rotterdam (2018); The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2018); Ar/Ge Kunst, Bolzano (2017); Kadist, San Francisco (2018); The Jewish Museum, New York (2017); MAMM, Medellín, Colombia (2015-2017); Spring Workshop, Hong Kong (2015); The Mistake Room, Los Angeles (2015); CA2M, Madrid (2015); MNBA, Buenos Aires; The Photographer’s Gallery (2013); The International Institute of Visual Arts, London (2010); Witte de With, Rotterdam (2010); Konstall C, Stockholm (2009); Marrakech Biennale (2014); 9th Shanghai Biennale (2012); 12th Istanbul Biennale (2011); 10th Havana Biennale, Cuba (2009) and 3rd Bucharest Biennale (2008).
In 2017, Milena Bonilla received The Work Award Proven Talent, awarded by the Mondriaan Fonds.
The Accumulation of Capital [riddled], 2019 - Installation view, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, 2019
The Accumulation of Capital [riddled], 2019 - Installation view, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, 2019
The Accumulation of Capital [riddled], 2019 - Detail of the installation
The Accumulation of Capital [riddled], 2019 - Detail of the installation
Dark Fading Chlorophyll [Luxemburg], 2019 - Installation view, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, 2019
Spring starts as a murmur (Utopia), 2019 - Installation view, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, 2019
Stone Deaf, 2009-2010 - Installation View, Kadist, Paris, 2018
Stone Deaf, 2009-2010 - Installation View, Kadist, Paris, 2018
Stone Deaf, 2009-2010 - Installation View, Kadist, Paris, 2018
Stone Deaf, 2009-2010 - HD Video - Video Still
Stone Deaf, 2009-2010 - Exhibition view, Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2010
Sinister Manuscript, 2008 - Luxury Version
Capital/ Piracy 2008 - Pirate Version - Intervention in Plaza de Armas, Havana, 2009
Capital/ Piracy 2008 - Pirate Version - Intervention in Plaza de Armas, Havana, 2009
Capital/ Piracy 2008 - Pirate Version - Intervention in Plaza de Armas, Havana, 2009
Capital / Sinister Manuscript, 2008 - Original manuscript
Capital / Sinister Manuscript, 2008 - Original manuscript
Capital/The Sinister Skilfully Written, 2007-2008 - Installation view, Koldo Mixtelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, 2019
The Sinister Skillfully Written, 2007-2008 - Detail
An Enchanted Forest, 2013-2014 - Installation View, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, 2016
An Enchanted Forest, 2013-2014 - 16 C-prints
An Enchanted Forest, 2013-2014 - Installation View, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, 2016
An Enchanted Forest, 2013-2014 - HD video - Video Still
An Enchanted Forest, 2013-2014 - Installation View, Garage Rotterdam, 2016
An Enchanted Forest, 2013-2014 - Installation View, Garage Rotterdam, 2016
Size/To Sell or to Rent, 2006 - Installation View, Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire, France (2016)
Size/To Sell or to Rent, 2006 - Installation View, MOCO, Montpellier, France, 2020
Variations on a Homogeneous Landscape, 2006 - Installation with 27 inkjet prints from digital drawings
Variations on a Homogeneous Landscape, 2006 - Detail of the Installation
Ceremony for a Homogenous Landsccape, 2009 - Animation converted to video - Video Still
Two Narcotics Tracing a Cluster Inside a Dreaming Spiral, 2016 - Series of 16 C-Prints
Two Narcotics Tracing a Cluster Inside a Dreaming Spiral, 2016 - Detail Video Still
Two Narcotics Tracing a Cluster Inside a Dreaming Spiral, 2016 - Detail of one C-print
In the Mood for Love or How to Move a Criminal, 2015 - C-print
A Report to an Academy, 2010-2012 - Installation view, Centro Colombo Americano, Bogota, 2012
An Endless Present, 2013 - Installation View, mor charpentier, Paris, 2020
An Endless Present, 2013
Poisoned – Behind that Grid There is a Maze, 2019 - Live Performance, punt WG, Amsterdam
Pavilion Amsterdam, 2017 - Live performance with Luisa Ungar, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Dejá Vù / Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, 2010 - Site Specific intervention, Cordoba, Argentina