Milena Bonilla (Colombia / Netherlands)
Milena Bonilla
(born in 1975 in Bogotá, Colombia) works in a variety of media, including installation, video, drawing, text, public interventions and photography, exploring the relationships between economy, subjectivity, nature and culture. She lives and works in Amsterdam.
Her research-based practice is currently invested in epistemological colonialism and the different ways it affects organisms, language and social structures. By identifying patterns, 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. The work of Bonilla has been for a long time invested in the connection between the human and the plant world and in one of its latest iterations she has been researching also the herbarium of philosopher Rosa Luxemburg.
Her work has been shown in several museums including Museo d'Arte Contemporanea MACRO, Rome; Cadist Paris and San Francisco; Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam; The Mistake Room, Los Angeles Ca.; Rijksmuseum Amsterdam; Ar/Ge Art, Bolzano; The Jewish Museum, New York; MAMM, Medellín; Spring Workshop in Hong Kong; CA2M Madrid; MNBA, Buenos Aires; The Photographer's Gallery and the International Institute of Visual Arts in London; Witte de With in Rotterdam; Framer Framed, Amsterdam; Konstall C, Stockholm; Marrakech and Shanghai Bienniale parallel project, and the 12th Istanbul, 10th Havana and 3rd Bucharest Bienniales.
The residency is funded thanks to financial support from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
- Curator
- Marianna Dobkowska
