During the Exhibition the Gallery will be Open (2003)
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Jonathan Monk
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Jonathan Monk (born 1969 in Leicester, UK; lives and works in Berlin) works across a wide range of media, including installation, photography, film, sculpture and performance. He adopts the aesthetics and practices of 1960s’ conceptualism, infusing the tradition with humour, levity and autobiographical elements. While much of his work is gently playful and tinged with nostalgia for the late 1960s, it also challenges the idea of purity in modern art, demystifying the creative process and suggesting alternative models for how art and the role of the artist can be interpreted.
During the Exhibition the Gallery will be Open (2003) comprises the set up of a simple table, microphone stand and mike that are used to make the activity in the gallery audible to an outside audience via live streaming on ACCA's website. The work refers to Robert Barry's seminal work of the same title.
Solo exhibitions of Monk’s work have been organised by Artpace, San Antonio (2009); Palais de Tokyo + Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris (2008); Kunstverein, Hannover (2006); Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2005); Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf (2003); Centre d’Art Contemporain, Neuchatel (1997); and Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (1992 and 1994). His work has also been included in group exhibitions, such as the Panama Biennial (2008), the Prague Biennale (2007), the Venice Biennale (2003), the Berlin Biennale (2001) and the Taipei Biennial (2000).
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Jonathan Monk, During the Exhibition the Gallery will be Open (2003) is featured in ACCA's exhibition Power to the People: Contemporary Conceptualism and the Object in Art . To listen to the live streaming at ACCA, click the image or link below.
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LIVE STREAMING - Jonathan Monk, During the Exhibition the Gallery will be Open (2003)
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Jonathan Monk,
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During the Exhibition the Gallery will be Open (2003)
Installation view, ACCA 2011
Photograph: Andrew Curtis
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