Guilt culture.

Guilt. The sequence of letters becomes a visual assertion, a signet that contains both admonition and denunciation. But who is the addressee?

Guilt. A term with so many meanings:

[subjektiv] an unauthorized/reprehensible act.

[objektiv] the transgression of moral or legally prohibited boundaries.

One or the other – combined with power over people and behavior.

KLANGLICHT 2018

Monica Bonvicini, born 1965 in Venice, is an Italian artist and university lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts. She lives and works in Berlin. Her works are cross-media with installation, sculpture, video, photography and drawing and deal with power structures as they manifest themselves in architecture or everyday objects, among other things. On the BIX media façade of the Grazer Kunsthaus, Bonvicini brings the culture of guilt discussed by our society into the focus of the city center. In their formal language, the works often make reference to minimal art and conceptual art.

“Being part of Klanglicht with the projects by Monica Bonvicini on the façade of the Kunsthaus and Azra Aksamija on the church façade on Mariahilferplatz is very important to us. We are thus linking the exhibition Faith Love Hope, which extends from the Kunsthaus and the Minorite Cultural Center far into the city, with urban events today. The two works deliberately focus attention on levels of Christian heritage that manifest themselves everywhere in urban space.”

– Barbara Steiner, Director Kunsthaus Graz

In cooperation with
Kunsthaus Graz.