Milena Bonilla

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  • Milena Bonilla, Utopia (2005, series of 6 color photographs, 30 x 40 cm each)

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  • Milena Bonilla, Capital / Sinister Manuscript (2007-2009, Gilt-edged printed book with linen binding, slipcase, 6.1 x 33.1 x 22.6 cm)

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  • Milena Bonilla, Size / to rent or to sell (2006, mixed media : thread balls, table, labels, plotter, documents)

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  • Milena Bonilla, Rastro (2007, Site-specific project, mixed media)

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  • Milena Bonilla, Noises (2007-present, Drawings, inks on paper, 9 x 14 cm each)

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  • Milena Bonilla, Capital / Sinister Manuscript (2007-2009, Pirate version : distributed freely in the streets of Bogota, Colombia)

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  • Milena Bonilla, Capital / Sinister Manuscript (2007-2009, Gilt-edged printed book with linen binding, slipcase – detail)

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  • Milena Bonilla, The end of the world will be silent (2009, mixed media, 200 x 100 x 80 cm)

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  • Milena Bonilla, A Task on Belief (2009, Text from ‘A Chinese Curious’ by Walter Benjamin, 9 x 12.5 cm)

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  • Milena Bonilla, There is no place (2009, Collaboration with Miklos Gaál, single channel video, 5:00 loop)

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  • Milena Bonilla, Stone Deaf (2009, Graphite on rice paper, 97 cm x 1.6 m)

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  • Milena Bonilla, Ceremony for an homogenous landscape (2009, Video animation 2’34″)

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  • Milena Bonilla, One exercise about self-destruction (2010, 7 color inkjet prints, 30 x 42 cm)

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  • Milena Bonilla, Orthopedia (2010, HD video 4’11″ + sound, 2 A3 inkjet prints available)

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  • Milena Bonilla, Failed Spiral (2011-2012, Rotating plant installation + video, variable dimensions)

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  • Stand installation, (2012. Variable Dimensions), view at Art-O-Rama, Marseille, 2012.

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  • Remember (2012. Variable Dimensions), view at Art-O-Rama, Marseille, 2012.

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  • Remember (2012, detail. Variable Dimensions), view at Art-O-Rama, Marseille, 2012.

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  • Flood (2012. Variable Dimensions), view at Art-O-Rama, Marseille, 2012.

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  • A Dead Song for John Cage (2012. Variable Dimensions), view at Art-O-Rama, Marseille, 2012.

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  • Monologue of a Dizzy Beast, 2012. (Installation view at Frieze London, 2012).

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  • Monologue of a Dizzy Beast, 2012. (Installation view at Frieze London, 2012).

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  • Monologue of a Dizzy Beast, 2012. (Installation view at Frieze London, 2012).

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  • Monologue of a Dizzy Beast, 2012. (Installation view at Frieze London, 2012).

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  • Monologue of a Dizzy Beast, 2012. (Installation view at Frieze London, 2012).

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  • Monologue of a Dizzy Beast, 2012. (Installation view at Frieze London, 2012).

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  • The One Dimensional man meets God, but God snubs him.(Digital C-Print, 29.7 x 42 cm, 2013)

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  • The One Dimensional man meets God, but God snubs him.(Digital C-Print, 29.7 x 42 cm, 2013)

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  • The One Dimensional man meets God, but God snubs him.(Digital C-Print, 29.7 x 42 cm, 2013)

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  • The One Dimensional man meets God, but God snubs him.(Digital C-Print, 29.7 x 42 cm, 2013)

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  • The One Dimensional man meets God, but God snubs him.(Digital C-Print, 29.7 x 42 cm, 2013)

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  • The One Dimensional man meets God, but God snubs him.(Digital C-Print, 29.7 x 42 cm, 2013)

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Bio

Milena Bonilla is a Colombian artist, born in Bogotá (1975), currently based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. From 2009-2010, Bonilla completed the Rijksakademie research program, Amsterdam and holds a degree in Visual Art from the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Bogotá (2000).

Her current practice involves an exploration of nature as a concept colonized by language, and consumed in a massive scale through images. The artist uses a variety of media in her production including installations, video, drawing, text, public interventions and photography.

She has had solo exhibitions at the Centro Colombo-Americano, Valenzuela Klenner Gallery, and El Bodegón – Arte Contemporáneo, in  Bogotá CO, and SKMU Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand NO. Bonilla’s works have been included in numerous international exhibitions including The Idea of Latin America, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla ES (2012), the 12th Istanbul Biennial, TR (2011), Customary Beauty, Galerie mor.charpentier, Paris, FR (2011), and the BB3 Bucharest Biennial, Bucharest, RO (2008).

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