Keimai 3, 2008 Video, sound, color prints. Collection Frauenmuseum, Bonn.
Short Biographical Paragraph
Monika Weiss is a New York-based artist whose works are concerned with relationships between history, memory and presence. "Weiss' installations are structured as a counterpoint between technological media (video projection) and the ancient activity of drawing. Recently she has been exploring the prostrate body as an apparently paradoxical sign of resistance to oppressive and militaristic cultures" (Guy Brett.) Her installations, video works, and drawings have been most recently exhibited at FrauenMuseum, Kunsthaus Dresden, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), North Dakota Museum of Art, Chelsea Art Museum, and ArteBA. In 2005 the artist's survey was shown at Lehman College Art Gallery (City University of New York), and reviewed in The New York Times. Published internationally, her work was recently featured in "Drawing Now: Between the Lines of Contemporary Art", Tracey/Laughborough University, I.B.Tauris, UK 2007, "Technoetic Arts: Journal of Speculative Research," Intellect Ltd, Bristol, 2007 and "Homo Ludens Ludens", LAboral Center for Contemporary Art and Design, Gijon, 2008. Weiss' works are represented in multiple public collections including Museum Albertina, Vienna, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, New York and Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami.
