Melanie Bonajo

In her work, artist Melanie Bonajo examines the paradoxes inherent in ideas of comfort, with a strong sense for community, equality, and body-politics. Through her videos, performances, photographs, and installations, she studies how a subject’s relation to technological advances and commodity-based pleasures increases its feelings of alienation and removes its sense of belonging. Bonajo examines, for example, peoples’ shifting relationship with nature. Her works have been exhibited and performed at international art institutions, such as Tate Modern (London), Centre for Contemporary Art (Warsaw), the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), the Moscow Biennale, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul), PPOW Gallery and PS1/MoMA (New York). Her films have been screened at numerous film festivals. In 2017, her “Night Soil” trilogy will be exhibited at Frankfurter Kunstverein and in 2018 as part of her solo exhibition at Bonnefantenmuseum (Maastricht). She is a first-time guest at HAU Hebbel am Ufer.