Julie Monaco

Julie Monaco is an established mid-career artist, who originates from Austria, like other well-known artists such as Bernard Ammerer, Sarah Pichlkostner, Ana Popescu, Carola Dertnig, and Walter Weer.

As an art scene for Julie Monaco, creative work was largely inspired by the 1990s. A group of artists working in the United Kingdom, who came to be known as the YBAs, or Young British Artists, defined the artistic culture of the 1990s. Affiliated loosely by their age and nationality, they were a varied collective of practitioners. Many of the YBAs attended the Royal College of Art and Goldsmiths in London, and were favoured by the ‘super collector’ of the time, Charles Saatchi. The most famous member of the group is Damien Hirst, and other members included Chris Ofili, Tracey Emin, Marc Quinn, Gavin Turk, Sarah Lucas and Sam Taylor-Johnson (née Sam Taylor-Wood). The YBAs became famous for their use of shock tactics and sensationalism, alongside their use of throwaway materials, wild lifestyles and an attitude that was rebellious yet entrepreneurial. Due to the large amount of media coverage that they received, they dominated British art during the 1990s, and their work was epitomised in the group show ‘Sensation’. The art world was influenced by a number of trends throughout the decade, and was characterised by the derisive sculpture of Maurizio Cattelan, and sensitive, conceptual advancements as presented in the work of artists including Felix Gonzalez-Torres.

Julie Monaco's work is available for viewing at Galerie Ernst Hilger in Vienna, Austria.

EXHIBITIONS:

2009 _597, Gallery Hilger Contemporary, Vienna (solo)

          Crossroads Linz, Young Art and Mister Works, Lentos Museum, Linz

          Strongly clouded, MUSA Museum on call, Vienna

          Landscape as a Dream, a cura di/ curated by Luigi Meneghelli, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy

2008 Central Europe revisted, Schloss Esterhazy, Eisenstadt, Germany

          L'Arte en Europe - Pommery Experience #5, Reims, France

          Light trails, Lentos Museum, Linz, Austria

2007 Momentum, Photography, Vienna, Austria

          Romanticism - a female approach?, Gallery Nusser & Baumgart Contemporary, Monaco

2006 Human touch, Sala Terrena, Salzburg, Austria

          Visum et Repertum, Stella Art Foundation, Moscow, Russia

          Modern adventure, Russian Cultural Institute, Vienna, Austria

          Purchases Collection of University of Applied Arts, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna, Austria

          21, Gallery Bonni Benrubi, New York, United States of America (solo)

          21, Gallery Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria (solo)

2005 State of the Art, SoS Stete Department & Embassy, Vienna, Austria

          Water level image, Gallery Wolfrum, Vienna, Austria

2004 Clouds, Old National Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2003 State of the art, State of Sabotage, Vienna, Austria

          Open 2003, Art and the Cinematic Vision, Lido di Venezia, Italy

          Nature observations, Galerie Engler + Piper, Berlin, Germany

          Drafts, Art Zurich, Moscow

          Focused Daily, DAM, Berlin, Germany (solo)

          Focused Daily, KlausEngelhorn20, Vienna, Austria

2002 Digital Room #II, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

          Vitra Austria: Isamu Noguchi, Jean Prouve, Vitra Austria GmbH, Vienna, Austria

          Memorybank, KlausEngelhorn20, Vienna, Austria

2001 Railway Station in Transition, Praterstern Railway Station, Vienna, Austria

2000 Chrysler + Greisler, curated by Brigitte Kowanz, KlausEngelhorn20, Vienna, Austria

1999 Incontro con Franz West e Werkstatt, Gallery Hohenlohe und Kalb, Vienna, Austria

          Incontri per adulti, Centro Civico e l'Contemporanea "La Gracia", Serre di Rapolano, Siena, Italy