Kaspar Bonnén (1968) lives and works in Copenhagen.
Bonnén is a multidisciplinary visuel artist and author who’s practice includes painting, sculpture, installation, land-art and literature.
In the artists fragmentary and personal universe unfolds, where his own story is the focal point for reflections on what we lose. Bonnén's feelings, memories, thoughts and repressions become a field of study in the exhibition, where texts, space studies, sculptures and stories about loss become the unifying framework. Especially a conflict with the artist's father after the publication of the book, "Behind my father" is dealt with in several recent works.
Kaspar Bonnén has been awarded numourous grants and prizes including the Eckersberg-Medaillen, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and The New Carlsberg Foundations Artist Prize. Public commiissions included; City Court of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Amalienborg (winter residence of the Royal Danish Family), Copenhagen, Denmark, Danish Supreme Court, Copenhagen, Denmark, The Ministry of Family and Consumer Affairs, Copenhagen, Denmark.
He is represented in museums and privat collections including; The National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, Aarhus Kunstmuseum (ARoS), Aarhus, Denmark, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishoej, Denmark, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden