How can I buy a work by Monika Weiss?

Bruno David Gallery handles the sale of available works by Monika Weiss. For prices and availability, email info@brunodavidgallery.com or call +1 314 696 2377.

Where can I see work by Monika Weiss in person?

At Bruno David Gallery, 7513 Forsyth Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri 63105, during public hours or by appointment. Her work is also in the collections of Albertina, Vienna, Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum and Centre of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko.

What does Monika Weiss make?

Films and sound compositions built from her own piano improvisations and voices; drawings in graphite powder, water, resin, latex and dry pigment; and performances and installations, including the ongoing Nirbhaya and Metamorphosis works and Metamorphosis (Sound Sculpture) at Laumeier Sculpture Park (2024).

Where is Monika Weiss based?

Monika Weiss lives and works in New York and St. Louis, where she teaches at Washington University.

Has Monika Weiss had an exhibition at Bruno David Gallery?

Yes. Metamorphosis | Nirbhaya (19 November 2021 to 5 March 2022) is one of her exhibitions at the gallery.

Monika Weiss

Monika Weiss (born 1964) is a New York- and St. Louis-based transdisciplinary artist and composer who works across sound, film, drawing, performance and installation. Her work addresses public and private memory—what she calls “unforgetting”—through the body, water, classical myth and lament, and much of her recent work is dedicated to victims of gendered violence.

Weiss builds her compositions from her own piano improvisations and voices, and makes drawings with graphite powder, water, resin, latex and dry pigment, each completed without interruption. Since 2015 she has developed Nirbhaya, an ongoing body of work on gendered violence and lament, and the related Metamorphosis works, which draw on the myth of Daphne. In 2024 Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis commissioned Metamorphosis (Sound Sculpture), two steel columns that play a 35-minute composition, and a related cast-iron sound sculpture, Metamorphosis – Przemiana, entered the permanent collection of the Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, Poland.

Born in Warsaw, Weiss trained as a classical pianist at the Warsaw School of Music and earned an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1989. A residency at the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York in the early 2000s led to her permanent move to the United States. Since 2011 she has taught at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, where she is professor of art and co-coordinator of time-based media art.

She has had solo museum exhibitions at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw (2010), the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile (2012–13) and the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum in Miami (2014). Her work is in collections including the Albertina in Vienna and the Frost Art Museum, and she has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts (2009) and the New York State Council on the Arts (2023). Weiss has had two solo exhibitions at Bruno David Gallery: Abiding (Próba Wody), a performance-based video from 1999–2000, in 2012, and Metamorphosis | Nirbhaya, a 30-minute film and sound work viewed by one person at a time, in 2021–22.

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