Melanie Bonajo

Quick Facts

Full Name	Melanie Bonajo
Occupation	Visual Artist
Date Of Birth	Nov 13, 1978(1978-11-13)
Age	46
Birthplace	Heerlen
Country	Netherlands
Horoscope	Scorpio

Melanie Bonajo Biography

Melanie Bonajo is one of the most popular and richest Visual Artist who was born on November 13, 1978 in Heerlen, Netherlands. Melanie Bonajo, a Dutch artist, was born 13 November 1978 in Heerlen. She works with film, performance and installations, music, event organization, photography, and other media. Her work explores themes of isolation and eroding intimacy in an increasingly technologically sterile world. Many of her experimental documentaries focus on communities that live or work at the margins of society through cultural exclusion or illegal means. Her work has been screened and exhibited internationally at venues such as the Tate Modern, MoMA PS1, De Appel Arts Centre, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Center for Contemporary Art Warsaw, the Kunsthalle Basel and International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Treefort Film Fest, Rotterdam and the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

The third Night Soil film, which completes the trilogy, was premiered at Tate Modern’s Artists Cinema in London on September 7, 2016. The Next Level exhibition will feature it at Foam museum, Amsterdam from September 15th 2016.

Bonajo’s film series Night Soil is a trio of experimental documentaries about modern approaches to nature and the cultural implications of acting against capitalism. The first in the series, Night Soil – Fake Paradise, is about psychedelic plant medication and human-plant conversations. The sequel, Night Soil – Economy of Love presents an alternative ethical model for sex-work healing and activism. The third film, “Night Soil – Nocturnal Gardening” questions the role of radical agriculture in a world of dwindling natural resources and disconnection to nature. Her other recent film, which premiered at Hacking Habitat, Progress vs. Regress is the first in a trilogy that questions how technology has evolved through the eyes of elderly people in the Netherlands. This film was also selected for IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) 2016

In April 2017, Melanie Bonajo has been selected and shortlisted for the Prix de Rome Visual Arts 2017.

Bonajo’s first major publication, Spheres, was released in December 2015. Matrix Botanica Nonhuman Persons, designed by Experimental Jetset. It explores how we perceive nature via the internet and blogs that post adorable, sad, or funny videos and photos of nonhuman animals. This publication examines how nature education has evolved over time and incorporates the perspectives of animal behavior scientists, rather than the National Geographic perspective.

Melanie Bonajo Net Worth

Melanie Bonajo is one of the richest Visual Artist from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Melanie Bonajo 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Bonajo’s Furniture Bondage photography series combines domestic tools with naked female bodies. Genital International was a feminist performance collective that she founded in 2012. It is a celebration of equality and participation. Bonajo’s music video work Pee on Presidents and her photography series are often linked to the anti-censorship and the sex-positive branches in feminist movements for their endorsement of female body agency within public environments. This has led to a provocation of media censorship laws.

Bonajo has performed at international venues like Paradiso, Baby’s Alright NYC and College des Bernardins Paris with artists such as Kembra Phahler or Bianca Cassidy from CocoRosie. ZaZaZoZo is her music project, which Joseph Marzolla founded. It’s known for its tribal pop sound, and animalistic influences. All of their music was produced by Bonajo’s brother Tommie Bonajo in his Tomster studios. Their debut album INUA was released by Tsunami Addiction in spring 2013. Their most recent single and video, Woke Up as a Wolf was released in 2014.

As of March 2016, Bonajo, along with curators Maaike Gouwenberg and Emma Panza, was shortlisted to represent The Netherlands at the 57th Venice Biennale.

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