1974 | born in Thalwil |
2006–2008 | Goldsmiths College, London, MA Fine Art |
1999 | LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore |
1996–2000 | Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, (CH), Faculty of Art, Fine Arts and Art Education |
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| Monica Ursina Jäger lives and works in Zurich and London. |
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solo exhibitions |
2011 | “Monica Ursina Jäger Blue Curry”, Nextex, St. Gallen
“Certitude of Speculative Thought”, Christinger De Mayo, Zurich
“BACK DROP”, sic!Raum für Kunst, Lucerne |
2009 | “Sea of Tranquility”, Gallery Visual Drugs, Zurich
“Half Forgotten Dreams”, Kunstraum Sandra Romer, Chur
“Outlands Gallery”, Rupert Pfab, Dusseldorf |
2008 | “Should we have stayed home and dreamt of here?”, K&R, Zurich
“Monica Ursina Jäger”, Project Space Enter, Kunstmuseum Thun |
2007 | “Out of the Woods”, Gallery Visual Drugs, Zurich
“After Nature”, Gallery Habres+Partner, Vienna |
2005 | “Monica Ursina Jäger”, Gallery Rigassi, Berne |
2004 | “Quality Works”, Gallery Visual Drugs, Zurich
“Where the wild roses grow”, Gallery Artothek, Zurich |
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Group Exhibitions |
2012 | “Mobile Territorien”, Kunstraum Baden, Baden |
2011 | “S.A.G.S”, The Woodmill, London
“Baroque in Contemporary Ar”, Haus für Kunst, Altdorf (Cat.)
“Swiss Art Awards”, Basel
“Polemically Small”, Torrance Art Museum, California
“Platznot - Platzwechsel”, Kunstmuseum Chur
“The Future Can Wait”, The Saatchi Gallery & BBC 4's New Sensations |
2010 | “Catch of the year 2”, Dienstgebäude, Zurich
“Kopf oder Zahl”, Kunstraum Sandra Romer and Gallery Luciano Fasciati, Chur
“KOPIEN&ZITATE”, a cooperation of Alpineum Produzentengalerie & sic!Raum für Kunst, Lucerne
“The Future Can Wait”, Shoreditch Townhall, London
“Zeichnung - 3 Positionen”, Kunstraum Sandra Romer, Chur
“amnesia”, Verein für Originalgrafik, Mai Edition, Zurich
“Innenaussen”, 4. Biennale der Zeichnung, Kunstverein Eislingen (Cat.), Eislingen
“Shifting Landscape - Landschaft im Wandel”, Kunstmuseum Thun (Cat.), Thun
“Art Awards City of Zurich”, Helmhaus Zürich, Zurich
“Paradies Is Somewhere Else”, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt |
2009 | “The Jack Goldstein Connections”, Gallery Anita Beckers, Frankfurt
Annual Art Exhibition, Kunstmuseum Chur
“Future or Ruin”, (CH)arlie Smiths, London
“The Future Can Wait”, Truman Brewery, London
Grants for Visual Art of Canton Zurich (Werkbeiträge Kanton ZH), Zurich
“The Audacity of Imagination”, Gallery Römerapotheke, Zurich
“Compilation IV”, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf (Cat.)
“Swiss Art Awards”, Basel
“Underground City”, Divus London
“Notes from the underground”, James Taylor Gallery, London
“The Future Can Wait”, Ellis Rumley Projects, Berlin
“Wallis Dies and Goes to Paradise”, Paradise Row, London |
2008 | Annual Art Exhibition, Kunstmuseum Chur
“The Future Can Wait”, Truman Brewery, London (Cat.)
Art Awards City of Zurich, Helmhaus Zurich
Degree Show MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London (Cat.)
“Paper Love”, devening projects, Chicago
“Works on Paper #1”, Gallery Smits, Amsterdam
“Jargon of Landscape”, Wallis Gallery, London
“Is the world flat?”, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam |
2007 | “Beziehungsweise – Works on Paper from the Holzer Collection”, Gallery Hubert Winter, Vienna
Annual Art Exhibition, Kunstmuseum Chur
Grants for Visual Art of Canton Zurich (Werkbeiträge Kanton ZH), Zurich
Swiss Art Awards, Basel (Cat.)
Celeste Art Prize, London/Edinburgh (Cat.)
“Fall in Theatre”, The Basement Project Space, London (Cat.) |
2006 | “Emerging Artists Schweiz”, Essl Collection, Vienna (Cat.) |
2005 | “Scabs, Guns and Peanutbutter”, Gallery Artone, Zurich |
2003 | Annual Art Exhibition, Kunstmuseum Chur |
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Collections |
| Julius Bär Collection
Sammlug Essl Vienna
Kunstmuseum Thun
Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur
Canton Zurich
Canton Graubünden
Canton St. Gallen
Raiffeisen Bank Switzerland
Sparda Bank, Nordrhein Westfahlen
Holzer Collection Vienna
Sammlung von Bartha, Basel |
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publications |
2011 | The Woodmill Print Portfolio, over 40 artists from The Woodmill have contributed to this limited edition print portfolio, Koenigs Books Whitechapel Gallery
“Raising - young artists to keep an eye on”, Daab Verlag Cologne / New York
“Baroque in Contemporary Art”, Haus für Kunst Uri |
2010 | Shifting Landscape - Landschaft im Wandel, Kunstmuseum Thun
Innenaussen, 4. Biennale der Zeichnung, Kunstverein Eislingen
Compilation IV, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dumont Verlag |
2009 | 2009 Compilation IV, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dumont Verlag |
2008 | The Future Can Wait, New London School, London
Degree Show MFA Master of Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London |
2007 | Swiss Art Awards
Emerging Artists Schweiz, Museum Essl, Vienna |
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Awards/Residencies |
2010 | IBK Förderpreis “Drawing” |
2009 | Swiss Art Award |
2008 | Grant Canton Graubünden |
2007 | Swiss Art Award |
2006 | Grant Kunsthalle Basel, fund for young artists |
2005 | Artist in Residence Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris |
