| BORN: | - | - |
| SWITZERLAND, 1974 | - | - |
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| LONDON, UK | - | - |
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| EDUCATION: | - | - |
| 2006-2008 | MFA Master of Fine Art | Goldsmiths College, London |
| 1995-2000 | BA Art and Education | University of Art and Design, Lucerne, CH |
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| SOLO EXHIBITIONS: | - | - |
| 2008 | Project space ENTER | Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun_CH |
| 2007 | Out of the Woods | Gallery Visual Drugs, Zurich_CH |
| 2007 | After Nature | Gallery Habres+Partner, Vienna_AT |
| 2005 | Monica Ursina Jäger | Gallery Rigassi, Berne_CH |
| 2004 | Quality Works | Gallery Visual Drugs, Zurich _CH |
| 2004 | Where the wild roses grow | Gallery Artothek, Zurich_CH |
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| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: | ||
| 2008 | Paper Love | Devening Projects, Chicago_USA |
| 2008 | Grants and Residencies, City of Zurich | Helmhaus, Zurich_CH |
| 2008 | Degree Show MFA Fine Art | Goldsmiths College, London UK |
| 2008 | Works on Paper #1 | Gallery Smits, Amsterdam_NL |
| 2008 | Jargon of Landscape | Wallis Gallery, London_GB |
| 2008 | Is the world flat? | Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam NL |
| 2007 | Swiss Art Awards | Basel_CH |
| 2007 | Works on Paper from the Holzer Collection | Gallery Hubert Winter, Vienna_AT |
| 2007 | Annual Art Exhibition | Kunstmuseum, Chur_CH |
| 2007 | Grants for Visual Art of Canton Zurich | Zurich_CH |
| 2007 | Celeste Art Prize | London_GB / Edinburgh_SCO |
| 2006 | Emerging Artists Switzerland | Essl Collection, Vienna_AT |
| 2005 | Scabs, Guns and Peanutbutter | Gallery Artone, Zurich_CH |
| 2003 | Annual Art Exhibition | Kunstmuseum Chur_CH |
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| AWARDS & RESIDENCIES: | - | |
| 2008 | Grant Canton Grischuna_CH | |
| 2007 | Swiss Art Award | |
| 2006 | Grant Kunsthalle Basel_CH | |
| 2005 | Artist Resicency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris_FR | |
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| BIBLIOGRAPHY: | - | |
| 2008 | Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show, exhibition catalogue | |
| 2007 | Swiss Art Awards, Kunstbulletin | |
| 2007 | Celeste Art Prize, exhibition catalogue | |
| 2006 | Emerging artists Switzerland, Sammlung Essl, exhibition catalogue | |
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| COLLECTIONS: | - | - |
| Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg, Vienna | ||
| Bank Julius Bär, Zürich Switzerland | ||
| Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland | ||
| Canton Grischuna, Switzerland | ||
| Private Collections Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, USA | ||
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| ARTIST STATEMENT: | - | |
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Jäger is interested in the condition, perception
and representation of our natural and built environment.
Expressed through drawings and sculptures her work investigates
the notion of social, political, but also imaginary aspects of
the places we live in. Natural and urban elements blend into
dystopian constructions, while disparate found objects and
mediated image fragments join to become imaginative
constructions. Jäger is fascinated by the relationship between the physical environment and mediated experience and the possibilities that occur with the blurring of reality and fiction, authentic and appropriated imagery, real and simulated spaces, actual places and their representations. |
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