| * 1974, Thalwil, Switzerland | |
| lives and works in London and Zurich | |
| Monica Ursina Jäger is a Swiss artist living in London and Zurich. Working with drawing, collage, installation and video, her practice unfolds through a multidisciplinary reflection on concepts of space, landscape, and architecture that investigate the manyfold relationships in ecosystems. Fluctuating between the intuitive, narrative and factual Jäger scrutinizes processes of transformation, re-arrangement and mediation by unfixing the boundaries between artistic and scientific knowledge production. Her works trace the entanglements in post-natural landscapes, the agency of organic and inorganic matter and the complexities of time. Monica Ursina Jäger is a research associate and lecturer at the Institute of Natural Resource Sciences IUNR, Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW. Since 2016 the transdisciplinary team develops new forms of dialogue between artistic practices and scientific research to tackle issues related to sustainability, ecology, climate change and planetary regeneration. Projects include urban interventions, green infrastructures, outdoor exhibitions and public gardens. She organises interdisciplinary symposia and workshops both in London and Switzerland. Institute of Natural Resource Sciences ZHAW |
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| Education | |
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| 2006-08 | Goldsmiths, University of London, Master of Fine Art |
| 1999 | LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore |
| 1997-2000 | University for Art and Design, Lucerne, Switzerland, BA Art and Education |
| Awards, Residencies and Research | |
| 2022 | Work Grant Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council |
| 2020 | Work Grant Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council |
| Art Grant Canton Zurich Arts Council, Werkbeitrag Kanton Zürich | |
| 2018 | Work Grant Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council |
| Art Award UBS Culture Foundation | |
| Research Residency, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore | |
| 2017 | Art Grant Canton Zurich Arts Council, Werkbeitrag Kanton Zürich |
| from 2016 | Research associate at Institute of Natural Resource Sciences ZHAW in Sustainability Transformation Zürich |
| 2014 | Artist Residency, Coleman Project Space, London |
| 2012 | Art Grant UBS Culture Foundation |
| 2009 | Swiss Art Award (nominated) |
| 2010 | IBK Art Award in Drawing |
| 2009 | Swiss Art Award (nominated) |
| 2008 | Art Grant/Werkbeitrag Kanton Graubünden, Switzerland |
| 2007 | Swiss Art Award (winner) |
| 2006 | Grant Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland |
| 2005 | Artist Residency Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris |
| Solo Shows (Selection) | |
| 2022 | Liquid Territory - An Earthly Archive of Weathering Thoughts, Kunstmuseum Olten |
| Liquid Time, Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen | |
| Shared Horizon. Kunst & Nachhaltigkeit Vol. 15, Die Mobiliar Bern | |
| 2021 | Forest Tales and Emerald Fictions, Kunstraum Kreuzlingen, Tiefparterre Kreuzlingen |
| 2020 | Emerald Fictions, Wyss Academy for Nature Bern |
| 2019 | Shifting Topographies, Museum Franz Gertsch Burgdorf |
| 2015 | Future Archaeologies – Your Assumptions Are My Memories, Galerie Christinger de Mayo Zürich |
| 2014 | Weltenwürfe with Julia Steiner and Sandra Boeschenstein, Kunsthaus Grenchen |
| Translocation, Coleman Project Space London | |
| 2013 | Para/Site, Gallery Christinger de Mayo Zurich |
| Displace, Galerie Pfab Düsseldorf | |
| Terrain Vague, Junge Kunst Wolfsburg | |
| 2011 | Certitude of Speculative Thought, Gallery Christinger de Mayo Zurich |
| Back Drop, sic! Raum für Kunst Lucerne | |
| Monica Ursina Jäger & Blue Curry, Nextex St. Gallen | |
| 2008 | Monica Ursina Jäger, Enter, Kunstmuseum Thun |
| Group Shows (Selection) | |
| 2023 | Time. An exploration of some notions of time, Kunsthaus Zürich |
| Reconnecting.Earth Art and Urban Nature, City of Geneva | |
| Politics of Plants Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz | |
| Transformations, Works from the Mobiliar Art Collaction Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf | |
| 2022 | The Other Kabul. Remains of the Garden, Kunstmuseum
Thun curated by Susann Wintsch |
| OPEN HOUSE. Habitat in Art, Architecture and Design, Parc Lullin, Genthod/Geneva | |
| Back to the Roots, We are AIA Awareness in Art, curated by Martina Huber and Gianni Jetzer | |
| Soil to Soil, Alte Fabrik Rapperswil | |
| Icone Vegetali. Art and Botanics in the 21st Century, Museo Villa dei Cedri Bellinzona | |
| 2021 | GRUND Froh Ussicht Samstagern (with Saskia Edens and Sarah Masüger) |
| Sharity Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Rapperswil | |
| 2020 | Perspectives. La Collection d’Art Helvetia, Musée d'Art de Pully |
| Werkschau 2020, Art Grants Canton Zurich Arts Council, Museum Haus Konstruktiv | |
| Tomorrow is an Island NTU ADM Art, Design and Media Gallery Singapore collateral event of Singapore Biennale 2019 | |
| 2019 | Digital Dramatizations: Ecologies from the Future , Center of Contemporary Art Plovdiv |
| Memory of the Sublime, Landscape in the 21st Century, Museo Villa dei Cedri Bellinzona | |
| TRANSVERSAL. Landscapes from the Collection, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur | |
| Mimesis; Narrative; Against hegemony! , APT Gallery London | |
| 2018 | Heimspiel, Kunsthalle St. Gallen |
| Digital Ecologies - Operaismo Naturale, Center of Contemporary Art Plovdiv | |
| Hinterland, Corner College, Zürich curated by TETIGroup | |
| Fokus GRafik, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur | |
| 2017 | Refugium, Skulpturen Biennale Weiertal, Winterthur |
| 2016 | Art Awards City of Zurich, Helmhaus, Zürich |
| End!angered Species, # TAUT, Kunstverein Wagenhallen Stuttgart | |
| Werkschau 2015, Haus Konstruktiv Zürich | |
| 2014 | Modell und Utopie, Trudelhaus Baden |
| The New International, Galeria Pilar Sao Paulo | |
| We Fragment, Collect and Narrate, Kunstmuseum Thun | |
| 2013 | Ansichtssache Landschaft, Kunstverein Pforzheim |
| BABEL - There's a Heaven above you!, Kunstmuseum Olten | |
| Superstructure, Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo Mexico City | |
| 2012 | Ein zartes Schaudern, Fragmente der Wirklichkeit, Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil (cat.) |
| Mobile Territorien, Kunstraum Baden | |
| 2011 | Platznot-Platzwechsel, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur |
| Festival of the Animals, Museum Essl Vienna | |
| Much Ado about Everything, Haus für Kunst Uri | |
| Swiss Art Awards Art Basel | |
| S.A.G.S, The Woodmill London | |
| Long live Painting! Works from the Collection, Museum Essl Vienna | |
| 2010 | 4. Biennale der Zeichnung, Kunstverein Eislingen |
| Landschaft im Wandel, Kunstmuseum Thun | |
| 2009 | Swiss Art Awards Art Basel |
| Compilation IV, Kunsthalle Duesseldorf | |
| 2007 | Swiss Art Awards Art Basel |
| 2006 | Emerging Artists Switzerland, Essl Collection Vienna |
| Collections and acquisitions | |
| Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich | |
| Albertina Museum, Vienna | |
| Bundner Kunstmuseum Chur | |
| Kunstmuseum Thun | |
| Kunstmuseum Olten | |
| Public Art Collection Canton Zurich | |
| Public Art Collection City of Zurich | |
| Public Art Collection Canton Graubunden | |
| Public Art Collection Canton St. Gallen | |
| Art Collection Swiss Post | |
| Bank Julius Baer Art Collection | |
| Helvetia Art Collection | |
| Die Kunstsammlung der Mobiliar | |
| Raiffeisen Bank Switzerland | |
| ZKB Zürcher Kantonalbank | |
| Sparda Bank, Nordrhein Westfahlen | |
| Holzer Collection, Vienna | |
| Collection von Bartha, Basel | |
| and further private collections in Switzerland, UK, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, USA, Brazil, Japan | |
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| Portfolio 2023 | |
