Monica Ursina Jäger

Monica Ursina Jäger
* 1974, born in Thalwil Switzerland
lives and works in London and Zurich
www.muj.ch
Education
2006-08
Goldsmiths College, London UK; MA Fine Art
1999
LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore
1995-2000
University of Art and Design, Lucerne CH; BA Art and Education
Awards and Residencies
2014
Residency Coleman Project Space, London
2012
UBS Art Grant
2010
IBK Art Prize ‘Drawing’
2008
Grant Canton Graubünden
2007
Swiss Art Award
2006
Grant Kunsthalle Basel, fund for young artists
2005
Residency Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
Solo exhibitions
2014
2013
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2005
2004
Translocation, Coleman Project Space, London
Para/Site, Galerie Christinger de Mayo, Zürich (with Justin Hibbs)
Displace, Galerie Rupert Pfab, Düsseldorf
In Relation, Kunstraum Sandra Romer, Chur
Terrain Vague, Junge Kunst e.V. Wolfsburg
Back Drop, sic! Raum für Kunst, Luzern
Monica Ursina Jäger & Blue Curry, Nextex, St. Gallen
Certitude of Speculative Thought, Galerie Christinger de Mayo, Zürich
Equivocal Clarity of Dawn Gallery Christinger de Mayo, Kunst Zürich
Sea of Tranquility Gallery Visual Drugs, Zurich
Half Forgotten Dreams Kunstraum Sandra Romer, Chur
Outlands Gallery Rupert Pfab, Dusseldorf
Should we have stayed home and dreamt of here? K&R, Zurich
Monica Ursina Jäger Project Space Enter, Kunstmuseum Thun
Out of the Woods Gallery Visual Drugs, Zurich
After Nature Gallery Habres+Partner, Vienna
Monica Ursina Jäger, Gallery Rigassi, Berne
Quality Works, Gallery Visual Drugs, Zurich
Where the wild roses grow, Gallery Artothek, Zurich
Monica Ursina Jäger
www.muj.ch
monica@muj.ch
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
Modell und Utopie, Trudelhaus Baden
Weltenwürfe, Kunsthaus Grenchen
The New International, Galeria Pilar, Sao Paulo
We Fragment, Collect and Narrate, Kunstmuseum Thun
Catch of the Year, Dienstgebäude, Zürich
BABEL – there’s a heaven above you! Kunstmuseum Olten
Beautiful Landscape – Imperilled Nature, Kunsthalle Osnabruck (cat.)
Ansichtssache Landschaft, Kunstverein Pforzheim
SUPERSTRUCTURE, Arroniz Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
Annual Art Exhibition, Kunstmuseum Chur
Ein zartes Schaudern, Fragmente der Wirklichkeit, Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil (cat.)
One and one and one, K3 Project Space, Zürich
Corpus Urbanis, REMISE, Dienstgebäude 09, Zürich
Mobile Territorien, Kunstraum Baden
Drawing Now, Paris, Soloshow, Galerie Rupert Pfab, Düsseldorf
Neuland in schwarz/weiss, GerolagCenter, Olten
Jahresausstellung Kunstmuseum Chur
From Above! Kunstraum Sandra Romer, Chur
Platznot-Platzwechsel, Kunstmuseum Chur (cat.)
On Destructiveness and Beauty, Gallery Anita Beckers, Frankfurt
Summer Time, Gallery Rupert Pfab, Düsseldorf
Festival of the Animals, Museum Essl, Vienna (cat.)
Much Ado about Everything – Baroque in Contemporary Art, Haus für Kunst Uri (cat.)
Swiss Art Awards, Basel
S.A.G.S The Woodmill London
Polemically Small Torrance Art Museum, California
Long live Painting! Works from the Collection, Museum Essl, Vienna
Catch of the Year II, Dienstgebäude, Zurich
Kopien und Zitate, sic! Raum für Kunst, Lucerne
The Future Can Wait, Shoreditch Townhall, London
Drawing - 3 Positions, Kunstraum Sandra Romer, Chur
innenaussen, 4th Biannual of Drawing, Kunstverein Eislingen (cat.)
Amnesia, VFO Verein für Originalgrafik, Zurich
Art Awards City of Zurich, Helmhaus Zurich
Shifting Landscapes, Kunstmuseum Thun (cat.)
Paradise is Somewhere Else, Gallery Anita Beckers, Frankfurt
Annual Art Exhibition, Kunstmuseum Chur
The Jack Goldstein Connections, Gallery Anita Beckers, Frankfurt
Future or Ruin, Charlie Smiths, London
The Future Can Wait, Truman Brewery, London (cat.)
Grants for Visual Art of Canton Zurich
The Audacity of Imagination, Gallery Römerapotheke, Zurich
Compilation IV, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf (cat.)
Swiss Art Awards, Basel
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
Monica Ursina Jäger
www.muj.ch
monica@muj.ch
2008
Annual Art Exhibition, Kunstmuseum Chur
The Future Can Wait, Truman Brewery, London (cat.)
Art Awards City of Zurich, Helmhaus Zürich
Degree Show MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London (cat.)
Paper Love, devening projects, Chicago
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 Zürich (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 Switzerland, Essl Collection, Vienna (cat.)
Bibliography
2013
Landscape/Nature, Kunsthalle Osnabruck
2012
Ein zartes Schaudern, Fragmente der Wirklichkeit, Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil
2011
RAISING – 100 Artists to Keep an Eye on, Daab Cologne
Festival of the Animals, Museum Essl, Vienna
Platznot-Platzwechsel, Kunstmuseum Chur
Much Ado about Everything – Baroque in Contemporary Art, Haus für Kunst Uri
2010
IBK Art Prize ‘Drawing’
2010
Shifting Landscape Kunstmuseum Thun Exhibition Catalogue
2010
innenaussen, 4. Biennial of Drawing, Exhibition Catalogue
2009
Half forgotten Dreams, Kunstbulletin 3/2009
2009
USELESS MAGAZINE, 5/2009
2009
Monopol, Special Edition Art Cologne, 4/2009
2009
Compilation IV, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf Exhibition Catalogue
2008
20 Years Atelier Fernando et Jean-Luc Lardelli, Cité Internationale des Arts Publication
2008
The Future Can Wait, Exhibition Catalogue
2008 (Jul)
The Times Magazine, ‘Saatchi after Saatchi’, Ginny Dougray
2007 (Oct)
The Times, ‘Oh You Pretty Things’, Derwent May
2007 (Aug)
Sunday Times, Guide to the Fairs, Richard Clayton
2007
Bon International (No.12), ‘15 Young Masters’, Freire Barnes
2007
Miser & Now (Issue 10), Q&A
Collections
Essl Collection, Vienna
Kunstmuseum Thun
Bundner Kunstmuseum Chur
Museum for Communikation, Berne (Postfinance Collection)
Credit Suisse Art Collection
City and Canton Zurich
Canton Graubunden
Canton St. Gallen
Bank Julius Baer
Monica Ursina Jäger
www.muj.ch
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Zuercher Kantonalbank ZKB
Raiffeisen Bank Switzerland
Sparda Bank, Nordrhein Westfahlen
Holzer Collection, Vienna
Collection von Bartha, Basle
Private Collections in Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Japan.
Monica Ursina Jäger
www.muj.ch
monica@muj.ch