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Monica Ursina Jäger

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Monica Ursina Jäger (Swiss Art Award 2007) gained her MA at Goldsmiths College in London and has exhibited internationally.

Her works is part of many private and public collections including Essl Collection, Kunstmuseum Thun, Bank Julius Baer, Art Collection Canton Graubünden, Sparda-Bank Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Recent shows include ‘Compilation IV’, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2009), ‘Swiss Art Awards’, Basel (2007/09), ‘Outlands’ Gallery Rupert Pfab (2009), ‘Sea of Tranquility’, Visual Drugs, Zurich (2009), ‘Monica Ursina Jäger’, Enter Kunstmuseum Thun (2008).

Monica Ursina Jägers artistic position is characterised by an engagement with mankind’s natural, fabricated and constructed environment and milieu. In ink drawings, sculptures and objects, she explores the dynamic tension inherent in the differently determined views of nature, of landscape and architecture as socially, societally and culturally charged spatial constructions, as well as utopian categories. Mediated forms of representation of these specific topoi form the basis of a process, which the artist uses to question customary patterns of perception and attribution, transferring them to new contexts.

Nature and urban structures, geological terrain and architectural form fuse to form hybrid views that for their part are imbued with utopian potential in the multiperspectival, pictorial spaces in which the different landscape elements and relics of civilisation are incorporated like pieces of scenery. Similar procedures can also be observed with regard to the sculptures. Situated beyond any bipolar codification and systemisation, these works develop an independent existence out of their inherent ambiguity and hybridity.

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