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Urs Jaeggi

Writer, painter, sculptor.

Born in Solothurn / Switzerland in 1931
1964 - 93 Professor of Sociology and Social Philosophy in Bern, Bochum, New York, Berlin.
He published numerous novels, short stories, essays as well as scientific books.
Solo and group exhibitions since 1985.

Presently he lives in Berlin and Mexico City

Urs Jaeggi. Photo: Marc Berger
Individual Exhibitions

2010 LA HOSPITALIDAD, LA CASA, LA OBRA. Installations, Casa abandonada, México D.F (Video)
2009 AUF PAPIER UND ANDERES. Rittergallery, Klagenfurt,
2008

UNA TRAYETORIA SIN CONCESIONES. Presenttion, Laboratorium Arte Alameda, Mexico D.F. (Video)

2006-
2007
WARUM JEREMIAS GOTTHELF NIE NACH BERLIN KAM, Gallery Marianne Grob, Berlin (Video)
2006 EL SILENCIO DEL DESIERTO , Museo de Historia de Tlalpan, Mexico D.F. (Video)
2005 ASSAULT. 13 x Berlin, Performances, Berlin (Video)
2004-
2005
MORE ABOUT PEDESTRIANS AND SHOES. , PLANET-22, Geneve
2004 MIRADA VIAJERA. Museo Naticonal de los Ferrocarrilles Mexicanos. Mexico DF ( Video)
2004 TREPPEN. FLIEGEN.KÖPFEN. WORTEN. Sehen und Denken 22. Academy of Arts. Berlin (Video)
2002 IIKARUS. 91102,Installations, Galery in Körnerpark, Berlin
2002 DAS HEISSE UND DAS KALTE. Performance, Kurhotel Linz (A) (Video)
2001

Bildinstallation. Gallery Marianne Grob, Berlin.

2001 Standworte, word-panels at five public spaces in Solothurn (CH)
2000 ON TITLE. Foto/Graphik Gallery Käthe Kollwitz, Berlin
2000 NO PICTURES. Installations at the Municipal Galley, Tel Aviv (as artist in residence), Tel Aviv
1999 THE GREAT SOCIETY. Loveland Museum / Gallery, Colorado, USA (Video)
1999 EIN E/ IST B/ BILD/ SCHÖN. Roessli Gallery, Balsthal, Switzerland
1998 ENTRE AHORA Y AHORA. Museo Universitario Contemporaneo de Arte, México D.F (Video)
1997 DAS UNBEWEGTE UND KUGELGESTALTIGE,DAS EINE GRENZE HAT (Parmenides), Raab Gallery, Berlin
1996 DAS HEISSE UND DAS KALTE, Symposium, exhibition and performances. Bern University
1996 HOMMAGE À SAMUEL BECKETT, Medici Gallery, Solothurn
1995 GOIA, Exhibition and Performance forumclaque, Baden (CH)
1994 AM ENDE EIN STEIN, Installation und Performance, Kunstmuseum Solothurn (Catalog, Video)
1994 BILD WORT BILD, Exhibition and Performance, Lebendiges Museum, Berlin
1994 MUSÉE PRIVÈ, permanent Installation, (Catalog and Book for Bochum, Berlin and Olten) Bochum Museum
1993 FACES. Installation und Performance, Lubmin
1993 PARALELLEN, Galerie T + A, Berlin
1992 FIGUREN III, Kunstmuseum Olten
1991 FIGUREN II, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
1991 FIGUREN I. Museum Bochum (Catalog and book por Bochum, Berlin and Olten)
1990 URS JAEGGI, Schindler Gallery, Bern (Catalog)
1988 DAS GESPRÄCH DER STEINE. Mora Gallery, Berlin
1988 DER ARCHITEKT UND ANDERE. Noé Gallery, Berlin (Catalog)
1986 .URS JAEGGI, Mora Gallery, Berlin,
1985 SEELENSTACHEL. Medici Gallery, Solothurn (Catalog)

Group Exhibitions
2009 KAMPFPLÄTZE. Eine Installation, in:
BORDERS, an international project of Art e.V, Berlin (Video)
2009 FLIEHENDE. Eine Zeichnungsinstallation, in: Impressions of actual art in Berlin, Museum of modern Art, Skopje (Mazedonien)
2008 BABYLON SHADE, "ARTos", Audio and picture installations Nicosia, Zypern
2007-
2008
SCHLACHTEN, Köttener Quadrate,Installation, Kunsthaus Kötten
2007 FACES, Institute Thesis, in the frame of the Venice-Biennale
2005-
2006
BEHALTER NULL. in:, Gleichungen, Zeichnung und Text, Mathematische Fachbibliothek, TU Berlin
2004 GOETZEN. Installations. International art project. Frankfurt/Oder, Sublice (Video)
2004 DINGE, Audioinstallation, Friedenskirche Frankfurt (Oder)
2004 2 DE OCTUBRE NO SE OLVIDA. Homenaje a Marcel Duchamp. Casa Frissac, Mexico DF
2001 ASSAULT. Installations and performance at the exhibition EVIDENZA (Academia Fundamente Venice/Vienna/Berlin), Venice-Arsenale (in the frame of the Venice-Biennale 2001)
1997 GEWÄHLT AUS DER NEUEN SAMMLUNG, Museo of Art , Solothurn (CH)
1997 SWISS ARTISTS IN BERLIN, Gallery Marianne Grob, Berlin.
1995 STURM TURM. Galerie Berlin und IMKABINETT, Berlin
1994 SCHWARZWEISS. Drawings, Marianne Grob Gallery, Berlin
1993 WÜRFELWURF, Sculpture Symposium Lutherstadt Wittenberg (Catalog and permanent sculpture)
1992 ÜBERSCHLAG, Haus am Pfefferberg, Berlin (Catalog)
1992 ZEITPUMPE. A Space Without Art, Berlin (Catalog)
1992 4 ARTISTS BY ACHIM FREYER,, Berlin
1992 CHAIB, Sculpture and Landscape, Tremmen (Catalog)
1990 ZWEITASKT, Exhibition Center Alexanderplatz, Berlin (Catalog)
1989 CITOYENS, in: Wo bleibst Du, Revolution. Museum Bochum (Catalog)
1989 ZEICHUNGEN . DOPPELBEGABUNGEN, International Book-exhibition, Leipzig
1987 MALEN - SCREIBEN, SCHREIBEN - MALEN. Kunstmuseum der Stadt Solothurn
Publications on Urs Jaeggi's Work
Peter Spielmann
S. Hierkisch (Ed.)
Figuren. Book-Catalog, Arche Verlag Zürich, 1991
Gabriele Althaus, Helmuth Berking u.a

Avanti dilettanti. Über die Kunst Experten zu widersprechen,  Berlin 1992

Irmgard Elsner Hunt
Urs Jaeggi. Biography of Works, Peter Lang Verlag, New York, Bern, Frankfurt a.M., Paris, 1993
Peter Trübner (Ed.) Das Heisse und das Kalte. Art and Society, Symposium for Urs Jaeggi. Peter Lang Verlag, New York, Bern, Frankfurt a.M. 1997

Further information and bibliography:

www.literaturport.de/ursjaeggi (Literature)

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