Artists: Michael Jäger


 

Michael Jäger

 

" Jäger’s painting technique”, says the critic Stephan Berg "abides by the structure of ambiguity. While the painterly passages occasionally show a synthetic coolness, the soberness of the plain coat of paint in the more monochromatic parts is counteracted by intentional individualities. Purity, we are told, is the death of the picture. The consequence (itself paradoxical) which follows from this finding can be studied at length in the concepts behind Jäger’s work which in their absolute, radical ambivalence contemplate de-purification, as a possibility of speaking of purity without depicting it. "

Michael Jäger lives and works in Cologne.

Biography

1956 Born in Dusseldorf, Germany
   
EDUCATION
1985 Art-Foundation Baden-Württemberg, Germany
1987 Villa Romana Florenz
1996 Kunstfond Bonn
1997 Cité International des Arts, Paris
2004 "Künstlerhaus Edenkoben", Germany
2004/5 "Künstlerhäuser Worpswede", Germany
2005/6 "Bartels-Foundation/Basel", Switzerland
   
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 "Zwischenraum" Kunsthalle Recklinghausen mit Krimhild Becker
  "Studio Ornet" Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen
 
"Bloom and Ornet" Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie, Essen
2005 Belvue Saal, Wiesbaden
2004 "Twilight" Städt. Galerie Gladbeck(K)
  "Gemenge(Twin) Morat Art-Institut, Freiburg
2003 "Freunde" Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie, Essen
 
"purple rose" Galerie Michael Schneider, Bonn
  "Aurora" Galerie Erhard Witzel, Wiesbaden
2002 "Farbtourist" Galerie Michael Schneider, Bonn
2001 "Color Rendez-vous Haus der Kunst", Köln (K)
2000 Museum Katharinenhof, Kranenburg
1999 "Fünf Zimmer " mit Krimhild Becker , Gothaer Kunstforum, Köln (K)
  "Gemenge 2", Galerie Jiri Svestka, Prag
1997 "Windowgarden", Kunstverein Heilbronn
  "Wandbildband", Kunstverein Freiburg (K)
  "Teilstücke", Zeche Zollverein, Essen
1996 "Zwischen Hier und Da", Haus Harig, Hannover
1991 "Summe + Rest", Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
   
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006 Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
2004 Zwischenraum Becker-Jäger
  Morat Institut Freiburg/Städtische Galerie Gladbeck
1997 Gemenge
  Folkwang Museum, Essen
   
   
   

 

 

 

 

Images
Image Library
 
Exhibition Catalogues
'shining - close in value'
 
Press Releases
2007 - 'Pink Pink'
 
Reviews
Time Out London, 8 - 14 August 2007
 

Brief #3, 2006, oil on acrylic glass, 43 x30cm