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.

lives in Berlin


Individual Exhibitions
1999 The Great Society. Loveland Museum / Gallery, Colorado, USA
Gallery Roessli, Balsthal, Switzerland
1998 Entre AHORA y ahora. Museo Universitario Contemporaneo de Arte, Mexico-City
1997 Das Unbewegte und Kugelgestaltige, das eine Grenze hat... (Parmenides), Gallery Raab, Berlin
1996 Das Heisse und das Kalte, Bern University (CH)
Homage à Samuel Beckett, Gallery Medici, Solothurn (CH)
1995 Gioia, Exhibition and Performance, forumclaque, Baden (CH)
1994 Am Ende Ein Stein, Installation and Performance, Kunstmuseum Solothurn (Catalog)
BildWortBild, Exhibition and Performance, Lebendiges Museum, Berlin
Musée Privé, permanent Installation, Museum Bochum
1993 Faces. Installation and Performance, Lubmin
Gallery T + A, Berlin
1992 Kunstmuseum Olten
1991 Museum Bochum (Catalog and Book for Bochum, Berlin and Olten)
Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
1990 Gallery Schindler, Bern (Catalog)
1988 Gallery Mora, Berlin
Gallery Noé, Berlin (Catalog)
1986 Gallery Mora, Berlin
1985 Gallery Medici, Solothurn (Catalog)

Group Exhibitions

1997 Schwiss Artists in Berlin, Gallery Marianne Grob, Berlin.
Selected Works from the New Collection, Kunstmuseum Solothurn
1995 SturmTurm, Gallery Berlin and IMKABINETT, Berlin
1994 Schwarzweiss. Drawings, Gallery Marianne Grob, Berlin
1993 Sculpture Symposium Lutherstadt Wittenberg (Catalog and permanent sculpture)
1992 Überschlag, Haus am Pfefferberg, Berlin (Catalog)
Zeitpumpe - A Space Without Art, Berlin (Catalog)
4 Artists at Achim Freyer, Berlin
Sculpture and Landscape, Tremmen
1990 Zweitakt, Exhibition Center Alexanderplatz, Berlin (Catalog)
1989 Wo bleibst Du, Revolution. Museum Bochum (Catalog)
Doppelbegabungen, International Book-exhibition, Leipzig
1987 Malen Schreiben - Schreiben Malen. Kunstmuseum der Stadt Solothurn
Publications on Urs Jaeggi's Work
Peter Spielmann
S. Hierkisch (Ed.)

Figuren. Book-Catalog, Arche Verlag Zürich
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. Kunst und Gesellschaft. Symposium for Urs Jaeggi. Peter Lang Verlag, New York, Bern, Frankfurt a.M. 1997