Mona Jas

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Mona Jas (* 1963 in Rheden , Netherlands ) is an artist and honorary professor for theory and history at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art .

biography

Mona Jas studied painting at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), where she was a master student of Katharina Sieverding . In 2008 she received the first scholarship for art education from the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e. V. (nGbK). Until 2010 she realized innovative art education projects with various educational institutions. Mona Jas was involved in the Berlin Senate's cultural education think tank and was involved in the further development of the Berlin framework concept for cultural education.

In 2012 she became a lecturer at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, where she has been an honorary professor since 2015. As a freelance artist, she finds her expression in drawings, installations, painting, film and photography.

As part of the model program “Cultural Agents for Creative Schools”, in 2012/13 she established a cooperation between schools in the cultural agent network and the Weißensee Academy of Art in Berlin in order to promote artistic development projects. She has presented the results since 2014 in the action research project - Lab for Art Education - at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. In addition, Mona Jas initiated other projects such as Glances (2015) and Voices (2016) as part of Berlin Mondiale , a network of cultural institutions and accommodation for refugees in Berlin, in which, in addition to the KW Institute for Contemporary Art and the Weißensee Kunsthochschule berlin the ASB emergency accommodation Alt-Moabit are involved.

She is program manager (until 2017) of the German Children and Youth Foundation (DKJS) for the qualification of artists and cultural workers and a member of the faculty aneducation / an experience of Documenta 14 .

Group and solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2017 The Brandenburg Atlas, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam
  • 2016 Europe, Underground Station Bundestag, Berlin.
  • 2013 Artists in Love, Kunsthalle Weißensee Kunsthochschule berlin and Süddeutscher Kunstverein
  • 2012/13 Even Paradise casts shadows, ES contemporary art gallery, Meran
  • 2012 Gleisdreieck, Art in Public Space, Berlin
  • 2010 Vis à Vis, Gallery ў Minsk, Belarus
  • 2009 Utopics, 11th Biennial Suisse Sculptor at Biel / Bienne
  • 2007 The Plejads # 1, Axel Lapp Projects, Berlin
  • 2003 10th Biennale de l'image en mouvement, Center pour l'image contemporaine, Geneva
  • 1999 Renkler, Sesler, Yüzler, BM Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul

Publications (selection)

  • 2016 votes, in: Bundestag Berlin U-Bahn station 2016 - Europe. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Francine Eggs, Andreas Bitschin, Marvin Altner (eds.)
  • 2015 Artistic strategies in my work as a cultural agent, in: Forum K & B (ed.): Publication of the model program "Cultural agents for creative schools 2011-2015"
  • 2014 I <3 Art, Weißensee Kunsthochschule berlin (ed.), Berlin
  • 2012 Una Misión Posible, in: Mediación Artística, Humboldt 156, Goethe-Institut
  • 2011 The Pleiades # 1 in: Vis-à-Vis. Current dialogues, catalog for the exhibition of the same name, Goethe-Institut Minsk, Galerie ý, Minsk, Belarus
  • 2010 Mixing: Possible, Mona Jas, Art Education NGBK 2008–2010, NGBK (ed.), Berlin
  • 2009 Les Mèches en Ligne in: Utopics, 11th Swiss sculpture exhibition, catalog, JRP I, Ringier, Kunstverlag AG, Zurich
  • 2009 Mona Jas in: Berlin-Istanbul, Sourcebook for the exhibition of the Istanbul scholarship holders, Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH (ed.), BM Suma Contemporary Art Center and Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin
  • 2004 Mona Jas, catalog. Ed. Goldrausch artist project
  • 1994 Experiments, catalog Mona Jas, Kunstverein Groß-Gerau, Frankfurt (ed.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ U-Bahn station Bundestag Berlin 2016 - Europe . Jovis, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86859-392-1 ( dnb.de [accessed October 10, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Mona Jas (ed.): I <3 art & 7 in one go . Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-9816991-0-4 ( dnb.de [accessed October 10, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Mixing: Possible: Mona Jas, Art Education NGBK 2008 - 2010 . NGBK, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-938515-38-9 ( dnb.de [accessed October 10, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Mona Jas: Ideale, Deprem / Earthquake, Landscapes, Colors / Voices / Faces, Light Travel (=  Gold Rush 2004 ). Goldrausch female artist project Art IT, Frauennetzwerk, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-937476-25-4 ( dnb.de [accessed October 10, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Mona Jas: Experiments . INITIATIVE GG eV, Groß-Gerau 1994 ( dnb.de [accessed on October 10, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Jas, Mona
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheden