Lessons to be Learnt

source: hkstde

Geboren 1980
Lebt und arbeitet in Los Angeles (USA)
Reisestipendium der Hessischen Kulturstiftung 2007/08:
New York, Mittlerer Westen, Chicago, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Los Angeles, San Francisco
Mit ihren Fotografien, Filmen und Installationen untersucht die inzwischen in Los Angeles lebende Künstlerin die Subjektivität von Bildern in einer repräsentations- und spektakelkritischen Lesart. Sie hat mit ihrem Reisestipendium über fast zwei Jahre die USA bereist und an verschiedenen Orten auch länger gelebt. Jugerts Interesse galt dabei lokalen Subkulturen und deren Verhältnissen zu Kunst und Markt. Entstanden sind dabei unter anderem die Fotoserien Extremely Subjective, Constructing History (The Real Life and the Freedom Cage), Miss Rockaway Armanda sowie der langfristig angelegte Dokumentarfilm Art in New Orleans zur kulturellen Situation in der Stadt nach dem Hurricane Katrina. Als abschließende Arbeit hat Lisa Jugert eine Ausstellung mit Künstlerkollegen aus den USA in Berlin realisiert.
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source: berlinartlink

Lisa Jugert, an artist with a focus on photography, has lived and worked in Berlin for the last two years. A graduate of the Städelschule Frankfurt am Main, Jugert’s photographs cause the viewer to question the difference between what’s real and unreal, historical fact or simply fictional stories about the past.
Before coming to Berlin in 2008, she participated in The Rockaway Armada, a U.S.-based art collaboration where a group of individuals sailed ships made from found objects down the Mississippi River. Along the way, they performed exhibitions and performances for the local residents of the Mid-West towns through which they passed. Most recently, Jugert curated a performance evening (The Automatic Theatre) at .HBC, is working as an assistant for Olafur Eliasson, and is preparing for an upcoming dual-site group show at Galerie September and Galerie Barbara Thumm – Project Space, “Schaulager”. This exhibition will also spotlight the publication of her first solo catalogue (published by Goldrausch/argobooks).

Artist Statement:

“In my work I like to reflect on the relationship between image and experience, I am interested in revisiting the link between visual codes and the production of knowledge: How do we remember things? In which way do images influence our conception of reality? How do we know what it is that we see? How is form and content related and how is this relationship subject to change?

Usually I take a conceptual approach to the medium of photography. The images are studio based set-ups, made for the sole purpose of being photographed, for which I only use analogue equipment like medium or large format cameras. The title of each work has major importance as it determines the reading of the piece. I would like the viewer to become aware of himself/herself as spectator, ie: an individual with a subjective point of view.” – Lisa Jugert (2010).
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source: clarkegalleryde

Lisa Jugert (born 1980 in Bremen) studied Fine Arts in Vienna, Glasgow and Frankfurt am Main. With changing focus from graphics and painting to video and installation to conceptual art she has developed a body of work within conceptual photography since 2004. Most of her images are still life pictures, often studio based set-ups, made for the sole purpose of being photographed. The artist uses analogue medium to large format cameras and only occasionally includes digital media.

Recently, she includes performance as a complimentary contrast to her work; preferably in collaboration with groups of artist friends. In addition, she continues her practice within sculpture and installation art while working on a long-term documentary about the demographic development of New Orleans in relation to the emerging local art scene.

Conceptually, her work is united by an interest in the psychology of perception through visual media. In other words she studies the way we look at images and construct our idea of reality through them. It is a reflection of the relationship we create between image and experience. Furthermore it is about cultural conventions, which influence and generate our conception of the world.