“VISUAL ART IS NOT A PASSION FOR ME, IT HAPPENS OUT OF NECESSITY”
Rachel Jag, a visual artist, currently based in Vienna, was born in former Soviet Union (Russia) in 1985.
After finishing at the Sigmund Freud High School Vienna, she went on to study at the “Graphische”, a college for Print, Prepress and Media Technology, after which she worked as a graphic designer and web developer. At a young age, she was involved in various music projects as a singer and songwriter, and came to visual arts through listening to melodies that made a big impact on her. Since then, she explores the relation between color and sound, and has moved to the artistic fields of visual arts.
While many printing projects have followed, like screen printing on textiles as well as prints on paper, it was the relationship between colour and sound that kept bringing her back most strongly to the artistic field of visual arts. Drawn by melodies, the artist transforms fragments of compositions into shape and colour combinations. Also rhythmic elements are captured with her inner voice leading a marker to be tapped onto the paper.
Unfiltered information, the raw material that is being actively shaped by the artist, reveals the scientific dimension of her artistic process. Questioning her own inner voice, a radical medium.
Her works, often fragile and subtle, while on the other hand often dramatic and bold.
“My artwork is never about what ‘I’ want to see, more importantly it is about what is being shown to me and what comes through me. When it’s done, I just put it away, I don’t look for any single ‘interpretation’ or ‘message’, or some sort of translation into words. I prefer to call it a careful ‘approach’ to something undiscovered, or even unknown. I might receive answers on an emotional level, but this could happen after several months, several years, or even never”.
Rachel’s Approach
“THE ESSENCE OF A SHORT MOMENT, OR EVEN A STRANGELY FAMILIAR SOUND, MAY LEAD TO A VERY DEEP ARTISTIC PROCESS“
The cosmic messages - This series is about giving space to split second moments of inspiration. As has always been the case in Rachel’s work, the emotional message it contains is explored. The attempt is to perceive the ‘communication‘, to see where it takes her. “This series of works show rhythmical elements, where I tap small spots on paper by using a pen.” Rachel is trying to transform an energetic field that is being perceived by using rhythmical elements. Little fractions of information, she also calls them “frequencies” from a higher level are trying to be explored emotionally. “ If I can experience a tiny fraction of a larger energetic field through the creation of my work, it might truly exist, at least in my perception”. Undefined forms are telling a story without words, floating. Often an arc can be seen.
PUBLICATIONS
ARTIST TALK MAGAZINE ISSUE 21 / 2022 / LONDON
BRUXELLES ART VUE LIMITLESS NATURE 2022 / BRUSSELS
ALTIBA9 ONLINE INTERVIEW 2022 / SPAIN, ALGERIA
ARTMAGAZINEIUM ISSUE 21/ NOVEMBER 2022 / BRUSSELS
CIRCLE QUARTERLY ART REVIEW MAGAZINE 2022 / GREECE
WOW WORLD SHOW GROUP ART MAGAZINE DUBAI VOL. 1
CONTEMPORARY ART COLLECTORS ‘BEYOND UTOPIA’
CONTEMPORARY ART CURATOR MAGAZINE ‘PARALLEL WORLDS’
LOOSENART MAGAZINE MAY 2023 ‘NIGHT SKIES AND ASTRO IMAGING’ 2023
A LIKE ARTIST VOL.2 NEW COLLECTOR BOOK BY ALTIBA9 2024
“STERNENLICHT“ A COSMIC SONG WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY RACHEL JAG AND SHAM / CHOSEN FOR THE AUSTRIAN WOMEN’S NATIONAL SOCCER PLAYER TEAM DOCUMENTARY “IMMER WEITER“ / PLAYED ON AUSTRIAN NATIONAL TV AND ALL SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS
MEMBER AS AN EXPLORER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ASTRONOMICAL ARTISTS (IAAA)
ORF Kulturmontag- Austrian media provider / studio visit 2020
EXHIBITIONS AND COLLABORATIONS
23.06.- 27.06.2020 Vienna Volkstheater U Bahn, Verein Red Carpet
07.07.- 12.07.2020 Vienna 1210, Floriwood
10.07.- 25.07.2022 Vienna 1050, Verein Kunstschaffen- in the Heat of the Night
25.06.- 28.06.2022 Vienna 1160, Garage Grande by high brow institute, Homo Techno Machina Humana
18.06.- 24.08.2022 Berlin, Galerie im Körnerpark, Anonymous drawings
(drawing sold in the first week)
14.04.- 18.05.2023 Rome/ Italy, exhibition ‘Adhesion/ Night Skies’ and Astro Imaging curated by
Loosenart Gallery
23.04.- 31.05.2023 Vienna 1130, Verein Grätzleben Exhibition colour and sound
14.04.- 18.05.2023 Rome/ Italy, ‘Floating’ work series curated by Gallery Art number 23
15.06.- 01.10.2023 Contemporary art collectors Online Exhibition ‘Beyond Utopia: Visions of a Perfect World’
04.08.- 13.08.2023 Vienna 1030, ‘Bloom’, digital art and sound exhibition
20.09.- 20.01.2024 Contemporary art curator magazine Online Exhibition ‘Parallel Worlds’
04.10.- 10.10.2023 World Space Week 2023
Exhibition ‘Visions- exploring inner and outer worlds of space travel ’ inspired by
the Moon Village Association, in corporation with UNESCO, UNESCO Club Vienna,
and the 75.World Federation for Mental Health
11.11.- 17.11.2023 Vienna 1090 Group Exhibition ‘Stille Post- Die Antwort’ Vienna Art Week –
Gallery at West Space Vienna 1090
30.04.2024 Vienna 1030 Group Exhibition curated by Alexandra Yakubov / Vienna Youth Contemporary
at Villa Mautner Jäger / Women in Technology
19.09.- 26.09.2024 M.A.D.S. Gallery and the metaverse
Contemporary international Art Exhibition MADS Milan to the theme :
Beyond ‘There is always a story behind every human expression, behind every work of art’
02.10.- 06.10.2024 Affordable Art Fair Stockholm / represented by Gallery Makowski Paris / New York
11.10.- 18.10.2024 M.A.D.S. Gallery and the metaverse / ROJO Contemporary international Art Exhibition
/ Hexagon multimedia set- up / cosmic message
08.10. 2024 World Space Week 2024
SciArt Plattform discussion organized by UNESCO CLUB VIENNA
04.10.- 10.10.2024 World Space Week 2024
Cosmic Messages / Exhibition to the theme ‘Space and climate change’
21.02.- 23.02.2025 USA, Tucson /Arizona/ Kuiper Space Sciences Building /
Exhibition / The Art of Planetary Science 2025 / 50 Years of Mystery and Discovery on Mars
01.04.2025 – ongoing Collaboration with Austrian sustainability brand for accessories and bags mapbagrag
10.07.- 12.07.2025 Nikola Tesla Festival / Niagara Falls / Oakes Garden Theatre/ Canada /
Nikola Tesla’s thoughts collide with Rachel Jag’s artistic approach / Video presentation
on screen / curated by Jovana Kocic
08.07.- 24.07.2025 The Tesla Science Foundation USA and Serbia / House of King Peter I, Belgrade /
international exhibition exploring the intersection of art, science, and innovation /
04.10.- 10.10.2025 World Space Week 2025
Living in Space / Animated paintings expand consciousness of what it feels like
to exist in outer space
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UNFOLDING STORIES, REDEFINING WHAT „THINKING“ CAN MEAN
Rachel EXPLORES THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN ART, TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE. ASTRONOMICAL ART, ENERGETIC FIELDS AND UNDEFINED FORMS EMERGE INTUITIVELY ONTO THE SURFACE.