Dr Andrea Jaeger

I am a photographic artist, researcher, and lecturer in Photography and Video at De Montfort University. My practice explores human-machine interactions in photographic practices, advancing a posthumanist perspective that reframes photography as a co-produced, multisensory event. Moving beyond the confines of the photographic image as static visual object, I explore the sensory and material processes that co-produce practice. Through mixed-media installations incorporating sound, video, printed materials, and participatory elements, my work addresses displacement, deep matter, and feminist thought.
With a BA in Media Studies from HTW Berlin and Deakin University Melbourne, an MA in Photography Arts from the University of Westminster and PhD in Posthuman Photography from Nottingham Trent University, my art practice lies at the intersection of art and scholarly inquiry. I have exhibited across the UK, US, Germany, Switzerland, and Denmark, and was honoured with the Attenborough Prize in 2015. Born and raised in East Germany, I continue to work between Nottingham and Berlin.

• Institute of Art and Design
• Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT)

LIST OF MAJOR PUBLICATIONS

• Andrea Jaeger (2020) Praxis as Research in Photography: A relational approach to the fabrication of matter in commercial full-service photographic labs through performative research, Working Paper Series NTU: Nottingham.
• Andrea Jaeger, Sonja Lotta, and Natalie Schwarz (2014) I See: Artistic Research Process, Bern: Hochschule der Künste.
• Andrea Jaeger (2010), XA, derdiedas, Vol. 5, pp23-34.
• Andrea Jaeger, Frank Dabba Smith, Mimi Winter (2009) Skip Intro, London: University of Westminster.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
Small Format Galerie Glaab, Berne, Switzerland

2023
One Shot, The Woman Art Gallery, Berne, Switzerland
The Woman emerges, Kunsttage Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Shared stares, in collaboration with Spencer Carter, Universität der Künste Berlin

2022
Fleshmeet, Free and Easy Film Screening, Primary Gallery, Nottingham.

2021
Milch, Collaborative work as conversational response to the 'nomadic online dialogue 2' on Displacement, Creative Centre for Fluid Territories, Bergen, Norway.
Too loose, too tight, and just right, Screen Share Festival, Phoenix Cinema Leicester.

2020
Groundless belonging: Collaborative work as response to a nomadic on-line dialogue led by The Creative Centre for Fluid Territories, Online exhibition.
Leader and tail, One-day performance to break the void, Backlit Gallery Nottingham.

2019
Off Screen, Fishbowl, Bonnington Galleries, NTU, Nottingham.
It slips, Back to Base, Free and Easy Film Screening, Primary Gallery, Nottingham.

2018
Falten, Tunnel Vision 2, Digital Gallery, Victoria Centre, Nottingham.
Tearing Paper, Experimental Study Session, Black Box, Project Space, NTU, Nottingham.

2017
We see views painted in black and white, YIA Art Fair Basel, CH.
Photo Flesh, Terrault Contemporary, Baltimore, U.S.
Pulpa, R K Burt Gallery, London.
Happy to be here, Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester.

2016
Point of no return, RBSA’s Annual Exhibition, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham.
White Paper, Blue Light, Group show as part of Summer Art Trail, LCB Depot Leicester.
XA, Leicester Society of Artists Annual Exhibition, New Walk Museum, Leicester.

2015
Metamorphosis, Great Central Gallery, Leicester, solo show.
Here is almost there, Art Copenhagen, Forum Copenhagen, Denmark.
What is left behind, Kölner Liste 2015, Cologne, Germany.

Posthuman Photography
Practice Research
Sensorial aesthetics
Deep Listening
Visual Thinking Strategies
New Materialism,
Artistic Research

Critical Research
Contemporary Visual Culture
Creative Methods and Methodologies in Arts and Design
Professional Photographic Practice

PhD in Posthuman Photography - Nottingham Trent University, 2024
MA in Photography Arts - University of Westminster, London, 2009
BA in Media Studies - FHW Berlin and Deakin University Melbourne, 2005

Critical Research and Contemporary Visual Culture
Experimental Photographic Practices
Research methods for creative practices
Fundamentals of Artistic Research
Visual Thinking Strategies
Deep Listening Practice
Sensory fieldwork in the Arts
Co-Lab: Research
Exploration and Experiment
Guided ‘walk-shops’

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan, Keio University,  Tokyo, 2024

Associate Artist at Virtual & Immersive Production Studio, University of Nottingham, 2023-2024

Fellowship at the Higher Education Academy - Advance HE, 2023

Early Career Researcher Prize, Nottingham Trent University, 2022

AHRC Midlands-3-Cities Scholarship Award, 2018 – 2024

Attenborough Arts Prize, Leicester Society of Artists, 2015

Scholarship for Studying Abroad at Deakin University Melbourne, AUS, 2004

Scholarship for Outstanding Students, FHW Berlin, 2000-2005

Associate member at Backlit Galleries and Studios, Nottingham
Member of Lumina Collective at Backlit Galleries
Member of the Society of Artistic Research

Fellow (FHEA) AdvanceHE, 2023

Deep Listening Certification Program

The Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer, New York, 2021

Teacher Training in Visual Thinking Strategies, The Center for Creative Community, Commonweal, Bolinas, CA, 2021

Teacher Training for PGRs in Higher Education, Nottingham Trent University, 2019

PG Cert Research Practice, Birmingham School of Art, BCU 2016]

2020    Exquisite Futures, AiR in Motherhood, Nottingham. .
2019    Soft Matter Studium, Polaroid Originals, Enschede, Netherlands.
2019    Chromira Studium, Artist-in-Research Residency, Bayeux, London
2018    Summer Lodge 2018, AiR within Fine Art at NTU.
2016    Artist in Residence, Silver Vine Arts, LCB Depot Leicester.
2010    Artist in Residence, Institute of Aesthetics, NYC, U.S.