Olaf Breuning
Born in 1970 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. Lives and works in New York and Zurich. Attended Berufsausbildung Fotograf, Weiterbildungsklasse Fotographie, Höhere Schule für Gestaltung.
Public Collection and Museums
CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux
FRAC - Bourgogne, Dijon
FRAC - Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille
Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg
IAC - Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne
The Saatchi Collection, London
Bank Julius Bär & Co. AG, Zurich, Switzerland
Collection Rignier, Zurich, Switzerland
Collection Zellweger-Luwa, Uster, Switzerland
Collection Schweizer Rück, Zurich, Switzerland
Collezione La Gaia, Brusca, Italy
Ellipse Foundation, Portugal
FONDS NATIONAL D'ART CONTEMPORAIN, France
Grafische Sammlung des Museums für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland
Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany
Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Migros Museum, Zürich
Musée d'Art Moderne/Centre de Création Industrielle, France
Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Sammlung Goetz, München, Germany
Zürcher Kantonalbank, Zurich
Rosenblum collection, Paris
Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2012
New works, Carbon 12, Dubai
2011
"Art Freaks", Metro Pictures, New York
"Art Freaks", Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Kodama gallery, Tokyo
2010
Nicola von Senger, Zürich
Surface to Air, Paris
"Can Someone Tell Us...," Centre d'Art Contemporain la Chapelle du Geneteil, France
Le Carré, scène nationale, Chateau Gontier
"Yes?No?" Kunstmuseum Luzern
2009
"Small Brain Big Stomach", Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City
Olaf Breuning - Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA
Olaf Breuning - Langhans Galerie, Prague
"Color studies", Kodama Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
"Life is a wheel", Kodama Gallery, Tokyo
2008
"Home 2", Galerie Lucy Mackintosh, Lausanne
"At last I tried", Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City
"Home", Forum Vebikus, Kulturzentrum Kammgarn, Schaffhausen
2007
Olaf Breuning, Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich
Olaf Breuning, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
"Flag", SI Swiss Institute, New York City
"Home", Gertrude contemporary art spaces, Melbourne
"Woman and Dead", Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow
"Home", Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2006
"Home", IMA Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
"Le Parvis", scène nationale Tarbes Pyrénées, Ibos
Olaf Breuning - Nils Stærk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
2005
Olaf Breuning - Air de Paris, Paris
"Oh yes... it is a garden!", Chisenhale Gallery, London
"Olaf Breuning: They Live", Chapter Gallery, Cardiff (Wales)
Olaf Breuning, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
"Olaf Breuning - home (Video-Installation)", Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich
"Olaf Breuning", Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich (closed)
2004
Olaf Breuning, Nils Stærk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
"Home", Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City
2003
PROJECT ROOM V-OLAF BREUNING, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg
Olaf Breuning - MAGASIN-Centre National d’art Contemporain de Grenoble
"Hello Darkness", ARNDT, Berlin
2002
"Olaf Breuning- Camp", Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt - Centre d'Art, Biel/Bienne
"Hello Darkness", SI Swiss Institute, New York City
2001
"Primitiv", Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City
Olaf Breuning - Artspace, Auckland
"Apes", Kunstverein Freiburg
"King", ARNDT, Berlin
Olaf Breuning - SI Swiss Institute, New York City
Olaf Breuning - Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2012
"Die Dunkle Seite des Mondes" (the dark side of the moon), Carbon 12, Dubai
2011
"Incongru- Quand l'art fait rire", Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
"THE LAST FIRST DECADE", Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão
"Voici un dessin suisse 1990-2010", Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
2010
"21st Century: Art in the First Decade", Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
"James Ensor - Hareng Saur: Ensor et l'art contemporain", SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
"Make Yourself at Home", nutidig gæstfrihed i en foranderlig verden - Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
"Press Art - Sammlung Annette und Peter Nobel", Museum der Moderne - MdM Rupertinum, Salzburg
Multiple Pleasure: Functional Objects in Contemporary Art - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York City, NY
"Fantasmagoria, le monde mythique", les Abattoirs de Toulouse, Toulouse
"The Facebook Show", Museum of New Art - MONA, Pontiac (MI)
"Adaptation: Between Species", The Power Plant, Toronto, ON
"Pastiche", Sølyst Artist in Residence Center, Jyderup
"Voici un dessin suisse (1990-2010)", Musée Rath, Geneva