Olaf Breuning

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Olaf Breuning
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Born (1970-02-16) February 16, 1970 (age 51)
Schaffhausen, Switzerland
NationalitySwiss
Education
Known forArtist, Sculpture, Drawing, Photography, Video
Websitewww.olafbreuning.com

Olaf Breuning (born February 16, 1970)[1] is a Swiss-born artist, born in Schaffhausen,[1] who lives in New York City.

Works[]

  • Home 1/Home 2 (2004/7)--30 minute video starring Brian Kerstetter. Home 1 is presented as a double-projection, where the main character can no longer distinguish the difference between reality and fiction. He wanders around a hotel room telling stories about himself and other people to the camera. As he tells the stories, they are simultaneously seen on the opposite screen. In Home 2 Brian Kerstetter plays an ignorant tourist staggering around the world from Switzerland to Africa and Japan to Papua New Guinea, crashing his western mentality upon the exotic places he goes.
  • Ugly Yelp (2000), Apes (2001), King (2001), Hello Darkness (2002)--With these installations, Breuning creates theatrical atmospheres using sound, video and light. These installations have been shown in many museums and are owned by collections internationally.
  • Easter Bunnies (2004)--A photograph created on Easter Island, transforming the Moais sculptures into Easter bunnies by setting up rabbit ears on C-stands in the extreme foreground.
  • Sibylle (1998)-- Photograph of a female model lying on a table, whose body has been affected by cultural references to Matthew Barney, Cindy Sherman, Pablo Picasso, and others, resulting a creepily mutilated creature.
  • Smoke Bombs (2008)--Exemplifies Breuning's photographic technique of leaving the mess of production within frame, allowing the viewer to see behind the scenes of the production.

Exhibitions[]

Group exhibitions (selected)[]

In recent years he has exhibited his works at many group shows around the world, including , London; Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel; Tinguely Museum, Basel; Nelson–Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; , Salzburg; Musée Rath, Geneva and many other venues. Some of them are listed below:[2]

2014

  • Das Fremde ist nur in der Fremde fremd, Museum Rietberg, Zurich, CH[3]

2013

  • Ursula Palla und Olaf Breuning. Hin und Her, Binz 39, Zurich, CH[4]
  • Métamatic Reloaded, Tinguely Museum, Basel, CH[5]
  • La realtà non è un luogo comune. Fotografie e video della Collezione d'arte della Julius Baer, , Lugano, CH[6]

2012

2011

2010

  • Press Art. Die Sammlung Annette und Peter Nobel, , St. Gallen, CH[12]

2009

  • Darkside II. Fotografische Macht und fotografierte Gewalt, Krankheit und Tod, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH[13]
  • 200 Artworks. 25 Years Artists, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, JP (catalogue ISBN 390758225X)

2008

  • When fears become form, (CAN), Neuchâtel, CH[14]
  • Sammlung/Collection Migros Museum für Gegenwartkunst Zürich 1978-2008, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, CH[15]
  • Whitney Biennial 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US[16]

2007

  • 12e Biennale de l'Image en mouvement, (CIC), Geneva, CH[17]
  • What we bought, , Graz, AU[18]
  • All about Laughter: humor in contemporary art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, JP[19]
  • Six Feet Under. Autopsie unseres Umgangs mit Toten. Autopsy of Our Relation to the Dead, Kunstmuseum Bern, CH[20]

2006

  • Imagination becomes reality. Part IV. Borrowed images, Sammlung Goetz, München, DE[21]
  • Cindy Sherman, Gianni Motti, Olaf Breuning, , Zurich, CH[22]
  • Some tribes, , Zurich, CH[23]

2003

  • Urban Diaries. Young Swiss Art, Alcalá 31, Madrid, ESP[24]
  • M_ARS. Kunst und Krieg, de:Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, AU[25]

2002

  • Lorbeer-Extrakt. Manor-Kunstpreis Schaffhausen 1987-2001, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, CH (catalogue ISBN 3907066448)

2001

  • M family. Die Bilder zum Migros Geschäftsbericht 2000, , Zurich, CH (catalogue ISBN 3952224901)
  • Up in the sky. Himmel in der Kunst der 90er Jahre, Kunsthaus Grenchen, Grenchen, CH[26]
  • Collaborations with Parkett: 1984 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US[27]

2000

  • Eidgenössische Preise für freie Kunst 2000, Kunsthalle Fri Art, Freiburg, CH[28]
  • Let's be friends, , Zurich, CH[29]
  • EX25 Hochschule und Museum Für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich die Letzten 25 Jahre Halle, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Zurich, CH[30]
  • Reality Bytes. Der medial vermittelte Blick, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, DE[31]

1999

1998

  • Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer. Junge Schweizer Kunst, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, CH (catalogue ISBN 3906574024)

Books[]

  • Ugly, 2000, monograph, Hatje Cantz, ISBN 3-7757-1105-8
  • Home, 2004, monograph, , Magasin, Les Musees de Strasbourg, ISBN 2-940271-39-9
  • Queen Mary, 2006, drawing catalogue, , ISBN 3-905701-94-4
  • Queen Mary II, 2010, monograph, , Zurich

References[]

  1. ^ a b SIK ISEA, Olaf Breuning
  2. ^ SIK ISEA, Olaf Breuning (Ausstellungen)
  3. ^ Saiten, Das Fremde ist nur in der Fremde fremd, by Katharina Flieger, October 17, 2014.
  4. ^ "Stiftung Binz39". www.binz39.ch.
  5. ^ "Museum Tinguely - Metamatic". www.tinguely.ch.
  6. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-07-02. Retrieved 2017-06-12.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ^ "Holzwege. Sentieri erranti. Arte svizzera dalla collezione della Mobiliare - SIKART Lexikon zur Kunst in der Schweiz". www.sikart.ch.
  8. ^ "Home". www.kunsthallewien.at.
  9. ^ St.Gallen, Kunstmuseum. "Through the Looking Brain – Kunstmuseum St.Gallen". www.kunstmuseumsg.ch.
  10. ^ "Incongru. Quand l'art fait rire de - Exhibition / Ausstellung in Lausanne". www.art-report.com.
  11. ^ "THROUGH THE LOOKING BRAIN: Kunstmuseum Bonn". www.kunstmuseum-bonn.de.
  12. ^ "PressArt. Die Sammlung Annette und Peter Nobel".
  13. ^ "Darkside II – Fotografische Macht und fotografierte Gewalt, Krankheit und Tod - Ausstellungen - Entdecken - Fotomuseum Winterthur". www.fotomuseum.ch.
  14. ^ "CAN / Archives". www.can.ch.
  15. ^ "Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst–Sammlung - Collection". www.migrosmuseum.ch.
  16. ^ "Whitney Biennial 2008 - Whitney Museum of American Art". www.whitney.org.
  17. ^ Muehlheim, Didier. "12th BIM". www.centreimage.ch.
  18. ^ "What We Bought".
  19. ^ Villarreal, Ignacio. "All About Laughter: Humor in Contemporary Art". artdaily.com.
  20. ^ 7, Kunstmuseum Bern, Hodlerstrasse 8–12, CH-3000 Bern. "Six Feet Under "Autopsie unseres Umgangs mit Toten"". Kunstmuseum Bern.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  21. ^ "Imagination Becomes RealityPart IV: Borrowed Images - Sammlung Goetz". www.sammlung-goetz.de.
  22. ^ [1][dead link]
  23. ^ "Some Tribes".
  24. ^ "www.likeyou.com - Urban Diaries : Young Swiss Art - Comunidad de Madrid". old.likeyou.com.
  25. ^ "M_ARS - Ausstellung - Neue Galerie Graz". www.museum-joanneum.at.
  26. ^ Annelise Zwez about the exhibition
  27. ^ "MoMA.org - Interactives - Exhibitions - 2001 - Collaborations with Parkett". www.moma.org.
  28. ^ Annelise Zwez about the exhibition
  29. ^ "Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst–Let's Be Friends". www.migrosmuseum.ch.
  30. ^ [2][dead link]
  31. ^ "Reality Bytes. Der medial vermittelte Blick".
  32. ^ "Eidgenössische Preise für freie Kunst 1999 - Kunsthalle Zürich". kunsthallezurich.ch.

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