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

Olaf Breuning
Born (1970-02-16) February 16, 1970 (age 54)
NationalitySwiss
EducationWeiterbildungsklasse Fotographie, Höhere Schule für Gestaltung
Known forArtist, Sculpture, Drawing, Photography, Video
Websitewww.olafbreuning.com

Works

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  • 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 Moai 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

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Group exhibitions (selected)

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

2014

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, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano, CH[6]

2012

2011

2010

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, Centre d'art Neuchâtel (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

2006

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

2001

2000

1999

1998

Books

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References

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  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. ^ "Website not available". Archived from the original on 2015-07-02. Retrieved 2017-06-12.
  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. ^ "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. ^ "Six Feet Under "Autopsie unseres Umgangs mit Toten"". Kunstmuseum Bern.
  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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