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Olaf Breuning  1970, CH
Rank (2009): 337 
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Artwork:
Olaf Breuning, The Army
The Army, 2008
The Saatchi Gallery

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 Most exhibitions in:
Country
USA 35
Switzerland 32
Germany 23
France 17
United Kingdom 12




 Most exhibitions shown with:
Artist Rank
Ugo Rondinone  197 14
Cindy Sherman  8 14
Sylvie Fleury  119 14
Paul McCarthy  53 13




 Most exhibitions held at:
Institution
  Metro Pictures Gallery, USA 8
Arndt & Partner - Berlin + Zurich Arndt & Partner - Berlin + Zurich, Germany 7
  Ars Futura Galerie, Switzerland 6
  SI Swiss Institute, USA 4
  Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Poland 4




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Olaf Breuning 
Photo: Art Now, Taschen © www.artnet.com, Gerry Nitsch


1970 Born in Schaffhausen (CH)


lives and works in New York and Zurich
1988 - 1993 Professional training as photographer

1995 - 1996 Postgraduate Studies, HSfG

Scholarship 1997 Atelierstipendium, BINZ39, Zürich

1998 Bundesstipendium freie Kunst, UBS-Werkjahrstipendium, Atelierstipendium Rom, Istituto Svizzero

2000 scholarship in New York, USA


Selected Public Collections

Sammlung Ringier
Sammlung Zellweger-Luwa
Sammlung Schweizer Rück
Kunsthaus Glarus
Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen
Grafische Sammlung des Museums für Gestaltung, Zürich
 
Public exhibitions  175  Please report missing Information

from 1.12.
   Reach of Realism - Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL 


until 29.11.
   No Sound of Music - Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg 

until 22.11.
Description and image  Performa 09 - Performa, New York City, NY 


 Solo shows   38

2009
   Olaf Breuning - color studies - Kodama Gallery - Kyoto, Kyoto
   Olaf Breuning - life is a wheel - Kodama Gallery - Tokyo, Tokyo

2008
   Olaf Breuning - Home 2 - Galerie Lucy Mackintosh, Lausanne
   Olaf Breuning - at last i tried - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
   Home - Forum Vebikus - Kulturzentrum Kammgarn, Schaffhausen

2007
   Olaf Breuning - Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich
   Olaf Breuning - Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
   Olaf Breuning - Flag - SI Swiss Institute, New York City, NY
   Home - Gertrude contemporary art spaces, Fitzroy, VIC
   Olaf Breuning - Woman and Dead - Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow
   Olaf Breuning - Home - Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW

2006
Description  Olaf Breuning - Home - IMA Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
   Olaf Breuning - Le Parvis - scène nationale Tarbes Pyrénées, Ibos
   Olaf Breuning - Nils Stærk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen

2005
   Olaf Breuning - Air de Paris, Paris
   Olaf Breuning - Oh yes... it is a garden! - Chisenhale Gallery, London (England)
   Olaf Breuning: They Live - Chapter Gallery, Cardiff (Wales)
   Olaf Breuning - Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Description  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
   Olaf Breuning - Home - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY

2003
Description  PROJECT ROOM V - OLAF BREUNING - Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg
Description and image  Olaf Breuning - MAGASIN-Centre National d’art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble
Description and image Arndt & Partner - Berlin + ZurichOlaf Breuning - Hello Darkness - Arndt & Partner - Berlin + Zurich, Berlin 

2002
Description and image  OLAF BREUNING - - Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich (closed)
   Olaf Breuning - Camp - Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt - Centre d'Art, Biel/Bienne
   Olaf Breuning - Hello Darkness - SI Swiss Institute, New York City, NY

2001
   Olaf Breuning - Primitiv - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
   Olaf Breuning - Artspace, Auckland
   apes - Kunstverein Freiburg im Marienbad, Freiburg
Description and image Arndt & Partner - Berlin + ZurichOlaf Breuning - King - Arndt & Partner - Berlin + Zurich, Berlin 
   Olaf Breuning - SI Swiss Institute, New York City, NY
   Olaf Breuning - Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna

2000
Description  OLAF BREUNING - Installation: Ugly Yelp, 2000 - - Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich (closed)

1999
Description and image  Olaf Breuning - Foto - - Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich (closed)
   "Art Statement" - - Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich (closed)

1998
   Olaf Breuning - Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen


 Group shows   134

2009
   I am by birth a genevese ; and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic - Forde - Espace d'art contemporain, Geneva
   The Cursed Chateau - Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art - iMOCA, Indianapolis, IN
Description and image  The Rocky Mountain People Show - Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento
   Borderline Pleasure - Ferenbalm-Gurbrü Station, Karlsruhe
   Pas nécessaire et pourtant indispensable. 1979-2009 : 30 ans d’art contemporain à Meymac - Abbaye St André - Centre d’art contemporain, Meymac
Description and image  Stranger Things Are Happening - Aspex, Portsmouth (England)
Description and image Vegas GalleryI Am By Birth A Genevese - Group Exhibition - Vegas Gallery, London (England) 
Description  Sixty Minutes - University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
Description  SIXTY MINUTES - University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
   Bücher, Bücher, Bücher –Nichts als Bücher - Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim
   The Tragic and the Funny meet again - De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
   If I Was the Cousin of My Mother’s Sister's Son - Gallery Bar, New York City, NY
Description  Hypocrisy: The Sitespecificity of Morality - The Museum of Contemporary Art / Museet for samtidskunst, Oslo
   Born in the morning, dead by night - Leo Koenig Inc., New York City, NY

2008
Description and image  Experimenta FOLKLORE - Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main
   A meeting between the tragic & the funny - Middelheim Museum, Antwerp
   Rock My Religion 1 - DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca
   When fear become form - CAN - Centre d'Art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel
   Tell Tchaikovsky the news - Standard (Oslo), Oslo
   Sammlung / Collection - Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
   Damn! I wish I'd done that. Artists' works I wish I'd made... - Chapter Gallery, Cardiff (Wales)
   Photosuisse: Group Exhibition - Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City
Description and image  Whitney Biennial 2008 - Whitney Biennial, New York City, NY
   Like Watching a Train Wreck - Claudia Groeflin Galerie , Zurich
   Nouvelles Collections III - Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt - Centre d'Art, Biel/Bienne
   Laughing in a foreign language - Hayward Gallery, London (England)

2007
   From Chelsea to Caochangdi - Chambers Fine Art - Beijing, Beijing
   PHOTOsuisse. A Selection of Swiss Photographers - Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow
   Group Show. "Ten years" - - Emily Tsingou Gallery, London (England) (closed, 2008)
   Playback - Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - MAM/ARC, Paris
   What We Bought - Camera Austria, Graz
   When We Build, Let Us Think That We Build Forever - BALTIC The Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (England)
Description and image  Existencias - Musac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon
   hold the line - Ferenbalm-Gurbrü Station, Karlsruhe
Description and image  1st Athens Biennial 2007 - Technopolis of the City of Athens, Athens
Description and image Nosbaum & Reding Art ContemporainNEW_COMPANY – Nouveaux portraits de groupe - Nosbaum & Reding Art Contemporain, Luxembourg 
   Franz West - Souffle, eine Massenausstellung - Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck
   odd spaces - Galerie Møller Witt, Aarhus
   Elsewhere - University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
   Enlarge your practice - La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille
   Wrong Number - Jack Hanley Gallery - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
   Môtiers 2007 - Art en plein air - Art Môtiers, Môtiers
   Idilio I - DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca
   To Build A Fire - - Rivington Arms, New York City, NY (closed, 2009)
   Screening I - Karma International, Zurich
   Reboot - The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection - Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch
   Just Can’t Get Enough” Capricous - CBK - Centrum Beeldende Kunst Gelderland, Arnhem
   Imagination becomes Reality - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
   all about laughter - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
   art_clips.ch - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe

2006
   Swiss Video - Tate Modern, London (England)
   1. Bienal de Canarias - Bienal de Canarias, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
   Olaf Breuning & Torbjørn Rødland - Galería Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
   Transculture - Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow
   Idylle - Traum und Trugschluss - Sammlung Falckenberg - Kulturstiftung Phoenix Art, Hamburg
   Mascarada - DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca
   Highlights from the Photography Collection - Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
   PHotosuisse: Group Exhibition - Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt - Centre d'Art, Biel/Bienne
   Distor - Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
   Kamp K48 - John Connelly Presents (JCP), New York City, NY
   Summer - Nils Stærk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
Description and image  Imagination Becomes Reality. Part IV: "Borrowed Images" - Sammlung Goetz, Munich
   Human Game. Winners And Loosers - Stazione Leopolda, Florence
   Ballermann - Die Ausstellung - Kunsthalle zu Kiel der Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel
   Cindy Sherman/Olaf Breuning/Gianni Motti - Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich
Description and image Cortex Athletico Galerie - Art ContemporainWaking Up - Cortex Athletico Galerie - Art Contemporain, Bordeaux 
   Olaf Breuning, Jim Shaw, Cindy Sherman - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
   Aller/Retour - Centre culturel Suisse, Paris

2005
   Blankness is not a Void - Standard (Oslo), Oslo
   With us against reality, or against us! - Galleri S.E, Bergen
   Photography as/within installation - Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp
Description and image Arndt & Partner - Berlin + ZurichWorks on Paper - Arndt & Partner - Berlin + Zurich, Berlin 
   The Zine UnBound - Kults, Werewolves and Sarcastic Hippies - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
   Naturellement abstrait - Centre d´Art Contemporain Geneve, Geneva
   First We Take Museums - Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
   Realit;-)t - 30 Videoarbeiten aus der Sammlung Goetz in München - Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon
   When Humour Becomes Painful - Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
   IBCA Biennale 2005 - IBCA - International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Prague
   Burlesques contemporains - Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
   Swiss Video - Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow
   About Beauty - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
   Growing Up Absurd - Herbert Read Gallery - University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent (England)

2004
   Romantic Detachment - Chapter Gallery, Cardiff (Wales)
Description and image  None of the above - SI Swiss Institute, New York City, NY
Description  Romantic Detachment - P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
   Eröffnung Kunsthaus L6 - L6, Freiburg
   De leur temps. Collections privées Francaises - Musee des Beaux Arts Tourcoing, Tourcoing
Description and image  Sommer-Ausstellung - - Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich (closed)
Description  Sommerfrische. Künstlervideos mit Esprit - Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
   Swiss Art Videolobby - Contemporary Art Center Vilnius (CAC), Vilnius
   Grotesque, burlesque, parodie - Abbaye St André - Centre d’art contemporain, Meymac
   Incantations - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
   Altered States - Leo Koenig Inc., New York City, NY
   Miedo - Fear - Galería Pepe Cobo, Madrid
   KUNST FÜR DIE KUNST - Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen
   Dream Extensions - SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
Description and image  The New Gothic: Art For the Tortured Soul - Cokkie Snoei - Rotterdam, Rotterdam

2003
   Der Verein. Ein Zukunftsmodell. Strategien der Kooperation - Museum im Bellpark, Kriens
   When Darkness Falls - Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
   10e Niennale de l'Image en Mouvement - Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement, Geneva
   When Darkness Falls - Gallery 400 - University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
   todays man - John Connelly Presents (JCP), New York City, NY
Description and image  Variations on the theme of illusion - - Emily Tsingou Gallery, London (England) (closed, 2008)
Description and image Bernhard Knaus Fine Art"Summer Holiday" -Gruppenausstellung - Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt/Main 
Description and image Arndt & Partner - Berlin + ZurichTemporary exhibition space in Chicago - Arndt & Partner - Berlin + Zurich, Berlin 
Description and image  "Phantom der Lust. Visionen des Masochismus in der Kunst" - Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
   Drawings - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
Description and image  M_ARS - Art and War - Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
   transnational monster league - Derek Eller Gallery, New York City, NY

2002
   Durchzug - Draft - Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich
   Né un 3 septembre - FRAC - Bourgogne, Dijon
   "Endlich eine gute Ausstellung" - Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Description  Lewis Caroll - ... confiture demain et confiture hier. Mais jamais confiture auj - CRAC - Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain de Sète, Sète
Description and image AEROPLASTICS contemporary"WONDERLAND" - AEROPLASTICS contemporary, Brussels 
   Lorbeer Extrakt - Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen
   Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY

2001
Description and image Arndt & Partner - Berlin + ZurichChristmas Show - Arndt & Partner - Berlin + Zurich, Berlin 
   printemps de septembre - Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse
   1st Tirana Biennale 2001 - Tirana Biennial, Tirana
   Objects in Mirror are Closer Than They Appear - Team Gallery, New York City, NY
   More than One - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY
Description  Gravità Zero. Arte, tecnologia e nuovi spazi dell´identità - Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
   Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
   Tutto Normale - Académie de France à Rome - Villa Médicis, Rome
  Arndt & Partner - Berlin + ZurichAccrochage - Arndt & Partner - Berlin + Zurich, Berlin 
Description  Hypermental - Wahnhafte Wirklichkeit 1950 - 2000 - Von Salvador Dali bis Jeff K - Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

2000
Description and image  Au-delà du spectacle - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
Description  Guarene Arte 2000 - Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
   Let's Entertain - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
   Reality Bytes - Der medial vermittelte Blick - Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg
Description Arndt & Partner - Berlin + ZurichStadt Land Mensch - Fotografien - Arndt & Partner - Berlin + Zurich, Berlin 
   Thanks - Air de Paris, Paris

1999
   Young - Neue Fotografie in der Schweiz - Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur

1998
Description  Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer - Junge Schweizer Kunst - Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich

 Dealer Directory  10

Austria

 Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna

Denmark

 Nils Stærk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen

France

 Air de Paris, Paris

Italy

 Gagliardi Art System, Turin
 Galleria Gas Art Gallery, Turin

Switzerland

 Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich

USA

 Michael Beneveto, Los Angeles, CA
 Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
 Carolina Nitsch, New York City, NY
 Scalo / Guye Gallery, West Hollywood, CA


 Public collections  12   Please report missing Information


France

 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
 FRAC - Rhône-Alpes, IAC - Institute d`art contemporain, Villeurbanne

Italy

 Trevi Flash Art Museum Of Contemporary Art, Trevi

Portugal

 Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão

Switzerland

 Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen
 Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
 Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich

United Kingdom

www.saatchigallery.comThe Saatchi Gallery, London (England) 

USA

 Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL


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