Olaf Breuning

Olaf Breuning is a Swiss photographer who was born in 1970. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Sammlung Goetz (Goetz Collection) have featured Olaf Breuning’s work in the past.Olaf Breuning’s work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $660 USD to $15,989 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2002 the record price for this artist at auction is $15,989 USD for ONLY ONE, sold at Artcurial in 2012. Olaf Breuning has been featured in articles for Art Viewer, The Art Newspaper and Islamic Arts Magazine. The most recent article is Von Bartha Announces Representation of Olaf Breuning and Athene Galiciadis in Switzerland written for ArtDaily in March 2021.

Past exhibitions

Biography

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021
  • Plans For The Planet: Olaf Breuning For Kids, NGV International, Melbourne, Australia
  • Olaf Breuning: Big Drops, Von Bartha, S-chanf, S-chanf, Switzerland
2020
  • Olaf Breuning: Rain, Metro Pictures, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • Olaf Breuning: We Are All in the Same Boat: The Weight of Color, Galleria Poggiali, Milan, Milano, Italy
  • Olaf Breuning: Brainwashed By Nature, Carbon 12, Al Quoz, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2018
  • Olaf Breuning at the Smithson Plaza, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Chichester, UK
  • Olaf Breuning: Chicken or Pasta?, Revolver Galeria, Buenos Aires, Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • CASS Presents: Olaf Breuning, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Chichester, UK
2017
  • Olaf Breunin: Walk on Love, Kodama Gallery, Tennoz, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan
  • Olaf Breuning: Quiet afternoon, Nicola von Senger, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Olaf Breuning, Metro Pictures, Chelsea, New York, USA
2016
  • Olaf Breuning: The Good Old Evolution, Carbon 12, Al Quoz, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Olaf Breuning: Cold Animals, Nils Staerk, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Olaf Breuning, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany
2015
  • Olaf Breuning, Metro Pictures, Chelsea, New York, USA
2013
  • Olaf Breuning: The Grid, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
  • Olaf Breuning: Home 3, Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Brisbane, Australia
  • Olaf Breuning: Camelops Femina, Carbon 12, Al Quoz, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Olaf Breuning: Home Trilogy, Metro Pictures, Chelsea, New York, USA
2011
  • Olaf Breuning: The Art Freaks, Metro Pictures, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • Olaf Breuning: The Art Freaks, Palais de Tokyo, 16e, Paris, France
2009
  • Olaf Breuning: Small Brain Big Stomach, Metro Pictures, Chelsea, New York, USA
2008
  • Olaf Breuning, Metro Pictures, Chelsea, New York, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
  • Children Power 3, Frac Ile-de-France, Le Chateau, Bussy-saint-martin, France
  • À Bout de Souffle, Carbon 12, Al Quoz, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2020
  • ONLINE: Kunsthall Stavanger is Currently Closed: Digital Projects are Still Open on Our Website, Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
  • None of the Above, 2004 – 2020, KANAL – Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Belgium
  • Out of the Woods, Carbon 12, Al Quoz, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Fair, Carbon 12, Al Quoz, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Nature in Play, Metronom, Modena, Italy
2019
  • Installations From 25 Years Of The Falckenberg Collection, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, Germany
  • Mask In Present-Day Art, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
  • At Night. Between dream and reality, Sammlung Goetz (Goetz Collection), Munich, Germany
  • At Night. Between Dream and Reality – Sammlung Goetz im Haus der Kunst, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
  • 30 Years of Dutch Courage. A jubilee exhibition, Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • Friends, etc. La Collection Pierre Keller, Musée Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland
2017
  • NGV Triennial, NGV Australia & The Ian Potter Centre, Melbourne, Australia
  • Call & Response, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
  • Collection on Display: Rituals, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland
2016
  • 5 Years at Heddon St, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, Mayfair, London, UK
  • And Now the Good News, Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati, Lugano, Switzerland
  • This one is smaller than this one…, Galerist, Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey
  • This one is smaller than this one, Postmasters, Tribeca, New York, USA
  • Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966), Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
2015
  • DON’T WORRY, Kate MacGarry, Shoreditch, London, UK
  • Zurich & elsewhere, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
2014
  • Small Detonations, Carbon 12, Al Quoz, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Gastspiel, Museum Rietberg, Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Broken. Slapstick, Comedy, and Black Humor — The Goetz Collection at Haus der Kunst, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
  • Protect me from what I am, Gallery Dina Renninger, Munich, Germany
  • Tony Matelli, Olaf Breuning, John Miller, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2013
  • Olaf Breuning, Tony Matelli, John Miller: Group Show, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • ‘Pataphysics, A Theoretical Exhibition, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • Other People’s Problems: Conflicts and Paradoxes, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliyya, Israel
  • The Cat Show, White Columns, Greenwich Village, New York, USA
  • Parcours, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2012
  • The Man Who Would Be King, Patricia Low Contemporary, St. Moritz, St. Moritz, Switzerland
  • Family Portrait, Carriage Trade, New York, USA
  • Sculpture Is Everything: Contemporary Works From The Collection, QAGOMA, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
  • ITINERARY, The Proposition, New York, USA
  • Dogma, Metro Pictures, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • The Dark Side of the Moon, Carbon 12, Al Quoz, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • In Living Color, The FLAG Art Foundation, Chelsea, New York, USA
2011
  • Magic For Beginners, PPOW Gallery, Tribeca, New York, USA
  • Project 35, Gertrude Contemporary, Preston, Australia
  • God Only Knows Who the Audience Is, The Wattis Institute, San Francisco, California, USA
  • Electromediascope Winter 2011: InsideOut: New Performance Videos, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
2010
  • 21st Century: Art in the First Decade, QAGOMA, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
  • Make Yourself At Home: Hospitality in a Changing World, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Indre by, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Personal Freedom, Portugal Arte, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Adaptation, The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2009
  • Santa’s Workshop Shanghai: Selected Works, Toys and Artists’ Editions, James Cohan, Shanghai, Shanghai, China
  • Objects, Furniture, and Patterns, Art Since the Summer of ’69, Lower East Side, New York, USA
  • The Reach of Realism, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
  • Boderline Pleasure, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany
  • Stranger Things Are Happening, Aspex, Portsmouth, UK
  • Group Exhibition, Metro Pictures, Chelsea, New York, USA
2008
  • 2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • Laughing in a Foreign Language, Southbank Centre, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2007
  • MASK, James Cohan, New York (26th Street), Chelsea, New York, USA

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