Olaf Breuning

Olaf Breuning, born in Switzerland in 1970, has exhibited his work internationally over the last 15 years. Recent solo exhibitions include Metro Pictures (NYC); Conduits Gallery (Milan), Michael Benevento Gallery (Los Angeles), Galerie Air de Paris (France), The Swiss Institute (NY), The Migros M... Read more

Olaf Breuning, born in Switzerland in 1970, has exhibited his work internationally over the last 15 years. Recent solo exhibitions include Metro Pictures (NYC); Conduits Gallery (Milan), Michael Benevento Gallery (Los Angeles), Galerie Air de Paris (France), The Swiss Institute (NY), The Migros Museum (Zürich), and Centre D’art Contemporain (Geneva). Selected group exhibitions include The Whitney Biennial 2008, Looking At Music at the Museum of Modern Art, (NYC, 2008); Elsewhere at the Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida (2007); Destroy Athens, Athens Biennial (Greece, 2007); All About Laughter at Mori Art Museum, (Japan, 2007); Skin Tight: the Sensibility of the Flesh, Museum of Contemporary Art, (Chicago, 2004); Let’s Entertain at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis as well as Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Portland Art Museum (Oregon), Museo Rufino Tamayo (Mexico City), Kunstmuseum Wolfsberg (Germany), and Miami Art Museum (Florida, 2000). Upcoming solo exhibitions include The Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland and at Centre d’Art Contemporain La Chapelle Du Genêteil (France). Monograghs of the artist work include, Olaf Breuning: Ugly (Hatje-Cantz, 2001), Home (JPR-Ringier, 2004), Olaf Breuning: Queen Mary (JRP-Ringier 2006). The most comprehensive monograph to date of Bruening’s work will be published in 2011 (JRP-Ringier).