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SELECTED WORKS BY Olaf Breuning



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Olaf Breuning

I’m Still Scared Of The Chinese

2007
Wood, plastic

50.8 x 35.6 x 15.2 cm


Olaf Breuning

The Army

2008
30 sculptures


Olaf Breuning

Cat

2002
C-print mounted on aluminum, laminated

122 x 157.5 cm

Olaf Breuning takes B-movie kitsch to a whole different alphabetical scale � somewhere way past Z. Appropriating the tropes of slasher flicks and music videos, Breuning�s films are riotous masterpieces of pop culture pastiche, reconstructing the weirdness and violence of zombie, satanic cult, and science fiction genres with homebrew efficacy. Executed on ultra-low budget, Breuning�s works are shamelessly amateur: set in found locations, starring friends rather than actors, with costumes and props fabricated from bargain shop materials, and the technical �achievement� of special effects revealed as the hopeful illusions of flashlights or plainly visible smoke machines. Breuning�s photographs operate as out-takes from his videos. Playing on the cult status horror of The Blair Witch Project or The Wickerman, Cat -- a make-shift totem of a vicious-looking kitty -- harks to a supernatural forest ritual, more dumb than frightening.


Olaf Breuning

Collage Family

2007
Colour photograph mounted on aluminum, laminated

121.9 x 157.5 cm



ARTIST INFORMATION




Olaf Breuning's BIOGRAPHY



1970
Schaffhausen, Switzerland

Lives and works in New York and Zurich


SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2006
Olaf Breuning: Home, The Gallery Sketch, London

2005
Chinatown Art Objects, Metro Pictures, New York (and 2001, 2004)
Galerie Meyer & Kainer, Vienna
Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich
Nicola von Senger, Zurich
Olaf Breuning: Oh yes…It is a garden, Chisenhale Gallery, London
Olaf Breuning: They Live, Chapter Gallery, Cardiff

2004
Home, Metro Pictures, New York
Olaf Breuning – films, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Olaf Breuning – videos, Toulouse, France
The New Stedelijk Museum CS/ Auditorium, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Kodama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

2003
Air de Paris, Paris
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Musée de Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strausbourg, France
Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin
Magasin Cente National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France

2002
Hello Darkness, Swiss Institute, New York
Olaf Breuning- Fotografie, arsFutura Galerie, Zurich

2001
Galerie Meyer & Kainer, Vienna
Swiss Institute, New York
Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin
Galerie Air de Paris, Paris
Museum zur Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, Switzerland; Manor-Kunstpreis
Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany
Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand (brochure)
Chicago Project Room, Los Angeles, California
Primitive, Metro Pictures, New York

2000
Air de Paris, Paris
Ugly Yelp, arsFutura Galerie, Zurich

1999
Woodworld, Centre D’art Contemporain, Geneva
They Live! arsFutura Galerie, Zurich

1998
Woodworld, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
Schlund/Chris C., Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland

1997
Waldfest, Binz39, Zurich


GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2006
Metro Pictures, New York

2005
Olaf Breuning, Lily van der Stokker, Air de Paris, Paris
Burlesques Contemporains, Jeu de Paume, Paris

2004
Henry Moore Contemporary Projects and PS1 Gallery, New York
Skip, Catalyst Arts Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Interface, Atomium (17. September), Brussels, Belgium
Tell bitte melden! Musées Suisses Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Zurich, Switzerland
Incantations, Metro Pictures, New York
I am the Walrus, Cheim & Read, New York
Romantic Detachement, PS1, New York
Altered States, Leo König, New York
Film Festival Lake Placid, Lake Placid, New York
Skin Tight: The sensibility of the flesh, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Grotesque, burlesque, parody, Centre d’art contemporain, Meymac, France
Swiss Art Video Lobby, Contemporary Art Centre of Vilnius, Lithuania
Planet B, Magazin4 Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
Boys Behaving Badly – Perspectives 142, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston
Genesis Sculpture, Vranken Pommery, Reims, France
Prêts a prêter 2, Frac Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, France
Short Stories, Museum of Photography, Antwerp, Beglium
Dream Extensions,S:M:A:K:, Museum of Contemporary Art Ghent, Brussels
New Gothik, Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2003
GAME ART Kunst Bildschirm und Wirklichkeit, Europ. Zentrum für Kunst- und
Industriekultur, Völklingen, Germany
Der Verein. Ein Zukunftsmodell, Museum im Bellpark, Kriens, Switzerland
Dislocation, K3 Project Space, Zurich, Switzerland
10 Biennale de l’image on Mouvement: Swiss Art Video Lobby, Centre pour l’image
Contemporaien, Geneva, Switzerland
Les vingt ans du FRAC, Chapelle de la Sorbonne, Paris, France
La Caja Negra, Centro de Arte Moderno-CAAM, Gran Canaria, Spain
V.I.D. Festival, Dampfzentrale, Bern Switzerland
Variations on the theme of Illusion, Emily Tsingou gallery, London, UK
Roadshow, Grizedale Arts, Grizedaie, UK
The Fourth Sex: Adolescence Extremes, Fondazione Pitti Imagine, Florenze, Italy
Durchzug/ Draft, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Swiss Mix, Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Venus im Pelz, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
MARS - art and war, Neue Galerie Graz, Austria
Trans-National Monster League, Derek Eller Gallery, New York
Urban Diaries– Young Swiss Art [Suiza en ARCO ’03], Alcalá 31, Madrid
Durchzug/ Draft, Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland
Drawings, Metro Pictures, New York
Summer Holiday, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim, Germany
Extra, Swiss Institute, New York
Today’s Man, John Connelly Presents, New York; Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo
Fast Forward, Media Art Sammlung Goetz, KZM, Karlsruhe, Germany

2002
Metro Pictures, New York
Spring Forward, Downtown Arts Project, New York
Golden Week, Kodama Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Endlich Eine Gute Ausstellung, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Salzburg, Austria
Liverpool Biennial, Bluecoat Gallery, Tate Liverpool & Pleasant Street Board School, Liverpool, England

2001
Swiss Institute, New York
Tokyo TV, Palais Tokyo, Paris
Der Gehilfe, Museu de les Arts Decoratives, Barcelona; Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund, Germany
Anteprima Bovisa- Milano Europa 2000, Padiglione D’Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Je Pense Donc Je Suisse, FRAC PACE, Marseille, France
More Than One, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, Team Gallery, New York
Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2000
Wall 6, Galerie Air de Paris, Paris
Galerie Arndt Partner, Berlin
Reality Bites, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany
Let's Entertain, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Portland Art Musuem, Oregon; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (2001); Miami Art Museum, Miami (2001)
Vis-à-vis, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland (broch.)
Desparate Optimists, Festival a/d Werft, Utrecht, The Netherlands (broch.)
Der Gehilfe, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Switzerland; Museu
Presumed Innocent, Capc Musée, Bordeaux, France
The arsFutura Show, Galerie arsFutura, Zurich
Guarene Arte 2000, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino
Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
Transfert, Tenth Swiss Sculpture Exhibition, Biel
Au-Delà du Spectacle, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (broch.)
Hyper Mental, Kunsthaus Zürich (November 17, 2000- January 21, 2001); Hamburger Kunsthalle (February 16- May 6, 2001)
Der Gehilfe, Kunsthalle Krems, Österreich, Austria
Ausstellung Bundesstipendium, Fri-Art, Fribourg, Switzerland
International Media Art Festival, Kiev, Ukraine
EX 25, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich
Air Suisse, Ecole Superieure D’Art, Perpignan, France
Close Up, Kunstverein Baselland und Freiburg; Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany (2001)
Chicago Project Room, Los Angeles, California

1999
XN, Espace des Arts, Chalon sur Saone, France
Transfer, Instituto Svizzero Roma, Rome
Eidg. Wettbewerb für freie Kunst, Messe Basel, Switzerland
Städt. Wettbewerb für freie Kunst, Helmhaus Zürich, Switzerland
Statement, Art Basel, bei arsFutura
Palazzo delle Papese, Siena
Young, Fotomuseum Winterthur
DACH, Galerie Krinzinger, Bregenz; Semper Depot, Vienna
Come In and Find Out, Vol. 2, Podewil, Germany
They Came by Taxi, Parabolica Spaces, Berlin
Missing Link, Kunstmuseum Bern
Hotel Utopia, Vienna
From Camouflage to Free Style, Toasting Agency c/o Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Ausstellung Bundesstipendium, Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland

1998
Binz 39, Zurich
Eidg. Wettbewerb für freie Kunst, Messe Basel, Switzerland
Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Diana 98, X-Tra Zürich, Switzerland
Präsentation Film Woodworld, Castell Zuoz
Empire, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Grown in Frozen Time, Shed im Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld, Switzerland
Medium eine Werlt, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich
Dogdays Are Over, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris

1997
Gewebeprobe, Museum zur Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Gross und Klein, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Zurich
Bed & Breakfast, Grossmünsterturm Zürich, Zurich

1996
Die Klasse, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich

1995
Ernte, Museum zur Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Eidgenössischer Wettbewerb für Freie Kunst, Messe Basel, Switzerland

1994
8004 Zürich, (with Lewis Balz) Peter Kilchmann Galerie, Zurich

 


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