Olaf Breuning / Galerie Meyer Kainer

BIOGRAFIE

Geboren 1970 in Schaffhausen, CH.

Lebt und arbeitet in New York.

Education

1988–1993 Professional education as a Photographer, Winterthur, CH
1993–96 Photography, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Zürich, CH

2010
Nicola von Senger Gallery, Zürich, CH
Centre d'Art Contemporain, La Chapelle du Geneteil, FR

2009
Metro Pictures, New York, USA
Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA
Kodama Gallery, Osaka, JP
Langhans Gallery, Prague, CZ

2008
Metro Pictures, New York.
OMG, Conduits Gallery, Milan, IT
Art Projects for Miami Basel, Miami Beach, FL
Galerie Lucy Mackintosh, Lausanne, CH

2007
Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zürich, CH
Migros Museum, Zürich, CH
Bunker Sztuki, Krakow, PL
Kodama Gallery, Osaka, JP
Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, AU
Gertrude, Melbourne, AU

2006
UBS Wolfsberg, Wolfsberg, CH
Vidéokiosque, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Paris, FR
IMA, Brisbane, AU
Group, Window of Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
Home, Sketch, London, UK

2005
Metro Pictures, New York, USA
Galerie Air de Paris, Paris, FR
Chapter Visual Arts, Cardiff, UK
Chisenhale, London, UK
Kodama Gallery, Osaka, JP
Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zürich, CH
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, A
Galerie Air de Paris, Paris, F

2004
Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Kopenhagen, DK
Kodama Gallery, Tokyo, JP
The New Stedelijk Museum CS/Auditorium, Amsterdam, NL
Olaf Breuning–vidéos, Association EDV, Toulouse, F
Olaf Breuning–films, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, E
Home,Metro Pictures, New York, USA

2003
Magasin–Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, F
Museo Garillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Under the Bridge, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, F
Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, CH
Arndt & Partner, Berlin, D

2002
Ars Futura, Zürich, CH
Swiss Institute – Contemporary Art, New York, USA

2001
Arndt & Partner, Berlin, D
Hello Darkness, Swiss Institute, New York, USA
Air de Paris, Paris, F
Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, D
Museum zu Allerheiligen, Kunstverein Schaffhausen, Apes, CH
Metro Pictures, New York, USA
Artspace, Auckland, Neuseeland
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Wien, A
Galerie Chicago Project Room, Los Angeles, USA

2000
Ugly Yelp, Ars Futura, Zürich, CH
Air de Paris, Paris, F
Galerie Art & Public, Genf, CH

1999
Woodworld, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Genf, CH
They live, Ars Futura, Zürich, CH

1998
Woodworld, Kunsthaus Glarus (K), Glarus, CH
Kunsthalle St. Gallen (K), Schlund/Chris Croft, St. Gallen, CH

2010
Portugal Arte '09, Portugal, ES
Fumetto, Luzern, CH
Desire, Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX
And The Moral of The Story Is..., Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, NL

2009
Objects, Furniture and Patterns, Art Since the Summer of '69, New York
Rock Garden, Salon 94, New York
The Likely Fate of The Man That Swallowed The Ghost, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Bernhard Wilhelm Retrospective, Groninger Museum, Groningen, NL
Pandora's Box, Performa, White Box, New York
Time Out Video Festival, UCCA, Beijing, CN
Tina B Festival, Prague, CZ
Photo Festival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg, (public space), D
Warehouse of Horrors, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
The Reach of Realism, MoCA, Miami, FL
Total Nowhere Emotional Expansion, Brisbane Festival, Brisbane, AU
Lowlands Summer Music Festival, Stedilijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
I Am Comedy, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK Borderline Pleasure, Michael Janssen Galerie, Berlin, D
Today and Everyday, X Projects, New York
The Haunted Chateau, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
Foodprint Exposition, Art & Architecture Center, Stroom Den Haag, NL
60 Minutes, Institute for Research in Art, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
The Uncertainty Principal, Museu d'Art Contemorani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, E
Stranger Things Are Happening, ASPEX, Portsmouth, UK
The Magic and The Funny Meet Again, De Brokke Grond, Amsterdam, NL
TradeCity, Contemporary Art Manchester (CAM), Manchester, UK
Fotographica Bogotá, FotoMuseo, Bogotá, CO
Everything Must Out Going, Asia Song Society, New York
Works on Paper, Nils Staerk, Copenhagen, DK
Vanderbuilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, TN
Hypocricy: The Sitespecificity of Morality, The National Museum, Oslo, NO
PictoPlasma, Haus der Kulturen, Berlin, D
Books, Books, Nothing else than Books, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, D
Born in The Morning, Dead By Night, Leo Koenig, New York
Moving Money: Global Capital and the Dematerialization of Value, SAC Gallery , StonyBrook, NY
Virtual Insanity, Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
A Meeting Between the Tragic and The Funny, Hessen Huis Museum, Antwerp, BE
Unfictions, EMPAC, Troy, NY
Uncharted, University at Albany Art Museum, Albany, NY
Travelogue, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
F.I.S.Co, Festival Internazional sullo Spettacolo Contemporanea (9th edition), Bologna, IT
Offset Exhibit, Mount Tremper Arts Facility, Hudson, NY
Fotofestival Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Heidelberg, D

2008
Experimenta Folklore, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, D
Second Nature, Domaine départemental de Chamarande, Paris, FR
The Empty Page, James Fuentes, New York
Looking at Music, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
DreamBerries, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Muenster D
Aurum, Centre Pasque Art, Biel, CH
Family Affair, Conduits/Gea Politi, Milan, IT
I Am Comedy, Hotel MariaKapel, Holland, NL
Second_Nature, Gallery Nosbaum and Reding, Luxembourg, D
The Rocky Mountain People Show, Galleria Civica di Arte Conteporanea, Torino, IT
Living London, I Don't like to Curate, but at least I like the Videos I Selected, 176, London, UK
Less is Less and More is More, That's all, CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, FR
Anyone got Wood?, Bondegatan, Stockholm, SE
Nekrokvlt, Impakt Festival, Utrecht, NL
Damn! I wish I'd made that... , Chapter, Cardiff, UK
Moscow Short Film Festival, Moscow, RU
Tell Tchaikovsky the News, STANDARD, Oslo, NO
Like Watching a Train Wreck, Groeflin Maag Galerie, Zürich, CH
Damaged (curated by Tony Just), GBE Passerby, New York
Laughing in a Foreign Language, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Le Spectrarium (Les Fantòmes de la Machine), Fondation Suisse, Paris, FR
After Effects, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Santiago, Santiago, CL
Fun, Fun, Fun, Aros Aarhus Kunst Museum, Aarus, DK
Collection/Sammlung, Migros Museum, Zürich, CH
Bad Moon Rising, ISPC, New York

2007
Air de Paris, Galerie Delphine Pastor, Monaco, MC
Total Recall (Bernhard Willhelm), Mode Museum, Antwerp, BE
Playback, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville da Paris, Paris, FR
Hold the Line, Ferenbalm–Gurbrü Station, Karlsruhe, D
Elsewhere, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
IDYLLE, DA2 Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, ES
Group, Home I, King, The Dome, Toronto, CAN
Les Collections, CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, FR
What We Bought, Camera Austria (Steirischer Herbst), Graz, AT
Mask, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Dutch Film Festival, Lowlands, Amsterdam, NL
Enlarge Your Practice, La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, FR
Arnhem Mode Biennale, Bernhard Wilhelm, Arnhem, NL
Yo!, Rivington Arms, New York
Imagination becomes Reality Part VI, Museum of Contemporary Art at ZKM, Karlsruhe, D
The Return of the Seven Samurai, Galerie Lucy Mackintosh, Lausanne, CH
Forest Assembly!, Gallery Alexandra Dyvi, Oslo, NO
All about Laughter, Mori Museum, Tokyo, JP

2006
Panoramica, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, MX
Music is a Better Noise, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, ES
Architecture, Art and Landscape Biennal, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, ES
Flesh Records, Haswellediger, New York
Nuit Blanche, Paris, FR
International Photo Festival Seoul, Seoul, KR
Impact Festival, Utrecht, NL
Distor, Garillo Gill Museum, Mexico City, MX
SUMMER, Nils Staerk Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
D'Etonnants Détours, Maison de la Culture d'Amiens, Amiens, FR
Summer Kamp K48 2006, John Connelly Presents, New York
Some Tribes, Scalo Guye Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Programme Vidéo Suisse 3 Génerations, Spazio Culturale Svizzero di Venezia, Venice, IT
JRP Rigniers Exhibition in Paris, Christophe Daviet–Thery Gallery, Paris, FR
Human Game, Pitti Fondazione, Florence, IT
Rencontres d'Arles Award, Arles, FR
Imagination becomes Reality Part VI, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, D
Videonale – Negative Space Extend, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, D
Action, Frac Provence–Alpes–Còte d'Azur, Marseille, FR
Expo PHOTOsuisse, Musceo comunale d'Arte Moderna Ascona, CH
Expo PHOTOsuisse, Pinacoteca Casa Ruece, Locarno, CH
Cindy Shermann, Gianni Motti, Olaf Breuning, Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich, CH
Waking–Up, Galerie Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux, FR
Ballermann Die Ausstellung, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, D
Cindy Shermann, Jim Shaw, Olaf Breuning, Metro Pictures, New York

2005
Blanknessisnot a Void, Standard, Oslo, NO
30 Videoarbeiten aus der Sammlung Goetz, Seedamm Kulturzentum, Pfäffikon, CH
Works on Paper, Arndt & Partner, Berlin, D
Naturellement Abstrait, Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva, CH
Kults, Werewolves and Sarcastic Hippies, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Canale Grande im Volksbad, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St.Gallen, CH
Wanderausstellungprojekt PHOTOsuisse, Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Rome, IT
Old and New Dreams (Prince Charles Cinema for Art Fortnight), Artprojx ,London, UK
Fade to White, Vita Kuben, Umea, SE
When Humor Becomes Painful, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, CH
Mirgration Baustelle Schweiz, Toni Areal, Zürich, CH
Film Festival Lima / Cuszco, Center of Photography, Lima, PE
Photography Festival Antwerp, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, BE
Nomad's Land, Miracle Association, Bayonne, FR
Figure it out, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
With us Against Reality, or Against Us! Loft, Oslo, Norway
Viennastripe, Museum in Progress, Vienna, AT
First we take the Museums–Urban Arts now, Museum of Contemporary Art Kisama, Helsinki
Burlesques Contemporains, Jeu de Pomme, Paris, F
Growing up Absurd, Kent Institute of Art, Kent, UK
Second Sight, The Prague Biennale of Contemporary Art, Prag, CZ

2004
None of the above, Swiss Institute (cur. John Armleder), New Yor, USA
Mind the Gap, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, D
Romantic Detachment, Henry Moore Contemporary Projects and PS1 Gallery NY, USA
Skip, Catalyst Arts Gallery, Belfast, Nordirland
Sommerfrische: Künstlervideos mit Esprit, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, D
Moving Images, Tank.tv ICA Digital Studios, London, UK
Interface, Atomium (17. September), Brussels, B
Tell bitte melden!, Musées Suisses Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Zürich, CH
Incantations, Metro Pictures, New York, USA
I am the Walrus, Cheim & Read, New York USA
Altered States, Leo König, New York, USA
Film Festival Lake Placid, Lake Placid, USA
Skin Tight: The sensibility of the flesh, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Grotesque, burlesque, parody, Centre d’art contemporain, Meymac, F
Swiss Art Video Lobby, Contemporary Art Centre of Vilnius, Lithuania
The aesthetical impact of the B-movies on contemporary art, Magazin4 Voralberger Kunstverein, Bregenz, A
Boys Behaving Badly, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, USA
Lost Property, Domaine Pommery, Reims, F
Prêts a prêter 2, Frac Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, F
Short Stories, Museum of Photography, Antwerp, B
Dream Extensions, S:M:A:K:, Museum of Contemporary Art Ghent, Brüssel, B
New Gothik, Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam, NL

2003
GAME ART Kunst Bildschirm und Wirklichkeit, Europ. Zentrum für Kunst– und Industriekultur,Völklingen, D
Der Verein. Ein Zukunftsmodell, Museum im Bellpark, Kriens, CH
Dislocation, K3 Project Space, Zurich, CH
10 Biennale de l’image on Mouvement: Swiss Art Video Lobby, Centre pour l’image Contemporaien, Geneva, CH
Les vingt ans du FRAC, Chapelle de la Sorbonne, Paris, F
La Caja Negra, Centro de Arte Moderno–CAAM, Gran Canaria, E
V.I.D. Festival, Dampfzentrale, Bern, CH
Variations on the theme of Illusion, emilyTsingou gallery, London, UK
Today’s Man, John Conelli Presents, New York, USA
Roadshow, Grizedale Arts, Grizedaie, UK
The Fourth Sex: Adolescence Extremes, Fondazione Pitti Imagine, Florenze, I
Durchzug / Draft, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, CH
Urban Diaries, Alcalà, Madrid, E
Swiss Mix, Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, E
Venus im Pelz, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, A
M_ARS – art and war, Neue Galerie Graz, A
Trans–National Monster League, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, USA

2002
Schrägspur, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, D
Out of Control, Liverpool Biennale, UK
Collections Croisées, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, F
Metro pictures, New York, USA
Everland, Expo 02, CH
Tutto normale, Villa Medici, Rome, I
C'est pas du cinéma!, (Kur. Michel Nuridsany), Le Fresony, Studio National, F
Cache–cache camoflage, mu.dac.Lausanne, CH
10 Years arsFutura, arsFutura, Zürich, CH
Hamish MeKay Gallery, Neuseeland
Loorbeer–Extract, Manor Kunstpreis Schaffhausen, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Kunstverein Schaffhausen, CH
The Golden Week, Kodama Gallery, Osaka, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, JP

2001
Hypermental, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
Let's Entertain, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Miami Art Museum, USA
Milano Europa 2000, Mailand, Museu de les Arts Decoratives, Barcelona, E
Manor–Preis, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, CH
Tokyo TV, Palais Tokyo, Paris, F
Close Up, Kunstverein Hannover, D
Tirana Biennale, National Gallery, Tirana
My Generation, Atlantis Gallery, London (Videoprogramm), UK
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK
Der Gehilfe, Museum für Kunst– und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund / Museu de les Arts Decoratives, Barcelona, E
Je pense donc je suisse, FRAC PACE, Marseille, F
Centre Georges Pompidou (Restaurant), Paris (Videoprogramm), F
Contemporary Fairy Tales, Five Years, London, UK

2000
Der Gehilfe, Kunsthalle Krems, A
Fri–Art, Fribourg, Ausstellung der Bundesstipendiaten, CH
Ars Futura Show, Ars Futura, Zürich, CH
Air de Paris, (Wall 6), Paris, F
Close Up, Kunstverein Freiburg im Marienbad, Kunstverein Basel, CH
Kunstverein Hannover, D
Robert Sandelson, London, UK
Stadt / Land / Mensch, Arndt & Partner, Berlin, D
Air de Paris, Paris, F
Galerie Art & Public, Genf, CH
Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, D
Let's Entertain, Walker Art Centre, Mineapolis, USA, Portland Art Museum, USA
Centre Pompidou, Paris, F
Desperate optimists, Festival a/d Werft, Utrecht, NL
Air Suisse, Hall de l'Ecole Supérieure d'Art, Perpignan, F
Presumed Innocent, CAPC Museum, Bordeaux, F
Guarene Arts 2000, Fondazione Rebaudengo, I
Transfert, 10th Swiss Sculpture Exp., Biel, CH
Maison de la Photographie, Paris, F
Hypermental, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, CH
Centro del arte Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires

1999
Boomcyclone, Espace des Arts, (XN), Châlon–sur–Sâone
Glee, Istituto Svizzer
Gum, Eidgenössischer Wettbewerb für freie Kunst, Basel, CH
Boomcyclone, Städtischer Wettbewerb für freie Kunst, Zürich, CH
Gum Glum Glee, Art Basel, Statement, Ars Futura, Basel, CH
Glum Glee, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, I
Fotomuseum, (Young), Winterthur, CH
(DACH), Galerie Krinzinger, Bregenz, A
Podewil, Berlin, D
Hotel Utopia, Wien, A
Galerie Yvon Lambert, (The camouflage au free style 1), Paris, F
Kunsthalle Zürich, Stipendiumsausstellung, Zürich, CH

1998
Binz 39, Zürich, CH
Eidgenössischer Wettbewerb für freie Kunst, Basel, CH
Frei Sicht aufs Mittelmeer, Kunsthaus Zürich, CH
Come with me, X–Tra, Zürich, CH
Woodworld, Castell, Präsentation Film, Zuoz, CH
Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer, Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt, D
Grown in Frozen Times, Shed im Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld, CH
Empire, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, CH
Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, CH
Deeper Underground, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, F

1997
Gewebeprobe, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, CH
Gross und Klein, Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, CH
Individuelle Welten, Galerie Marie Louise Wirth, Zürich, CH
Bed & Breakfast, Großmünsterturm, Zürich, CH

1996
Wettbewerb für freie Kunst, Basel, CH
Die Klasse, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, CH

1994
Projekt mit Lewis Baltz, Peter Kilchmann Galerie
Projekt mit Yves Netzhammer, Bahnhofpassage Schaffhausen, CH

1997
Finsterlinge, Motorenstrasse 23, Zürich, CH
Hony, Universität Zürich, Vortrag Harm Lux, CH

1999
Bundesstipendium freie Kunst
Kiefer–Hablitzel Stipendium
Moet–Chandon Stipendium
Atelierstipendium New York, Stadt Zürich

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

Sammlung Ringier
Sammlung Zellweger–Luwa
Sammlung Schweizer Rück
Kunsthaus Glarus
Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen
Grafische Sammlung des Museums für Gestaltung, Zürich