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, who lives in

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Works

*''Home 1/Home 2'' (2004/7) 30 minute video starring Brian Kerstetter. ''Home 1'' is presented as a double-projection, where the main character can no longer distinguish the difference between reality and fiction. He wanders around a hotel room telling stories about himself and other people to the camera. As he tells the stories, they are simultaneously seen on the opposite screen. In '' Home 2'' Brian Kerstetter plays an ignorant tourist staggering around the world from Switzerland to Africa and Japan to Papua New Guinea, crashing his western mentality upon the exotic places he goes. *''Ugly Yelp'' (2000), ''Apes'' (2001), ''King'' (2001), ''Hello Darkness'' (2002) With these installations, Breuning creates theatrical atmospheres using sound, video and light. These installations have been shown in many museums and are owned by collections internationally. *''Easter Bunnies'' (2004) A photograph created on Easter Island, transforming

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into Easter bunnies by setting up rabbit ears on C-stands in the extreme foreground. *''Sibylle'' (1998)-- Photograph of a female model lying on a table, whose body has been affected by cultural references to

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, and others, resulting a creepily mutilated creature. *''Smoke Bombs'' (2008) Exemplifies Breuning's photographic technique of leaving the mess of production within frame, allowing the viewer to see behind the scenes of the production.

Exhibitions

Group exhibitions (selected)

In recent years he has exhibited his works at many group shows around the world, including The Somerset House, London;

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, Israel; Tinguely Museum, Basel; Nelson–Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Museum der Moderne, Salzburg;

Musée Rath The Musée Rath is an art museum in Geneva, used exclusively for temporary exhibitions. Its building is the oldest purpose-built art museum in Switzerland, and the original home of Musée d'Art et d'Histoire (Geneva), Geneva's Musée d'Art et d'H ...

, Geneva and many other venues. Some of them are listed below: 2014 * ''Das Fremde ist nur in der Fremde fremd'',

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, Zurich, CH 2013 * ''Ursula Palla und Olaf Breuning. Hin und Her'', Binz 39, Zurich, CH * ''Métamatic Reloaded'', Tinguely Museum, Basel, CH * ''La realtà non è un luogo comune. Fotografie e video della Collezione d'arte della Julius Baer'',

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, Lugano, CH 2012 * ''Holzwege. Sentieri erranti. Arte svizzera dalla collezione della Mobiliare'',

, Lugano, CH * ''Parallelwelt Zirkus'',

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, Vienna, AU * ''Through the Looking Brain'',

Kunstmuseum St. Gallen Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (English: ''Art Museum St. Gallen''), is a Swiss art museum founded in 1877 and located in St. Gallen, Switzerland. It is an important museum within Eastern Switzerland because of their expansive European art collection. ...

, St. Gallen, CH * ''Incongru. Quand l'art fait rire'', Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, CH 2011 * ''Through the Looking Brain'',

Kunstmuseum Bonn The Kunstmuseum Bonn or Bonn Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Bonn, Germany, founded in 1947. The Kunstmuseum exhibits both temporary exhibitions and its collection. Its collection is focused on Rhenish Expressionism and post-war German ...

, Bonn, DE 2010 * ''Press Art. Die Sammlung Annette und Peter Nobel'',

, St. Gallen, CH 2009 * ''Darkside II. Fotografische Macht und fotografierte Gewalt, Krankheit und Tod'', Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH * ''200 Artworks. 25 Years Artists'', 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, JP (catalogue ) 2008 * ''When fears become form'', Centre d'art Neuchâtel (CAN), Neuchâtel, CH * ''Sammlung/Collection Migros Museum für Gegenwartkunst Zürich 1978-2008'', Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, CH * ''Whitney Biennial 2008'', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US 2007 * ''12e Biennale de l'Image en mouvement'',

Centre pour l'image contemporaine The Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine or CIC was a contemporary art exhibition centre in Geneva, Switzerland. CIC was established in 1985 to organize events and exhibitions of images using new technologies such as video, multimedia, and the Internet ...

(CIC), Geneva, CH * ''What we bought'', Camera Austria, Graz, AU * ''All about Laughter: humor in contemporary art'', Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, JP * ''Six Feet Under. Autopsie unseres Umgangs mit Toten. Autopsy of Our Relation to the Dead'',

Kunstmuseum Bern The Museum of Fine Arts Bern (German: ''Kunstmuseum Bern''), established in 1879 in Bern, is the museum of fine arts of the de facto capital of Switzerland. Collections Its holdings run from the Middle Ages to the present. It houses works by Pa ...

, CH 2006 * ''Imagination becomes reality. Part IV. Borrowed images'', Sammlung Goetz, München, DE * ''Cindy Sherman, Gianni Motti, Olaf Breuning'', Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich, CH * ''Some tribes'', Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, CH 2003 * ''Urban Diaries. Young Swiss Art'', Alcalá 31, Madrid, ESP * ''M_ARS. Kunst und Krieg'', :de:Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, AU 2002 * ''Lorbeer-Extrakt. Manor-Kunstpreis Schaffhausen 1987-2001'', Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, CH (catalogue ) 2001 * ''M family. Die Bilder zum Migros Geschäftsbericht 2000'', Migros Museum für Gegenwartkunst, Zurich, CH (catalogue ) * ''Up in the sky. Himmel in der Kunst der 90er Jahre'', Kunsthaus Grenchen, Grenchen, CH * ''Collaborations with Parkett: 1984 to Now'',

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, New York, US 2000 * ''Eidgenössische Preise für freie Kunst 2000'', Kunsthalle Fri Art, Freiburg, CH * ''Let's be friends'', Migros Museum für Gegenwartkunst, Zurich, CH * ''EX25 Hochschule und Museum Für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich die Letzten 25 Jahre Halle'',

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Zürich, Zurich, CH * ''Reality Bytes. Der medial vermittelte Blick'',

Kunsthalle Nürnberg The Kunsthalle Nürnberg is an art centre founded in 1967, near the city centre. It organizes exhibitions by contemporary international artists in its galleries in Nuremberg. The Kunsthalle commissions new work by a majority of the artists it wo ...

, Nürnberg, DE 1999 * ''Eidgenössische Preise für freie Kunst 1999'',

Kunsthalle Zürich The Kunsthalle Zürich is a kunsthalle (a contemporary art exhibition centre) in Zürich, Switzerland. Founded in 1985, it is located on Limmatstrasse, near the city centre. A number of temporary exhibitions are organized each year. Directors * ...

, Zurich, CH 1998 * ''Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer. Junge Schweizer Kunst'',

Kunsthaus Zürich The Kunsthaus Zürich is an art museum in Zurich. It is the biggest art museum in Switzerland by area and houses one of the most important art collections in Switzerland, assembled over time by the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, a nonprofit art soc ...

, Zurich, CH (catalogue )

Books

*''Ugly'', 2000, monograph, Hatje Cantz, *''Home'', 2004, monograph, JPR/Ringier, Magasin, Les Musees de Strasbourg, *''Queen Mary'', 2006, drawing catalogue, JPR/Ringier, *''Queen Mary II'', 2010, monograph, JPR/Ringier, Zurich

References

External links

Olaf Breuning Homepage

Examples of Breuning artwork

Carbon 12 Dubai

Examples of Breuning artwork at Lucy Mackintosh Gallery and Grizedale Arts

Olaf Breuning's ''Home''
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