Olaf Breuning
Since the late 1990s, this Swiss artist (born 1970 in Schaffhausen, lives and works in New York) has produced quotation-rich works, which refer back to the imaginary visual memory of the West and its pictorial worlds. He has gained recognition through his films, staged photography, and colourful, huge-eyed, infantile sculptures and drawings, which comment on reality in a laconic manner. A primary element in his work is an artificiality, which each presentation and figure composition makes visible and in so doing opens up a large range of reception forms. In this substituting of each original and challenging significance, the image and subject combine to form a motionless, waiting coexistence in a theatrical adult playground of stage effects, upon which the works are arranged, shrugging their shoulders in the absence of a narrative superstructure.
Curated by Heike Munder
Olaf Breuning
- 20 Dollars (2007)
Olaf Breuning
20 Dollars
2007
C-print on aluminium, laminated
122 x 155 cm
Olaf Breuning
Angry Volcano (Collaboration Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs and Olaf Breuning)
2007
C-print on aluminium, laminated
122 x 125 cm
Olaf Breuning
- Can Someone Tell Us Why We Are Here? (2007)
Olaf Breuning
Can Someone Tell Us Why We Are Here?
2007
C-print on aluminium, laminated
122 x 155 cm
Olaf Breuning
- Collage Family (2007)
Olaf Breuning
Collage Family
2007
C-print on aluminium. laminated
122 x 155 cm
Olaf Breuning
- Der Teich (2007)
Olaf Breuning
Der Teich
2007
Ceramic
Ca. 27 x 98 x 98 cm
Olaf Breuning
- Gothy Girly (2007)
Olaf Breuning
Gothy Girly
2007
Ceramic, paper, wood, stone, plastic
Ca. 180 x 73 x 30 cm
Olaf Breuning
- Home 2 (2007)
Olaf Breuning
Home 2
2007
Single-channel video projection (HD, color, sound), chairs
30 min.
Olaf Breuning
- I Like Japanese Food Very Much (2007)
Olaf Breuning
I Like Japanese Food Very Much
2007
C-print on aluminium, laminated
95 x 200 cm
Olaf Breuning
- I'm Scared of the Chinese (2007)
Olaf Breuning
I'm Scared of the Chinese
2007
C-print on aluminium, laminated
122 x 155 cm
Olaf Breuning
- Ice Sculpture (2007)
Olaf Breuning
Ice Sculpture
2007
C-print on aluminium, laminated
122 x 155 cm
Olaf Breuning
Little Trouble in Little Switzerland
2007
Gloves, knife
Grösse variabel
Olaf Breuning
- Mr. Lucky and Mr. Unlucky (2007)
Olaf Breuning
Mr. Lucky and Mr. Unlucky
2007
C-print, framed
28 x 35.5 cm
Olaf Breuning
- Mr. M-Budget on His Back (2007)
Olaf Breuning
Mr. M-Budget on His Back
2007
Various materials
Ca. 78 x 189 x 75 cm
Olaf Breuning
- Mr. Sushi (2007)
Olaf Breuning
Mr. Sushi
2007
Wax, ceramic
Ca. 45 x 32 x 22 cm
Olaf Breuning
- Ohne Titel (2007)
Olaf Breuning
Ohne Titel
2007
Pencil on paper
Ca. 165 parts: each 28 x 21.5 cm
Olaf Breuning
- Schneezeichnung (2007)
Olaf Breuning
Schneezeichnung
2007
C-print on aluminium, laminated
122 x 155 cm
Olaf Breuning
- Shadow on the Wall (2007)
Olaf Breuning
Shadow on the Wall
2007
C-print on aluminium, laminated
122 x 155 cm
Olaf Breuning
- The Band (2007)
Olaf Breuning
The Band
2007
C-print on aluminium, laminated
Olaf Breuning
- The Collectors (2007)
Olaf Breuning
The Collectors
2007
Ceramic, adhesive eyes, Perspex vitrine
90 x 110 x 10 cm
Olaf Breuning
- The Eatmes (2007)
Olaf Breuning
The Eatmes
2007
Plastic
27parts: dimensions variable
Olaf Breuning
- The Humans (2007)
Olaf Breuning
The Humans
2007
Marble, bronze
6 parts: dimensions variable
Olaf Breuning
- The Intellectual (2007)
Olaf Breuning
The Intellectual
2007
Various materials
Ca. 52 x 21 x 26 cm
Olaf Breuning
- Wild Girls (2007)
Olaf Breuning
Wild Girls
2007
C-print on aluminium, laminated
3 parts: each 120 x 95 cm
Olaf Breuning
- Woman and the Dead (2007)
Olaf Breuning
Woman and the Dead
2007
Ceramic, wood
363 x 174 x 73 cm
Olaf Breuning
- Oh Yes...It Is a Garden! (2005)
Olaf Breuning
Oh Yes...It Is a Garden!
2005
Wood, wax
Dimensions variable