"Consacrée aux quatre dernières années de travail de l'artiste, cette publication fait suite à une double exposition française, celle du Magasin de Grenoble, et celle du Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, qui présentait une nouvelle installation et le premier moyen-métrage d'Olaf Breuning, Home
Interdisciplinary artist Olaf Breuning depicts the world we live in with a keen sense of irony. Born in Switzerland and now based in New York, Olaf Breuning works in a variety of media including photography, video, installation, drawing, and painting. Testing the limits of humor and contemporary aesthetics, Breuning’s photo-collages, sculptures, paintings, and comics are simultaneously funny and provocative, absurd and eerie, tragic and fragile. His work provides ironic commentary on the clichés and trappings of our time. The NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, an international cultural center focusing on contemporary photography and visual art, is presenting an Olaf Breuning retrospective in the summer of 2016. This publication accompanies the exhibition. Documenting a cross section of Breuning’s extensive work, it provides a compelling overview of his oeuvre.
The Goetz Collection is one of the best assemblages of contemporary art in Europe, each piece having been chosen by Ingvild Goetz herself. In this fourth installment of the Goetz’s Imagination Becomes Reality series, featured artists include Olaf Breuning, Barnaby Furnas, Wade Guyton, Kelley Walker, Thomas Helbig, Mark Leckey, Ivan Morley, Markus Selg and Thaddeus Strode.
Provides an overview of the history and major exhibitions of the Arndt & Partner Gallery.
Films, television, advertising, video clips, and computer games--all are fair game and useful material for Swiss artist Olaf Breuning. In his photographs, videos, and installations, Breuning engages with the reality of the vast array of media that surround us incessantly, day in and day out, appropriating narratives, images, and characters to create unforgettable and eerily familiar hybrids. Through unlikely medleys that juxtapose such disparate elements as the accoutrements of occultism, new-age fads, and vampire films, mixing together disgust, sweetness, kitsch, horror, levity, and gravity, Breuning shows that nothing is too sacred or profane to warrant inclusion in one of his playful, weirdly subtle compositions.