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Most exhibitions in: |
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| USA | 35 |
| Switzerland | 32 |
| Germany | 23 |
| France | 17 |
| United Kingdom | 12 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
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Metro Pictures Gallery, USA |
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Arndt & Partner - Berlin + Zurich, Germany |
7 |
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Ars Futura Galerie, Switzerland |
6 |
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SI Swiss Institute, USA |
4 |
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Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Poland |
4 |
Biography: 
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Photo: Art Now, Taschen © www.artnet.com, Gerry Nitsch
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1970 Born in Schaffhausen (CH)
lives and works in New York and Zurich
1988 - 1993 Professional training as photographer
1995 - 1996 Postgraduate Studies, HSfG
Scholarship 1997 Atelierstipendium, BINZ39, Zürich
1998 Bundesstipendium freie Kunst, UBS-Werkjahrstipendium, Atelierstipendium Rom, Istituto Svizzero
2000 scholarship in New York, USA
Selected Public Collections
Sammlung Ringier
Sammlung Zellweger-Luwa
Sammlung Schweizer Rück
Kunsthaus Glarus
Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen
Grafische Sammlung des Museums für Gestaltung, Zürich
| | Public exhibitions 175 
from 1.12.
until 29.11.
until 22.11.
Solo shows 38
2009
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| Olaf Breuning - color studies - Kodama Gallery - Kyoto, Kyoto |
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| Olaf Breuning - life is a wheel - Kodama Gallery - Tokyo, Tokyo |
2008
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| Olaf Breuning - Home 2 - Galerie Lucy Mackintosh, Lausanne |
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| Olaf Breuning - at last i tried - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Home - Forum Vebikus - Kulturzentrum Kammgarn, Schaffhausen |
2007
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| Olaf Breuning - Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich |
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| Olaf Breuning - Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich |
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| Olaf Breuning - Flag - SI Swiss Institute, New York City, NY |
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| Home - Gertrude contemporary art spaces, Fitzroy, VIC |
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| Olaf Breuning - Woman and Dead - Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow |
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| Olaf Breuning - Home - Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW |
2006
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| Olaf Breuning - Home - IMA Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD |
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| Olaf Breuning - Le Parvis - scène nationale Tarbes Pyrénées, Ibos |
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| Olaf Breuning - Nils Stærk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen |
2005
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| Olaf Breuning - Air de Paris, Paris |
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| Olaf Breuning - Oh yes... it is a garden! - Chisenhale Gallery, London (England) |
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| Olaf Breuning: They Live - Chapter Gallery, Cardiff (Wales) |
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| Olaf Breuning - Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna |
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| Olaf Breuning - home (Video-Installation) - Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich |
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| Olaf Breuning - - Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich (closed) |
2004
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| Olaf Breuning - Nils Stærk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen |
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| Olaf Breuning - Home - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
2003
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| PROJECT ROOM V - OLAF BREUNING - Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg |
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| Olaf Breuning - MAGASIN-Centre National d’art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble |
2002
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| OLAF BREUNING - - Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich (closed) |
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| Olaf Breuning - Camp - Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt - Centre d'Art, Biel/Bienne |
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| Olaf Breuning - Hello Darkness - SI Swiss Institute, New York City, NY |
2001
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| Olaf Breuning - Primitiv - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Olaf Breuning - Artspace, Auckland |
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| apes - Kunstverein Freiburg im Marienbad, Freiburg |
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| Olaf Breuning - SI Swiss Institute, New York City, NY |
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| Olaf Breuning - Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna |
2000
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| OLAF BREUNING - Installation: Ugly Yelp, 2000 - - Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich (closed) |
1999
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| Olaf Breuning - Foto - - Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich (closed) |
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| "Art Statement" - - Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich (closed) |
1998
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| Olaf Breuning - Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen |
Group shows 134
2009
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| I am by birth a genevese ; and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic - Forde - Espace d'art contemporain, Geneva |
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| The Cursed Chateau - Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art - iMOCA, Indianapolis, IN |
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| The Rocky Mountain People Show - Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento |
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| Borderline Pleasure - Ferenbalm-Gurbrü Station, Karlsruhe |
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| Pas nécessaire et pourtant indispensable. 1979-2009 : 30 ans d’art contemporain à Meymac - Abbaye St André - Centre d’art contemporain, Meymac |
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| Stranger Things Are Happening - Aspex, Portsmouth (England) |
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| Sixty Minutes - University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL |
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| SIXTY MINUTES - University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL |
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| Bücher, Bücher, Bücher –Nichts als Bücher - Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim |
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| The Tragic and the Funny meet again - De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam |
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| If I Was the Cousin of My Mother’s Sister's Son - Gallery Bar, New York City, NY |
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| Hypocrisy: The Sitespecificity of Morality - The Museum of Contemporary Art / Museet for samtidskunst, Oslo |
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| Born in the morning, dead by night - Leo Koenig Inc., New York City, NY |
2008
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| Experimenta FOLKLORE - Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main |
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| A meeting between the tragic & the funny - Middelheim Museum, Antwerp |
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| Rock My Religion 1 - DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca |
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| When fear become form - CAN - Centre d'Art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel |
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| Tell Tchaikovsky the news - Standard (Oslo), Oslo |
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| Sammlung / Collection - Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich |
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| Damn! I wish I'd done that. Artists' works I wish I'd made... - Chapter Gallery, Cardiff (Wales) |
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| Photosuisse: Group Exhibition - Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City |
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| Whitney Biennial 2008 - Whitney Biennial, New York City, NY |
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| Like Watching a Train Wreck - Claudia Groeflin Galerie , Zurich |
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| Nouvelles Collections III - Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt - Centre d'Art, Biel/Bienne |
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| Laughing in a foreign language - Hayward Gallery, London (England) |
2007
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| From Chelsea to Caochangdi - Chambers Fine Art - Beijing, Beijing |
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| PHOTOsuisse. A Selection of Swiss Photographers - Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow |
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| Group Show. "Ten years" - - Emily Tsingou Gallery, London (England) (closed, 2008) |
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| Playback - Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - MAM/ARC, Paris |
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| What We Bought - Camera Austria, Graz |
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| When We Build, Let Us Think That We Build Forever - BALTIC The Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (England) |
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| Existencias - Musac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon |
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| hold the line - Ferenbalm-Gurbrü Station, Karlsruhe |
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| 1st Athens Biennial 2007 - Technopolis of the City of Athens, Athens |
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| Franz West - Souffle, eine Massenausstellung - Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck |
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| odd spaces - Galerie Møller Witt, Aarhus |
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| Elsewhere - University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL |
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| Enlarge your practice - La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille |
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| Wrong Number - Jack Hanley Gallery - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA |
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| Môtiers 2007 - Art en plein air - Art Môtiers, Môtiers |
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| Idilio I - DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca |
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| To Build A Fire - - Rivington Arms, New York City, NY (closed, 2009) |
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| Screening I - Karma International, Zurich |
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| Reboot - The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection - Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch |
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| Just Can’t Get Enough” Capricous - CBK - Centrum Beeldende Kunst Gelderland, Arnhem |
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| Imagination becomes Reality - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| all about laughter - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo |
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| art_clips.ch - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
2006
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| Swiss Video - Tate Modern, London (England) |
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| 1. Bienal de Canarias - Bienal de Canarias, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
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| Olaf Breuning & Torbjørn Rødland - Galería Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife |
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| Transculture - Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow |
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| Idylle - Traum und Trugschluss - Sammlung Falckenberg - Kulturstiftung Phoenix Art, Hamburg |
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| Mascarada - DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca |
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| Highlights from the Photography Collection - Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL |
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| PHotosuisse: Group Exhibition - Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt - Centre d'Art, Biel/Bienne |
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| Distor - Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City |
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| Kamp K48 - John Connelly Presents (JCP), New York City, NY |
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| Summer - Nils Stærk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen |
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| Imagination Becomes Reality. Part IV: "Borrowed Images" - Sammlung Goetz, Munich |
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| Human Game. Winners And Loosers - Stazione Leopolda, Florence |
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| Ballermann - Die Ausstellung - Kunsthalle zu Kiel der Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel |
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| Cindy Sherman/Olaf Breuning/Gianni Motti - Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich |
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| Olaf Breuning, Jim Shaw, Cindy Sherman - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Aller/Retour - Centre culturel Suisse, Paris |
2005
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| Blankness is not a Void - Standard (Oslo), Oslo |
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| With us against reality, or against us! - Galleri S.E, Bergen |
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| Photography as/within installation - Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp |
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| The Zine UnBound - Kults, Werewolves and Sarcastic Hippies - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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| Naturellement abstrait - Centre d´Art Contemporain Geneve, Geneva |
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| First We Take Museums - Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki |
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| Realit;-)t - 30 Videoarbeiten aus der Sammlung Goetz in München - Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon |
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| When Humour Becomes Painful - Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich |
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| IBCA Biennale 2005 - IBCA - International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Prague |
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| Burlesques contemporains - Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris |
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| Swiss Video - Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow |
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| About Beauty - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin |
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| Growing Up Absurd - Herbert Read Gallery - University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent (England) |
2004
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| Romantic Detachment - Chapter Gallery, Cardiff (Wales) |
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| None of the above - SI Swiss Institute, New York City, NY |
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| Romantic Detachment - P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island |
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| Eröffnung Kunsthaus L6 - L6, Freiburg |
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| De leur temps. Collections privées Francaises - Musee des Beaux Arts Tourcoing, Tourcoing |
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| Sommer-Ausstellung - - Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich (closed) |
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| Sommerfrische. Künstlervideos mit Esprit - Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg |
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| Swiss Art Videolobby - Contemporary Art Center Vilnius (CAC), Vilnius |
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| Grotesque, burlesque, parodie - Abbaye St André - Centre d’art contemporain, Meymac |
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| Incantations - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Altered States - Leo Koenig Inc., New York City, NY |
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| Miedo - Fear - Galería Pepe Cobo, Madrid |
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| KUNST FÜR DIE KUNST - Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen |
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| Dream Extensions - SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent |
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| The New Gothic: Art For the Tortured Soul - Cokkie Snoei - Rotterdam, Rotterdam |
2003
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| Der Verein. Ein Zukunftsmodell. Strategien der Kooperation - Museum im Bellpark, Kriens |
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| When Darkness Falls - Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN |
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| 10e Niennale de l'Image en Mouvement - Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement, Geneva |
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| When Darkness Falls - Gallery 400 - University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| todays man - John Connelly Presents (JCP), New York City, NY |
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| Variations on the theme of illusion - - Emily Tsingou Gallery, London (England) (closed, 2008) |
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| "Phantom der Lust. Visionen des Masochismus in der Kunst" - Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz |
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| Drawings - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| M_ARS - Art and War - Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz |
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| transnational monster league - Derek Eller Gallery, New York City, NY |
2002
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| Durchzug - Draft - Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich |
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| Né un 3 septembre - FRAC - Bourgogne, Dijon |
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| "Endlich eine gute Ausstellung" - Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna |
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| Lewis Caroll - ... confiture demain et confiture hier. Mais jamais confiture auj - CRAC - Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain de Sète, Sète |
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| Lorbeer Extrakt - Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen |
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
2001
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| printemps de septembre - Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse |
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| 1st Tirana Biennale 2001 - Tirana Biennial, Tirana |
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| Objects in Mirror are Closer Than They Appear - Team Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| More than One - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Gravità Zero. Arte, tecnologia e nuovi spazi dell´identità - Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome |
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Tutto Normale - Académie de France à Rome - Villa Médicis, Rome |
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| Hypermental - Wahnhafte Wirklichkeit 1950 - 2000 - Von Salvador Dali bis Jeff K - Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg |
2000
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| Au-delà du spectacle - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Guarene Arte 2000 - Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin |
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| Let's Entertain - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Reality Bytes - Der medial vermittelte Blick - Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg |
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| Thanks - Air de Paris, Paris |
1999
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| Young - Neue Fotografie in der Schweiz - Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
1998
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| Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer - Junge Schweizer Kunst - Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich |
Dealer Directory 10 |
Austria
| | Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
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Denmark
| | Nils Stærk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
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France
Italy
| | Gagliardi Art System, Turin
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| | Galleria Gas Art Gallery, Turin
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Switzerland
| | Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich
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USA
| | Michael Beneveto, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Carolina Nitsch, New York City, NY
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| | Scalo / Guye Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
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Public collections 12

France
| | FRAC - Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille
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| | Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
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| | Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg
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| | FRAC - Rhône-Alpes, IAC - Institute d`art contemporain, Villeurbanne
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Italy
| | Trevi Flash Art Museum Of Contemporary Art, Trevi
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Portugal
| | Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão
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Switzerland
| | Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen
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| | Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
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| | Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
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United Kingdom
USA
| | Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
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