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Olaf Breuning, born in 1970, is a Swiss artist who lives and works in New York.

Educated in photography in Zurich, Breuning's work now encompasses photography, sculpture, video, and drawing. Writing about his work for the Whitney Biennial 2008, Stacey Georgen wrote:

"Commingling reality and illusion, authenticity and artifice, barbarism and civility, Olaf Breuning creates photographs, films, sculptures, and installations that draw heavily from popular culture and a collective visual iconography. He combines these contemporary aesthetics with more primal shared drives: violence, sexuality, ritual, and companionship. The divergent impulses collide, often with absurd and hilarious results, as Breuning exploits the thin line between humor and pain."

Breuning's work has been shown widely in the United States and abroad. His work is currently on display in a solo exhibition at Metro Pictures in New York. Read our listing for more info.

Olaf Breuning
Impossible Balancing Act, 2008
Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures, New York

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