In 2007, the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zürich, Switzerland presented a large-scale installation by Olaf Breuning. The exhibition was Olaf Breuning’s largest solo show in Switzerland at that time. The Swiss artist conceived an architecture of art transport boxes. The visitor was invited to stroll through this and discover fantasy figures and strange objects.

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Out now: VernissageTV PDF-magazine No. 18, July 2011.

VernissageTV’s PDF Magazin No. 18 has its focus on the two major art events this year, the 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, and Art 42 Basel. Highlights of No. 18 are a personal look at five days in Venice by Miami-based artist duo Guerra de la Paz, and exclusive video and audio downloads for the readers of this issue. Then there are photo galleries showing Elmgreen & Dragset’s exhibition at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen’s Submarine Wharf in Rotterdam, and Ai Weiwei’s solo show Art / Architecture at Kunsthaus Bregenz. For design lovers, there’s a report on Matti Suuronen’s Futuro, House of the Future of the 1960s.

Artists in this issue: Ai Weiwei, Matti Suuronen, Elmgreen & Dragset, and Guerra de la Paz.

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The current exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in North Miami, Florida, features works by 23 international artists. On display are works by Uta Barth, Olaf Breuning, Tom Burr, Talia Chetrit, Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkacova, Phil Collins, Thomas Demand, Alex Hubbard, Matt Keegan, Ragnar Kjartansson, Elad Lassry, Lars Laumann, Adam McEwen, Wilhelm Sasnal, Xaviera Simmons, Martin Soto Climent, Wolfgang Tillmans, Sara VanDerBeek, Emily Wardill, Gillian Wearing, Judi Werthein, and Artur Zmijewski.

In this video, MOCA Associate Curator Ruba Katrib talks about the concept of the exhibition, and Swiss artist Olaf Breuning talks about the two works he presents in the show.

The exhibition runs until February 14, 2010.

Opening Reception, Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA / Vanity Fair International Party, December 1, 2009.

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The Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst presents a large-scale installation by Olaf Breuning which comprises drawings, sculptures and his new film “Home 2 (2007)”. The exhibition is Olaf Breuning’s largest solo show to date in Switzerland. “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.” (From the press release). Works by Olaf Breuning were most recently to be seen at the exhibition Swiss Video at the Tate Modern in London (2006), and at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo in the context of all about laughter (2007). Olaf Breuning, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, museum for contemporary art, opening, August 24, 2007. The exhibition, curated by Heike Munder, runs through October 21, 2007.

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