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Erwin Olaf

(Dutch, 1959–2023)

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Erwin Olaf

Ideat 07, 2015

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Biography

Timeline

1995
Recipient, First prize, Woord en Beeld 1995 applied photography, Federation of Parents Association Mentally Disabled
1998
Recipient, Silver Lion Award, commercial-festival for Diesel Dirty Denim, Cannes
2002
Recipient, Commercial Prize - festival New York, for Heineken ‘Line-up’, New York
2003
Recipient, Grote Paul, Award, for the most famous Dutch photographer, Holland
Gold, Photography District New York
Merit, The Association of Photographers, London
2005
Rain, “The Hairdresser’s”, winner of a PDN Award Photography Annual New York, Hasted Hunt Gallery, New York
Lavazza Calendar, Selected for the PDN Award Photography Annual New York
Films: Fotomuseum: Creation and Direction: ‘Toms Space', Antwerp; Rouge (2005) and Le Dernier Cri (2006), Detroit’s 10th International Film Festival; New Videoworks Erwin Olaf, Gallery Espacio Minimo, Madrid; Videoworks of Erwin Olaf, Montevideo, Amsterdam; FFF Videoshow!, Centraal museum, Utrecht; Cinema Sculptuur, Nederlands foto instituut, Rotterdam; Film by the sea, Centrum voor Beeldende Kunst, Vlissingen; Volumia, Direction, Music Video; Het, VPRO Broadcasting Company

Exhibitions

2012
Erwin Olaf, Gallery Kong, Seoul, Korea (solo)
Works 2000 - 2012, Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong, China (solo)
Erwin Olaf Short Stories, Gallery Wagner + Partner, Berlin, Germany (solo)
We Will Continue, Het Dolhuys, The Dutch National Psychiatry Museum, The Neatherlands
Full of Grace: The Child in Photography, The Palm Beach Photographic Centre, Florida
2011
Erwin Olaf: Liberty! Relief of Leiden 1574-2011, Museum De Lakenhal , The Netherlands (solo)
High Tension: Solo Exhibition by Erwin Olaf, Carbon 12, Dubai (solo)
Erwin Olaf: De La Mar, Hasted Kraeutler, New York, NY (solo)
Erwin Olaf: Captured Senses, Cermodern, Ankara, Turkey (solo)
Erwin Olaf: Nordic Light International Festival of Photography, Christiansund, Norway (solo)
SHOW OFF!, The Salsali Private Museum, Dubai
No Fashion, Please!, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection, George Eastman House International Museum, Rochester, NY
DEAD_Lines, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
Beauty/Culture, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA
International Fotofestiwal Out of Mind, Lodz, Polen
Interaction to Micro-Sociology: The Dual Thread of Media Intervention into Art in The Netherlands and China, Laboratory Art Beijing, Beijing, China
2010
Erwin Olaf: Hotel, Galerie Magda Danysz/Flatland Paris, Paris France (solo)
Erwin Olaf: A Journey to Excellence, exhibition commissioned by Louise Vuitton and the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
Erwin Olaf, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Beijing, China (solo)
Private Lives: Erwin Olaf, Museum Forma - Centro Internationale di Fotografia, Milan, Italy (solo)
Recent Work, Hamiltons Gallery, London (solo)
Dusk / Dawn, Hermitage Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
Hotel & Dusk / Dawn, HASTED HUNT KRAEUTLER, New York, January 28 - March 20 (solo)
The unbearable lightness of being, Carbon 12 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Decadence Now! Visions of Excess, Gallery Rudolfinum Praha, Prague, Czech Republic
Longer Participation, Ideal Lab, Saint-Etienne, France
Cinema X: I Like to Watch Carlos Aires, Regina Galindo, Bruce LaBruce, Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkacova, Dani Marti, Erwin Olaf, Steve Reinke & Jessie Mott, Santiago Sierra, Curated by Paco Barragán, MOCCA, Toronto, Ontario
Atopia: Art and City in the 21st Century, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain
De Pictura: En defensa de la belleza/ In Defense of Beauty, EMAT Espai Metropolita d’Art, Valencia, Spain
2009
Photography & Video: Rain, Hope, Grief, Fall, Et D’Autres Oeuvres - Institut Néerlandais, Paris, France (solo)
Eye Candy 1984 - 2009 - Photomuseum Antwerp, Atwerp, Belgium (solo)
Erwin Olaf : 50 Years (Retrospective), Domas Artrium, Salamanca Ciudad de Cultura, Salamanca, Spain (solo)
Erwin Olaf - Langhans Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (solo)
The Non-Age: The Rebel of Age, Museo Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain
Wild Exaggeration, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
Amsterdam/New York Perspectives: Dutch Photography in New York, The Museum of the City of New York
The Non-Age, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
All that is Nothing Melts into Air, MuHKA- Museum for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
Why Look at Animals? - Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida
2008
Still Living: Structure, Surface and Espression - South Eastern Centre for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC (solo)
Hope, Rain, Grief & Fall - The Hague Museum of Photography, The Hague, The Netherlands (solo)
Grief - Flatland Paris & Gallery Magda Danysz, Paris, France (solo)
Erwin Olaf - Space E6, Shenzhen, China (solo)
Human All Too Human - Fotografia Europea Reggio Emilia 2008, Reggio Emilia, Italy (solo)
Short Stories in Contemporary Photography - Zurich Museum of Design, Zurich, Switzerland
The Hague Museum of Photography, Den Haag, The Nederlands
Fotografia Europea Reggio Emilia 2008, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Erwin Olaf, Public Institute Space E6 in Shenzhen, China, organised by Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong
Erwin Olaf : Grief, Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, France
2007
Grief, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Grief, HASTED HUNT Gallery, New York, NY
Grief, Reflex New Art Gallery, Amsterdam
Dangerous Beauty, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
Subzones, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt, Germany
2006
Nostalgia, Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, France
Elegance & Perversity, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, Australia
People of the Labyrinth, Golden Age, Central Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2005
Rain & Hope, HASTED HUNT Gallery, New York, NY
Australia Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
ARCO Madrid, Spain
Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Morocco, Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Other Europe: On Art and Politically Incorrectness, Bergen, Norway
Self-Exposure, ClampArt Gallery, New York
BAC !05, International Festival of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain
Going Dutch, Museum of New Art, Pontiac, MI
Gorgeous Isn't Good Enough, Milan, Italy
Viritatas Splendor Photographs 1988-2003, Lodz, Poland
2004
Imitation of Live, Modern Art Gallery of Bologna, Italy
National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
Limburgs Museum, Venlo, The Netherlands
Galerie J. Rabouan Moussion, Paris, France
If ‘Raining Cats & Dogs’, GAM/Modern Art Gallery of Bologna, GenderBender, Bologna, Italy
Lies, lust Art & Fashion Signale der kleidung, Podewil, Berlin, Germany
30 years Dutch Phototgraphy, ACF, Amsterdam
Cultuurlaboratorium, Limburgs Museum, Venlo, Netherlands
2003
Mais Quelle Tête tu fais! part two, Galerie Le Garage, Toulouse, France
Mortalis, Fotomuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
Fundancion Foto Colectania, Museo Artium, Vitoria-Gazteis, Spain
Child in Time, Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Helmond, Netherlands
Dangerous Beauty, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
Melting Pop, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siene, Italy
2003 Silver, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
Art Rotterdam Fair, with Flatland Gallery, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Erwin Olaf, Tapper-Popermajer Gallery, Malmo
Erwin Olaf, Museo Arte Contemp, Nuoro, Italy
Separation, B&D Gallery, Milan, Italy

Public Collections

Martin Margulies Collection, USA
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ludwig Museum, Köln, Germany
Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
Deutsche Leasing AG, Germany
Caldic collection, The Netherlands
Museo Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Randstad Collection, The Netherlands
Fundacio Foto Colectania, Spain
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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