Olaf Breuning was born in 1970 in Schaffhausen (Switzerland), moving to the USA at the beginning of the 2000s. Today he lives and works in upstate New York.

His work can be perceived as a kind of personal diary, driven by everyday life, fueled by humor and fashioned by whatever might be at hand and with the help of a gang of friends.

Stylistically, his work happily flirts with caricature and reveals an ongoing concern with man’s impact on nature.

Olaf Breuning employs photography, film, ceramics, engraving and drawing to create a very direct and deliberately regressive form of art.

Recently, he has added painting to his body of work: naïve and almost childlike forms and colors are applied using woodcut stamps made from solid wooden blocks, lending his highly rhythmic compositions the rustic aspect of wood engraving and the primitivism of art brut.

A few pieces that you can find on objkt: 'The Strawberry' objkt.com/tokens/KT1EVdMXp5k…

'The Finger' objkt.com/tokens/KT1Kr1XLwqz…

'Picture Human' objkt.com/tokens/KT1Kr1XLwqz…

It is worth noting his upcoming exhibition with the Semiose gallery: "Still Complaining Forest", opening from Saturday, November 23, 2024 to the 21st of December.

Today we are highlighting an artist who "views the world through disillusioned eyes and delivers an absurd and deceptively idiotic, satirical version of what he sees". #objktdailycuration Discover the work of @olafbreuning on our front page and in this🧵