ERWIN OLAF

Bio

Born in: 
1959
Nationality: 
Dutch
Lives and works in: 
Amsterdam, Netherlands

In his portrait photographs Amsterdam-based artist Erwin Olaf plays games with the idea of cold reality versus cruel artifice. Yet, nothing is as it seems and in Erwin's recreated world, nothing is real. Erwin Olaf is worldwide famous and is in the most prestigious collections around the world.

 

MAIN COLLECTIONS :

 

SIR ELTON JOHN COLLECTION, ENGLAND AND USA

21C MUSEUM, USA

ARS FUNDUM, SPAIN

BANCO SPIRITO SANTO, SPAIN

THE FRANKS-SUSS COLLECTION, ENGLAND

GOERGE EASTMAN HOUSE, USA

NEUFLIZE VIE COLLECTION, FRANCE

NORH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART, USA

THE WEST COLLECTION, USA

LUDWIG MUSEUM, COLOGNE, GERMANY

GRONINGER MUSEUM, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART, RALEIGH, USA

RABOBANK, AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS

ART PROGRESSIVE COLLECTION, USA

RIJKSMUSEUM, AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS

DEUTSCHE LEASING AG, BAD HOMBURG, GERMANY

ING ART COLLECTION, THE NETHERLANDS

COLLEZIONE LA GAIA, PIEDMONT, ITALY

CALDIC COLLECTION, THE NETHERLANDS

COLLEZIONE LAVAZZA, TORINO

FONDATION FRANCÈS, SENLIS FRANCE

COLLEZIONE LANFRANCHI, MILANO

OREFI - VENTE-PRIVEE COLLECTION, PARIS

STEDELIJK MUSEUM, AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS

MUSEUM ARTIUM, VITORIA-GASTEIZ, SPAIN

RANDSTAD COLLECTION, THE NETHERLANDS

FUNDACIO FOTO COLECTANIA, SPAIN

CENTRAAL MUSEUM, UTRECHT, THE NETHERLANDS

BLUE COLLECTION, SWITZERLAND ARAD COLLECTION, LONDON, ENGLAND

INELCOM COLLECTION, SPAIN

COFF COLLECTION, SPAIN

MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, the HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS

SCHERINGA MUSEUM, SPANBROEK, THE NETHERLANDS

MARTIN MARGULIES COLLECTION, USA

FNAC COLLECTION, PARIS, FRANCE

GEMEENTEMUSEUM, the HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS


 

 

News

From 7 January, 2012 to 29 February, 2012
Opening 7 January, 2012
Lavazza Calendrier 2012

Seeing Erwin Olaf personally on the 20th edition “The Lavazzers” calendar! This year The Lavazzer invites Erwin Olaf and 11 other photographers and interpreted themselves in an unusual and imaginative way which shows the intimate relationship between the photographer and the coffee.
The self-portraits of Erwin Olaf is the start...

CV

2012 Erwin Olaf for Lavazza's 2012 Calendar Lavazza Calendrier 2012
2010 Erwin Olaf Hotel Magda Danysz Gallery - 78, rue Amelot - Paris 11
2010 Private lives by Erwin Olaf Forma Fondation Milan
2010 Erwin Olaf’s DUSK & DAWN Hermitage Amsterdam
2010 Sunday's Screening Magda Danysz Gallery - 78, rue Amelot - Paris 11
2009 Erwin Olaf at Salamanca Photo Museum Others
2009 Erwin Olaf Solo Show - Laboral Magda Danysz Gallery - 78, rue Amelot - Paris 11
2009 FACES Video Show 18Gallery Shanghai - Bund18, 18 Zhongshan East Road (E1), 4F, Shanghai
2008 Erwin Olaf - Grief Magda Danysz Gallery - 78, rue Amelot - Paris 11
2007 Play - Group Show Magda Danysz Gallery - 78, rue Amelot - Paris 11
2006 Ray Caesar, Sas Christian, Erwin Olaf : Nostalgia Magda Danysz Gallery - 78, rue Amelot - Paris 11

Paris gallery :

78, rue Amelot , Paris 11, France
open from tuesday to friday from 11 AM to 7 PM and saturday from 2 PM to 7 PM
ouvert du mardi au vendredi de 11h à 19h et le samedi de 14h à 19h

t:+33-01-45-83-38-51 

info@magda-gallery.com

Membre du Comité Professionnel des Galeries d'Art Member of the French Art Dealers Comittee

Shanghai gallery : 

188 Linqing road, Shanghai, China 
t: +86 186 1615 1670 
Open from Tuesday to Sunday from 11AM to 6PM