Oda Jaune

The artist

Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1979, Oda Jaune studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf before developing an interdisciplinary practice spanning painting, sculpture and installation. She lives and works between London, Paris and Bulgaria.
Oda Jaune’s work is driven by a sustained inquiry into the instability of reality and the transformative potential of form. Rather than representing the visible world, she constructs new modes of existence in which the distinctions between body and object, organic and artificial, attraction and disquiet cease to remain fixed. Her works propose an expanded anatomy of life, where objects acquire corporeality, bodies dissolve into landscapes, and unfamiliar organisms emerge with an uncanny sense of intimacy.
While painting remains central to her practice, sculpture has become an increasingly significant field of investigation. Working with materials including bronze, ceramic and blown glass, Jaune explores the physical and metaphysical capacities of matter itself.
Without belonging to any single movement or tradition, Oda Jaune has developed a singular visual language in which beauty and estrangement coexist, and where imagination functions not as an escape from reality but as a means of generating new realities.

Exhibitions

Biography

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Birth Born in 1979 in Sofia, Bulgaria
Residence Lives and works in London, United Kingdom
Education 1998 – 2003: Studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2025 Oil of Angels, TEMPLON, Paris, France
2024 Miss Understand, TEMPLON, New York, USA
2022 wOnderlust, TEMPLON, Paris, France
2019 Hands, Seen, Antwerp, Belgium
Beyond Gravity, TEMPLON, Paris, France
2018 Heartland, National Gallery of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
2017 White Sculptures, Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany

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All White, TEMPLON (Brussels), Brussels, Belgium
2016 Blue Skies, TEMPLON, Paris, France
2015 Masks, TEMPLON, Paris, France
2013 Beyond Eden, Galerie Michael Fuchs, Berlin, Germany
2011 Confrontation Félicien Rops - Oda Jaune, Musée Félicien Rops, Namur, Belgium
2010 Once in a Blue Moon, TEMPLON, Paris, France
2009 May You See Rainbows, TEMPLON, Paris, France
2007 Galleria Davide Di Maggio – Milano, Milan, Italy
Trappole tra sensualità e alienazione, Fondazione Mudima, Milan, Italy
2006 Galleria Davide Di Maggio, Berlin, Germany
2004 Kunsthalle Koblenz, Koblenz, Germany

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2024 Les Enchantées N°2, curated by Nicola E. Petek et Stephan Klee, Frontviews, Berlin, Germany
TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN, Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany
Les Enchantées N°2, HAUNT // frontviews e.V, Berlin, Germany
Désordre, extraits de la collection Antoine de Galbert, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
Je ne suis pas ce que tu vois de moi, Fondation Francès, Clichy, France
2023 Les Fleurs du mal, Maison Guerlain, Paris, France
Individual All-Around, Timisoara Garrison Command, Timisoara, Rominia
Immortelle – MO.CO., Montpellier, France
De leur temps (7), Un regard sur des collections privées, Frac Grand Large, Dunkerque, France

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Le baiser de la chimère, galerie Dys, Brussels, Belgium
2022 Varia, CAC, Abbaye Saint André – Centre d’Art contemporain, Meymac, France
2020 Cœurs, du romantisme dans l'art contemporain, Musée de la Vie romantique, Paris, France
2019 Perfume of Thorns, A contemporary take on Les fleurs du mal, curated by VO curations and Phillips, Parcours Saint Germain des Près, Paris, France
Omar Ba, Abdelkader Benchamma, Norbert Bisky, Oda Jaune, Chiharu Shiota, ‘From the Paper to the Wall’, TEMPLON, Brussels, Belgium
Melt, Chart Gallery, New York, USA
2018 Accrochage - Summer In The City, Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Eros und Thanatos, Museum Abtei Liesborn, Wadersloh, Germany
Bitch Material Mutter.schaft.neu.denken, Studio 1 - Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Accrochage, Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Voici le temps des assassins, Galerie Michel Journiac, Paris, France
Mademoiselle, CRAC, Sète, France
The Sensation of the Sea: In honour of Bas Jan Ader, Collection Mesdag-Musée Van Gogh, The Hague, Netherlands
2017 Expenses, La Banque, Béthune, France
The Raft - Art is (not) Lonely, Mu.ZEE, Ostend, Belgium
The Artist/Knight, Gaasbeek Castle, Lennik, Belgium
Un monde in-tranquille, Abbaye St André - Centre d'art contemporain Meymac, Meymac, France
Behind the Screen - An Art Tribute to Isabelle Huppert, Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Peindre, dit-elle. Chap. 2, Musée des Beaux Arts de Dôle, Dôle, France
2016 ECCE HOMO? ECCE HOMO zu Gast in St. Canisius Berlin, St. Canisius, Berlin, Germany
Everybody is crazy, but me, Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium
Intrigantes incertitudes, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne (MAMC), Saint-Étienne, France
Bittersüße Zeiten – Barock und Gegenwart, Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu-Ulm, Germany
Who is Oda Jaune, a film directed by Kamilla Pfeffer, prod : Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion, co-prod: KHM, Cologne, Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
2015 H.D. Buttercup's Apartment, Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Peindre, Dit-elle, Musée Départemental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France
Gute Kunst? Wollen!-Auf AEG, Nuremberg, Germany
Who’s afraid of picture(s)? 2-à cent mètres du centre du monde, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Perpignan, France
Bittersüße Zeiten - Barock und Gegenwart in der Sammlung SØR Rusche Berlin/Oelde, Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche, Aschaffenburg, Germany
WhoGalerie de l’ESAD Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Bittersüße Zeiten - Barock und Gegenwart in der Sammlung SØR Rusche Berlin/OeldeKunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde, Apolda, Germany
Le Genre idéal, Maison Guerlain, FIAC, Paris, France
2014 Salon, Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Bittersüsse Zeiten - Barock Und Gegenwart In Der Sammlung Sør Rusche Oelde/ Berlin, Kunsthaus Stade, Stade, Germany
Les esthétiques d’un monde désenchanté, Abbaye St André - Centre d'art contemporain Meymac, Meymac, France
Le Mur, La collection Antoine de Galbert, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Who’s afraid of picture(s) ?, Ecole Supérieure d’Art et de Design, Grenoble, France
2013 Underealisme-à cent mètres du centre du monde, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Perpignan, France
Inner Journeys, Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium
2012 Hybride, Fondation Francès, Senlis, France
SØR Rusche Sammlung: Eros & Thanatos, Werkschauhalle, Leipzig, Germany
Under Realism V 2.0, Progress Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
Êtres Chairs. Oda Jaune - Sandra Vásquez De La Horra, Maison de la Culture Namur, Namur, Belgium
2011 Tous cannibales, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Alles Kannibalen?, Me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany
Mise A L'eau - Aquarelles Contemporaines, Maison de la Culture Namur, Namur, Belgium
Féminité 1.0, Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium
Femme objet, Femme sujet, Abbaye St André - Centre d'art contemporain Meymac, Meymac, France
2008 The Bearable Lightness of Being - The Metaphor of the Space, La Biennale di Venezia, 11. Mostra Internazionale di Architectura, Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Venice, Italy
2007 Malkunst 2, Schloss Plüschow Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus, Plüschow, Germany
Klasse Immendorf - Von Affen und Pferden, Ludwig Museum im Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz, Germany
Plus Zwei - Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Bulgarien und Rumänien, MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Germany
Malkunst 2, Fondazione Mudima, Milan, Italy
Malkunst 2, Galleria Davide Di Maggio – Milano, Milan, Italy
2004 Twenty-Four Living Artist in China, White Space Beijing, Beijing, China
2003 Emprise Art Award 2003 - Die Zukunft im Nacken: Frustration oder Innovation?, NRW – Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany
Museum Baden, Solingen, Germany
Twenty-Four Living Artists in China, White Space, Beijing, China
2002 Schöne Aussicht, Herr Schweins, Galerie Otto Schweins, Cologne, Germany

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

FNAC, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, France
Maison Rouge, Antoine de Galbert Foundation, Paris, France
Francès Foundation, Senlis, France
Maison Particulière – Art Center, Brussels, Belgium
Collection BOROS, Berlin, Germany
JP Morgan Chase & Co Art Collection, New York, USA
SØR Rusche Sammlung Oelde/Berlin, Oelde-Stromberg, Germany

Press

Lampoon - April 2025

Oda Jaune Reclaiming Wings: Angels Among Ruins

Artcritic - March 2025

Oda Jaune: La métamorphose des corps angéliques

Hervé Lancelin

Frieze - April 2025

Oil of Angels- Templon

Le Monde - April 2025

A la Fondation Francès, les plaies d'un monde a vif

Philippe Dagen

Marie Claire - April 2025

Oda Jaune

Marion Vignal

Marie Claire - May 2025

Prix Her Art: 12 femmes artistes à suivre

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News

Oda Jaune
LES FLEURS DU MAL

Group show

Maison Guerlain, Paris
From October 18 to November 13, 2023

On the occasion of the group show Les Fleurs du mal, Oda Jaune exhibits her work Fleurs from October 18, 2023, at Maison Guerlain in Paris.

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INDIVIDUAL ALL AROUND

Group show

Timișoara Garrison Command, Romania
From September 22 to December 3, 2023

On the occasion of the group show Individual All-Around, Oda Jaune exhibits her works from September 22, 2023 at Timișoara Garrison Command in Romania.

Orsten Groom
Oda Jaune
Abdelkader Benchamma
GROUP SHOW – IMMORTELLE

MO.CO, Montpellier
From March 11 to May 7, 2023

As part of the group show Immortelle at MO.CO, Oda Jaune, Abdelkader Benchamma and Orsten Groom will be exhibiting their work from March 11 to May 7, 2023.   Immortelle offers an ambitious panorama of young French figurative painting. For the first time, the exhibition will be spread over all the art centres and will be organised in two parts.

Jean-Michel Alberola
Michael Ray Charles
Oda Jaune
Prune Nourry
DE LEUR TEMPS, UN REGARD SUR DES COLLECTIONS PRIVÉES

Group show

Frac Grand Large, France
From January 28 to April 23, 2023

As part of the group show De leur temps at the Frac Grand Large, Jean-Michel Alberola, Oda Jaune, Michael Ray Charles and Prune Nourry will exhibit their works from 28 January to 23 April 2023.

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GROUP SHOW – UNCANNY DEPTHS  

Oda Jaune - Uncanny depths
MAMO, Cité Radieuse de Marseille
Through June 12, 2022
 

“Uncanny depths” proposes a historical walk and a reflection on time, around the notion of antiquity value theorized by Alois Riegl. Taking place in the MAMO, the former gymnasium of Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse, conceived as an inverted ship’s hull, the exhibition takes the form of a baroque, undulating and archaeological fantasy, a resurgence of the myth of Atlantis and of the most mysterious and disturbing incarnations of the forces of time.

Jim Dine
Oda Jaune
Pierre et Gilles
HEART – ROMANTICISM IN CONTEMPORARY ART

Musée de la Vie romantique, Paris, France
February 14 - July 12, 2020

Le Musée de la Vie romantique presents a selection of around 40 art works by thirty contemporary artists on the representation of heart as an expression of the feeling of love, echoing one of the main themes of Romanticism.
This exhibition aims to open the cultural program of the museum beyond the nineteenth century by exploring the continuation of Romanticism in contemporary art, in resonance with the museum’s collections. The heart as an organ, motif and symbol is presented here through various techniques: painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, neon and photography.
In addition to the emblematic figures of Niki de Saint Phalle, Jim Dine, Annette Messager, Sophie Calle, Pierre and Gilles, Jean-Michel Othoniel and Françoise Pétrovitch, visitors will be able to discover about twenty other artists in this exhibition. 

Oda Jaune
THE CARESS 

TRAVELLING PROJECT, BULGARIAFrom September 2018 to May 2019

Oda Jaune is presenting a new artistic project travelling through the remote, unspoiled landscapes of Bulgaria. Her sculpture The Caress, created in summer 2018, has been on the move since September, following a secret itinerary that will conclude near Sofia in spring 2019. The sculpture, first installed on the rocky shores of the Black Sea in Varvara, currently overlooks the Kaolin quarries in Vetovo, close to the Danube. Oda Jaune’s dream was to rise to the challenge of creating an encounter, where a subtle work, open to interpretation, meets nature and local people. Her Caress, with its delicate and sensual draping, evokes the Pietà artistic tradition. The work is unsettling, questioning the concept of fusion and the nature of the love that binds the protagonists: are they mother and son, lovers, twins? The reactions of local residents and passers-by to this enigmatic work, displayed far from a museum setting, are an integral part of the project.

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HANDS – SOLO SHOW

SEEN, ANTWERP, BELGIUM From 23/05/2019 to 13/07/2019

Oda Jaune’s installation Hands created especially for SEEN shows a symbiosis of light and shadow, confronting the viewers with the question of their own existence.  Under the candle flame, the sculpture becomes animated: shadows start to dance, candles melt away. The installation functions as a memento, created through life and death. SEEN is a new project space curated by Joanna De Vos. The concept is simple: one room, one previously unseen artwork, one artist. 

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Videos

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Oil of Angels
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Miss Understand
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wOnderlust
Omar Ba Abdelkader Benchamma Norbert Bisky Oda Jaune Chiharu Shiota

From the Paper to the Wall
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Beyond Gravity
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All White
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Blue Skies
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