Oda Jaune
The artist
Born in 1979 in Sofia, Bulgaria, Oda Jaune lives and works in London. The artist uses her work to portray a tormented yet deeply poetical world. In it, images that are tender, naive and violent, occasionally erotic and funny, are mingled together as Jaune continues her frank exploration of a subconscious freed from convention. Her paintings are unsettling, putting the viewer in a position where abandon is the only option and inhibition is futile.
Exhibitions
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Miss Understand
January 11 - March 9, 2024
New York -
wOnderlust
January 8 - March 5, 2022
Paris - Grenier Saint Lazare -
Beyond Gravity
October 26 - December 21, 2019
Paris - Beaubourg -
From the Paper to the Wall
June 6 - July 26, 2019
Brussels -
All White
April 19 - May 27, 2017
Brussels -
Blue Skies
January 9 - February 20, 2016
Paris - Beaubourg -
Masks
June 6 - July 21, 2015
Paris - Impasse Beaubourg -
Once in a Blue Moon
November 6 - December 30 2010
Paris - Beaubourg -
May You See Rainbows
February 28 - April 11, 2009
Paris - Impasse Beaubourg
Biography
| Birth | Born in 1979 in Sofia, Bulgaria |
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| Residence | Lives and works in London, United Kingdom |
| Education | 1998 – 2003: Studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
| 2024 | Miss Understand, TEMPLON, New York, USA |
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| 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 |
| All White, TEMPLON (Brussels), Brussels, Belgium |
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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 |
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| 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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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 Release
Die Welt - janvier 2022
Small Talk,, Ich Verwandle Es In Wunder
Télérama Sortir - janvier 2022
Oda Jaune, Wonderlust
TV5 Monde - janvier 2022
Peinture : Oda Jaune "une vision qui s'approche de la réalité"
Pascale Achard
Arts In the City - janvier 2022
Les peintures audacieuses d'Oda Jaune à découvrir à la Galerie Templon
Der Spiegel - novembre 2019
Exzesse in der Kunst sind eine Dienstpflicht
Ulrike Knöfel & Britta Sandberg
Artdaily - novembre 2019
Oda Jaune presents a brand-new series of paintings at Galerie Templon
Germainpire.info - octobre 2019
Vernissage d'Oda Jaune "Beyond Gravity"
Beaux-Arts Magazine - juillet 2015
Oda Jaune et ses tendres mutants
Weltkunst - 2013
Was Muss Man Über Paris Wissen?
Hong Kong Gallery Guide - février 2011
Oda Jaune, Paintings with no stories
Cristina Sanchez Kozyreva
Arts Libres, La Libre Belgique - décembre 2010
Oda Jaune, peintre
News
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.
Oda Jaune
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.
Oda Jaune
HEARTLAND – SOLO SHOW
NATIONAL GALLERY/PALACE, SOFIA, BULGARIAFrom 23/11/2018 to 13/01/2019
The National Gallery is presenting Oda Jaune in Bulgaria for the first time ever, with a large-scale retrospective exhibition gathering 50 of the artist‘s work in painting, sculpture and water-colours from the earliest periods of her carеer to present times. Oda Jaune’s style is remindful of the Old Masters yet jettisons the viewer into the world of surrealism, and German expressionism alike. For she has created a world of her own, where the artist does not have to bow to the conventional, and her work probes deep into the subconscious. Oda Jaune creates an alternative universe full of omnipowerful beauty and calm, poetry and romanticism while remaining mindful of the potent forces of violence, eroticism and irony. Mindful of detail and proportions, careful of how she changes the scale, applying a photorealistic precision in her creation of individual shapes, the artist engages in a juxtaposition of the elements, a principle that becomes prominent in her visual narrative. Emotional states and images emerging from the subconscious, come out of the depths to materialize on the surface into part horrible, part entertaining images. The viewer freely enters the fairy world of fantasies, only to be submerged into a vortex of emotions. For this viewer has been entangled in a crossword, a visual enigma whose central part contains the whole truth about the artist‘s attitude to love and eroticism, to fear and pain. Curated by Nadezhda Dzhakova
Jan Fabre
Oda Jaune
Hans Op De Beeck
THE SENSATION OF THE SEA. IN HONOUR OF BAS JAN ADER – GROUP SHOW
MESDAG COLLECTION, THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS From 14/09/2018 to 06/01/2019
From 14 September 2018 to 6 January 2019 The Sensation of the Sea: In Honour of Bas Jan Ader is presented at The Mesdag Collection in The Hague. For this exhibition, guest curator Joanna De Vos has invited several international artists to engage in a dialogue with The Mesdag Collection. These contemporary artists are captivated by the grandeur and tempestuousness of the ocean. The attraction of the sea is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for them, a ‘battery for the imagination’. Odes to the performance In Search of the Miraculous by the Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader (1942-1975) form the exhibition’s connecting thread. Ader disappeared in 1975 as he attempted to sail across the Atlantic. His soul became one with the untameable power of the sea. The tributes to Ader’s artistic practice highlight the enticement and mystery of the ocean. Visitors are encouraged to discover how the contemporary artworks integrate into the nineteenth-century museum and to prepare themselves for a series of surprising and special ‘encounters’.
Oda Jaune
MADEMOISELLE – GROUP SHOW
CRAC, SETE, FRANCE From 21/07/2018 to 06/01/2019
MADEMOISELLE, is a group exhibition that brings together a generation of international women artists exploring the issues and paradoxes of being a young woman today, through a variety of mediums and a broad range of subjects. Referencing France’s recent ban on the title ‘Mademoiselle’ and drawing upon the past years’ global interest in women’s rights, best characterized as the #MeToo phenomenon, the exhibition exposes the manifold heritage, expansion and evolution of feminist art strategies and theories today. With among others Oda Jaune, Laure Prouvost, Mai-Thu Perret, Pilar Corrias, Anna Uddenberg, Mimosa Echard, Gery Georgevia
Jan Fabre
Oda Jaune
Jonathan Meese
Julião Sarmento
Chiharu Shiota
Jan Van Imschoot
« THE RAFT. ART IS (NOT) LONELY » – GROUP SHOW
OSTENDE, BELGIUMFrom 21/10/17 to 15/04/18
« The Raft. Art is (not) Lonely » will bring together 73 international artists in Oostende chosen by curators Jan Fabre and Joanna De Vos and will present 52 new creations of young and experienced artists.
The exhibition discusses the artist’s quest and the duality of the creation, based on isolation and engagement.
Artists from different generations and different paths were invited to question the link between « Le radeau de la méduse » (1818) of Théodore Géricault and Jan Fabre’s work « Le Radeau est (pas) solitaire (1986) ».
The curators have the intention to stimulate the city in order to make it (re)discovered. Besides the well-known museum, they looked for more unsual places like the Peperbusse restaurant, le
Palais de Justice, the Eurpacentrum building, the stables of the Wellington track race or the crypts of the Sint-Jozef church.
« The Raft. Art is (not) Lonely » will be an artistic journey disseminated in 22 places of the « City by the sea » .
Oda Jaune
Jonathan Meese
THE ARTIST/KNIGHT(GROUP SHOW)
GAASBEEK CASTLEFrom 7/11/17 to 11/5/17
Knights appeal to everyone’s imagination. What does this iconic symbol stand for? Do the knightly codes and values still have meaning today? Curator Joanna De Vos investigated and now creates in Gaasbeek Castle an international group exhibition of modern artistry as a ‘legacy’ of knightly ideals. With works by Marina Abramović, Uldus Bakhtiozina, Horia Damian, Robert Devriendt, Davide Dormino, Jan Fabre, Laurent Grasso, Phil Griffin, Oda Jaune, Kubra Khademi, Meiro Koizumi, Pere Llobera, Barbara Kruger, Kris Martin, Jonathan Meese, Fabien Mérelle, Benjamin Moravec, Eleni Mylonas, Luigi Ontani, Antonis Pittas, Quiet Ensemble, Gabriel Roca, Rob Scholte, Adeela Suleman, Hannelore Van Dijck, Hans Van Houwelingen, Marko Velk, Antonello Viola, voorforvaast fanclub and Andy Wauman
