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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Oda Jaune
ÊTRE CHAIRS (ODA JAUNE WITH SANDRA VASQUEZ DE LA HORRA)

Maison de la Culture de la Province de Namur, Belgium

From March 17th to April 29 th 2012 Cette exposition associe les univers plastiques d’Oda Jaune et de Sandra Vásquez de la Horra dans une manifestation en forme de dialogue.
Envisagée sur les trois espaces de la Maison de la Culture (Hall, Espace Meuse, Espace Sambre), cette manifestation fait coexister deux expositions personnelles avec un projet de rencontre qui s’élaborera in situ et en collaboration avec les artistes. (…)

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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