Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

2025 -

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Retrospective Exhibition

 
2024 -

Hamiltons Gallery, London, UK, 'Bigger Than Life'

 
2024 -

KONG Gallery, Seoul, South Korea, Erwin Olaf

 
2024 -

Houk Gallery, New York, USA, Erwin Olaf: Stages

 
2024 -

Centro Cultural De La Villa, Madrid, Spain, 'Erwin Olaf: Narratives of Emancipation, Desire and Intimacy'

 
2023 -

Centro Niemeyer, Avilés, Spain, 'Erwin Olaf: A Vanishing World'

 
2022 -

Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris, France, 'Dance in Close-Up'

 
2022 -

National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung City, Taiwan, 'Erwin Olaf: Perfect Moment - Incomplete World'

 
2022 -

Izzy Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 'Dance in Close-Up & Im Wald'

 
2022 -

Holland Festival and Hans van Manen Festival, at Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 'Dance in Close-Up: Hans van Manen seen by Erwin Olaf'

 
2022 -

Hamiltons Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 'Im Wald'

 
2021 -

Suwon Museum of Art, Suwon, South Korea, 'Erwin Olaf: Perfect Moment - Incomplete World'

 
2021 -

Kyotographie - The Museum of Kyoto Annex, Kyoto, Japan, Kyotographie

 
2022 -

The Black Diamond, Copenhagen, Denmark, Solo exhibition The Black Diamond

 
2021 -

Kunsthalle München, Munich, Germany, 'Erwin Olaf - Unheimlich schön'

 
2021 -

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, USA, 'April Fool 2020 & Im Wald, 2020'

 
2021 -

Danysz Gallery, Shanghai, China, Solo exhibition Danysz Gallery

 
2021 -

Patricia Conde Galería, Mexico City, Mexico, Solo exhibition Patricia Conde Galería

 
2021 -

Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, First solo exhibition at Ron Mandos Gallery

 
2020 -

Izzy Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 'Trilogy' Solo gallery exhibition

 
2020 -

Gallery Kong, Seoul, South Korea, Post Covid 19, part 2 - Erwin Olaf, April Fool

 
2020 -

Paci Contemporary, Brescia, Italy, Paci Contemporary

 
2020 -

Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris, France, Erwin Olaf - April Fool

 
2019 -

Exhibition with a selection of the acquired works at Rijksmuseum , Amsterdam, The Netherlands, '12x Erwin Olaf' at Rijksmuseum

 
2019 -

Xie Zilong Photography Museum (XPM), Changsha, China, Erwin Olaf

 
2019 -

Shanghai Center of Photography (SCoP), Shanghai, China, 'Parallel'

 
2019 -

Gemeente Museum The Hague & The Hague Museum of Photography, The Hague, The Netherlands, Anniversary Solo Show

 
2019 -

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, USA, Solo exhibition

 
2018 -

MIS - Museu da Imagem e do Som de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Large multimedia retrospective

 
2018 -

Izzy Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 'Erwin Olaf Retrospective'

 
2016 -

National Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria, 'Erwin Olaf - Four Series'

 
2016 -

Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga , Malaga, Spain, 'Cell of Emotions'

 
2014 -

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina, 'Erwin Olaf: The Empire of Illusion'

 
2015 -

Fundação Oriente Museu, Macau, China, 'Retrospective'

 
2014 -

The Museum of New Art, Detroit, USA, 'Erwin Olaf: Breakfast in America'

 
2014 -

MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary, 'Erwin Olaf: Karussell'

 
2014 -

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile, 'Erwin Olaf: The Empire of Illusion'

 
2014 -

Muzeum Narodowe w Gdańsku, Gdańsk, Poland, 'Choreography of Emotions'

 
2013 -

La Sucrière, Lyon, France, 'Emotions, Installations by Erwin Olaf till 2012'

 
2012 -

MMKA, Arnhem, The Netherlands, 'Regressive'

 
2012 -

Gaasbeek Castle, Gaasbeek, Belgium, 'Exquisite Corpses'

 
2011 -

CerModern, Ankara, Turkey, 'Erwin Olaf: Captured Senses'

 
2010 -

Hermitage Amsterdam , Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 'Dusk / Dawn'

 
2010 -

Fondazione FORMA, Milan, Italy, 'Vite Private' (Private lives)

 
2010 -

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 'A Journey to Excellence'

 
2009 -

Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel, 'Moving Targets'

 
2009 -

Domus Artium 2002 (DA02), Salamanca, Spain, 'Darts of Pleasure, Erwin Olaf 1984 - 2009'

 
2009 -

Institut Néerlandais, Paris, France, 'Photographie & Video: Rain, Hope, Grief, Fall et d'autres Oeuvres'

 
2009 -

Fotomuseum, Antwerp, Belgium, 'Erwin Olaf - EyeCandy 1984 - 2009'

 
2008 -

Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia, 'Selected Works'

 
2008 -

Southeastern Center of Contemporary Art, Salem, USA, 'Still Living: Structure, Surface and Expression'

 
2008 -

Fotomuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands, 'Rain, Hope, Grief & Fall'

 
2008 -

Space E6, Shenzhen, China, Erwin Olaf's first exhibition on the Chinese mainland

 
2007 -

City Arts Centre, Shoalhaven, Australia, 'Elegance and Perversity'

 
2005 -

Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia, 'Erwin Olaf: Elegance and Perversity'

 
2005 -

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia, 'Fashion & Style in Photography'

 
2005 -

Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, 'Imitation of Life'

 
2005 -

MonteVideo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 'Moving Targets'

 
2003 -

Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands, 'Silver'

 
1998 -

Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, 'Chessmen'

 
1993 -

Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 'Joy'

 
1993 -

Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, 'Erwin Olaf'

 
 
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Selected group exhibitions

2025 -

Mudec Museo Delle Culture Milano, Milan, Italy, 'Deep Beauty'

 
2025 -

The Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy, Flowers Forever

 
2024 -

Fotomuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands, Man - Portraits from the collection

 
2024 -

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Point of View

 
2022 -

Musée national d'histoire et d'art, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, Erwin Olaf & Hans Op de Beeck: Inspired by Steichen

 
2022 -

Mauritshuis, The Hague, The Netherlands, FLASH│BACK

 
2022 -

Le Delta House of Culture, Namurs, Belgium, The Circus We Are

 
2021 -

Kunstenhuis Harelbeke, Harelbeke, Belgium, FUCK YOU! Kunstenhuis Harelbeke, Belgium

 
2021 -

Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, South Korea, Daegu Photo Biennale

 
2020 -

Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy, True Fictions

 
2020 -

Gallerie d'Italia in Vicenza, Vicenza, Italy, Futuro

 
2020 -

Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands, What will the neighbours say?

 
2020 -

Gallerie d'Italia Venice, Vicenza, Italy, Il Futuro è ora. Arte e società dagli anni Sessanta a oggi

 
2020 -

Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany, Museum Morsbroich

 
2019 -

Conciergerie, Paris, France, Marie-Antoinette, Metamorphoses of an Image

 
2019 -

Danysz Gallery, Shanghai, China, Story Smuggler

 
2019 -

Hangar Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium, Photo Brussels Festival

 
2018 -

Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns, Australia, Cairns Art Gallery

 
2018 -

Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenagen, Denmark, Vogue Like a Painting

 
2017 -

Museum Jan Cunen, Oss, The Netherlands, Museum Jan Cunen

 
2017 -

Villa Rot, Rot, Germany, Villa Rot

 
2017 -

Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland, Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie

 
2016 -

Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands, 'After Rodin - Groninger Museum'

 
2017 -

Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea, Hangaram Art Museum

 
2016 -

K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong, China, 'Women's Independence'

 
2016 -

McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, USA, 'Telling Tales: Contemporary Narrative Photography'

 
2016 -

Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland, 'In Search of the Present'

 
2016 -

Museum De Fundatie, Zwolle, The Netherlands, 'Dutch Identity - Dutch Portrait Photography Now'

 
2016 -

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 'Catwalk'

 
2015 -

Whangarei Art Museum, Whangarei, New Zealand, 'Hendrik Kerstens + Erwin Olaf'

 
2015 -

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain, 'Vogue: Like A Painting'

 
2015 -

Fondation Francès, Senlis, France, 'Juke Box'

 
2015 -

MUDAM, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 'Memory Lab: Photography Challenges History'

 
2015 -

Kasteel D'Ursel, Hingene, Belgium, 'Sweet 18'

 
2014 -

Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany, 'Memory Lab: The Sentimental Turn. Photography Challenges History'

 
2013 -

Amsterdam City Archives, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 'Studio Portretten'

 
2013 -

Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 'WHITE!'

 
2012 -

GuatePhoto, Guatemala City, Guatemala, 'GuatePhoto 2012'

 
2012 -

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia, 'Vanitas Contemporary Reflections'

 
2012 -

OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China, 'Basic Instincts'

 
2012 -

Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria, 'MEGACOOL 4.0, Jugend und Kunst'

 
2012 -

BIP 2012, Liege, Belgium, 'Only You Only Me - Images of Love, Love of the Image'

 
2011 -

Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria, 'No Fashion, Please!'

 
2011 -

Museum De Lakenhal , Leiden, The Netherlands, 'The Siege of Leiden'

 
2011 -

Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, 'Kunst Macht Schule'

 
2010 -

Hermitage Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 'Alexander The Great'

 
2010 -

Gallerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic, 'Decadence Now! Visions of Excess'

 
2010 -

Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada, 'Cinema X: I Like to Watch'

 
2010 -

CCCB, Barcelona, Spain, 'Atopia, Art and the City in the 21st Century'

 
2009 -

Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 'Peguena Historia de la Fotografia'

 
2009 -

Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland, 'The Non-Age'

 
2009 -

Museum of the City of New York, New York City, USA, 'Dutch Seen: New York Rediscovered'

 
2009 -

Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, USA, 'Why Look at Animals?'

 
2008 -

Museum Für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland, 'Short Stories in Contemporary Photography'

 
2007 -

The Kinsey Institute Gallery, Bloomington, USA, 'Expressive Bodies'

 
2007 -

FOAM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 'Oog / Eye'

 
2007 -

Phillips, New York City, USA, 'NYC Photo'

 
2007 -

Chelsea Art Museum, New York City, USA, 'Dangerous Beauty'

 
2006 -

Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, 'Cross-Referenced Messages - Talk with Reality in Time'

 
2005 -

Salamanca Arts Centre, Salamanca, Spain, 'Baroque and Neo-Baroque. The Hell of the Beautifull'

 
2005 -

Museum of New Art, Detroit, USA, 'Going Dutch'

 
2004 -

Cultural Centre Es Pantagruélico, Santiago, Chile, 'Foto America 2004'

 
2002 -

Mostra Internazionale D’arte Contemporánea, Trieste, Italy, 'Shock & Show. Realtra e Alternative'

 
2001 -

Bienal de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, 'The Body of Art'

 
2000 -

Museum Für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany, 'Bodies, Clothing, Surfaces'

 
1991 -

Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands, 'Haks Was Here'

 
1988 -

The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK, 'Behold the Man'

 
 
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