1 May - 10 September 2025
A Perfect Sentence (Part IV)
Oliver Frank Chanarin
National Museum of Wales
Cardiff
7 September - 28 September 2024
A Perfect Sentence (Part III)
Oliver Frank Chanarin
Image Vevey
Switzerland
16 January - 18 March 2024
Oliver Frank Chanarin
KARST Gallery
Plymouth
16 March - 3 September 2023
Oliver Frank Chanarin
Museum of Making
Derby
24.03.2022 - 25.06.2022
The Apparatus II
Oliver Chanarin
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
01.10.2021 - 10.10.2021
Gravity is the attraction between distant objects
(Part 1)
Oliver Chanarin
Galeria Cadaques
01.03.2021 - 30.08.2021
Oliver Chanarin
SF MoMA
19.02.2021 - 23.05.2021
The late Estate Broomberg & Chanarin
Fabra i Coats
Barcelona
29. February - 26. April, 2020
Biennale für Aktuelle Fotografie
Afterlife and Woe from Wit
19. November - 21. November, 2019
Loop Barcelona Fair 2019
The Bureaucracy of Angels
3. October - 2. November, 2019
Goodman Gallery
I’ve grown roses in the garden of mine
28. September - 12. October., 2019
Seen Fifteen
Baby It’s Cold Outside
27. September - 29, September, 2019
Whitechapel Gallery
Anniversary of a Revolution (parsed)
16. April - 8. June, 2019
Goodman Gallery
Chopped Liver Press Posters
31. January - 3. February, 2019
Synthesis Gallery
Woe from Wit
18 September - 19. January 2019
Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale 2018
Thessaloniki Museum of Photography
The f-zero Project
Spirit is a Bone
2018
28. September - 28. November, 2018
Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum
Third Beijing Photo Biennial
15. September - 24. November 2018
Maraya Art Centre
Between the Visible and the Invisible
12. September, 2018
Círculo de Bellas Artes
Bureaucracy of Angels & Rudiments
13. September - 10. November, 2018
Nogueras Blanchard
Bandage the knife not the wound
24. September - 30. September, 2018
Bandage the knife not the wound
Kettles Yard
Cambridge
20. February - 21. May, 2018
Divine Violence
Centre Georges Pompidou.
Paris
25. April - 26. May, 2018
Bandage the knife not the wound.
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg.
2. June - 14. July, 2018
Narrative Means
Goodman Gallery
15. December - 16. February, 2018
Not for Publication and Sale in Iran
Ag Galerie, Tehran.
Art On The Underground commission
Kings Cross St. Pancras Station. 2017
Trace Evidence
Lisson Gallery, Milan
2017
Gestures Of Resistance
Romantso Cultural Centre, Athens
2017
Don't Start With The Good Old Things But The Bad New Ones
Hasselblad Center, Göteborg
2016
Don't Start With The Good Old Things But The Bad New Ones
C/O Berlin
Rudiments
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
Art on the Underground
Stratford, London
2015
Rudiments
Lisson Gallery, London
2015
Every piece of dust on Freud's couch
The Freud Museum, London
2015
Rudiments
Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Broomberg & Chanarin
2015
Fig-2,
ICA Studio, London
2015
To Photograph the Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light
FOAM, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Divine Violence
Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
2014
Dodo
Jumex Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico
2014
Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
FotoMuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
2014
Divine Violence
MOSTYN, Llandudno, North Wales
2014
Scarti
TJ Boulting, London, UK
2013
To Photograph the Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light
Goodman Gallery Johannesburg
2012
To Photograph the Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light
Paradise Row, London
2012
Portable Monuments
Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam
2012
Poor Monuments
Paradise Row, Dusseldorf
2011
Dora Fobert
Paradise Row, London
2011
Broomberg & Chanarin
The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
People in Trouble Laughing Pushed to the Ground
Prestige of Terror
Townhouse Gallery, Cairo.
2010
Afterlife
Galeria Spafiska, Krakow, Poland.
2009
Ficciones
Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
2009
The Red House
Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland.
The Red House
2009
Fig.
Impressions Gallery, Bradford, UK.
2008
The Day Nobody Died
Paradise Row, London, UK.
2008
Fig.
FotoFreo, Freemantle, Australia.
2007
Ghetto
Photomonth Festival, Krakow, Poland.
2006
Fig.
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK.
2006
Facts, Fictions and Stories
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2006
Chicago
Q Arts, Derby Photography Festival, UK
2005
Defying Distance
National Portrait Gallery,London, UK.
2004
Mr. Mkhize's Portrait
The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK.
2003
Trusting The Truth
The Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa.
2000
Trust
The Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden.
2000
PAST GROUP SHOWS
2019
17. September, 2019
Tibilisi Photo Festival 2019
Migrants Odyssey in Europe
5. June - 1. September, 2019
Project Pressure
Meltdown
10. June - 10 August, 2019
13th Cairo Biennale
Palace of Arts - Guezira Ground Opera
20. June - 2. August, 2019
David Nolan New York
And What About Photography?
13. June - 13. July, 2019
P21 Gallery
Sink Without Trace
March - June, 2019
Travelling Gallery
Displaced
15. March - 19. May, 2019
EYE Filmmuseum
A Tale of Hidden Stories
13. February - 7. May, 2019
A4 Arts Foundation
If I Can’t Dance It’s Not My Revolution
9. April- 24. April, 2019
Onassis Cultural Centre
For Ever Images?
8. December - 3. March, 2019
2018
22. September - 4. November, 2018
Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV)
4th Istanbul Design Biennial
6. September - 31. October, 2018
Slought
Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography
30. September - 18. October, 2018
Thessaloniki Photo Biennial
You Refuse to Understand, You Don’t Say Anything, Watching Me Die
4. October - 7. October, 2018
Protein Studios
Breaking Barriers
21. September - 23. September, 2018
Unseen
When Records Melt
8. June - 23. September, 2018
Hamburger Kunsthalle
[Control] No Control. Triennial of Photography Hamburg.
6. July - 15. September, 2018
The Mosaic Rooms
What do you mean, here we are?
24. January - 08. April, 2018
Ryerson Image Centre
Collaboration. A Potential History of Photography.
15. October - 4. March, 2018
Bending The Frame
Preus Museum, Oslo
19. August - 25. February 2018
Faces
Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden
26. October - 28. January, 2018
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Brecht and Benjamin: Thinking in extremes.
26. August - 26. January, 2018
Forever Never Comes
Museo Archeologica e de'Arte Della Maremma, Grosseto.
19. September - 14. January, 2018
The Image Of War
Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
03. November - 08. January, 2018
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War.
2017
21. July - 31. December, 2017
Before the Event/After the Fact: Contemporary Perspectives on War
Yale University Art Centre, USA
04. August - 05. November, 2017
Yokohama Triennale
Yokohama, Japan
Documenta 14: Antidoron
EMST in the World, National Museum of Contemporary Art,
Athens collection, Fridericianum,
Germany, Kassel.
The Silences Between
Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
WATCHED! Surveillance, Art and Photography
C/O Berlin
WATCHED! Surveillance, Art and Photography
Hasselblad Foundation
SITUATIONS #44
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Very Now
London College of Communication, London, UK
Public, Private, Secret
ICP Museum, New York, USA
Breaking News
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Bending the Frame
Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
Centrum för Fotografi, Stockholm Sweden
Preus Museum, Oslo, Norway
New Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Show
Goodman Gallery Johannesburg, South Africa
Nothing But Blues Skies
Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
Where The Other Rests
Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick
Somerset House, London, UK
MedPhoto 2016
Rethymno, Crete, Greece
Nothing Happens, Twice: Artists Explore the Absurdity of Life
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, UK
This Is Your Replacement
Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany
British Art Show 8
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Norwich University of the Arts and Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich
John Hansard Gallery and Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton
British Art Show 8
Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
Conflict, Time, Photography
Tate Modern, London
Museum Folkwang, Essen
Shanghai Biennale
Power Station of Art, Shanghai
Edge of Silence
Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
23 July - 29 August 2015
Cross Section of a Revolution
Lisson Gallery, London
Other People's Memories
Goodman Gallery Johannesburg
This Is War!
Palazzo del Monte di Pietà, Padua
Surveillance.02
East Wing Gallery, Dubai
People in Trouble Laughing Pushed to the Ground
Belfast Exposed, Belfast, Northern Ireland
6th Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg
Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Ludwigshafen am Rhein
À fendre le cœur le plus dur
Centre Photographique d'ile de France
Nero su Bianco
American Academy in Rome, Italy
Memory Lab: Photography Challenges History
MUDAM, Luxembourg
Memory Lab: The Sentimental Turn, 6th European Month of Photography
Berlin, Germany
Drawing Biennial 2015
Drawing Room, London
Scripted Spaces
Martos Gallery, LA
The Social Bases of Abstract Art
Up/Down Gallery, Ramsgate, UK
SMALL
Frutta, Rome
Staging Disorder
London College of Communication, London
Ruin Lust
Tate Britain, London
Art Turning Left: How Values Changed Making 1789–2013
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
New Photography 2013
MoMA, New York
Curiosity: Art & the Pleasures of Knowing
Curated by Brian Dillon
de Appel, Amsterdam, The Exchange and Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
Tea with Nefertiti
State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich, IVAM, Valencia, Spain
Unstable Territory
Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
Divine Violence
Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Mystic Fire,
Paradise Row, London
CounterIntelligence
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, Canada
SCARTI
TJ Boulting,
London
C-16: A Group Exhibition
Goodman Gallery Cape Town, South Africa
Conflict: Art and War
Contemporary Art Society, London
Death of a Cameraman
Apexart, New York
Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography
Switzerland
UK Photography Now: The Constructed View
Dong Gang International Photography Festival 2013,
Dong Gang Museum of Photography, Yeongwol, South Korea
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2013
The Photographers' Gallery, London
LagosPhoto 2013: The Megacity and the Non-City Art21, Victoria Island, Lagos
Open Heart Surgery
The Moving Museum, The Strand, London
Art Turning Left: How Values Changed Making 1789–2013
Tate Liverpool, UK
Curiosity: Art & the Pleasures of Knowing
Turner Contemporary, Margate, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, de Appel, Amsterdam
Northern Ireland: 30 Years of Photography
Belfast Exposed and The MAC, Belfast
Contact Photography Festival
TPW, Toronto, Canada
Tea with Nefertiti Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France; IVAM, Valencia, Spain
Structures
Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
Spring Show
Goodman Gallery Cape Town
Shifting Gazes
Guest Projects, London
2012
Moments of Reprieve: Representing Loss in Contemporary Photography
Paradise Row at The David Roberts Art Foundation
Liquid Archive
Monash University Museum of Art
BredaPhoto - Homo Empathicus
Breda's Museum, The Netherlands
Revive the Visual, Auditory, and Tactile Senses
The JJ-W Hotel, Taiwan
In Appropriation
Houston Center for Photography, Houston
Peripheral Views: States of America
Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago
Gwangju Biennale
Korea
F/STOP
Photography Festival Leipzig
A Refusal of Images
A Space Gallery, Toronto
Lines of Control
Cornell University’s Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Critical Dictionary
WORK Gallery, London
Prima Materia
Belfast Exposed Gallery, Belfast
Drawing Show
Paradise Row, London
Advance/ ... Notice
Goodman Gallery Johannesburg, South Africa
Hijacked III: Contemporary Photography from Australia and the UK
Australian Centre For Photography
Hijacked III: Contemporary Photography from Australia and the UK
Griffith University Art Gallery
Hijacked III: Contemporary Photography from Australia and the UK
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth and QUAD Gallery in Derby, UK
Out of focus: Photography
Saatchi Gallery, London
Of the Ordinary
The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia
Machines for Living
Yaffo 23, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
Lines of Control
Cornell University’s Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
2011
Moments of Reprieve: Representing Loss in Contemporary Photography
Tallinn Art Hall Gallery
Decisive Moments: Uncertain Times
Gallery TPW, Toronto
Collatoral Damage
CUC Centre, Liverpool
Seeing is Believing
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Summer Show
Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam
Eat Me
Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
Alias
Krakow PhotoMonth
Light II
Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam
History Painting Now
Art Sensus, UK
All That Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism
Quad, UK
Antiphotojournalism
FOAM photography Museum, Amsterdam.
Serious Games
Wissenschaftsstadt Darmstadt, Germany.
Anti-Photography
Focal Point and Beecroft gallery, UK.
2010
Antiphotojournalism
La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, Spain.
Chicago
Home Works V, Beirut Arts Center, Lebanon.
Bringing the War Home
Impressions Gallery, Bradford, UK.
Afghanistan
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK.
Le Garage
International Photography Festival of Arles, France.
The Marks We Make
The Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
Gongoozler
Grand Union, Birmingham, UK.
2009
Manipulating Reality
Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy.
Crisis: Exercises in State of Emergency
Villa Ichon, Bremen, Germany.
Prune: Abstracting Reality
Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography
Aperture Foundation, New York, USA.
Prospekt
Gammel Holtegaard Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark.
The Past in the Present – Questioning History
Dutch Photomuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Embedded Art
Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany.
La Terra et Nous
La Cite des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris, France.
2008
The Sublime Image of Destruction
The Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton, UK.
La Terra et Nous
La Cite des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris, France.
The Photographic Portrait in the 20th Century
Fondazione Ragghainti, Lucca, Italy.
Echo Wanted
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France.
Mini-Israel and Bambi
Screening at The Gate Cinema, London, UK.
East Wing VIII
The Courtauld Institute, London, UK.
Sleeping and Dreaming
The Wellcome Trust, London, UK.
2007
Block 180
The Hospital, London, UK.
Zelda Rubinstein, A Group Show
Paradise Row, London, UK.
On the Wall
Aperture Foundation, NY, USA.
2006
Ecotopia: the Second ICP Triennal of Photography and Video
NY, USA.
Global Cities: the 10th International Biennale of Architecture
Venice, Italy.
1+1=3, Collaboration in Recent British Portraiture
Freemantle Arts Centre, Australia.
The Face of Madness
Palazzo Magnani, Italy
New Photographers 2006
Museum voor Fotografie, Belgium.
Unsettled
Durban Museum, South Africa.
2005
Unsettled
Reykjavik Museum of Photography, Iceland
Unsettled
The National Museum of Photography, Denmark
Unsettled
Kristanstads Konsthall, Sweden
Ghetto
Aranjuez, Photo Espana, Spain
2004
History in the Making
Circulo de Bellas Artes, PhotoEspaña, Spain.
2003
Stepping in and out: Contemporary Documentary Photography
The Victoria & Albert Museum, UK.
2002
It's Wrong To wish On Space Hardware
Gardener Art Center, Brighton University, UK
2001
In A Lonely Place
The National Museum Of Photography, Film and Television, UK.
2001