Oliver Varenne - Art Moderne & Contemporain, is located in Geneva in front of MAMCO. Come visit us at 37-39 rue des Bains. We are open Mon-Fri: 10am-6pm and Saturday by appointment.
We also offer the services of art acquisition, due diligence, appraisal and logistics for collection management for individuals, collectors and institutions.
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TEAM
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Olivier Varenne
Alongside founding and running Olivier Varenne, Olivier is the artistic director of the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), in Tasmania. He has been working for the MONA since 2006, responsible for the acquisition... -
Guillaume Levy-Lambert
Guillaume joined Olivier Varenne in 2019 to co-lead special projects with Olivier under Monad Contemporary SA. A serial reinventor, his first career was in financial services with BNP Paribas Asset... -
Anna Grundberg
Anna has been Olivier Varenne's in-house head of research and art historian since 2018. She has 20 years’ experience in the art world as an advisor and researcher, working for... -
Stéphanie Hemar
Stéphanie is the gallery manager at Olivier Varenne. She began her richly varied career with a renowned Swiss art dealer, where she managed client relations, daily operations, and auction-related projects....
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Publications
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Théâtre du Monde
La Maison Rouge, Paris (Assistant curator Olivier Varenne to Jean-Hubert Martin)Théâtre du Monde contains an array of objects reflecting some 4,000 years of human creativity, creating a dialogue between works across different cultures, art styles and times Please contact Olivier... -
Monanism
MONA, Hobart (Co-curator Olivier Varenne)Highlights of the collection at MONA Please contact Olivier Varenne or the MONA team for catalogue information -
On the Origin of Art
Mona, Hobart (curated by Brian Boyd, Mark Changizi, Geoffrey Miller and Steven Pinker), (co-curated by David Walsh and Mona team) -
Marina Abramović, Private Archeology
MONA, Hobart (Co-curator Olivier Varenne)First major exhibition of Marina Abramović in Australia -
The Red Queen
MONA, Hobart (Co-curator Olivier Varenne)An exhibition that continues MONA’s inquiry into the messy machinery of human nature by asking the rather big question: why do humans make art? -
I Look to You and I See Nothing
Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE (Concept: Olivier Varenne; Co-curator Olivier Varenne with Nicole Durling)An exhibition about mental sculptures created by the imagination and phenomena -
Chiharu Shiota, In Silence
Detached, Hobart (Curator Olivier Varenne)New works by the Japanese artist including an installation, drawing and video Please contact Olivier Varenne or the MONA team for catalogue information -
on&on
Casa Encendida Museum, Madrid (Co-curator Olivier Varenne with Flora Fairbairn)An exhibition about ephemeral art, with works that change daily -
3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary - Art Against Exclusion
Garage CCC (Assistant curator Olivier Varenne to Jean-Hubert Martin)An exhibition which includes 80 contemporary international and Russian artists including several new productions -
Wim Delvoye
MONA, Hobart (Curator Olivier Varenne)A retrospective of work by the Belgian artist Please contact Olivier Varenne or the MONA team for catalogue information -
Christoph Buchel, Land of David - Poynduk: The Promised Mall
MONA (Co-curator Olivier Varenne with Nicole Durling and Jarrod Rawlins)Christoph Büchel’s Mona project has given the museum the veneer of a shopping centre. Behind this veneer are layers exploring 'the strange, corrupt world of 20th century utopias.' Please contact... -
Cameron Robbins, Field Lines
MONA, Hobart (Co-curator Olivier Varenne)First Retrospective Exhibition -
Beam in Thine Own Eye
MAC1, Hobart (concept: Olivier Varenne; co-curator with Nicole Durling)An exhibition about visual perception, and how individuals encounter objects and phenomena in space and subsequently create their own particular reality -
Ana Prvacki, Ananatural
MONA FOMA festival, Hobart (Curator Olivier Varenne)A catalogue of performances -
MONA: Gilbert & George Catalogue
Authors & contributors: Michael Bracewell, David Walsh, Olivier VarennePublished on the occasion of the artists' first Australasian retrospective, here at Mona, this catalogue showcases pictures from 1970 to 2014, and obliges a view of the modern world through...
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