About Me
I was born in Kiel in 1967. Almost 30 years ago, after completing my law studies in Hamburg, I moved to Munich, where I still live and work today. In 2019, I decided to give photography more the space in my life. After over 20 years in the media industry, this is always associated with new perspectives, in-between spaces, transitions and the realisation that we can also embrace contradictory things.
With my photography, I give feelings faces and inner actors a stage. My work invites you to take a deeper look behind your own facades. Reflections, blurring, playing with different levels and symmetry are recurring stylistic devices in the photographic observation of my surroundings. I pay particular attention to exploring the relationship between humans and nature, from which I derive an immanent unconscious longing that guides our behaviour in many respects.
Member of the Berufsverband Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler München und Oberbayern e.V. (Professional Association of Visual Artists Munich and Upper Bavaria).
Gallery Representation:
Gallery Lau, Munich (karoline@gallery-lau.com)
Exhibitions
2025
Small Pieces, Big Emotions - 25 Artists, two showrooms, countless emotions; Gallery Lau Munich / Germany (group exhibition)
2024
Wir vom Mittleren Ring - Eine Kollaboration von Fotografie und Abstraktion; collaborative art exhibition with urban artist Sascha Hausmann, KULTUR NEUHAUSEN, Munich / Germany
Schau Dich an, wie schön Du bist.; solo show at luxury department store Oberpollinger, Munich / Germany (curated by Dr. Barbara Fischer)
it is all there; collective art exhibition with Master goldsmith and glass artist Alessandra Piazza, jewelry atelier A. Piazza, Munich / Germany (presented by Gallery Lau)
2023
Portraits Beyond Faces; PH 21 Gallery Budapest / Hungary (curated group exhibition)
ZEITKAPSEL; art project in public space in Munich-Obergiesing / Germany
(video presentation of district-related photo works on a display of a telephone booth)
Fotografie im Wandel; Stadthausgalerie, Sonthofen / Germany
(group exhibition in a city-run gallery, curated by Uta Römer)
2022
Olaf Wiehler x Occhio; solo show at Occhio flagship store, Munich / Germany
DesignWalk.Art; Nuremberg / Germany
(in cooperation with Bernheimer Contemporary and NÜRNBERGER SYMPHONIKERN)
FROM A DISTANCE; solo show at Schützdeller Architects, Munich / Germany
(curated and initiated by Michael Langen, Langen Foundation)
2021
DesignWalk.Art; München
(in cooperation with Bernheimer Contemporary, LEICA Store Munich and BONHAMS Germany)
2020
photoMÜNCHEN (artistic group show)
Selected publications
OLAF WIEHLER – Meet an Artist | Podcast auf Spotify
Weekend Portfolio: Olaf Wiehler — Musée Magazine (museemagazine.com)
Curated Art Fairs
2021 - 2024 ARTMUC, Munich / Germany
2021 - 2023 INCorporating art fair, Hamburg / Germany
2023 supermART Nuremberg / Germany