Oda Jaune (born Michaela Danowska, Michaela Danovska, bg, Михаела Дановска; 13 November 1979 in
Sofia
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,
Bulgaria
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) is a Bulgarian painter.
From 1998 to 2003, she studied in the class of
Jörg Immendorff
Jörg Immendorff (14 June 1945 – 28 May 2007) was a German painter, sculptor, stage designer and art professor. He was a member of the art movement ''Neue Wilde''.
Early life and education
Immendorff was born in Bleckede, Lower Saxony, n ...
Jaune married in July 2000 her professor Jörg Immendorff and had a daughter on 13 August 2001. It was her husband Immendorff who invented the pseudonym Oda Jaune.
La Maison Rouge
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, Paris and me Collectors room, Berlin (2011). In 2018, the National Art Gallery in Sofia, Bulgaria, held a major retrospective of her work, Heartland, with a catalogue published in September 2019 by
Hatje Cantz
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Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2019
Hands, Seen, Antwerpen, Belgium
Beyond Gravity, Galerie Templon, Paris, France
2018
Heartland, National Gallery of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
2017
Paintings and Sculptures, Galerie Daniel Templon, Brussels, Belgium
2016
Blue Skies, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
2015
Masks, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
2011
Confrontation Félicien Rops - Oda Jaune, Musée Félicien Rops, Namur, Belgium
2010
Once in a Blue Moon, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
2009
May You See Rainbows, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
2007
Fondazione Mudima, Milan, Italy
2004
Kunsthalle Koblenz, Koblenz, Germany
Publications
* Oda Jaune, ''Oda Jaune'', Kunsthalle Koblenz, Solo exhibition catalogue, April 2004
* Oda Jaune, ''Paintings'', Galerie Davide Di Maggio Berlin, essay by Gesine Borcherdt, Solo exhibition catalogue, September 2006
* Oda Jaune, ''Il mistero buffo della pittura'', Fondazione Mudima Milano, essay by Achille Bonito Oliva, Solo exhibition catalogue, May 2007
* ''The Bearable Lightness of Being - The Metaphor of the Space'', La Biennale di Venezia, 11. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, September 2008
* Oda Jaune, ''May You See Rainbows'', Galerie Daniel Templon, essay by Catherine Millet, Solo exhibition catalogue, February 2009
* Oda Jaune, ''First Water'', 100 watercolors,