Short Biography
Born in Kiel, Germany, in 1967, I moved from Hamburg to Munich nearly 30 years ago after completing my law degree. Munich has been my home and workplace ever since.
In 2019, I chose to give photography more space in my life. After more than 20 years in the media industry, this shift brought with it ever-new perspectives, in-between spaces, transitions, and the realization that the contradictory can also be embraced as it comes.
Through my photography, I want to give feelings faces and offer a stage to inner actors. My work invites viewers to look more deeply behind their own façades. Reflections, blurriness, the interplay of different layers, and symmetry are recurring stylistic elements in my photographic exploration of both the outside world and my inner self. I pay particular attention to exploring the relationship between humans and nature, from which I derive an immanent unconscious longing that guides human behavior in many respects.
I am a member of the BBK, the Professional Association of Visual Artists in Munich and Upper Bavaria.
Since summer 2024, I have been represented on a project basis by Munich gallerist Karoline Lau for Timeless Modernism.
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