
Triebe
Solo Show
24 July–30 October 2021
Zuoz
In her artistic practice, Andrea Büttner investigates the value systems and conventions that frame aesthetic experience and also explores the conditions of production, exhibition and reception of art. Engaging with themes such as shame and embarrassment, vulnerability, dignity and poverty, she opens spaces of reflection – for example about the mutual contingency of moments of revelation and concealment in the public presentation of works of art, the status of artisanship and the respective roles of artist and recipients.
Büttner’s work addresses subjective experience and confronts it with a dense web of art historical and cultural associations. She references traditional motifs of Christian iconography as well as contemporary discourses and recent art historical positions. For example, she engages intensively with Christian monastic culture and with Arte Povera, which she links through the concept of poverty.
Büttner’s work encompasses prints, drawings, painting and reverse glass painting, sculpture, textiles, installation, photography, video and performance – a remarkable variety of media and materials. The juxtaposition of the individual imprint of artisanship with works that deemphasise the authorship of the artist is characteristic for her approach.
Andrea Büttner was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2017 and honoured with several international awards. She studied visual arts at the Universität der Künste in Berlin as well as philosophy and art history at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and at Humboldt-Universität Berlin. In 2008 she was awarded her PhD from the Royal College of Art for her dissertation Perspectives on Shame and Art. Since 2017 Büttner is professor for Art in Contemporary Context at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. Her work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, recently for example at Kunstverein München, Bergen Kunsthall, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Hammer Museum Los Angeles, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Museum Ludwig Cologne, MMK Frankfurt am Main, Walker Art Center Minneapolis. She participated at Documenta 13 in Kassel and Kabul, at the 33rd and 29th São Paulo Biennale and at the British Art Show 8. Her work is represented in important collections including the Tate in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Lenbachhaus in Munich, the Hamburger Kunsthalle or the Reina Sofia in Madrid.
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143 asparagus carved from wood on table
73 × 200 × 110 cm
AB/S 6
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Ceramic, 9 parts on table
80 × 281 × 198 cm
AB/S 5
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woodcut on paper
each 217 × 116.5 cm (framed)
Edition 1/3
AB/D 134
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woodcut on paper
128.5 × 157 cm (framed)
Edition of 3
AB/D 142
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Woodcut on paper
197 × 122 cm (framed)
AB/D 135
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woodcut on paper
218 × 124 cm (framed)
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woodcut on paper
217.5 × 124 cm (framed)
AB/D 151
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Etching
74.5 × 104.5 cm (framed)
Edition 4/5
AB/D 123
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Etching
74.5 × 104.5 cm (framed)
Edition 4/5
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Etching
74.5 × 104.5 cm (framed)
Edition 4/5
11/52
woodcut on paper
107 × 199 cm (framed)
107 × 179 cm (framed)
AB/D 93
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woodcut on paper
97 × 175 cm
AB/D 69
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woodcut on paper
180 × 120 each sheet
180 × 228 cm overall
AB/D 66
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woodcut
130 × 214 cm
AB/D 2
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etching print on paper
each 220 × 121 (framed)
AB/D 37, AB/D 38
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etching print on paper
195 × 112 cm
AB/D 37
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woodcut on paper
136 × 99 cm
AB/D 65
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woodcut on paper
174 × 125 cm
AB/D 86
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woodcut on paper
150 × 128 cm
AB/D 79
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woodcut on paper
67 × 49 cm (framed)
AB/D 110
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woodcut on paper
132.5 × 186.5 cm (framed)
AB/D 146
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woodcut on paper
59 × 78.5 cm
AB/D 98
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gesso and oil on cardstock, nine parts
each 20 × 26 × 0.2 cm
61 × 79 × 2.3 cm (framed)
AB/P 19
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gesso and oil on cardstock, nine parts
each 20 × 26 × 0.2 cm
61 × 79 × 2.3 cm (framed)
AB/P 22
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woodcut on paper
177.5 × 146 cm (framed)
AB/D 57
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woodcut print on paper,
133.5 × 182 cm (framed)
AB/D 33
reverse glass painting
48 × 36 × 0.2 cm
AB/P 5
reverse glass painting
58 × 46 × 0.2 cm
AB/P 12
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reverse glass painting
48 × 36 × 0.2 cm
AB/P 5
reverse glass painting
58 × 46 × 0.2 cm
AB/P 12
reverse glass painting
58 × 46 × 0.2 cm
AB/P 13
reverse glass painting
58 × 46 × 0.2 cm
AB/P 14
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glass painting on coloured mouthblown glass
55 × 45 × 0.2 cm
AB/P 4
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glass painting on coloured mouthblown glass
56.5 × 44.1 × 0.2 cm
AB/P 7
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reverse glass painting
58 × 46 × 0.2 cm
AB/P 12
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reverse glass painting
50 × 40 × 0.2 cm
AB/P 26
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reverse glass painting
50 × 40 × 0.2 cm
AB/P 27
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reverse glass painting
50 × 40 × 0.2 cm
AB/P 30
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reverse glass painting
50 × 40 × 0.2 cm
AB/P 32
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double-channel video 32:00 Min
Edition 3/6
AB/V 4
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double-channel video 32:00 Min
Edition 3/6
AB/V 4
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woodcut on paper
155 × 140 cm
AB/D 87
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glass painting
44.6 × 41.4 cm each glass
133.8 × 82.8 overall
AB/P 18
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160 analogue 35 mm slides
Edition 2/2
AB/V 11
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160 analogue 35 mm slides
Edition 2/2
AB/V 11
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glass painting
44.6 × 41.4 cm each glass
133.8 × 82.8 cm overall
AB/P 16
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handwoven fabric, wood, plastic crates
102 × 200 × 40.8 cm
AB/S 1
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handwoven fabric, wood, plastic crates
102 × 200 × 40.8 cm
AB/S 2
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ink on paper
42 × 59 cm
AB/D 103
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bronze, 46 × 120 × 74 cm
AB/S 3
woodcut print on paper
133.5 × 182 cm (framed)
AB/D 33
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c-type print
each 63.5 × 82 cm (framed)
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C-type print
40 × 60 cm
AB/F 2
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C-type print
40 × 60 cm
AB/F 7
49/52
160 analogue 35 mm slides
AB/V 12
50/52
160 analogue 35 mm slides
AB/V 12
51/52
stretched fabric
95 × 75 cm each
AB/P 17
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woodcut on paper
120.5 × 148 cm
AB/D 47
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28.01.2023-28.01.2024
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18.12.2022-02.04.2023
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