Andrea Büttner
Born 1972, Stuttgart (DE)
Lives and works in Berlin
Professor of Fine Art at the Kunsthochschule Kassel (DE)
Awards
2021
The Evens Arts Prize 2021, Special Mention
2017
shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2017
Solo exhibitions
2023
No Fear, No Shame, No Confusion, K21, Düsseldorf (DE)
Andrea Büttner, Galerie Tschudi, Zurich
Andrea Büttner. The Heart of Relations, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel (CH)
2022
Painted Ceiling and Floor, Jan Mot, Brussels
Shepherds and Kings, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein at the Johanniterkirche, Feldkirch (AT)
Asparagus Harvest, Jan Mot, Brussels
2021
Triebe (with Callum Innes), Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz (CH)
Grids, Vases, and Plant Beds, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles (USA)
Andrea Büttner, Contemporary Art Society’s temporary exhibition space, 16 Mount Street, London
2020
Allan Kaprow at Jupiter Artland, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh (UK)
Karmel Dachau, Jan Mot, Brussels
2019
What is so terrible about craft?, Kunstverein München (DE)
The Heart of Relations, Hollybush Gardens, London
Steine, Moose und Zelte, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz (CH)
Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich (DE)
2018
Shepherds and Kings, Bergen Kunstall, Bergen (NO)
Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium (duo with Manon de Boer)
Hollybush Gardens, London
2017
Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz (CH)
Hammer Projects: Andrea Büttner, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (USA)
Andrea Büttner «Gesamtzusammenhang» (with David Raymond Conroy and Friedensbibliothek/Antikriegsmuseum Berlin), Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen (CH)
2016
Musée régional d'art contemporain Languedoc Roussillon Midi Pyrénées, Sérignan (FR)
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles (USA)
Looking at...: Andrea Büttner, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (DE)
Beggars and iPhones, Kunsthalle Wien (AU)
2015
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (USA)
Moos/Moss, Kestle Barton, Helford (UK)
2014
Andrea Büttner, Hollybush Gardens, London
Andrea Büttner. 2, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (DE)
Spotlight: Andrea Büttner, Tate Britain, London
Piano Destructions, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff (CA)
Andrea Büttner: Hidden Marriage, National Museum Cardiff, Wales
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (IR)
2013
Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich (DE)
Andrea Büttner – Little Sisters: Lunapark Ostia, Tramway, Glasgow (UK)
MK Gallery, Milton Keynes (UK)
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (DE)
2012
International Project Space, Birmingham (UK)
Moos/Moss, Hollybush Gardens, London
2011
The Poverty of Riches, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia (IT)
Three New Works, Artpace, San Antonio (USA)
Our Colours are the Colours of the Marketplace, Art Statements, Art Basel (with Hollybush Gardens, London), Basel (CH)
2009
Croy Nielsen, Berlin (DE)
2008
Nought to Sixty – Andrea Büttner, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
It’s so wonderful to be a woman and an artist in the 21st century, Crystal Palace, Stockholm
Hollybush Gardens, London
2007
On the spot #1 – Andrea Büttner, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (DE)
Selected group exhibitions
2024
THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY, Anozero – Bienal de Coimbra, Coimbra (PT) (upcoming)
Nos géantes, Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image Imprimée, La Louvière (BE)
2023
IMMANUEL KANT: Unresolved Issues, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (DL)
The Irreplaceable Human, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (DK)
In the Garden: Pieces from the Isabel and Agustin Coppel Collection, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO), Monterrey (MX)
Humans and Demons, steirischer herbst festival, Graz (AT)
Why I Collect, Blank Canvas, George Town
An excessive ellipse, a sort of distribution, Hollybush Gardens, London
Fruits of Labour, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (BE)
Constellations, Mrac Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée, Sérignan (FR)
Saint Francis of Assisi, The National Gallery, London
New Things, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool (UK)
Aimless. Confronting Imago Mundi, Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani de Palma, Palma (ES)
Le Retour, Mrac Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée, Sérignan (FR)
2022
Anidar en el gesto: unas estanterías de Alberto, Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia, Cerezales del Condado (ES)
Acid Lab, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel (CH)
The Hanging Gardens of Oberlandstrasse, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Halle an der Saale (DE)
Reading a Wave, Palomar, Pognana Lario (IT)
Line Up, Galerie Tschudi, Zurich (CH)
YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, Gropius Bau, Berlin
The Remains of 100 days..., Lenbachhaus, Munich (DE)
FLUXUS SEX TIES / Hier spielt die Musik, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden (DE)
Radical landscapes, Tate Liverpool (UK)
Blindsight, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (BE)
Nouvelle exposition des collections, Mrac Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée, Sérignan (FR)
2021
Bodies in Space, MIRROR, Plymouth (UK)
Communicating vessels. Collection 1881-2021 - Exodus and Communal Life, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (permanent collection)
Donation Outset (The KW Production Series), Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (DE) (permanent collection)
The Botanical Revolution, Centraal Museum, Utrecht (NL)
FOOD FIELD ASSEMBLIES - Part I: Bite the hand that feeds you, Dietikon Projektraum, Dietikon (CH)
The Displacement Effect, Capitain Petzel, Berlin (DE)
STUDIO BERLIN, Fondation Boros and Berghain, Berlin (DE)
BXL x EMERGENT, Emergent, Veurne (BE)
The Botanical Revolution, Centraal Museum, Utrecht (NL)
The Roaring Twenties, Guggenheim, Bilbao (ES)
John Dewey, Who?, New Presentation of the Collection of Contemporary Art, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (DE)
2020
The Botanical Mind, Camden Art Centre, London
Am Ende diese Arbeit, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (DE)
Amish Quilts Meet Modern Art, Staatliches Textil- und Industriemuseum Augsburg (DE)
Parliament of Plants, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
Smoke and Mirrors, Kunsthaus Zürich (CH)
2019
Tell me about yesterday tomorrow, NS-Dokumentationszen-trums München, Munich (DE)
On Vulnerability and Doubt, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (AU)
KölnSkulptur #9, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne (DE)
Drawing Biennial 2019, Drawing Room, London
2018
Chance Encounters IV, Loewe Projects at Loewe Foundation, curated by Andrew Bonacina, Miami (USA)
REFLECTION about – about REFLECTION, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz (CH)
TOUCH (AT), nGbK, Berlin (DE)
New Materialism, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
Cloudbusters: Intensity vs. Intention, 17th Tallinn Print Triennial, EKKM; Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn
Affective Affinities, 33rd Bienal de São Paulo, curated by Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, various venues, São Paulo (BR)
Don Quixote, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Stories of Almost Everyone, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (USA)
Fillette, curated by Mai-Thu Perret and Fabrice Stroun, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich (CH)
2017
Turner Prize exhibition, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull (UK)
La Vie simple – Simplement la vie, Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, Arles (FR)
Indexmaker, Le 19 Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain, Montbéliard (FR)
KölnSkulptur #9, Stiftung Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne Resonanzen. 40 Jahre Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Kunststiftung Baden Württemberg, Stuttgart (DE)
Please fasten your seat belt as we are experiencing some turbulence, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai (CN)
An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (USA)
WAGSTAFF’S, MOSTYN, Llandadno, Wales (UK)
Four Saints in Three Acts, Depaul Art Museum, Chicago (USA)
2016
Broken White, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL)
Fellbach Triennial of Small-scale Sculpture: Food - Ecologies of the Everyday, Fellbach (DE)
Life of Forms, Mary Boone Gallery, New York (USA)
British Art Show 8, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland (UK)
The Practice of Theories, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (UK)
2015
A Prosu(u)mer Reader, Contemporary Art Museum Estonia, Tallinn
The Problem of God, K21, Düsseldorf (DE)
Ljubljana 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana
Andrea Büttner, Brit Meyer, Piper Keys, London
Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915 – 2015, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2014
Boom She Boom. Works from the MMK Collection, MMK 2, Frankfurt (DE)
Glass Puzzle: Uri Aran, Andrea Büttner, Joan Jonas, Yorgos Sapountzis, and Mary Simpson, Simone Subal Gallery, New York (USA)
Before Normal: Concept after Concept, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde (DK)
The Story Behind, Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona (ES)
Proof It!, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (DE)
New Habits, Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht (NL)
You Don’t Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows, Hollybush Gardens, London
2013
No fear, No shame, No confusion, Triangle France, Marseille (FR)
Die Form ist uns Geheimnis, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn (DE)
Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict, VeneKalsen/Werner, Berlin (DE)
Etwas Eigenes, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich (DE)
Vergüenza (Shame), La Casa Encendida, Madrid (ES)
Andrea Büttner / Joëlle de la Casinière / Gareth Moore, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver (CA)
The Assistants, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles (USA)
2012
Documenta 13, Kassel (DE), Kabul
Soundworks, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Brannon, Büttner, Kierulf, Kierulf, Kilpper, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (NO)
Reversibility, curated by Pierre Bal-Blanc, Peep-Hole, Milan (IT)
2011
When is a Human Being a Woman?, Hollybush Gardens, London
Independent Curators International presents FAX and Project 35, South London Gallery, London
Heimatkunde: 30 Künstler blicken auf Deutschland, Jewish Museum Berlin, Berlin
If It’s Part Broke, Half Fix It, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
Qui admirez-vous?, La Box, Bourges (FR)
2010
An Affirmative Attitude, Hollybush Gardens, London
There is always a cup of sea to sail in, 29th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo (BR)
Unto this Last, Raven Row, London
Les compétences invisibles 1/3, Maison Populaire, Centre d’art Mira Phalaina, Montreuil (FR)
2009
The young people visiting our ruins see nothing but a style (curated by FormContent, London), GAM Galleria Civica D’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin (IT)
East International (selected by Art & Language and Raster), Norwich (UK)
2008
No one needs the needy, Galerie Sandra Buergel, Berlin
Reversibility, The Fair Gallery (a project by Hollybush Gardens, GB Agency, Jan Mot, Raster; curated by Pierre Bal-Blanc, CAC Bretigny), Frieze Art Fair, London
Soft Shields of Pleasure, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen
Raster: L'artista della rinuncia 2: Transfert, Instituto Polacco di Roma, Rome
Artist in Resignation, Raster, Warsaw
2007
Overtake – The Reinterpretation of Modern Art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork (IR)
Pensée sauvage – On Freedom, Frankfurter Kunstverein (DE), Ursula BlickleStiftung, Kraichtal (DE)
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, Hollybush Gardens, London
Evangelisch Katholisch VII Finale, Montgomery, Berlin
2006
Anxiety of Influence, New Wight Biennial, UCLA, Los Angeles (USA)
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Coach Shed, Liverpool, UK; Club Row, London, UK
Happy Believers, 7, Werkleitz Biennale, Halle (DE)
2005
Arbeiten auf Papier, Villa Grisebach Gallery, Berlin
Research in Progress, Cafe Gallery Projects, London
2004
In erster Linie – 21 Künstlerinnen und das Medium Zeichnung, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (DE)
Grants and Awards
2017
Shortlisted for the Turner Prize, Hull, UK
Fellowship with foundation of Murano glassblowers, Venice, Italy
2012
1822-Kunstpreis, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
2011
Artpace, San Antonio (USA)
2010
Max Mara Art Prize for Women in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery, London
American Academy, Rome
2009
Maria Sibylla Merian-Preis, Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Hessen (DE)
2005
British Institution Award, London
Education
2010
PhD, Royal College of Art, London
2003
Magister, Art History and Philosophy, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin
2000
Meisterschülerin, Berlin University of the Arts, Berlin
Public Collections
Centre national des arts plastiques (FR)
Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia (IT)
Deutsche Bundesbank Art Collection, Frankfurt (DE)
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (DE)
Hamburger Kunsthalle (DE)
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (USA)
Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf (DE)
Kunsthaus Zürich (CH)
Kunstmuseum Bonn (DE)
Lenbachhaus, Munich (DE)
Monsoon Art Collection, London
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (DE)
Musée regional d’art contemporain Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée, Sérignan (FR)
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (ES)
Museum Ludwig, Cologne (DE)
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, Kassel (DE)
National Museum Cardiff, Wales (UK)
Reina Sofia, Madrid (ES)
Rubell Family Collection, Miami (USA)
Sammlung Zeitgenössicher Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn (DE)
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (DE)
Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg (DE)
Tate, London
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York (USA)
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (USA)
Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff (CA)