André Butzer

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André Butzer (* 1973 in Stuttgart ) is a German visual artist .

life and work

Butzer studied for a short time at the Merz Academy in Stuttgart before becoming a member of the “Akademie Isotrop” group in Hamburg from 1996 to 2000. He became known through his pictures, which he himself called "Science Fiction Expressionism ". They are divided into different genres, so he produces “Friedens-Siemense”, “Schande-Menschen”, completely monochrome or extreme, abstract images that resemble colored visions of lost technical utopias.

He names Walt Disney , Edvard Munch , Henri Matisse , Friedrich Hölderlin and Henry Ford as his role models . In public he also appeared under the names N-Hölderlin, Henry Butzer and Calvin Cohn.

Butzer's utopian, artistic design is located in the fictional place “Nasaheim” (“N”), a kind of pilgrimage site in space, where “the residents look at the disused extermination machines and all who arrive there are made innocent”. However, his pictures in no way seem to be implementations of narrative structures ; they rather produce content, that is, they bring something to language that could not be said beforehand. The artist often produces in series and instrumentalizes the means of repetition as an "amoral method of representation". Some of the pictures can be assigned to the genre of the history picture , also through the depiction of history as a drama of individual characters. He usually uses a very impasto application of paint, paints in several layers or achieves lighter, cartoon-like results by using prima painting .

Solo exhibitions

  • 2018: IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen
  • 2016: Neue Galerie, Gladbeck; Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo-Roppong; Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo-Shinonome
  • 2015/2016: Kunstverein Reutlingen
  • 2015: Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
  • 2011: Kunsthistorisches Museum and CAC Contemporary Art Club at Theseustempel, Vienna; André Butzer. Probably the best abstract painter in the world , Kestnergesellschaft , Hanover
  • 2009: Many dead in their homeland: Fanta, Sprite, UHT milk, Micky and Donald! Paintings 1999–2009 , Kunsthalle Nürnberg
  • 2005: Kunstverein Ulm
  • 2004: The end of the peace Siemens human dream , Kunstverein Heilbronn

Group exhibition

  • 2019: Contemporary German Art from the Adam Collection , Dům umění - House of Art, Ostrava. Hymn to Youth , Märkisches Museum, Witten
  • 2018: Guest performance - The Grässlin and Wiesenauer Collections in Dialog , Grässlin Collection - Spaces for Art, St. Georgen
  • 2017: Abstract Painting Now! , Kunsthalle Krems, Krems. Peter Saul , Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg. Hope and Hazard: A Comedy of Eros , Hall Art Foundation, Vermont.
  • 2016: Viehof Collection - International Contemporary Art , Deichtorhallen, Hamburg. We're looking for the distance. Travel pictures , Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin
  • 2015: Avatar and Atavism , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
  • 2014: Ordinary Freaks. Coolness in Pop Culture , Hall for Art and Media, Graz. Where is here? # 1: Painting and the Present , Reutlingen Art Association. Do not be afraid! Determination of the field at a given time: Painting after 2000 , Neue Galerie Gladbeck
  • 2013: Painting forever! , KW artworks, Berlin. Bienal Internacional de Curitiba , Curitiba. When wishes come true , Kunsthalle Emden. Moca's Permanent Collection. A Selection of Recent Acquisitions , Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • 2012: A woman, a tree, a cow , Museum for Concrete Art, Ingolstadt / Kunstraum Munich. Circus Wols , Weserburg Museum, Bremen
  • 2011: Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art from Germany , Saatchi Gallery, London. Abstract Confusion , Kunstverein Ulm / Neue Galerie Gladbeck / Kunsthalle Erfurt
  • 2010: Se Não Neste Tempo - Pintura Alemã Contemporânea: 1989–2010 , Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo. Permanent Trouble - Current Art from the Kopp Collection , KOG Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg
  • 2009: Extended. Landesbank Baden-Württemberg Collection , Museum of New Art, Karlsruhe
  • 2008: Bad Painting - good art , MUMOK, Vienna. Familiar Terrain - Current Art in & About Germany ZKM, Karlsruhe. Carrots and pork neck - German art since 1995 , Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg. Brilliant fireworks , House of Art, Munich. Back to Black , Kestnergesellschaft Hannover. Command of Tilman Riemenschneider. Europe 2008 , Hospitalhof Stuttgart
  • 2007: Euro-Centric, Part I: New European Art from the Rubell Family Collection , Rubell Family Collection, Miami. Imagination Becomes Reality. An exhibition on the expanded concept of painting. Works from the Goetz Collection , ZKM Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe; Command Friedrich Hölderlin Berlin , Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
  • 2006: Imagination Becomes Reality: A multi-part exhibition cycle on the understanding of contemporary art. Part IV: Borrowed Images , Goetz Collection, Munich
  • 2005: Les Grands Spectacles: 120 years of art and mass culture , Museum der Moderne, Salzburg. Styles and styles: Contemporary German Painting from the Scharpff Collection , Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia. Munch Revisited , Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund. La Peinture Allemande , Carré d'Art, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes
  • 2003: deutschemalereizweitausenddrei , Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main. From the horror of art , Steirischer Herbst 2003, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz. Hot and cold: Current paintings from the Scharpff Collection , Staatsgalerie Stuttgart / Kunsthalle Hamburg
  • 2002: Open hair, open horses: American Art 1933-45 , Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne. Schwarzwaldhochstrasse: The German Southwest and the Consequences for Art , Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
  • 2001: Viva November , Städtische Galerie, Wolfsburg. 1st Tirana Biennale: Escape , Tirana
  • 2000: Academy Isotrop , Bergen Art Academy
  • 1999: Academy Isotrop: Revolution, Evolution, Execution , Society for Contemporary Art, Bremen. Akademie Isotrop: Contents and Documents , Cubitt, London
  • 1998: Junge Szene , Secession, Vienna
  • 1997: Academy Isotrop , Künstlerhaus Stuttgart

Public collections

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  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Carrée d'Art, Nîmes: Untitled , 2009, oil on canvas, 180 × 130 cm
  • Denver Art Museum, Denver
  • Hall Art Foundation, Reading / Derneburg: Portrait Carl Zuckmayer , 2004, oil on canvas, 300 × 200 cm. Bruno Bettelheim (child psychologist) , 2005, oil on canvas, 280 × 220 cm
  • Nationalgalerie - Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin: Untitled , oil on canvas, 280 × 420 cm
  • Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: Untitled 1–3 , 2011, etching on laid paper (3 parts), each 34.7 × 25 cm, edition: 1 / 30–30 / 30, here: 30/30
  • LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles: Untitled , 2007, oil on canvas, 180 × 230, Donation David Hoberman (M.2014.267.1). Untitled (Munch) , 2007, watercolor on paper, 295.9 × 204.1 cm, donated by Dean Valentine and Amy Adelson (M.2010.188.1)
  • Marciano Art Collection, Los Angeles
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA): Untitled (Many Dead by Hermann Giesler!) , 2007, oil on canvas, size 290 × 250 cm, donation by Stefan Simchowitz (Invent. No. 2012.61)
  • Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania: I hann mei Flasch Fanda scho lang leergsoffa (Bleibet Gsond!) , Oil on canvas, 180 × 300 cm
  • Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen: Paula Modersohn-Becker , 2017, oil on canvas, 210 × 150 cm
  • Rubell Family Collection, Miami: Friedens-Siemens XV , 2004, oil on canvas, 270 × 220 cm. Cook of rabbit stew? , 2004, acrylic on canvas, 250 × 200 cm. Ludwig Troost , 2005, oil on canvas, 250 × 200 cm. Residence of Dietrich Bonhoeffer , 2005, oil on canvas, 250 × 200 cm. Untitled , 2006, oil on canvas, 200 × 250 cm. Mirinda Disciplinary , 2006, oil on canvas, 250 × 200 cm. Death version of Walt , 2006, oil on canvas, 250 × 200 cm. N-Technologie (dead bodies) , 2006, oil on canvas, 280 × 460 cm. N-Supp 'Spoon X (Monkey) , 2006, oil on canvas, 260 × 200 cm. N-Leben (2) , 2006, oil on canvas, 220 × 280 cm. Friedens-Siemens XX , 2007, oil on canvas, 320 × 260 cm. Ragonium L , 2007, oil on canvas, 260 × 340 cm. Untitled , 2007, oil on canvas, 70 × 105 cm
  • Collection of the state of Tyrol
  • Goetz Collection, Munich
  • Collection of Contemporary Art of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn: Father with poppies , oil on canvas, 215 × 310 cm
  • Seattle University, Seattle
  • University of Chicago
  • University of Washington, Seattle

literature

  • Thomas Groetz: “Painting and Health”, in: Chips and Pepsi and Medicine , cat. Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin 2003
  • Larissa Kikol: Greatest Art - Childlike Aesthetics in Contemporary Art , Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2017
  • Alexander Linn (Ed.): André Butzer - Texts, Volume 1: Selected press releases, letters, conversations, poems 1999–2017 , Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst 2017
  • Christian Malycha: Being and image. André Butzer 1994–2014 Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag, 2017
  • Daniel Mendel-Black: "Mature Works", in: André Butzer , cat. Exh. Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin: Holzwarth Publications 2013
  • Roberto Ohrt: “Thirteen cubes”, in: André Butzer. Many dead in their homeland. Fanta, Sprite, UHT milk, Mickey and Donald. Painting , cat. Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Bielefeld: Kerber 2009
  • Kristin Schrader (Ed.): André Butzer. Probably the best abstract painter in the world , cat. Kestnergesellschaft Hannover, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König 2011
  • Lena Tilk: Painting in the field of tension between conflicting terminology and the categorical expansion of image being. André Butzers "N-Bilder" , Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Melanie Franke 2007 from 100.de, accessed on September 5, 2017
  2. ^ Quote from exhibition poster, "N-Leben", Galleria Gio Marconi, Milan, 2006
  3. ↑ Thomas Groetz in: Chips and Pepsi and Medicine , exhibition catalog, 2003
personal data
SURNAME Butzer, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart