André Butzer’s work is included in Picture Universe #3 Art in Leipzig in Dialog, a presentation of works from the permanent collection of the Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig. The exhibition, conceived as a ‘Bilderkosmos,’ or picture universe, displays the museum’s holdings of modern and contemporary art. The interdisciplinary presentation includes paintings, sculptures, works on paper, photographs and prints, bringing together approximately 120 works by 61 artists.

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André Butzer’s works are held in the permanent collection of the Hamburger Kunsthalle. Two large-scale canvases, 1 Eis, bitte!, 1999, and Untitled, 2022, are currently on display as part of the Kunsthalle’s collection presentation.

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ANDRÉ BUTZER. PRESS RELEASES, LETTERS, INTERVIEWS, TEXTS, POEMS / VOLUME 4: 1983–2025 is the fourth in a series of publications which draw from the artist’s ever-expanding archive. For this new book, Butzer’s longtime editor Alexander Linn spent over five years poring over countless documents and reviewing Butzer’s publications from the period. The result is a valuable sourcebook featuring texts, interviews, letters, and poems, as well as a transcript of the 2023 biopic André Butzer, His Art and His Time.

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André Butzer’s painting Aladin und die Wunderlampe / Aladdin and the Magic Oil Lamp, 2010, is included in the group exhibition Madrid Collects. 50 Contemporary Art Collections at CentroCentro, Madrid. The exhibition pays tribute to the art collector as a cultural agent: a key figure in the preservation and enrichment of cultural and social heritage, and the support and promotion of contemporary art. Displaying one hundred works from fifty private collections, the exhibition highlights the richness and plurality of Madrid’s contemporary art scene.

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André Butzer’s painting Untitled (Paula Modersohn-Becker), 2017, is included in the exhibition Becoming Paula, at the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen. Marking the 150th anniversary of Paula Modersohn-Becker’s birth, the exhibition celebrates the German painter’s life, work, and enduring legacy. In addition to the famous paintings made during the last years of her life, the exhibition focuses on her reception in the 20th and 21st centuries, formally introducing this topic for the first time.

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André Butzer’s most personal book to date, Farben, Früchte, Bilder, is a lavishly designed volume featuring 135 paintings created between 2021 and 2025. With echoes of Modigliani, Balthus, and Morandi, the publication’s singular theme is Butzer’s iconic figure of the Frau (woman), prompting calm and composed viewing which grows deeper and richer from image to image. The monograph includes an extensive conversation between the artist and art historian Christian Malycha.

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We are delighted to announce that a recent reiteration of André Butzer’s iconic ‘Frauenbildnisse’ is now part of the permanent collection of the prestigious Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main, whose holdings span 700 years of art history.

André Butzer’s latest publication, Die Jahreszeiten / The Seasons, published on 17 October 2025 during the Frankfurter Buchmesse, features 40 watercolours created by the artist in response to 47 poems by Friedrich Hölderlin on the four seasons, written between 1793 and 1843.

On the occasion of the release, a book signing took place on 1 November 2025, at the TASCHEN Store in Berlin. Actor Lars Eidinger gave a live reading of selected poems from the book. 

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Work by André Butzer features in the collection presentation at Rubbell Museum, Miami. The new installation of the collection highlights, updated on 25 October 2025, features significant works spanning painting, sculpture, works on paper, and installation drawn from the Rubell Family’s expansive collection of over 7,700 works.

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A new monograph on André Butzer, See The Vision, has been recently released by M. Books, an independent London-based publisher specialising in limited-edition collector art books. The publication presents a collection of detailed images showcasing iconic figures and characters from Butzer’s oeuvre. Spanning 2000 to 2024 and bringing together 44 paintings, See The Vision is both a study of expression in contemporary art and a documentation of Butzer’s diverse vision and movement over 24 years. 

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André Butzer’s sculpture, Untitled [Leben ist Tod ... und der Tod ist auch ein Leben], 2024, will be permanently installed in the Bibliothek Günther Förg, Hauptstraße 7, on view from 2 August 2025.

Shaped from heavy brass plates, the monumental ‘N’ is recognisable as a letter or an indefinable and irrational number. However, due to its height of over one metre, it exceeds all legibility. Taking up the existential mood of his N-paintings, Butzer’s work succeeds in expressing the relationship between presence and absence, death and life.

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On the occasion of his retrospective at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in 2023, André Butzer created Untitled (Fränzi), 2022, an integral painting paying homage to Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Fränzi in front of a Carved Chair, 1910. Now, Butzer’s painting – which has been in the collection of the museum for several years – is also part of the display of the museum’s permanent collection, residing closely to its spiritual sister painting.

In the presence of the artist, the new installation was celebrated by Blanca and Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza, Museum Director Guillermo Solana, and numerous international guests and friends. Presenting Butzer’s Untitled (Fränzi) amidst the museum’s permanent collection of classical modernism is a premiere, which prominently manifests that the past is still very much alive today: ‘I see Expressionism as a machine that processes the past into the future.’ (André Butzer, 2006).

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SALON Magazine presents a marvellous feature, which brings to the fore André Butzer’s recent institutional exhibitions in Italy, Spain, Japan and Austria, complemented by 7 hand-drawn sketches reminiscent of the displays at the Museo Novecento, Museo Stefano Bardini, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Museum of the Light and St Nikolaus.

This new publication provides a compelling overview of exhibitions of André Butzer at Galerie Max Hetzler since his first with the gallery in 2003, charting his 17 solo and 10 group exhibitions in Berlin, Paris and London. Installation views and large-format illustrations of all exhibited works are accompanied by contemporary texts including reviews and catalogue essays.​ The book is now available for purchase on the Galerie Max Hetzler publications website. 

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Made in close collaboration with the artist, this unprecedented huge-format survey presents the future and origins of his painting according to André Butzer. From his early works of ‘Science Fiction Expressionism’ that centered around a cast of figures at home both in space and in culturally occupied Europe, to his exploration of abstraction’s far limits in the seemingly black N-Paintings, Butzer emerges as an ever-inventive colorist who finds a new beginning in each work.

This is the first book first to span the full range of André Butzer’s oeuvre from 1999 to 2021, the works’ progression gaining an almost musical drive of development, return, and new beginnings. The plates are interspersed with contemporary quotes from the artist that illuminate his idiosyncratic stance as a background to the work, as well as photos from his archives. The introductory essay, written by Hans Werner Holzwarth, investigates the different work phases, and places the artist’s ideas in a wider discourse of abstraction and figuration after the end of either genre. And, most importantly, the book’s pristine, huge-format illustrations fully evidence the finesse as a colorist that place this artist among the internationally most recognized painters of his generation.

‘Expressionism was about going back to nature and nakedness, about inner more than outer space. Now we can give this field a new task – to be informed by seriality, post-industrialism, and modern mankind’s artificiality. So I include organic and non-organic parts, fake nature and fake human. Titian said painting is about flesh and water, and I say it is about flesh and lemonade.’

— André Butzer

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All good things come in threes and so do André Butzer’s collected writings. The third volume is elegantly sharp and poignant. Editor Alexander Linn continues to explore the unique fictitious universe, Butzer calls »NASAHEIM«. Boldly touching on the latter’s own work and biography, art history as well as music in numerous letters, in-depth conversations and poems. Guided by the simple question: What is real?, Butzer searches for »the actual location of painting, the space in-between. It’s a very esoteric but easy to understand conception of truth.«

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