ANDRÉ BUTZER
Press Releases, Letters, Conversations, Texts, Poems, Volume 3: 1999–2021 (publication)
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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ANDRÉ BUTZER
Farbtheorie (solo show)
Stadtpfarrkirche St. Nikolaus, Innsbruck
23 March – 19 May 2024
Stadtpfarrkirche Innsbruck St. Nikolaus in Austria presents Farbtheorie, an exhibition of work by André Butzer. Curated by Bishop Hermann Glettler, the exhibition places new focus on Butzer’s Colour Theory paintings from 2009, which incorporate a fourth ‘flesh colour’ to the primary trio of red, yellow and blue. Since this period, Butzer has sought to reintroduce the corporeal or incarnate into the abstract image in his practice.
Exhibited for the first time since their execution 15 years ago, Butzer’s four monumental paintings Untitled (Red), Untitled (Yellow), Untitled (Blue) and Untitled (Flesh Colour) are presented alongside one of the artist’s ‘N-Bilder’, from 2012–2013.
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How to Collect Art: the Karel Tutsch Story (group show)
Galerie Moderního Umění V Hradci Králové
28 April 2024 – 12 October 2024
Work by André Butzer is included in How to Collect Art: the Karel Tutsch Story, a long-term exhibition presenting the lifelong work of Karel Tutsch (1941–2008), acclaimed gallerist and owner of one of the most important collections in the Czech Republic. The exhibition forms an encyclopedia of Czech art from the mid-1960s to the turn of the millennium, ending with a section devoted to the early-noughties Berlin art scene.
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ANDRÉ BUTZER
»… und der Tod ist auch ein Leben.« (solo show)
Museo Stefano Bardini, Florence
22 March – 9 June 2024
Museo Stefano Bardini will host a substantial exhibition dedicated to André Butzer. Organised alongside a further solo exhibition at Museo Novecento, Liebe, Glaube und Hoffnung, these two presentations constitute the artist’s first institutional solo exhibitions in Italy and allow visitors to explore Butzer’s whole artistic career.
In »… und der Tod ist auch ein Leben.«, a series of 22 paintings will establish a dialogue between the artist and the Museo Stefano Bardini, starting with a re-imagining of the museum’s ‘Hall of Madonnas’. Here, Butzer’s portraits – defined by their bright faces, large eyes, and golden hair – will confront masterworks in portraiture from the museum’s collection and thereby invite viewers to consider the shared colorist origins of these works. Alongside paintings, the exhibition will also include a selection of Butzer’s drawings and watercolours, all presented alongside masterworks of the Italian Renaissance.
ANDRÉ BUTZER
André Butzer (solo show)
GfG Gesellschaft für Gegenwartskunst, Augsburg
15 March – 14 July 2024
With this extensive exhibition of André Butzer's work, the GfG Gesellschaft für Gegenwartskunst builds upon its major monographic exhibitions of the 1990s. Since its foundation, important bodies of work by Georg Baselitz, Günther Förg, Albert Oehlen and A. R. Penck were presented for the first time at the institution in Augsburg. Even the design of the exhibition catalogue is deliberately based on one of the first GfG catalogues, namely the one by Förg from 1994.
For this exhibition, Butzer has created a cycle of 27 works on paper, which is complemented by a retrospective group of 22 further sheets, the oldest of which dates from the year 2000. In addition to the drawings and watercolours, there will also be seven paintings of very different sizes on view. This grouping opens up Butzer's oeuvre in an exemplary way, allowing insight into the development of his characteristic figures and wider thematic world.
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ANDRÉ BUTZER
Liebe, Glaube und Hoffnung (solo show)
Museo Novecento, Florence
1 March – 9 June 2024
Museo Novecento will host a substantial exhibition dedicated to André Butzer. Organised alongside a further solo exhibition at Museo Stefano Bardini, »… und der Tod ist auch ein Leben.«, these two presentations constitute the artist’s first institutional solo exhibitions in Italy and allow visitors to explore Butzer’s whole artistic career.
Liebe, Glaube und Hoffnung will be hosted in the Museo Novecento’s former Leopoldine complex and will bring together 30 works covering the artist’s career. The selection emphasises several recurring and interconnected themes in Butzer’s oeuvre – life and death, perishing and rebirth, hope and despair, truth and falseness – and will be completed by new works created specifically for the exhibition. Among these is a monumental canvas, Untitled (Sternenmadonna), 2023, which will be placed in the space designed for the altarpiece inside the Renaissance building’s former chapel.
ANDRÉ BUTZER
Exhibitions Galerie Max Hetzler 2003–2022 (publication)
Published by Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London / Holzwarth Publications, 2022
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.
ANDRÉ BUTZER, RINEKE DIJKSTRA, CARROLL DUNHAM, KATHARINA GROSSE, HANS HARTUNG et al.
Mix & Match. Die Sammlung neu entdecken (group show)
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
30 March 2022 – 31 December 2024
Work by André Butzer and Carroll Dunham is included in Mix & Match. Die Sammlung neu entdecken at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. Celebrating the institution’s 20th anniversary, the exhibition presents some 350 works and series in a new display which spans 120 years of art history. Characterised by a spirit of curiosity and experimentation, the new hang invites visitors to rediscover the collection in themed galleries and unconventional juxtapositions that transcend epochs, styles, and media.
Pinakothek der Moderne
ANDRÉ BUTZER
André Butzer (publication)
Published by TASCHEN
Edited by Hans Werner Holzwarth
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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