André Butzer

11.06.23 – 23.07.23

Kaylash, Ocean, Timber, Maitree and Jayme in front of André Butzer „Ohne Titel (für Walter Zimmermann)“, 2021, Los Angeles, November 2022. Courtesy the artist

Opening: Sunday, 11.06.2023, 11:00 h

Speakers:
Andreas Feller
Mayor of the City of Schwandorf

Jürgen Dehm
Artistic Director of the Kebbel-Villa

Following:
Thomas Kamm declamat Friedrich Hölderlin

Following André Butzer's first institutional solo exhibition in Bavaria (Bayerisches Armeemuseum, 2018), the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus presents the German painter, born in 1973, with a very special show. Here, for the first time, the artist completely abandons the inclusion of walls as hanging surfaces for his paintings – as well as the paintings themselves.

André Butzer, born in Stuttgart in 1973, lives in Berlin-Wannsee. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held in international institutions, including the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Miettinen Collection, Berlin, and Kunstverein Friedrichshafen (all 2023); Friedrichs Foundation, Weidingen (2022); YUZ Museum, Shanghai, and Museum of the Light, Hokuto (both 2020); IKOB Musée d’Art Contemporain, Eupen (2018); Växjö Konsthall, Växjö (2017); Bayerisches Armeemuseum, Ingolstadt, and Neue Galerie Gladbeck (both 2016); Kunstverein Reutlingen (2015); Künstlerhaus – Halle für Kunst und Medien, Graz (2014); Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, and Kunsthistorisches Museum / Theseustempel, Vienna (both 2011); Kunsthalle Nuremberg (2009); Kunstverein Ulm (2005) and Kunstverein Heilbronn (2004).

Works by André Butzer are part of the collections of prominent museums, including Aurora Museum, Shanghai; Art Institute of Chicago; Carré d’Art, Nîmes; Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York; Contemporary Art Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn; Deichtorhallen Hamburg; University of Washington, Seattle; Friedrichs Foundation, Weidingen / Bonn; Hall Art Foundation, Reading / VT | Derneburg; Hölderlinturm, Tübingen; IKOB Museé d’Art Contemporain, Eupen; Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin; LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Marciano Art Collection, Los Angeles; MARe Museum, Bucharest; MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; Museo Novecento, Florence; Nationalgalerie / Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin; Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Rubell Museum, Miami; YUZ Museum, Shanghai.