Werner BÜTTNER

Galeristes
Carreau du temple,
2 Rue Perée
75003 Paris

7.12.-10.12.2017

Galeristes est une communauté rassemblant des collectionneurs, passionnés et professionnels de l’art, unis dans un même objectif : la (re)découverte des galeristes, comme passeurs avérés, lors de rencontres conviviales autour de l’art et de leurs univers singuliers. Première communauté imaginée par des collectionneurs, Galeristes poursuit une triple ambition: favoriser de véritables rencontres entre galeristes et collectionneurs; permettre à ces relations de se consolider dans le temps; initier de nouveaux collectionneurs. Afin de réaliser ce dessein qui ne doit pas demeurer un rêve immatériel et utopique, Galeristes organise un salon, véritable incarnation de cette communauté engagée de collectionneurs au service de l’art.

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PARÉIDOLIE
Foire du 26 au 27 août
Vernissage le 26 août à partir de 11h
Château de Servières
19 Boulevard Boisson
13004 Marseille

26.08 - 27.08.2017

La galerie Eva Meyer rassemble, à l’occasion de Paréidolie, les oeuvres de trois artistes :
Michel Aubry (Fr), Werner Büttner (De), Victoire Barbot (Fr).

Trois générations confondues pour questioner la place du dessin au sein de la pratique artistique
contemporaine. Au delà du dessin préparatoire, le dessin fait oeuvre et devient pour chacun un moyen
d’expression particulier, qui accompagne un opus de peinture, de sculpture ou de forme. Plus que le
complèter, le dessin est une partie de l’oeuvre voire un état de celle-ci.


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The Gallery Eva Meyer gathers, on the occasion of Paréidolie, the works of three
artists : Michel Aubry (Fr), Werner Büttner (De), Victoire Barbot (Fr).

Three generations confused to question the place of drawing in contemporary artistic practice.
Beyond the preparatory drawing, the drawing becomes for each artist a particular means of
expression, which accompanies an opus of paintings, sculptures or forms. More than
completing, the drawing becomes a part of the work as a step or state of it.

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250 Years of HFBK Hamburg
HFBK Hamburg, Lerchenfeld 2, Aula
Allemagne
11.07 - 16.07.2017

Vendredi, 14 juillet 2017, 14.00–20.00 h

Survival Rate 4% – the latest reports from the frontline of the Art Academy
Symposium with Diedrich Diederichsen, Walter Grasskamp, Annette Tietenberg, Wolfgang Ullrich, Bettina Uppenkamp

Idea + Concept: Werner Büttner

Every year, approx. 5,000 young people decide to study art at one of the 24 German art universities or academies. According to a recent study by the Bundesverband Bildender Künstler (BBK), only one-tenth receive income from their artistic activities totaling 20,000 euros annually, with 83 percent remaining below this (by a wide margin). Thus, we can see that this phenomenon can hardly be explained by financial motivations and the prospect of career success.

Good-for-nothings, light-worshippers, reality-refusers, aroma-seekers, ne’er-do-wells, heart-pourers, dream-dancers, pathos-raisers, mania-jugglers, nerve-breakers, trash-rakers, soul-nudists, bluffers, posers, pretenders, sensitive plants, misfits, bourgeois-scarers, taboo-shakers, coward-flagellators, liberation bugles, shifting-image makers, daze sweethearts, rose-threshers, public pissers, perversion profiteers, lens devils, credit pointers, aparters, total Samaritans, misunderstanders, legacy redeemers, sniffers-out of the sublime, people in need of colorfulness, goodness wringers, ill-testers, mood imitators, solvents sinners, plan-less, brainless and status-less, and failed apprentice windowdressers. They and many, many others seek admission into our »caravan in the desert of freedom.« In the spirit of the admonition of Zarathustra: »Capture freedom and be lord in your own desert.« What is it all about? Taking stock to mark this anniversary, we have asked experienced voices to try to clarify.

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Zeitgeist
MAMCO
Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Genève
10, rue des Vieux-Grenadiers
CH-1205 Genève

22.02 - 07.05.2017

À partir du 22 février 2017, le MAMCO consacre une grande exposition à la question de la peinture figurative actuelle. Intitulée « Zeitgeist », elle réunit des artistes suisses et internationaux, des années 1960 à nos jours, autour de problématiques liées à la figure, l’expressivité et les sources hétérogènes de ces représentations. Des artistes tels que William Copley, Jean-Frédéric Schnyder et Dorothy Iannone, mais également John Miller, Christian Lindow et David Salle, ainsi que Jutta Koether, Nicole Eisenman, Laura Owens, Andreas Dobler et Vittorio Brodmann, se trouvent ainsi réunis au premier étage du musée. Cette exposition entend répondre à la prédominance actuelle de pratiques figuratives et expressives dans les ateliers des jeunes artistes, aussi bien en Suisse qu’à l’étranger, et aux tentatives récentes de musées européens et américains de classification de cette « nouvelle peinture ». Elle est organisée par Paul Bernard, Lionel Bovier et Fabrice Stroun.

Avec : Vittorio Brodmann, Werner Büttner, Nina Childress, William N. Copley, Andreas Dobler, Nicole Eisenman, Jana Euler, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Jason Fox, Mathis Gasser, Vidya Gastaldon, Rachel Harrison, Lothar Hempel, David Hominal, Dorothy Iannone, Hayan Kam Nakache, Karen Kilimnik, Jutta Koether, Friedrich Kuhn, Christian Lindow, Tala Madani, John Miller, Kaspar Müller, Laura Owens, Mai-Thu Perret, Walter Price, Walter Robinson, David Salle, Hans Schärer, Jean-Frédéric Schnyder, Michael Scott, Alain Séchas, Konstantin Sgouridis, Josh Smith, Frank Stella, Sarah Tritz, Rosemarie Trockel, Caroline Tschumi, Amélie von Wulffen, Peter Wächtler, Aldo Walker, Sue Williams, Seyoung Yoon
Commissariat: Paul Bernard, Lionel Bovier, Fabrice Stroun

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Légende :
Mathis GASSER Blue-eyed, 2009
© Photo Annik Wetter — MAMCO, Genève

The History Show
Du 28 janvier au 2 avril 2017
Kunstverein Hamburg, Allemagne

28.01 - 2.04.2017

Artists: 3 Hamburger Frauen, Werner Büttner, Dani Gal, Beate Gütschow, Daniel Knorr, Burk Koller, Katrin Mayer, Christian Philipp Müller, Olaf Nicolai, Marjetica Potr? and her HFBK class Design for the Living World, Franz Erhard Walther

The group exhibition The History Show marks the start of the 200-year jubilee of the Kunstverein in Hamburg and is based on the scientific review of its multifaceted history. The research and exhibition project was realized in cooperation with the Departmant of Art History at Unversität Hamburg headed by Prof. Dr. Uwe Fleckner. The focus of the investigation was on the history of its foundation and the exhibitions it held from 1817 until today. Based on this research, thematic focuses were identified that have characterized the work of the Kunstverein over the past two hundred years. Categories of communicating art and moments that shaped the Kunstverein’s history were ascertained in a historical review and simultaneously examined in regard to what they can offer for future activities. Each of the thematic focuses were taken up by artists who are in many cases closely associated with Hamburg and whose works stand for a reflective discourse on historical phenomena. They were invited to respond to the researched material, to add existing works or also produce new ones, with the aim of critically dealing with its history, commenting on it, questioning it, and even turning it upside down.   

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Pour Souls
Marlborough Chelsea
545 West 25th Street
New York

27.10 - 03.12.16

Marlborough Chelsea is pleased to present  Poor Souls by legendary German artist Werner Büttner. Poor Souls marks his first New York exhibition since 1986,
including new collage and painting that showcase a wide-range of intelligence and cunningly dark but empathic humor.

Painted with a breezy confidence that complicates their gravity, these canvases tackle weighty issues of history, philosophy, mythology, grief and mourning.
This is to say that there is real empathy beneath the surface, and that the paintings are packed with humanity. With the courage and wherewithal to incorporate
a diversity of subjects, from Winston Churchill to a bewigged dachshund, Büttner scrambles hierarchies provoking a pleasant disequilibrium. A moody palette
dominates generally, and surprising bands of drizzled black or white pigment often disrupt the naturalistic depicted space with flung drips of gestural
abstraction—telltale ejaculatory “signatures” to further destabilize the surface reading.

Leading with language, the paintings’ unforgettable titles and the frequent presence of text/image combinations, perpetuate a casually pedagogic atmosphere
befitting a long-time art professor. If the lessons are obliquely proffered and veer toward the gnomic, they are all the more powerful for it. The learned poetics
are well-earned from decades in the “desert of freedom”—the unforgiving artistic terrain explored in the early 1980s by Büttner (and his Junge Wildecomrades
such as Martin Kippenberger) bthrough abandoning the compass of conventional taste and technique. In the current anything-goes climate of contemporary art
production, it can be difficult to comprehend the break from tradition that this stylistic rejection ushered in, but we are living with its effects.

Büttner’s paintings bear the great responsibility that this freedom confers. His commitment to it is uninterrupted by a fixed style or consistent position, though
the paintings are recognizably his. Their consistency is borne of an irreverence in tone, ethical point of view and a meticulously disguised complexity. In uncertain
times, we need a sage to plumb the depths of our collective psyche connecting us to an intellectual and personal history that help make sense of an irrational present.
Werner Büttner is just the person for the job.

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Légende :
Werner Büttner, Vue d'exposition, Marlborough Chelsea

Elective Affinities
German Art Since the Late 1960s
Latvian National Museum of Art

10K. Valdemara Street, Riga
LV-1010 Latvia

Curator : Mark Gisbourne

The exhibition includes paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography and exemples of video art,
with a few singular examples of Conceptual Art.
The greater aspect of the exhibition focuses on visual and peceptual contets rather than therorization. As the covered time period began with both West and East Germany, it is necessary to show some examples from the DDR.
However, while using singular examples, and particularly works from artists such as Richter, Poke and Baselitz, who existed in the East prior to the Berlin wall, the status of the former East Germany is thus largely represented by artists from the post-unification period.

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Manifesta 11 - Zürich
The Historical Exhibition
Portraits de professions

Löwenbräukunst
Limmatstrasse 270
8005 Zürich

11.06 - 18.09.2016

Yto Barrada, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Werner Büttner, Olga Chernysheva, Anne Collier, Charles Gute, Chris Hadfield, Rahcel Harrison, Graham Little, Gianni Motti, Paulina Olowska, August Sander, Momoyo Torimitsu

Commissaire : Christian Jankowski

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Collection en mouvement,
Promenades urbaines, Panazol
Frac Limousin

Du 9 mai au 4 juin 2016

Vernissage et visite commentée mardi 10 mai à 18h

L’exposition « Promenades urbaines » présente un ensemble d’oeuvres variées - peintures, sculptures, photographies et vidéos - d’artistes de trois générations différentes autour du thème de la déambulation dans et autour de la ville.
Les points de vue adoptés et leurs mises en forme variées et très affirmées fabriquent, à l’intérieur de l’espace d’exposition, des itinéraires subjectifs. On y verra des rues, des détails de vitrines, des affiches lacérées, des devantures de magasins, une bouche de métro, des graffitis, des tags, des immeubles d’habitation, une zone commerciale, etc. Du centre à la périphérie. Ouvrons l’oeil !

A l’arrière-plan, un tableau de Werner Büttner (né en 1954) montre un sousbassement d’immeuble d’un quartier périphérique d’Iena, là où est né l’artiste. Grâce à un habile travail préparatoire de collage, l’artiste incruste deux images de crânes à casquettes et relie l’ensemble par une réplique de tag très coloré. Cette scène suburbaine désolée rappelle, par sa composition, certains tableaux de vanités du XVIIème siècle.

Médiathèque de Panazol
1 Place Achille Zavatta
87250 Panazol

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Foire d'Artmonte-carlo

Du 30 avril au 1er mai 2016

La galerie est présente du 30 avril au 1 er mai 2016 pour la première édition de la foire d'Artmonte-carlo au stand D2.

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The gallery is attending the 1st edition of the Artemonte-Carlo fair from the 30th of April to the 1st of May 2016.

Nieuwe Wilden :Duits Neo-Expressionisme uit de jaren '80
Groniger Museum
Groningen, NL

30.04.2016 - 23.10.2016

Artists : Hans Peter Adamski, Peter Angermann, Elvira Bach, Ina Barfuss, Peter Bömmels, Werner Büttner, Luciano Castelli, Walter Dahn, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Rainer Fetting, G.L. Gabriel, Georg Herold, Gerard Kever, Martin Kippenberger, Jan Knap, Milan Kunc, Helmut Middendorf, Christa Näher, Gerard Naschberger, Albert Oehlen, Markus, Oehlen, Salomé, Andreas Shulze, Bettina Semmer, Volker Tannert, Thomas Wachweger and Bernd Zimmer.

New Wild Painters will present an extensive overview of the figurative painting that blossomed at the beginning of the 80s in what was at the time still West Germany. Sure to spark conversation, the exhibition focuses on the Neue Wilde groups of artists that were active in Cologne, Berlin, Düsseldorf and Hamburg. This art was part of a broad, international trend whereby in many countries, young 'wild' painters rebelled against the climate of the art world at the time. The paintings are often rough and aggressive and sometimes downright absurd, but almost always humorous and thought-provoking.

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Drawing Now

Du 30 mars au 3 avril 2016

La galerie est présente du 30 mars au 3 avril 2016 sur le stand C7 du salon du dessin contemporain Drawing Now.
Présentation Focus sur la série "Désastres de la démocratie" de Werner Büttner.

De 11h à 20h au Carreau du temple 4 rue Eugène Spuller 75003, Paris

The gallery will be attending the contemporary drawing salon, Drawing Now, taking place from the 30rd of march to the 3rd of April 2016.

Book Launch "Coincidence in Splendour" and "My Looting Eye"
Marlborough Contemporary
6 Albemarle Street
London

28 Janvier 2016 de 18h à 20h

Marlborough Contemporary and Black Dog Publishing are pleasing to invite you to an evening with Werner Büttner in conversation with Harald Falkenberg, Daniel Richter and Andrew Renton.
This event celebrates the publication of "Coincidence in Splendour" and "My looting Eye", two new books published on the work of Werner Büttner by Black Dog Publishing in partenrship with Marlborough Contemporary.

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The Funnies
MOTINTERNATIONAL

20 novembre 2015 au 30 janvier 2016

Taking its title from the comics section of twentieth century American newspapers, The Funnies draws upon the visual language and humour of the cartoon. From Philip Guston and Oliver Osborne to George Condo and Anne Speier, the exhibition brings together eighteen artists whose work celebrates humour and shares an incontestable taste for exaggeration, derision and slapstick.

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"Duh? Art & Stupidity"

Focal Point Gallery, Royaume Uni

Du 11 novembre au 26 mars 2016

Artists: Tariq Alvi, BANK, Michael Bracewell, Archie & Edith Bunker, Werner Büttner & Albert Oehlen, Bonnie Camplin, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Cecelia Condit, The Cockettes, Claude Faraldo, Gaylen Gerber, Ryan Gander, Isa Genzken, Judith Hopf, Larry Johnson, Erik van Lieshout, Kalup Linzy, Clunie Reid, Kim Schoen, Lily van der Stokker, Sturtevant, Annika Stro?m, Mario Garcia Torres, Rosemarie Trockel, Tomi Ungerer, Andy Warhol

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Werner Büttner
The Marking of the Abyss
4 Mars – 18 Avrill 2015
Vernissage le 3 mars 2015 18h - 20h

Marlborough Contemporary
6 Albemarle Street
Londres
marlboroughcontemporary.com

Avec Michel Aubry, Werner Büttner, Séverine Hubard, Matt Lipps, Tony Oursler, Man Ray, Claude Rutault.

Stand D 22 et D 26, Palexpo, CH-Geneve.
Vernissage mercredi 28 janvier sur invitation uniquement.