André Butzer

A new exhibition at Duarte Sequire Gallery HQ in Portugal brings together five monumental artworks by Butzer. In this current exhibition, his work focuses on the recurring appearance of “the woman” – a motif that figures throughout his artworks. As Malycha explains, her presence within these works maps the journey of Butzer’s work, functioning as a symbol of hope and life.

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André Butzer has developed a style he calls ‘Science Fiction Expressionism’ – a fusion of American pop culture with expressionist painting, with figures that veer from cartoon-like creations to semi-abstract forms, rendered against chaotic, psychedelic backgrounds of block colour. This exhibition at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid (9 May–10 September) is the first survey of the German painter to be held outside his native country. The show includes 22 works, ranging from the early series Science Fiction Expressionism (1999) to more recent works, including two that have just been acquired by the Thyssen-Bornemisza: Aladdin and the Magic Oil Lamp (2010) and Untitled (2022).

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Nino Mier Gallery is intrigued to announce a solo exhibition by German-born André Butzer through April 29, 2023, at Nino Mier’s new location at 62 Crosby St in SoHo. With the full artistic experience of 30 years, André Butzer has created six new paintings of one of his most distinctive characters—the figure of the Woman. Post-N, succeeding the truth and revelations of his N- Paintings (2010–2017), she is a being on the brink of this world and the beyond.

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German painter André Butzer has created six new paintings of one of his most distinctive characters—the figure of the Woman, for his solo show (just the second exhibition for Nino Mier New York). Blending European Expressionism with American popular culture, Butzer has for three decades painted his way through the artistic and political extremes of the 20th century—life, death, consumption, and mass entertainment—into the 21st century.

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"You have to paint your way through everything," André Butzer once said. It is impossible for the artist, who was born in Stuttgart in 1973, to begin a picture without preconditions and without any worries. What weighs on him is the entire 20th century - its art, its bloody history, its mass culture. Just the whole mess. And by putting these references together, he creates paintings for our present that has gotten out of joint.

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Over the past few years, changes have been afoot for artist Ethan Cook. While he still has a studio in Greenpoint and commutes there everyday, Ethan traded his Clinton Hill perch for a Soho loft. “I really wanted something different when I moved [back] into Manhattan, and this was the first place I saw when I started looking,” says Ethan, who had previously lived in Chinatown for over a decade. “I was happy to move and get a change of pace".

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Nino Mier Gallery, which was founded in Los Angeles in 2015 and has quickly been growing over the past seven years, will soon add a location in New York. Opening next January, the space will be inaugurated with a solo show of German artist Jana Schröder, who has been with the gallery since its earliest days. The New York location, located in SoHo, on Crosby Street between Spring and Broome streets, will be designed by Markus Dochantschi of StudioMDA and led by Margaret Zuckerman, who has been a director at the gallery since 2018.

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From Saturday, October 24, 2020, the "André Butzer" exhibition will be held at the Kiyoharu Art Village Tadao Ando's Museum of Light. Andre Butzerbach is a German painter who has been highly acclaimed around the world, with items released in collaboration with CELINE in May of this year. In this exhibition, one of his representative series, <N-Paintings>, will be exhibited.

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ICH MALE AUSSCHLIESSLICH ABSTRAKT – IMMER. AUCH WENN FIGUREN ZU ERKENNEN SIND. A couple of months ago, the opening bid at Sotheby’s for a picture was 40,000 dollars, but it ended up fetching 175,000 dollars. Philips advertised another for 25,000 dollars and sold it for 143,000 dollars. Today, André Butzer is one of the most influential and successful contemporary artists of his generation, and his pieces achieve record prices every year.

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Unter dem Stilbegriff „Science-Fiction-Expressionismus“ begann André Butzers Karriere als deutscher Maler, der sich genauso an der nationalsozialistischen Geschichte wie an Walt Disney und Micky Mouse abarbeitete. 

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Renowned set designer and artist Gary Card collaborates with Phillips London to transform the auction house’s Berkeley Square gallery into an immersive landscape with a selling exhibition titled HYSTERICAL.

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The exhibition will showcase and sell works by the likes of Erik Parker, Harold Ancart, Cindy Sherman, Nicolas Party, Kenny Scharf, Andre Butzer, Ugo Rondinone, Paul McCarthy and Joyce Pensato. Gary Card has created an immersive backdrop to house this vast selection of artwork, which each draw upon on farcical and neurotic themes within contemporary art.

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André Butzer recently moved from his native Germany to Los Angeles, and has shifted directions in his painting. Where his last show featured monochromatic black canvases, the artist has embraced color in his vibrant new works. But Butzer doesn’t see the change as particularly dramatic. “Nothing was ever not about color. Color is a potency, a fusion,” he said in a statement. 

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I was lucky to see André Butzer’s new paintings on a sunny winter day, with natural light coming in to make visible what is hidden in their black surfaces. There were eight big and nine medium-size dark paintings in Galerie Max Hetzler’s Bleibtreustraße location, along with one very large and colorful canvas, a small work on paper executed in colored pencil and crayon, and an artist’s book. 

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Woher kamen Deine ersten Bilder, die noch ganz anders waren als heute, voll mit gegensätzlichen Figuren, Referenzen und Geschichte?

André Butzer: Keine Ahnung, man fängt halt an. Und am Anfang ist da so viel wie möglich drin. Man holt alles rein in die Bilder, was man hat, Farbe, Form, Ausdruck, Themen, Widersprüche. Und dann hat man eine Weile Zeit, das alles wieder rauszuschmeißen.

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Well, Richter at Burger King was first ... then I went to the museum to check out some of his pieces in the real, which was a bit disappointing for me in com parison to the posters. I saw the Jorn paint ing on an upper floor of the museum as part of the Guggenheim collection that was on display. 

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Visitors to Andre Butzer’s recent show at Metro Pictures found themselves, in the opening gallery, stared down by four giant, cartoon like figures from 10-by-7-foot paintings barely big enough to hold them. All four wear antique, stiff white collars above shapeless clothes. The canvases on which they appear are so thickly impastoed as to verge on the cultural. 

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