Andrea Büttner
Karmel Dachau (2019–23)
© Andrea Büttner / Bildrecht, Vienna 2023
In her video, Andrea Büttner looks at the Carmelite convent Heilig Blut, located next to the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial. The windows of the nuns’ rooms face the former camp. Büttner seeks a dialogue with the nuns and addresses the relationship between remembrance and suppression, religion and violence, culture and crime.
Andrea Büttner (1972, Stuttgart, Germany) is an artist working across diverse media, including woodcut, glass, and video. Her practice connects art history with social and ethical issues, exploring broad-ranging topics such as poverty, work, community, botany, Catholicism, and philosophy. She was shortlisted for the 2017 Turner Prize and won the 2009 Max Mara Art Prize for Women. Recent solo exhibitions took place at Kunstmuseum Basel; Galerie Tschudi, Zurich; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (K21), Düsseldorf; Jan Mot, Brussels; David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles; and Kunstverein München. She lives in Berlin.
Courtesy of the artist and Hollybush Gardens, London
With the kind support of the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen
Video, 48:13 min.
German with English subtitles
Church of Ruined Modernity
Group exhibition
Courtesy of the artist and Hollybush Gardens, London
With the kind support of the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen