Andrea Büttner

Andrea Büttner (b. 1972) is a German artist. She works in various media, including woodcuts, reverse glass paintings, sculpture, video and performance. Büttner studied visual arts at the Berlin University of the Arts. From 2003 to 2004 she studied at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and at the Humboldt University in Berlin, where she completed two Master degrees, in Art History and in Philosophy. From 2005 to 2008 she moved to the Royal College of Art in London and completed a doctorate with a dissertation about shame as an aesthetic emotion. Religion is a recurring theme in her work. In 2010 Büttner received the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, presented by the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London in collaboration with the Max Mara fashion house. The prize was combined with a scholarship of six months in Italy, which Büttner used to research the artistic practice of Arte Povera (Poor Art). In 2012 Büttner was appointed as professor of drawing at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. Since 2017 she has been professor of contemporary art at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. In 2017 Büttner was nominated for the Turner Prize. Büttner has written several books, including Shame (König Books, 2020). Büttner lives and works in Berlin. https://www.andreabuettner.com/