Andrea Buttner

Andrea Buttner is an artist who combines art history with social and ethical issues to explore themes such as work, poverty, shame, and care in monastic forms of coexistence, arts, and crafts as a political field. She uses various conceptual methods, including woodcuts, etching, painting, photography, video installations, glass art, and textiles, to create site-specific installations that can be experienced as gradually unfolding narratives.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 384 pages
Publication date: 05 October 2023
Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Andrea Buttner is an artist who seamlessly blends art history with social and ethical concerns in her creative practice. Since the early 2000s, she has delved into a diverse array of themes, including work, poverty, shame, and care within monastic forms of coexistence, as well as arts and crafts as a political domain. Through her examination of the intricate interplay between aesthetics and ethics, Buttner, a renowned artist internationally, employs a range of conceptual methodologies. Her most well-known works are her large-scale woodcuts, but she has since explored various media, including etching, painting, photography, video installations, glass art, and textiles. For her publications and exhibitions, Buttner carefully crafts her works thematically to create site-specific installations that unfold as captivating narratives, inviting viewers to engage with them on a profound level.

Weight: 1732g
Dimension: 232 x 314 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783775754743