André Butzer

André Butzer (born in 1973 in Stuttgart), is a German painter.

Biography
Butzer was born in Stuttgart, West Germany and lives in Rangsdorf near Berlin. He makes semi-abstract paintings that feature cartoon-like characters and objects. Butzer is interested in the comic genre, whose ambivalence comes on the one hand from a childlike inflation of effect and on the other hand from an artificial lifelessness, set beyond morality. Butzer’s work has been called Science-Fiction-Expressionism, he is influenced by James Ensor, Willem de Kooning, and Phillip Guston. In 1997, he helped to found Akademie Isotrop in Hamburg.

Butzer is represented by Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin, with whom he has exhibited with since 2003, and Nino Mier Gallery in Los Angeles.

2014

 * "André Butzer / Christian Eisenberger", Künstlerhaus KM–, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz

2011

 * "andré butzer | der wahrscheinlich beste abstrakte maler der welt", Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover
 * "André Butzer", Carbon 12 Dubai

2007

 * "Niveaualarm" kuratiert von Ulrich Wulff, Kunstraum Innsbruck
 * "Imagination Becomes Reality. Eine Ausstellung zum erweiterten Malereibegriff. Werke aus der Sammlung Goetz", ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
 * "Kommando Friedrich Hölderlin Berlin", Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany (cat.)
 * Alison Jacques Gallery, London
 * Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Inc., Moscow
 * Friedens-Siemense (Teil 2), Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
 * Hitz ond Brand, Ortsmuseum Wolfhalden, Appenzellerland / Swiss Kommando Calvin
 * Cohn, New York, salon 94, New York

2006

 * "Imagination Become Reality: Ein mehrteiliger Ausstellungszyklus zum Bildverständnis aktueller Kunst. Part IV: Borrowed Images", Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
 * "Amerikanische Technik im Jahr 2017", Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles
 * Galerie Bernd Kugler, Austria
 * "Griessbrei für alle!", Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

2005

 * "La nouvelle peinture Allemande", Carré d’art-Musée d’art contemporain De Nîmes, Nîmes

2004

 * "Heimweh", Haunch of Venison, London
 * "Galerie Bernd Kugler", Innsbruck

2003

 * "Todall!", Galerie Hamelehle und Ahrens, Cologne

2002

 * "Friedens-Siemense (Part 1)", Galerie Gabriele Senn, Vienna
 * "Wanderung nach Annaheim", Maschenmode, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin

2001

 * "Galerie Hammelehle und Ahrens", Stuttgart (with Markus Selg)

2000

 * "Akademie Isotrop", Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
 * "Der Realismus bereut nichts!", Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

1999

 * "Ich bin Munch", Galerie Esther Freund, Vienna

Collections

 * Scharpff Collection
 * Taschen Collection
 * Goetz Collection
 * Rubell Collection
 * Colección Lázaro