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01.01.2022 – 31.12.2023

Participant at bpa / Berlin Program for Artists

2022/23

Working grant by Stiftung Kunstfonds

2023

Residency at Los Angeles 

2023/2024

Reisestipendium der Hessischen Kulturstiftung

18.11.2022

Talk at Universität der Künste

17.11.2022

Platform nominated for deutscher Kurzfilmpreis 

15.11.2022 - 20.11.2022

Platform at Kassler Dokfest

13.09.2022 – 14.10.2022

Flexploitation: Zu Prekarisierung und Widerstand im Plattformkapitalismus at Literaturhaus Berlin

03.09.2022 – 31.10.2022

Die zwei Seiten der Medallie exhibition with Tom Richardson and Rachel Fäth at Mauer Cologne

03.06.2022

Artist Talk at Raum für drastische Massnahmen  

16.03.2022 – 29.05.2022

Dinge die wir nicht verstehen at Kunstverein Langenhagen

14.02.2022 – 13.03.2022

La grande bouffe at Lovaas Projects

22.01.2022

Platform at Slamdance Festival

16.01.2022 – 26.01.2022

Premiere of Platform at Max Ophüls Preis

12.11.2021 – 08.01.2022

Come to (light) at NDSM werft Amsterdam

Interview at Arts of the Working Class with Laura E.Ewert about Higher Potential at Kunsthalle Mainz  

05.07.2021

Interview at Deutschland Radio Kultur about Higher Potential

21.08.2021

Artist Talk at Kunsthalle Mainz

04.07.–22.08.2021

Theoretisch geht’s mir gut at Kunsthalle Mainz, curated by Lina Krämer

01.07.2021 – 17.10.2021

Art Zuid Sculpture Biennale, Amsterdam

27.6 – 24.10.2021

Into Nature Art Expedition Biennale in Drenthe curated by Hans den Hartog Jager

08.05.2021 – 21.06.2021

Ruhr Ding curated by Britta Peters

16.03.2021 – 15.06.2021

Riddergade AIR Residency at Viborg Kunsthal

5 Sep – 17 Oct 2020

Alien vs. Predator at KOENIG2 by_robbygreif 

August 24 – September 12, 2020
Majhi International Art Residency curated by Zippora Elders
02.07.2020 – 11.09.2020

COVID19 DIARIES exhibition by Lovaas Projects and Verena Issel 

15.05.2020 – 17.07.2020

Landesgartenschau 2020 The Mythical Institution – an outlook curated by Jan Berger

I . R. L*  online video programme curated by Aurélie Faure for Hestia Art Residency & Exhibitions Bureau 

Arbeiter verlassen die Gig-Economy Interview by Lina Krämer for Passe Avant Magazin

06.02.2020 – 05.04.2020

Wenn ich nicht hier bin, bin ich aufm Sonnendecke C.o.c.a. comission, curatated by Suzanne Wallinga at A Tale of a Tub Rotterdam

06.02.2020 – 09.02.2020

Prospects & Concepts, Art Rotterdam

09.11.2019

In conversation with Patrick Degeorges about “The Fourth Way: Cosmobiopolitics in the Anthropocene” and “Future” at MSFAU Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture

14.09.2019 – 10.11.2019

Istanbul Biennial – The Seventh Continent curated by Nicolas Bourriaud

12.09.2019 – 15.09.2019

Contemporary Istanbul ´19 represented by Lovaas Projects

26.07.2019 – 18.08.2019

#EXIST. Die ganze Stadt – eine Baustelle together with Zoë Claire Miller at Galerie der Künstler in Munich

09.05.2019

Alleine, Starck und vorbereitet invited by Henrike Naumann for Tag-X at Ruhr Ding in Dortmund

22.3.2019 – 11.5.2019

WHOOOHW HAAH HUUHUUH, organized by David Zink Yi at Lovaas Projects in Munich 

08.03.2019 – 13.04.2019

Halfway House together with Raphaela Vogel at Exile in Vienna

17.02.2019 – 16.03.2019

Mastermind at Inox in Copenhagen

24.12.2018 – 25.02.2019

Ein Schrein der Freundschaft curated by Manuel Kirsch at Kunstverein Brandenburg, Potsdam

01.11.2018 – 28.02.2019

Fact Finding Committee #2: Heterotopic Places organized by Martin Conrads at ZK/U in Berlin

03.10.2018 – 05.12.2018

Residency at Casa Wabi invited by Nicolas Bourriaud in Oaxaca, Mexico

27.09.2018 – 30.09.2018

ISITDARK with Encore Collective at Het bos / Air in Antwerp

08.09.2018 – 08.09.2018

Clippers solo show at Simultanhalle in Cologne

06.09.2019 – 10.11.2018

DARKITIS with Encore Collective and Sexesat gallery Waldburger Wouters in Brussels

06.09.2018 – 10.10.2018

I WANNA GIVE YOU DEVOTION invited by Philipp Gufler, together with Jessica Mester at Platform in Munich

02.09.2018

Königin der Nacht together with Bastian Hagedorn, curated by Lucy Cowling
at Kunstraum in London

1.9.2019 – 14.10.2019

Leila solo show curated by Lina Louisa Krämer at C28 in Hannover

17.08.2018 – 19.08.2018

Baby, don´t hurt me at faq in Bremen

17.08.2018 – 30.09.2018

Ansbach Biennale together with Zoë Claire Miller in Ansbach, Bavaria

Paperclip Maximizer a commissioned for 1 iJ curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova at the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM) in Tallinn 

21.07.2018 – 05.08.2018

Harvester together with Benedikte Bjerre at Kantine in Brussels

22.06.2018 – 22.09.2018

24hrs REAL commissioned by Get Lost Art Route in Amsterdam

10.06.2018

Peak Panik together with Helge Peters, curated by Lucrezia Visconti at Moscow Biennale for Young Art in Moscow

26.05.2018

Der menschliche Mottek together with Bastian Hagedorn and Encore at Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach

02.05.2018 – 03.06.2018

Glücklose Bindung together with Philipp Gufler at Zur Klappe in Berlin

26.04.2018

WET together with Eva Vuillemin at Bar Babette in Berlin

16.02.2018 – 13.05.2018

L‘ennemi de mon ennemi a project by Neïl Beloufa at Palais de Tokyo in Paris

10.02.2018 – 06.05.2018

Crash Test curated by Nicolas Bourriaud at La Panacée in Montpellier

05.12.2017 – 21.12.2017

Cave In Grotesque together with Sophie Lee at Yaby in Madrid

08.09.2017 – 10.09.2017

Kratt together with Bastian Hagedorn for Let’s see, where were we? In the pit of despair at Amsterdam Art Weekend in Amsterdam

18.07.2017

The Comfort of Things together with Benedicte Bjerre and Helge Peters
 for Power Nap at Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam

16.06.2017 – 08.07.2017

Bei Cosy together with Laurie Cluitmans, Richard John Jones and Philipp Gufler at Rong Wrong in Amsterdam

19.05.2017 – 16.06.2017

Rumors of Glory curated by Christin Müller at Basis in Frankfurt

17.05.2017 – 28.05.2017

Deep State curated by Martijn Hendriks at De Ateliers in Amsterdam

08.02.2017 – 12.02.2017

Gabber Nation 2.0: The Rotterdam Edition together with Encore, curated by Agnes Winter at Art Rotterdam Intersections

27.01.2017 – 29.01.2017

Belong Anywhere together with HATE Magazin, Anna Gien and Nina Hollensteiner 

29.06.2016

Channel Sunday invited by Joscha Schell

20.06.2016 – 27.07.2016

Gabber Nation together with Encore at Kunsthuis Syb in Beesterzwaag

12.06.2015 – 04.07.2015

Berlin Art Prize 2015 at District in Berlin

01.05.2015 – 08.05.2015

Kongress der Möglichkeiten together with HATE Magazin at Kunstraum/Kreuzberg Bethanien

on going

Peak Panik performance series together with Helge Peters and UBS Bank, Acud macht Neu, Philipp Goll and Philipp Schönthaler for Kultur und Gespenster and many more

21.09.2021

Interview at  Arts of the Working Class with Laura E.Ewert about Higher Potential at Kunsthalle Mainz  

25.01.2022

Interview about Platform at Max Ophüls Preis 

7.12.2021

Interview about Free Energy for NDSM werf Magazin  

25.01.2022

Interview at SR Talk about Platform at Max Ophüls Preis 

05.07.2021

Deutschland Radio Kultur Kompressor about Higher Potential

14–04–2020

Arbeiter verlassen die Gig-Economy, Interview with Lina Krämer for  Passe-Avant 

February 2020

Monopol Magazin für Kunst und Leben  Watchlist

Johannes Büttner has developed a diverse body of works, often arranged in comprehensive spatial installations. He negotiates present and past, speculative as well as science-based socio-economic topics. Thereby he thinks about the future in all its potentialities, but with an awareness of planetary crises. In order to sketch future scenarios, he avoids to reproduce an established, capitalist rhetoric influenced by Silicon Valley and the tech industry, but rather contrast it with subcultural practices, different forms of hacking, queering, DIY practices and calls for self-organization. His work contextualizes the space in which it happens and often integrates people standing outside of the art world.

He finds inspiration and sources in current and past counter-culture literature, political manifestos, the cyberpunk genre, DIY-YouTube-tutorials, and also in spiritualism and (urban-) mythes. These are all seen as prisms through which to investigate larger claims surrounding the conditions of ideology and belief. Questions of how to work and make a living, contemporary fears of automation and regulation and a ‘creative culture’ in which we are all expected to be entrepreneurs. The resulting scenarios oscillate between reality and fiction. They challenge general agreements and assumptions about what reality is. Scientific systems and narratives of reality are juxtaposed with those of fiction and speculation.

Inverted Mine, Ruhr Ding 2021

Free Energy 2, Into Nature Biennale 2021

Alien vs. Predator, König2 Vienna, 2020

24hrs REAL, Public sculpture in Amsterdam Zuidas, Get Lost Art Route, Amsterdam NL 2018

Untitled (survivalist), installation, with Bastian Hagedorn, Gabber Nation 2.0 at Intersection Art Rotterdam 2017

Clippers, Simultanhalle, Köln 2018

Untitled (Free Energy), series of sculptures, Crash Test, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud at la Pancée, Montpellier FR 2018

© 2023 Johannes Büttner
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