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Andrea b ttner
Andrea Büttner (born 1972, Stuttgart) is a German artist. She works in a variety of mediums including woodcuts, reverse glass paintings, sculpture, video and performance. She creates connections between art history and social or ethical issues, with a particular interest in notions of poverty, shame, vulnerability and dignity, and the belief systems that underpin them.
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Life and work
Andrea Büttner studied fine art at the Berlin University of the Arts. From 2003 to 2004, she studied at the University of Tübingen and Humboldt University, where she received a master's degree in art history and philosophy. From 2005 to 2010, she joined the Royal College of Art in London and received her doctorate. Her thesis Aesthetics of Shame: The relevance of shame for contemporary art and visual culture focused on the subject of shame as an aesthetic feeling. Since 2012, she has been a professor at the University of Applied Sciences, Mainz.
Büttner works with a variety of artistic media, dealing with old and new myths. Religion is a recurring theme in her work, from her video Little Sisters: Lunapark Ostia (2012), which documents Büttner in conversation with religious sisters, to her woodcut Vogelpredigt (Sermon to the Birds, 2010), which reflects Christian iconography.
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