With their resistant aesthetics, the works of Andrea Büttner combine small, seemingly insignificant things with existential themes and dig into our consciousness. Her site-specific presentation on the Bel Etage, which features both new works and works from the recent past, is divided into three thematic rooms.

The works in the first room are dedicated to the echoes of traumatic events, such as the Nazi era in Germany. Büttner takes issue with the currently popular fantasy of “healing through art” and dares to touch on the historically paradoxical continuities of such promises of salvation. Poverty is the central theme of the second exhibition room. Here, among other things, large-format monochrome woodcuts from her Beggar series (2016) are juxtaposed with art historical research on the representation of poverty in art. At the center of the third exhibition space is the newly developed installation Schamstrafen (Shame Punishments, 2022/23), which features historical images of the public humiliation of people in different centuries and contexts — a phenomenon that we are still familiar with today, not least through social media.

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